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Shanda Box vs. Microsoft Venus After Six Years?

Posted by Cliff on from the real-product-vs-vapourware dept.

Luyi Chen asks: "Shanda revealed their new PC entertainment center (aka Shanda Box) at China International Consumer Electronics Show (SinoCES) last Friday. It's strategy is to move Internet content to TV. Six years ago, Microsoft Venus was to provide a cheap operating system with basic information processing ability for the TV set-top market. While Microsoft focused on reducing the price, Shanda focuses on reducing the entry level. Both strategies are based on the fact that the number of TVs dwarfs the number of PCs in China, which won't change in six years. What is different is that we have faster hardware, more Internet content and users. Amazingly enough, Microsoft's Venus didn't make it out of the laboratory. Does Slashdot think Shanda will succeed where Microsoft thought it would fail?"

6 of 103 comments (clear)

  1. Shanda... by Smiffa2001 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...sounds like a very weak beer.

    1. Re:Shanda... by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny
      "Shanda" is a contraction of the words "sham" and "panda". The term's proper use is demonstrated by the following exchange:

      CHINESE PEASANT #1:Look at this swell panda I got at the market in Beipao! There's no limit to what I can do with this panda! I can harness him to a cart and use him to haul my rice! Give him to the local head of the Communist Party as a bribe! Start a petting zoo- or chop him up and make panda jerky! My fortunes have changed at last!

      CHINESE PEASANT #2: Much did you pay?

      CHINESE PEASANT #1: Only 1000 yuan!

      CHINESE PEASANT #2: Wait a minute... that's not a panda- it's a shanda!

      CHINESE PEASANT #1: What? A shanda? Are you sure?

      CHINESE PEASANT #2:Positive! See? It's just a sheep with a bit of black paint!

      CHINESE PEASANT #1: Shit!

    2. Re:Shanda... by pete-classic · · Score: 2, Funny

      The elusive shanda!

      -Peter

  2. I have one thing to say to shanda.. by ShaniaTwain · · Score: 4, Funny

    You go girl!

    Shanda VS. Venus, sounds like a catfight at a strip club.

    a TV strip club.

    --
    Starsucks
  3. Re:WHAT??? by mboos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cheap in price, or cheap in quality?

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    --Mike Boos
  4. WEB TV by ucblockhead · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes, I think
    browsing on a TV
    is the future.

    There is little or
    no advantage to an
    expensive PC, so
    soon "WEB TV"
    browsers will be
    in the majority.

    --
    The cake is a pie