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While the fabled ‘digital home’ is still yet to materialise in any meaningful way, it’s certainly a lot closer now than it was five years ago.

Media streamers that wirelessly stream music and movies from your PC onto your living room television, are now widely available.

And some people think that the next step is for people to embrace the standalone media PC. It sits under your TV like a games console or a DVD player – except it’s a fully fledged computer running Windows Vista.

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Sony BMG’s chief exec Rolf Schmidt-Holtz has finally gone on record to state that the label is keen to launch a subscription service for music customers to download as many DRM-free tunes as they want.

There has been much talk of late as to the value of unlimited access subscription download services, so it’s great to hear the head honcho from one of the four major labels confirm that such a service is a near-future reality.

DRM-free for life

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Not content with the deep Blu-ray notch in its techno bedpost, Sony is aiming for another conquest; this time in a league it has never before tackled - computer hard drives.

Like the patterned media (PM) method we saw a few weeks ago, Sony’s magneto-optical hybrid (MOH) storage technique promises data densities of up to 1 Terabit per square inch [Subscription link]. That’s far ahead of what can be squeezed onto existing hard drives and promises 1TB laptop drives if successful.

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While it may not pack the sales bang of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the latest edition of Sony Electronics Inc.’s Reader Digital Book could turn some heads among gadget lovers when it is released this month.

Sony announced the latest edition of the Reader, model PRS-505, on Tuesday, and said it will be available in the U.S. this month at Sony Style stores and on the Sony Style Web site as well as at Borders Inc. book stores. For US$300, people will get a paperback book-sized Reader in either silver or dark blue, which can hold up to 160 books.

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