Please Don’t Let Sony Determine Our Wireless Home Networking Standards
, Thursday, August 28, 2008 Comments (5)
The German magazine Die Welt has scored an exclusive interview with Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony. Maybe you have PlayStation 3 sitting in your living room or recall that Sony won the high-definition DVD format war with its Blu-Ray technology? In this interview Stringer sets his sights higher, on the domination of home networking. He says,
I set the target, to be achieved by March 2011, of a product portfolio in which 90 percent of the devices will be capable of networking and connecting wirelessly. It’s a tall order. Our engineers have to work across all our divisions in order to develop standards. This includes the consumer electronics division as well as the film and music production units.
Looks like Sony hopes to follow in Apple’s footsteps with a proprietary standards-based home entertainment platform. Continue Reading
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