Sony's Vaio X, now with DTCP

Sony just gave a little bump to their Vaio X living room PCs. The VGX-XL71S features an ISDB-T digital tuner, a pair of terrestrial analog tuners, up to 1.5TB of disk, a 2.8GHz Pentium D 920, nVIDIA GeForce 6200 graphics, a dual-layer DVD recorder, up to 2GB memory, and whole host of audio and video outs including HDMI. Notable here, is Sony's expanding product support for DTCP-IP allowing you to pump your TeeVee recordings around your home network packaged in a delicious DRM wrapper. Coming at the end of the month for ¥214,000 (right around $1,880) to your local tech bodega in Japan.

[kingxerxes Posted Jun 12th 2006 9:27AM]

it's just not fair! why cant we get these amazing boxes in the rest of the world?!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2006 11:14AM]

You must give it time, Grasshopper. Patience is a virtue.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2006 1:05PM]

What about a rootkit? I'd like Sony to tell me what I can and can't make backups of. Without one, I wouldn't pay that much.

[SilverTrumpet Posted Jun 12th 2006 3:40PM]

Yeah, you could use Sony's cruddy DRM...

Or you could just set up your network share(s) right & play from there with NO DRM whatsoever...

Or you could go get VLC (www.videolan.org) which should take care of any/all other video and media needs you have.



I sure don't need, nor do I EVER want, another Sony product filled to the brim with Digital Restrictions Management (the real meaning of the acronym). Count me out.