The thing we find tedious about the whole deal is that it seems you can only stream music to the stereo over a home LAN from one of Sony's Vaio PCs, and that you can only check out music to portable players via MemorySticks or NetMD.
Also available soon after launch will be more Blu-ray hardware, including Pioneer's BDP-HD1, Sony's BDP-S1, and several BD-equipped Vaio PCs, also from Sony.
Ando also announced a product called Roomlink that will connect Sony's Vaio-branded PCs to its Wega TV screens.
Intel sells its processors to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Toshiba and Sony, and individuals building custom PCs.
There is Video Unlimited across Sony TVs, phones, tablets, PCs, game consoles.
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Rapid Wake Featuring Sony's own Rapid Wake technology, the PCs resume from sleep status in two seconds after opening the lid all while keeping data safe and secure and maintaining a long battery life.
Sony, which manufactures a multitude of electronics beyond notebooks and desktop PCs, is down more than two percent year-to-date.
Ultimately, both machines are going to be very similar to one another since both Microsoft and Sony are building what amounts to cheap, mass-produced gaming PCs with simple user interfaces.
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Sony shut down the SOE service yesterday, which lets users play games on PCs, Facebook and the PlayStation 3 console.
Companies which once specialised in consumer electronics, such as Sony and Nintendo, can now try to sell games machines that double as PCs in the home.
This type of "moblog" just isn't for PCs, Macs, Linux machines etc..If you have a Sony Aibo, you can use the built in application which sends a photo email to also send a photo to the Moblog, I have 2 of my Aibos doing that now as well as Tablet PC mounted to a Roomba and it's been working out great.
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The Sony media applications are an integral part of the UI on Xperia smartphones, tablets and VAIO PCs to deliver a consistent and superior entertainment experience.
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"Consumers need to free themselves from all cables, not just the power plug, to truly enjoy the benefits of their mobile PCs, " said Mark Hanson, vice president and general manager of VAIO PC marketing for Sony Electronics in a prepared statement.
The company also notes that starting today you can pre-order new Windows 8 PCs and tablets from various OEMs, including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Samsung and Sony.
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