Sony's Cute Living-Room PC
Sony's VAIO PC division is hoping to make inroads to your living room, den, bedroom, and any other corner of your house ripe for an entertainment PC. The stylish Sony VAIO VGX-TP1 PC, unveiled here in Las Vegas at CES, is designed to marry PC capabilities with a TV.
The VAIO VGX-TP1 is small, round in shape, and attaches to your TV, allowing you to record, pause and rewind live shows, including over-the-air high-definition and standard-definition programming. It is also optimized to allow TVs to access Internet video content and other Web content such as e-mail or streaming music.
Under the hood of the VAIO VGX-TP1 is an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83Ghz processor, 2GB of DDR2 memory, the Windows Vista Home Premium operating system, a TV tuner, integrated graphics, and a 300GB hard drive. Sony says the PC also includes a recordable DVD drive, double layer optical drive, USB ports, and multi-card reader, positioned in the front of the unit,
The VGX-TP1 ships with 802.11g Wi-Fi capabilities so it can be put in any room or TV in a house (no wires needed for connecting to a home's wireless network). The PC will ship with a remote control and a matching, wireless keyboard for Web surfing and checking e-mail.
The VAIO TP1 Living Room PC will be available in March for about $1,600, Sony says.
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It's about time ... looks like the perfect 'convergence' device ... but ... does it have CableCard support? ie does it allow watch/record of subscribed (scrambled) cable channel?