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Re: [News] iPhones to Serve as MythTV Remote Controls

____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 28 August 2007 10:17 : \____

> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> In article <63i3q4-j61.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>  Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Similarly for consumer electronics.  Microsoft's Xbox war with Sony
>>> doesn't seem to be going all that well for them.
>> 
>> July US sales numbers:
>> 
>>    Wii: 425,000
>>    Nintendo DS: 405,000
>>    PlayStation 2: 222,000
>>    PlayStation Portable: 214,000
>>    Xbox 360: 170,000
>>    PlayStation 3: 159,000
>>    Game Boy Advance: 87,000
>> 
>> 
> 
> Ah - thanks:
> Sony:                  599,000 units
> Microsoft Xbox:  170,000 units
> 
> Even on home turf, Sony are outselling Microsoft at better than 3:1.
> 
> Still, the Sony boxes don't explode.
> 
> Anyone tried the PS3 with a Bubba, btw?  The UPNP is good, and the
> picture gallery thing is a great toy - best picture gallery I've seen,
> and it can play the music at the same time :-)

Some laptops have exloded like fireworks though, even recently. Sony batteries,
I suspect. Then there's the new Sony rootkit. :-( Linux-incompatible... poor
us.

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