I bought a SONY stereo system some years ago. It had all the interconnect between the components,
worked off a single remote etc. I was very satisfied and still use it. SONY components will no
longer inter-operate with my "old fashioned" design. The compatibility cycle is less (I'm Guessing)
less than 5 years. Tie every thing to 10baseT ethernet and talk via TCP/IP or it will die. Sure it's
overkill for the average household, now. If my 10 year old system was 10baseT I could still use it.
I could even write drivers for it (if I could get specs?). 10baseT will live as long as I will (if
I'm lucky).
Dan

"Moser, Carl Woodrow, JR (Carl)" wrote:

> Digressing on this Internet Toaster topic, Sony may be on to capturing a big
> part of consumer appliances.  I have a Sony Receiver and VCR.  Both are
> designed so they work together and the remote control can be set to operate
> Infared or RF.  Sony has designed the VCR to be able to ...

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Daniel Hart
Embedded Systems Engineer
NBS Technologies, Vision Inspection Systems
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