Toby Udstuen

The Zune needs two features that all mp3 players need.
1. A universal car integration method with universal head unit control. Allowing any car stereo to play and control the Zune.
2. A more open source OS. Take the popularity of the Linksys WRT-54g router as an example. The more user that develop uses for a product the more in demand it becomes.

Come on people! This Tivo software is the perfect solution for both Comcast and Tivo's problems. For Comcast it will stop the many complaints from thier customers that hate the DCT-6412 boxes. Now Comcast can stick to enhancing thier infrastructure instead of box programming work. For Tivo the big help will be the access to a new business model that Tivo needs badly. Tivo just cannot compete in the hardware business thanks to the digital rights nazi's and the crippled CableCard system that can't access VOD. Just look at the series 3 boxes costing 700 bucks and no VOD, COME ON NOW! Now Comcast foots the hardware prices and Tivo can perfect the software.
About the Tivo networking features, one way or another they are comming to comcast. Tivo might add the feature or Comcast may use Motorola's new Follow me tech they recently developed. There was a announcment by Comcast and Sprint that Comcast will be selling Sprint wireless as a bundled service soon and Comcast says Sprint users will have access to thier Comcast DVR's scheduling, viewing, and media sharing capabilities over Sprints EVDO network.

I like the concept! However, wait until the release of wearable PC's that use thinfilm flexible display tech like e-ink's epaper. These wearables will look more like thick sweat wristbands than wrist strapped boxes. Does anyone remember the Sci-Fi show Earth: Final Conflict? They had these cellphones with a tab on the side that allowed a large flexible display to be pulled out for video conf, or gps maps etc. Flexible displaies will make this tech not only cool but functional!

This Location Free TV product from Sony is a complete and total SCAM!!! Sony has taken a page from the Microsoft Media Center play book. Sony completely blocks the PSP from playing streaming media over the wi-fi link from the web. So now you have ponied up the $250 bucks for the PSP, then Sony adds this location free tv feature, great, right! Then Sony hits you up for another $300 bucks for the wireless tv base station that in reality is a completely usless bit of hardware when an informed customer looks at the alternative products availible for wireless tv viewing. I have been running ORB TV software on an old 2.4 ghz desktop pc for 6 months now. Orb needs a tv tuner card installed which cost me $130 bucks for a dual tuner tv card from Hauppauge. Then you download ORB's software and create an ORB account. As long as ORB is running on your desktop pc you can literally view/record live tv, photos, and videos from anywhere that has a high speed internet connection using any pc, laptop, pda, or EVDO windows mobile phone. The best part is that the ORB software is free! So lets see 300 bucks for the Sony base station which only streams to the PSP or the ORB setup using your desk pc and if you have no tv tuner requires the purchase of a minimum 40 dollar investment for a tuner card. I have been floored by the great quality of the ORB TV software it has allowed my to watch my local news programs in realtime or schedule recordings while I am on the other side of the country flawlessly and I have also watched recorded video's over the web on a friends pc that uses a 56 kbs modem and found the stream surprisingly good if a little small. This whole product line from Sony is their way of SCREWING their PSP customers. This whole thing is just like when Microsoft started marketing their MCE software. Microsoft from the beginning decided that the MCE operating system was not allowed to be sold to users unless these users purchased an entire MCE pc through an OEM costing literally thousands of dollars, now after poor sales Microsoft sells the MCE software individually! This is exactly what Sony will find out after they find that no one will shell out 300 bucks to watch wireless tv on a PSP's 7 inch screen and by next year after poor base station sales Sony will release a firmware that allows the PSP to view streaming media content from any source not just Sony's solutions.