WSJ.com - TVs That Surf the Net -- Without Using a PC: "... Sony, which also is aggressively developing smart gadgets, boasts its next generation of consumer-electronics devices will surpass PCs in speed and functionality. Sony is spending ¥200 billion ($1.86 billion) on the chip to power those devices, which it is creating in collaboration with Toshiba and International Business Machines Corp.
And Sony's latest home-electronics device, a cross between a video-game machine and a DVD recorder called the PSX, already can pull up and play movies stored on its hard drive faster than most PCs can. The PSX runs on a chip Sony and Toshiba developed for Sony's PlayStation 2.
'We're bringing the PC into the living room,' says Akira Shimazu, one of the developers of the PSX."
Thursday, December 11, 2003
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