Monday, April 3, 2006
Sony Goes Prime-Time With "LocationFree TV"
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 05:00 PM
"Sony's dream of freeing TV from the confines of the living room is looking more like reality with a gadget that allows you to watch local broadcasts on a PC even if you are thousands of miles from home. Imagine checking out your local news channel during an international flight or enjoying your favorite baseball team live while on a business trip in Dubai. Sony Corp. is notching up strong sales of a small black box that can do just that, providing that the airplane is Wi-Fi enabled and your hotel in Dubai has a broadband connection. The book-sized device plugs into your home TV antenna, converts the signal to the MPEG-4 digital standard, encrypts it for security and streams it over the Internet to your PC."
According to the article, Sony's new LocationFree Base Station, which retails for about 32,000 yen ($272.70) in Japan, including proprietary software, seems to have struck a sweet spot. I have been dreading and looking forward to Location-free TV. I watch more that enough TV already and if it were available everywhere, I think that would be the end of my brain cells. :-)
According to the article, Sony's new LocationFree Base Station, which retails for about 32,000 yen ($272.70) in Japan, including proprietary software, seems to have struck a sweet spot. I have been dreading and looking forward to Location-free TV. I watch more that enough TV already and if it were available everywhere, I think that would be the end of my brain cells. :-)
