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Stumbling into the digital living room
News The firms with the best chance at having a presence in the digital living room: Sony Corp. But when it comes to information-age appliances, many of today's big players may not make the cut Analysts speaking at the Digital Livingroom conference in...
[June 22, 1999, 8:39]
A Year Ago: Gaming's battle for your living room
News Microsoft readies itself to enter the $4 billion gaming market and goes head-to-head in the living room with Sony, Nintendo and Sega. Microsoft has long eyed Sony's dominance of the living-room gaming scene.
[March 8, 2001, 6:01]
Will PlayStation 2 rule the living room?
News SCEA) seems reluctant to make PlayStation 2 the centre of the living room. Stay tuned, because what Sony decides may determine what goes into consumer living rooms, starting next year. With a 128-bit processor that runs games three times faster...
[March 4, 1999, 11:01]
Gaming's battle for your living room
News Microsoft has long eyed Sony's dominance of the living-room gaming scene. It also comes just as other consumer electronics makers are looking for ways to corner their share of the living-room market. The new gaming box launches Microsoft's attack...
[March 8, 2000, 16:49]
Microsoft's Ballmer: Digital device for the living room at 'tipping point'
News The industry has talked up the idea that computers will finally move from the home office to the living room for many years, but Ballmer said he thinks this theory may be about to become a market reality.
[October 3, 2004, 23:35]
The battle for your living room
News Microsoft has eyed Sony's dominance of the living-room gaming scene for a long time. The new gaming box launches Microsoft's attack on living room rival Sony -- an attack that could net the winner a hefty slice of the $4bn (£2.4bn) console gaming...
[March 8, 2000, 9:14]
PCs and gadgets battle to be king of the living room
News The battle for the living room is on. The living room is different. Michael Toutonghi, vice president of Microsoft's eHome division, agreed, adding that more than a third of PCs are in the family room or living room.
[November 20, 2002, 11:29]
Prescott makes play for living room
News Intel will release a new desktop chip next month, kicking off what is likely to be an intense effort to get computers into the living room. If it looks like a PC, it won't end up in the living room," Mark Vena, director of Dimension products at...
[January 27, 2004, 11:50]
Microsoft makes renewed play for living room
News After years of being relegated to the office, the PC is making a new case for why it should be allowed to stay in the living room. While the product has so far been more of a niche player, PC makers are hoping that there are now enough reasons for...
[September 30, 2003, 12:50]
A Year Ago: Stumbling into the digital living room
News The firms with the best chance at having a presence in the digital living room: Sony, AT&T, Intel and Federal Express, said the three-person panel. But when it comes to information-age appliances, many of today's big players may not make the cut
[June 23, 2000, 7:03]
Eye Opener: Microsoft's war for the living room
News Microsoft may have finally found the recipe to capture the couch potato and move PC technology from the living room to the den. Sony stressed the device's ability to tie together living room components -- such as a VCR, stereo and TV -- play DVD...
[September 27, 1999, 14:10]
Eye Opener: Microsoft's living room war - Part 2
News Part 1: Will Microsoft lose the living room? Moreover, Sony's weakest piece -- connecting the living room to the Internet -- is where Microsoft is strong. That phenomenal sales rate has games makers concentrating far more on games for the living...
[September 27, 1999, 14:09]
Media Center aims for the living room
Talkback Here is another example of American culture: a computer for couch potatoes. This kind of mentality is causing obesity and global warming. If there were a "Home Computer" being different from "Personal Computer", it should have such functionalities...
[October 12, 2004, 19:49]
Media Center aims for the living room
Talkback I just finished readin mr thurrots review at winsupersite, unfortunately MS has sidestepped the radio feature again -- you still cannot record from the radio, webcasts are not supported either (bbc) and 3rd party plugins for radio web...
[October 13, 2004, 0:42]
Microsoft's Ballmer: Digital device for the living room at 'tipping point'
Talkback Of course, the licensing requirements would mean that you would have to hang a really large picture of Bill Gates (you get a choice of frames) in your living room and pay obeisance to it every day. Apple soft on principles behind DRM.
[October 4, 2004, 11:25]
Microsoft's Ballmer: Digital device for the living room at 'tipping point'
Talkback While I often agree with the messages that Steve Ballmer puts out for Microsoft, I think he may be underplaying the importance of Apple and OS/X. Where Microsoft "has DRM", Apple just took a security envelope and wrapped it around an existing audio...
[October 4, 2004, 14:00]
THX comes to the living room
News Dubbed THX Home, the specification now covers user interface, sound performance and construction quality. Lucasfilm THX is launching the specification on the back of what it believes will be an explosion in home cinema, due in part to the continued...
[August 24, 1999, 14:40]
Ogg Vorbis enters the living room
News A Danish consumer electronics maker has unveiled the first DVD player to support the Ogg Vorbis music format, a favourite among technology enthusiasts. Kiss Technology, based in Denmark, will add Vorbis playback to its new DVD players, and is...
[January 14, 2003, 15:24]
CES: Gates wants Windows XP in your living room
News Still, Kay said he isn't surprised at Microsoft's determination to open up the living room to Windows in the same way the company has captured the business computing market. Instead of the usual Windows desktop, Freestyle features a series of large...
[January 8, 2002, 9:14]
Sony moves handhelds into the living room
News Sony is giving couch potatoes something to cheer about. The electronics giant will today (Monday) announce the $299 (£200) Clie PEG-T415, which will incorporate features of a handheld computer and a universal remote control.
[October 22, 2001, 8:56]
