[BC] Digital Walkman?

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:41 PM 1/8/2006, Xmitters at aol.com wrote: -------

>I was watching "60 Minutes" tonight and there was a report given about the
>state of Sony corp. There was a very brief shot and comment about 
>their "Digital
>Walkman" but that was all that was said about it.

I saw the report. I believe it's a Sony version of the iPod. I've 
been a long time customer of Sony. No longer. The CD rootkit lost me 
as a customer for both music and hardware.

>So my question to the group is, is that Walkman by chance an IBOC capable
>Walkman or is it, Gasp!, Sirius/XM only? We were discussing 
>portability here not
>long ago, and I thought the consensus was that an IBOC receiver 
>draws too much
>power to be portable. Have things changed for the better in this regard for
>IBOC, I hope, I hope?

With the condition Sony is in I doubt they'd waste resources on IBUZ 
with its decades long lead time. What I saw on a few reports 
concentrated on gadgets that allowed personal choices rather than 
linear programming.

What I saw in these reports but didn't find cutting edge were the 
cell phone versions of webcasting where you could record several 
hours of 435 stations and play them through a car receiver. Not only 
is it linear and not interactive but not even live.

I'm looking forward to the Audio/Video magazines' reviews of the new toys.

Rich


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