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Some Advice for Sir Howard

March 7, 2005

Well, things have gotten desperate at Sony, because yesterday the company announced that its board of directors voted to elect the British executive Sir Howard Stringer (currently CEO of Sony Corporation of America) as its new chief executive and chairman of the board. The final decision will come after a shareholder vote in June. Stringer [...]

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Multiroom DVR Is On Its Way

January 31, 2005

According to Parks Associates, multiroom DVR is going to arrive as competition spurs cablecos, satellite vendors, and telcos to deploy entertainment networking solutions. They project that cable and satellite television providers will step up deployment of multiroom DVR solutions to the point that the number of units will exceed 25 million in 2009. While mass-market [...]

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R.I.P. TiVo

January 17, 2005

Om Malik describes Saul Hansell’s excellent article in today’s New York Times as an obituary for TiVo. Hansell profiles TiVo as a company in turmoil, desperately grasping for any strategy it can find. He says that blowing a deal with Comcast probably cost CEO Michael Ramsey his job, and TiVo its future. When the story [...]

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Incompatible Tech Still Confuses Consumers

January 7, 2005

You would think they would have learned by now, but the consumer electronics giants and their clueless big media comrades continue to confound consumers with incompatible technology standards and needless complexity. The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is once again occasion for reporters and analysts to write about the continuing mess that is [...]

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Sony Wi-Fi TVs

August 5, 2003

A couple of new plasma televisions from Sony with built-in 802.11a. Besides being able to access the Internet or stream video from a PC over a wireless home network, the 50-inch KDE-P50HZ1 and the 42-inch KDE-P42HZ1 also come with a large remote control with a 6-by-3.5-inch LCD display that can also be used to surf [...]

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