Philips Media Center
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:00 am
With the Philips MCP 9350i Media Center, launched in October, Philips finally re-enters the computer market for home entertainment. In some way I can think of no better successor to the cd-i system. While the ‘Media Centers’ were privileged as a normal PC in the past years, it becomes clear the systems are perfectly suitable in the living room, just as how game consoles (including cd-i) already were.
Using Wi-Fi you can hook up all kinds of devices to the Media Center, they are again advertising to use Internet on your TV; watch your personal video’s and pictures; play (online) games and it’s your audio system all in one great machine.
It’s really like a deja-vu. We’ve all seen this before! Obviously, like we already knew, the compact disc interactive system was ahead of its time…
Using Wi-Fi you can hook up all kinds of devices to the Media Center, they are again advertising to use Internet on your TV; watch your personal video’s and pictures; play (online) games and it’s your audio system all in one great machine.
It’s really like a deja-vu. We’ve all seen this before! Obviously, like we already knew, the compact disc interactive system was ahead of its time…