The battle for control of the living room.. 51% pick Sony

[Paul]

In the battle in the upcoming years over the Home Broadband/Media server people are seemingly picking Major CE companies such as Panasonic, Samsung and especially Sony.

Over 70% of broadband households likely to purchase a media server show a strong preference for traditional consumer electronics (CE) brands over their PC counterparts, according to Parks Associates’ Broadband Networked Households project. Moreover, over one-half (51%) picked Sony as their brand of choice for such a device, which would store and distribute content to networked devices within the home.

Interesting because Sony seemingly is ready to take on the challenge, 8 billion dollars into Cell, a processor architecture geared towards all of their CE products.(Cell is Broadband Inclined) Including massive fab investments into the Cell based IC for the upcoming Playstation 3(Teraflops class 'Broadband Engine') which plans to be a home server that will literally be in millions of homes.

Sony plans on having Cell(architecture meaning literally all Cell based IC) communicate via LAN and WAN(Yes, they want power sharing for Broadband Engines over WAN).

The battle in the living room is going to begin, whose your money on?

 

[MfA]

Re: The battle for control of the living room.. 51% pick Son

Yes, they want power sharing for Broadband Engines over WAN

Now if only they knew what they wanted it for.

 

[Paul]

Now if only they knew what they wanted it for.

Being a network guy I know the lagistics of Broadband Engines sending GB's of data(For real time PS3 rendering) with under 10ms latency is not possible for 2005.

I do see BE's communicating with other BE's for online games though.

But back to the topic at hand!