I was writing about Sony having divergent interests in it’s music and electronics businesses.
It looks as though the electronics side is not loosing sleep over the MPAA’s lobby.
Take a look at this sweet PVR, the NDR-XR1 : a 80 GB hard disc and a DVD burner. Neither Tivo or SONICBlue ever dared to ship something like that.
Yes, I do realize that I am amazed by the implications of something that is no more than a VCR that you can use with more than one tape. Talk about lowered expectations… Thanks DMCA…
[via Gizmodo]
Au rythme où vont les choses, on pourra acheter ça au Canada…euh… Jamais?
Il faudrait que quelqu’un m’explique pourquoi Bell et Vidéotron nous forcent à utiliser leurs pâles copies des TiVo et replayTV de ce monde au lieu de nous offrir « Ze real Thing? ».
It’s all about the freaking monopoly. Tivo and Replay probably weren’t interested in the tiny Canadian market, on top of which huge marketing and educational campaigns would cost. It would be hard to promote this toy without the help of the TV people. So the second logical industry to promoto PVR? Of course, the cable people. They have nothing to lose, own no content, have no liability, accumulate some personal information about TV preferences, never hurt! And how to offer something similar without having to pay a cent? Might as well secure the « potential » market first, then we’ll talk about quality later. And it costs them a lot less to market the PVRs since they already have huge marketing campaigns anyway. What competition? Do I seem cynical? Hell yeah!