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Microsoft, Sony work to bridge products | |
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| Time: 03:42 EST/08:42 GMT | News Source: Seattle Times | Posted By: Bill Roach | ||
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LAS VEGAS — Microsoft and Sony have competed ferociously over whose technology will dominate digital entertainment in the future, but they've also been quietly working on a partnership that could build a bridge between the computer and consumer-electronics industries. | ||
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| #1 By 7390 (63.211.44.114) at 1/10/2003 9:50:04 AM |
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LOL, lets see which one will first stabs the other in the back.
Here is what I think will happen: They will agree to a standard and one will break it the first chance they get. |
| #2 By 37 (66.82.20.150) at 1/10/2003 10:47:19 AM |
| ekaphshi, I agree that the memory stick idea was not necessarily a good thing for everyone. I personally have two Sony Digital Cameras, both of which share the memory sticks (I have four 64mb sticks). They are convenient in size and hold tons of information. However, it would have been nice if they were universal. My HP Photo Printer P1100 has the ability to accept memory cards for printing direct without going through the computer, but it doesn't hold the Sony sticks :-(. |
| #3 By 37 (66.82.20.150) at 1/10/2003 3:09:43 PM |
| I would call it the Playbox. They could have a Playbox channel and everyone could subscribe to Playbox magazine. |
| #4 By 7390 (63.211.44.114) at 1/10/2003 3:49:28 PM |
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come on ActiveWin I didn't think that asking for a paypal link for a worthy cause was a violation This post was edited by RedHook on Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 09:37. |
| #5 By 2960 (68.100.157.191) at 1/10/2003 4:43:12 PM |
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Brian,
There really isn't such a thing as universal memory anyway. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, and different format after different format keeps cropping up. Personally, if it isn't CompactFlash, I try to avoid it. Now we have this blasted xdMemory that's starting to show up in camera's... Larry |
| #6 By 3339 (67.119.193.87) at 1/11/2003 4:28:13 PM |
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"iLink is another example which comes to mind (Why Sony, why?! Unpowered firewire requires me to carry around an extra power plug and cable!!). SuperAudio CD (DVD Audio being the standard)."
The spec includes unpowered connections. I don't see why Sony should be faulted for being over a year ahead of the game in the PC world---and at the same time were considering their own products and strategies... i.e. you would be using iLink for digicams and DV recorders... which have batteries. The PC world is slow to be interested in the powered bus for some reason. Printers, scanners, and other peripherals usually ship with multiple ways to connect (usb, serial, or FW) and will have a power supply cord, but it's perfect for media and easy networking: hard drives (loaded with OSes and everything else) are perfect for powered FireWire. (Maybe MS didn't like the idea of people copying their operating system onto hard drives and was partly behind slow adoption of FireWire. Who knows. Just another way to think of it. At least, Sony had some form of FireWire two years ago. And, yes, unpowered buses are in the spec; the spec also looks forward to the future too.) Is Sony still shipping unpowered iLink, by the way? If so, ouch. |
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