Sony's Internet Video Link Anchors BRAVIA Line

From the article:

The linchpin to Sony's video strategy is the Bravia Internet Video Link. When connected to the back of a compatible Sony TV, the device will allow it to receive video programming from a number of online services, including AOL, Yahoo! and Grouper, as well as Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony BMG Music, for free. RSS feeds are also supported. Video sharing services, such as YouTube, Revver, or Soapbox, were not mentioned, although a Sony spokesman said the company was in discussions with sites "like" YouTube.

"Stay tuned," he said.

The Internet Video Link will begin selling in July for about $300, Sony said.

I'm not sure that crappy, low res internet video will be compelling on an HD television set. Also, there's no mention of a hard disk. In the US market HD content is going to need caching on disk. We're not like S. Korea with their 100 Mbps internet. Akimbo and Apple TV seem more like the right kind of "internet TV" devices for the average U.S. consumer.

Get Skinny #5: well I failed the 9 day-er, made it 5 hours short of 6.....just had to eat.....had peanut butter and celery, califlower and chick peas, and whole wheat italian crackers.....

Soon Liver Flush Two for March, and than The Master Cleanse Two in April hopefully for at least 8 days....

Than May to August I am gonna Get Fat again:>)

Sony Plans Cheaper Blu-ray Disc Player

Smaller, better, cheaper -- and undermines reason to buy PS3.

Apple TV launch delayed until March I just realized the Apple TV gizmo has a 40 Gbyte disk. That's less than two Blue-ray Discs. And half the capacity of the biggest iPod. I guess they're assuming that a PC computer on the network will serve as the bulk storage.

Damn, the first episode I missed of Lost looks great--YouTube has a backwards version of the "brainwashing scene"--Jim, any luck pry1ng it lo0se?

bad year for bee stress. mite problem may be related.

Wall Street Journal on birding tech. I’ve got eastern bird songs on my iPod, and I’ll probably get a management program like birdjam, but I haven’t really found myself using it in the field. The real test will come once migration gets going and the singing starts in earnest.
In the meantime, anyone want to head up the Hudson for Ivory Gull and Snowy Owl?

How Sony Killed the PlayStation3, and NOT Just in Europe

Sony is dropping backward compatability with the PS2 to save costs -- first in the PAL version and soon in the NTSC version. They'll have "software emulation" to support "some" PS2 games. With a lack of ethusiasm for this platform among the game developers, the PS3 will be not much more than a cost-effective Blu-Ray Disc player. (By the way, Blu-Ray HD movies rock!)

This latest strategic error by Sony is the self-inflicted coup de grace for PS3. Microsoft will own the living room within 5 years.

I say that with the same certainty and resignation with which I said "Microsoft owns the office" in 1992.

juror misunderstood instructions

aaarrrggghhh

gravel for president?

Bill Hicks Revelations 1 through 8

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path vs metro cards

pnew Sy Hersh

Day in the life of the Sustenance Abuse Program

3.5 liters of the Lemon/Cayanne/Maple Syrup drink, drunk every hour or so
1 liter AM heavly salted water
.5 liter PM heavly salted water
1.5 liter straight water during day (s/b drinking more)
= 9.5 liters

woodgrain CDs (via Travis)

well hello there betty

With THE GREEN, Sundance Channel becomes the first television network in the United States to establish a major, regularly-scheduled programming destination dedicated entirely to the environment. Each week THE GREEN will present original series and documentary premieres about the earth's ecology and concepts of "green" living that balance human needs with responsible care for the planet. THE GREEN reflects the current tipping point in public awareness about ecological issues and the trend towards environmentally sustainable approaches to modern living. Presented by Robert Redford, the destination is hosted by award-winning journalist Simran Sethi and community advocate and MacArthur Fellow Majora Carter, two dynamic leaders who have distinguished themselves with revolutionary ideas in such areas as civic planning and global business practices.

Leading off each edition of THE GREEN at 9:00pm is the original program "Big Ideas for a Small Planet," a documentary series presenting the forward-thinking designers, products and processes that are on the leading edge of a new green world. Each episode revolves around a different green theme as it spotlights a specific innovator or innovation that has the potential to transform our everyday lives. "Big Ideas for a Small Planet" is produced by Scout Productions ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" NBC/Bravo and The Fog of War).

FOOD

THE artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, loved to cook, but he could never quite unbraid his culinary passions from those of artmaking, with sometimes bizarre dinner party results. At one, recalled his widow, Jane Crawford, he cooked a lovely whole sea bass, but it emerged from the kitchen encased in a block of aspic nearly three feet long. He unmolded it, then gave the table a good kick, so that the aspic wobbled wildly and the bass seemed to fishtail upstream.

via jaschw

i'm looking for a great dim sum spot to take mom and sisters. anyone have a favorite?

Beavers are back in NYC.

Get Skinny #4

Started my 9 day "Master Cleanse" with a MSG/Champagne headache.....cheated a little day one with some coconut water and tea, will cheat today with tea again but starting tommorow just the lemon juice/ B maple syrup/cayanne pepper/water drinks + salt water drinks.....

Was tough to look at food day one, by mind was not on board and I almost went and bought food, had to keep reminding my mind what the plan was....

Not a great sleep but energy is good here day #2

Is PS3 on the verge of a death spiral?
That was part II, here's part I.

must read Glenn screed