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Every time we walk into our local home video rental chain franchise, they’re playing this never-ending looped presentation on the virtues of Blu-Ray. It’s loud enough that you can hear it everywhere in the store, and short enough that you get the whole thing at least once in a ten-minute visit. It’s really, really annoying, and makes it hard to concentrate on picking a movie. This must be how Noriega felt, trying to make a plan in the Vatican mission with the Steve Miller Band blaring outside.
At least our distracted state of mind offers some explanation for why we left the place with 10,000 B.C., which was the boringest movie featuring mammoths we’ve ever seen. Less talk, more sabre-toothed tigers!
One of the weird things about the Blu-Ray propaganda kiosk is that it uses clips from really crummy movies to show off the system’s dazzling high-definition picture. That’s cool that the image is so crisp and everything, but the main problem with Spider-Man 3 was not that it was hard to see, you know?
Maybe the most ardent Blu-Raëlian cultists are a bit like the hi-fi freaks of old, who were way more interested in fidelity than in music, and eager to play you a series of truly dreadful records to show it off. The best systems gave you the impression that you were actually in a concert hall, listening to an orchestra you didn’t like! That’s actually not an experience we’ve ever cared to simulate in our home, thank you.
Still, those in-store psy-ops, objectionable as they are, might just be working on us. Because when we saw this Sony Digital Living System, we barely noticed that it’s actually a PC that fits right into your home theater system. Most of its many admirable features — a 500-gig hard drive, full DVR functionality, built-in NTSC and ATSC TV tuners and CableCARD™ support, 2GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E6400, 802.11 a/b/g wireless — because we were so het up over the Blu-Ray player.
“Oh, man!” we said, out loud. “Think how awesome the mastodon hunt from 10,000 B.C. would have looked on this!” That’s when we started to feel like maybe we had a problem.
Warranty: 90 Day Sony
Features:
Specifications:
| Processor | |
| Type: | Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400 |
| Speed: | 2.13GHz |
| Front Side Bus Speed: | 1066 MHz |
| L2 Cache: | 2MB Advanced Smart Cache |
| Technology: | Intel Viiv |
| Memory | |
| Type: | DDR2 |
| Installed: | 2GB (1GBx2) PC2-5300 |
| Maximum: | 3GB (Tested) |
| Speed: | 667 MHz |
| Hard Drive | |
| Capacity: | 500GB (250GBx2) |
| Speed: | 7200 RPM |
| Interface: | SATA (Preconfigured RAID 0) |
| Optical Drive | |
| DVD+R DL Write: | 2.4x max |
| DVD+R Write: | 8x max |
| DVD+RW Write: | 4x max |
| DVD-R Write: | 8x max |
| DVD-RW Write: | 4x max |
| CD-R Write: | 8x max |
| CD-RW Write: | 8x max |
| DVD±RW: | Yes |
| CD Read: | 24x max |
| DVD Read: | 8x max |
| DVD-RAM Write: | 5x max |
| DVD-R DL Write: | 2x max |
| BD-R Read: | 1x max |
| BD-R Write: | 1x max |
| BD-RE Write: | 1x max |
| BD-ROM Read: | 1.6 max |
| BD-RE Read: | 1x max |
| DVD-RAM Read: | 5x max |
| Blu-Ray Disc Support: | Yes |
| Expansion Bays | |
| 3.5" (Internal): | 2 (2 occupied) |
| Expansion Slots | |
| Multimedia Card Reader: | Memory Stick® media, Memory Stick PRO™ media, Memory Stick Duo™ media, Compact Flash® (Type I and Type II), Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard™ , SmartMedia™ and xD Picture Card® |
| PCI Slot: | 2 (1 available) |
| x16 PCI Express: | 1 (occupied by Graphics Card) |
| TV Tuner: | High Definition digital cable tuner with CableCARD with ATSC and NTSC support |
| Audio | |
| Sound System: | Sony® Sound Reality™ technology with DSD (Direct Stream Digital) support |
| Graphics | |
| Processor: | NVIDIA® GeForce® 7600 GTL graphics processing unit (GPU) |
| Video RAM: | 527MB (max.) Total Available Graphics Memory |
| Chipset: | Intel P965 |
| Interface: | HDMI™ out (High Definition Multimedia Interface) DVI-D (through HDMI™ to DVI-D adapter) Component (YPbPr) |
| Inputs and Outputs | |
| Composite Audio/Video Input(s): | 1 (gold-plated) (front) |
| Component Video (Y/Pb/Pr) Output(s): | 1 |
| Ethernet: | 1 |
| HDMI 1.3a: | 1 |
| Headphone Jack: | 1 |
| Memory Stick Media Slot: | 1 (Supports Memory Stick PRO™ media and Memory Stick Duo™ media) |
| Microphone Input: | 1 |
| RF Connection Input: | 1 |
| S-Video Input: | 1 (Front) |
| USB Port(s): | 4 (2 Front/2 Rear) (2.0 compliant) |
| Composite Audio Output(s): | 1 (gold-plated) (Right/Left) |
| Composite Audio Input(s): | 1 (gold-plated) (Right/Left) |
| IR Output(s): | 2 (transmitter outputs) |
| S/PDIF Output(s): | 1 |
| S/PDIF Input(s): | 1 |
| Coaxial Digital Output(s): | 1 (Audio) |
| i.LINK® Connection: | 3 i.LINK® interface (1x4-pin Front/ 2x6-pin Rear) |
| AC-In: | 1 |
| WLAN antenna: | 1 |
| TV Tuner: | 1 (NTSC/ATSC/Digital Cable) |
| Networking/Modem | |
| Ethernet Protocol: | Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45) |
| Ethernet Speed: | 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T |
| Wireless LAN: | IEEE 802.11abg |
| Power | |
| Power Management: | ACPI 1.0 Compliant |
| Power Requirements: | 100-240V |
| Power Consumption: | 297W (max.) |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight: | 23.15 lbs |
| Measurements: | 16.93" W x 5.08" H x 15.75" D |
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