Sony would probably have had a real hit product on their hands if they had removed the distracting game-console portion of this device and just sold it as an advanced networked STB with blu-ray. Add a proper IR remote and they might really have had something. But the game machine and non-standard remote (can't use Harmony, etc) is off-putting to many.
Then they could have separately sold a true game machine as the PS3 and, like, had games for it. And cheaper without blu-ray.
Kevin: With the amount of gaming graphics and sound, DVD isn't enough anymore, and it's a great roadmap to have blu-ray in the gaming realm for Sony.
But I would agree that Sony has a mixed selling market for it's unit. It is sickening how powerful this is... if only we could get rid of the hypervisor... HTPC would be dead to me.
“While it's not exactly punching it out with the heavyweights in multi-room audio, the Mint Studio does certainly hold its own with many similarly-priced iPod docks out there.”
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Sony would probably have had a real hit product on their hands if they had removed the distracting game-console portion of this device and just sold it as an advanced networked STB with blu-ray. Add a proper IR remote and they might really have had something. But the game machine and non-standard remote (can't use Harmony, etc) is off-putting to many.
Then they could have separately sold a true game machine as the PS3 and, like, had games for it. And cheaper without blu-ray.
Kevin: With the amount of gaming graphics and sound, DVD isn't enough anymore, and it's a great roadmap to have blu-ray in the gaming realm for Sony.
But I would agree that Sony has a mixed selling market for it's unit. It is sickening how powerful this is... if only we could get rid of the hypervisor... HTPC would be dead to me.