Sony Unveils Not So Next Generation DVR

from the it's-about-time dept

For a while now I've been wondering when the "real" second generation digital video recorders were going to show up. Clearly, the TiVo concept is a great one, but there's so much more that could be done with it. Sony has now announced their next generation hard-disk based video recorder.. and it looks very much like the first generation devices. Certainly there are some evolutionary improvements to Sony's Cocoon device over existing DVR offerings, but I don't see that it "fundamentally changes television" in a more significant way that DVRs already have. This device includes a broadband connection, but doesn't seem to let you do very much with it. It just downloads program information. Sony, of course, wouldn't be a big fan of letting people share their programs like Replay does. In fact, I don't see how the Sony device is all that different than the Replay device, but without the ability to share programs.

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