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Sony Announces 'CoCoon', a New Wave of Home Broadband Television Entertainment
Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 04, 2002 - (JCN Newswire) - Sony Corporation today
announced the launch of a series of home devices ("CoCoon") that propose a
new style of audiovisual entertainment centered on home television and
realize home entertainment suited for the broadband era.
"CoCoon" is a generic term for a series of home AV gateway devices
equipped with a large capacity hard disk that enables consecutive
recording and playback at the user's leisure of music and movie as well as
always-on network functions that realize access to a variety of network
services.
These new home AV gateway devices function as an "evolving product" and
offer the following features; "Personalization" for a device to learn a
user's preference and automatically choose and record matching television
programs, "Ubiquitous Network" that enables an instantaneous preset
recording of television programs from a PC or cellular phone by always-on
network connectivity, and "Upgrading Ability" to realize an expansion of
functions and use of new network services through automatic software
upgrade. In addition, the "CoCoon" home AV gateway devices are designed to
offer enhanced ease of use of consumer AV devices for every user to access
various network services by a single remote control operation.
Sony positions "WEGA", "PlayStation 2", "VAIO" and "mobile devices" as the
key gateway devices for users to easily enjoy a variety of content and
services anytime, anywhere in the coming Ubiquitous "Value" Network era. A
new lifestyle in a home environment can be realized through the Ubiquitous
"Value" Network by merging "CoCoon" home AV gateway devices with "WEGA"
television products which always seek after high definition picture
quality.
[Origin of the name "CoCoon"]
COnnected COmmunity On Network. While striving to realize a connected
community on network, the word "CoCoon" was chosen as a generic term for a
series of home AV gateway devices which move toward the goal of offering
fine structured network services to customers.
* "CoCoon" is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.
About Sony Corporation
Sony Corp. (TSE: 6758) is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game,
communications and information technology products for the consumer and
professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and
on-line businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be a leading personal
broadband entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated
annual sales of nearly $60 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31,
2001.
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