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(Australian Financial Review'Jan 13'John Davidson)
There's a word the computer industry just can't get out of its head, and it's this: television.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Epson and other companies all laid claim to the TV, announcing products that worked with, or in, or on top of the idiot box.
Microsoft announced new technology that would let consumers use their TV sets to access media content stored in their Windows PCs, connecting the lounge room to the study so that, if PCs can't beat TVs at the entertainment game, then at least they can join them on the home network.
Dell and Hewlett Packard said they would build set-top boxes running the Microsoft software, using built-in wireless network adaptors to get the set-top boxes onto the home wi-fi network.
Epson said it would make a TV that was also a printer, capable of displaying and printing digital photographs stored on memory cards, which could be inserted directly into the TV. Intel, meanwhile, said it would make microprocessors for wide-screen TV sets.
In part, it's all a response to a new breed of consumer electronic devices, such as hard-disk-based video recorders and household media servers, also on display at CES, which work with TVs and which are starting to steal a march on PC companies in the effort to serve up digital media.
In part it's a response to frustration suffered by the PC sector, which is still waiting for corporate purchasing of information technology to rebound to the levels enjoyed last century.
And in part it's simply an acknowledgment of the fact that, with every passing year, home entertainment is getting more computer intensive and, perhaps more importantly, more networked.
For Microsoft, TV is not a new target.
In past years, the software giant has promoted a version of its Windows operating system, known as the Media Centre Edition, that lets users control their PCs with infrared remote controls, allowing the PC to replace TVs and hi-fis as the central home entertainment unit. The strategy never really took off.
But this time round, Microsoft isn't so much trying to replace TVs and hi-fis as ensure that Windows can happily co-exist with them over a home network.
In his keynote address last week, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates revealed his company's Media Centre Extender technology, designed to turn Windows-based PCs into media servers for home entertainment systems.
The software, running on a Media Centre PC and also on a TV or set-top box, allows consumers to access music, photos, videos and other digital media stored on a PC, without having to operate the PC directly.
That means that, rather than shoehorning PCs into living rooms - always a dubious proposition for many consumers - PCs can remain in the study and yet still find a place in a home entertainment system, even if their presence is more virtual than physical.
As well as relying on set-top box makers for the proliferation of the Extender software, Microsoft said it would produce a Media Centre Extender add-on for its Xbox, turning the games console into a remote client for PCs running the Windows Media Centre Edition operating system.
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::Looks like Sony was one step ahead of the competition with their PSX console:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200310/03-1007E/
Tokyo, October 7, 2003 - Targeting the year-end shopping season in Japan, Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc. will launch two models of PSX, a new generation HDD+DVD recorder, created through the convergence of electronics and games technologies of the Sony Group.
Empowered by two key semiconductors ("EmotionEngine®" and "Graphics Synthesizer"), CPU and graphics rendering processor used for PlayStation 2, PSX has realized a high-speed high-definition GUI (Graphical User Interface), the likes of which have never been experienced before. This first-of-a-kind GUI enables speedy and easy access of various content to be enjoyed on PSX, with the same level easiness as switching TV channels with a remote control.
PSX is also equipped with various features as a digital media player, providing storage and playback of a variety of entertainment content such as high-resolution, mega-pixel images from digital still cameras and music from various package media.
Since PSX is designed to run various features by firmware via a powerful hardware engine, users can upgrade or add new features later by accessing the network. 1
The two PSX models of DESR-5000 and DESR-7000 are equipped with maximum capacity HDD respectively to accommodate various features in serving as a digital home electronics product as well as a game device for enjoying PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games.
Sony Marketing (Japan) aims to accelerate the expansion of the DVD recorder market by positioning PSX as the key to home entertainment and the core for digital electronics products throughout the living room.
There's a word the computer industry just can't get out of its head, and it's this: television.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Epson and other companies all laid claim to the TV, announcing products that worked with, or in, or on top of the idiot box.
Microsoft announced new technology that would let consumers use their TV sets to access media content stored in their Windows PCs, connecting the lounge room to the study so that, if PCs can't beat TVs at the entertainment game, then at least they can join them on the home network.
Dell and Hewlett Packard said they would build set-top boxes running the Microsoft software, using built-in wireless network adaptors to get the set-top boxes onto the home wi-fi network.
Epson said it would make a TV that was also a printer, capable of displaying and printing digital photographs stored on memory cards, which could be inserted directly into the TV. Intel, meanwhile, said it would make microprocessors for wide-screen TV sets.
In part, it's all a response to a new breed of consumer electronic devices, such as hard-disk-based video recorders and household media servers, also on display at CES, which work with TVs and which are starting to steal a march on PC companies in the effort to serve up digital media.
In part it's a response to frustration suffered by the PC sector, which is still waiting for corporate purchasing of information technology to rebound to the levels enjoyed last century.
And in part it's simply an acknowledgment of the fact that, with every passing year, home entertainment is getting more computer intensive and, perhaps more importantly, more networked.
For Microsoft, TV is not a new target.
In past years, the software giant has promoted a version of its Windows operating system, known as the Media Centre Edition, that lets users control their PCs with infrared remote controls, allowing the PC to replace TVs and hi-fis as the central home entertainment unit. The strategy never really took off.
But this time round, Microsoft isn't so much trying to replace TVs and hi-fis as ensure that Windows can happily co-exist with them over a home network.
In his keynote address last week, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates revealed his company's Media Centre Extender technology, designed to turn Windows-based PCs into media servers for home entertainment systems.
The software, running on a Media Centre PC and also on a TV or set-top box, allows consumers to access music, photos, videos and other digital media stored on a PC, without having to operate the PC directly.
That means that, rather than shoehorning PCs into living rooms - always a dubious proposition for many consumers - PCs can remain in the study and yet still find a place in a home entertainment system, even if their presence is more virtual than physical.
As well as relying on set-top box makers for the proliferation of the Extender software, Microsoft said it would produce a Media Centre Extender add-on for its Xbox, turning the games console into a remote client for PCs running the Windows Media Centre Edition operating system.
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::Looks like Sony was one step ahead of the competition with their PSX console:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200310/03-1007E/
Tokyo, October 7, 2003 - Targeting the year-end shopping season in Japan, Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc. will launch two models of PSX, a new generation HDD+DVD recorder, created through the convergence of electronics and games technologies of the Sony Group.
Empowered by two key semiconductors ("EmotionEngine®" and "Graphics Synthesizer"), CPU and graphics rendering processor used for PlayStation 2, PSX has realized a high-speed high-definition GUI (Graphical User Interface), the likes of which have never been experienced before. This first-of-a-kind GUI enables speedy and easy access of various content to be enjoyed on PSX, with the same level easiness as switching TV channels with a remote control.
PSX is also equipped with various features as a digital media player, providing storage and playback of a variety of entertainment content such as high-resolution, mega-pixel images from digital still cameras and music from various package media.
Since PSX is designed to run various features by firmware via a powerful hardware engine, users can upgrade or add new features later by accessing the network. 1
The two PSX models of DESR-5000 and DESR-7000 are equipped with maximum capacity HDD respectively to accommodate various features in serving as a digital home electronics product as well as a game device for enjoying PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games.
Sony Marketing (Japan) aims to accelerate the expansion of the DVD recorder market by positioning PSX as the key to home entertainment and the core for digital electronics products throughout the living room.
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