Sony looks ahead....

Sony's president Kunitake Ando has been talking to ZD Net about the future. He says, among other things: "TVs are changing. At one time, they were the center of home entertainment, but PCs came in and were essentially the gateway to the Internet and took their place." Of course, PCs have been able to show TV programmes for a decade or so, and have more recently started working as hard disk recorders (TiVo-style PVRs). PCs are also the digital hub for music (with Internet radio and connections to MP3 players), still and video photography (with connections to cameras, printers and video projectors), and personal data (with connections to PDAs and phones). All this is obvious enough, you might think, but it is often obscured by bullshit from the anti-PC crowd.