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Sony Blu-ray Media Center
An anonymous reader writes "Sony announced its Blu-ray equipped VGX-XL202 media center box a while back and a full review has finally appeared. This looks like it could be the ultimate media center PC with a Blu-ray re-writer, HDMI and HDCP enabled NVidia graphics, integrated wireless, gigabit ethernet, digital TV tuner and twin hard disks. Unfortunately it doesn't come cheap."
Agree with all you are saying, just thought I'd point out:
Even my five-year-old TiVo has dual tuners, and it's not you can't get a dual-tuner component for less than $70.
You linked to the 150 model which also only has one tuner. Here is the 500 model which has dual tuner support.
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It's supposed to downgrade to a standard-definition resolution when some part of the chain fails the HDCP handshaking operation.
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It's supposed to downgrade to a standard-definition resolution when some part of the chain fails the HDCP handshaking operation.
Actually, it's supposed to be capable of supporting that, but supposedly none of the studios are implementing that on current discs... yet.
I'd say this is just a case of the media PC being a pile of crap. "Watch our awesome Blue-Rayz movies on this awesome computer... " *hiccup* *crash* *smoke*
Blu-Ray isn't any more proprietary than DVD. Both are patented, and both require a license to implement.
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