Home Storage

It looks like Steve MacLaughlin‘s idea of a home storage network was so good that it’s being done. According to Tony Perkins column in Red Herring (March 2002), Sony calls it a Personal Network Home Storage System and it’s designed first for multimedia: 450 hours of DVD, 1,500 CDs and 600,000 high res images.

Using a wireless home network, consumers will be able to user their TVs to manage and interact with their Walkmans, PlayStations, and video cameras. [Sony President Kunitajke] Ando also hinted that, by 2003, every TV as well as nearly every product Sony produces will come standard with an IP address.

I’m assuming that you’ll also be able to network in non-Sony products.

Perkins reminds us that the XBox has similar designs and Apple also wants to own the home entertainment network. And Moxi. The fact that this will be TV-centric only seems like a mistake to those of us who spend most of our day in front of the computer.

Sue the bastards, Steve!

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