Blu tact: a prototype Sony Blu-Ray machine. Photograph: Bobbie Johnson
One of the soon-to-hit-us technologies here on show at the IFA consumer electronics show here in Berlin is Blu-ray, the hotly disputed attempt at a new standard for high definition DVDs.
A bunch of the manufacturers supporting Blu-ray are showing off prototype players on a stand, and most of them are tres clunky, my friends. But a few catch the eye, including this little one from Sony. Perhaps that's because it also bears more than a passing resemblance (in my mind, anyway) to Sony's forthcoming PlayStation 3 console...
