media center

Hitachi Reinvents TV Remote As A Trackball

Kit Eaton — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:46:42 -0500

I'm totally left befuddled by the current trend of having full-function TV/AV remotes with two hundred tiny buttons and a screen for Windows connectivity. Instead, I'm all about simplicity, which is why Hitachi's trackball-style reinvention pleases me.

Sony Announces All-in-One Media Desktops

Chris Dannen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:03:20 -0400

Sony [NYSE:SNE] has been producing all-in-one media PCs for a while now, but they've been alternately very cool mashups and very poorly executed technological abortions. Thankfully for mankind, some of the new Viaos are looking like they have some real home-theater cred. The new Viao JS, LV and RT machines, announced today at the CEDIA conference (with a whole lot of other Sony gear, some of which I will highlight in this blog) all sport a built-in Blu-ray disk player. Beyond that, they each have their own fortes.

Sony Releases New Media Center PCs

Chris Dannen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:41:47 -0400