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...digital code, 0s and 1s, even the companies that manufacture them get confused. So Sony, maker of digital hardware and digital entertainment, finds itself peddling computers that customers can use to rip off Sony music over the Internet. The hard-and-fast physical boundary between your television and your stereo is gone because they're both your computer...
Couch creatures now have to look for only one remote between the sofa cushions, not three or four, thanks to Canada's Ontario-based Intrigue Technologies. Its new Harmony SST 659, which retails for $199, enables you to control your television, DVD player and stereo with a single device. Unlike earlier all-purpose models, it doesn't require you to have a computer-science degree to make it work. Just connect the remote to your computer through the USB cable included in the package, tell the Harmony Web page the make and model number of your gear...
...Coolest Invention of 2003 [Nov. 24]. But a service that revolutionizes the way people buy and listen to music deserves more: it should be called the invention of the decade. A Mac computer running iTunes has already replaced my $1,000 CD player. Hooked up to my stereo system at home, it's as much a revolution there as the portable iPod music player is on the road. Isn't it only a matter of time before Apple releases its own iTunes-based CD player? And shouldn't Apple or one of its affiliates become a music producer-distributor...
...coolest invention of 2003 [Nov. 17]. But a service that revolutionizes the way people buy and listen to music deserves more: it should be called the invention of the decade. A Mac computer running iTunes has already replaced my $1,000 CD player. Hooked up to my stereo system at home, iTunes is as much a revolution as the portable iPod music player is on the road. Isn't it only a matter of time before Apple releases its own iTunes-based CD player? ED FIRMAGE JR. Salt Lake City, Utah...
...whether Nintendo?a company that is almost proudly antitechnology?can compete against Microsoft and Sony at a time when the industry is poised for a major transformation. Digital devices of all shapes and sizes?such as entertainment-enabled personal computers that can link up with a TV and stereo; and Web-surfing, TiVo-style video recorders?will over the next several years invade the living room. Microsoft and Sony are already selling game machines capable of connecting to the Internet, anticipating the shift to multipurpose entertainment devices. And Nintendo? Iwata recently declared that the company is already working...