The amount of household entertainment center equipment is constantly
             expanding and now often includes a television, a VCR, an audio player, a
             DVD, a cable/satellite box, a DVD recorder, a personal video recorder and a
             game console. Device consolidation is needed and all-in-one boxes that
             provide a combination of capabilities are projected to outsell individual
             devices by 2008 (Device consolidation: ABI predicts the future of home
             entertainment technologies and networking). And, Wi-Fi (802.11b/a/g and
             UWB) and Powerline (HomePlug 1.0 and others) -- the "no wire" networking
             technologies that link home entertainment capabilities together - is
             expected to get simple, robust, and affordable to the average electronics
             consumer by 2006. All-in-one is a big part of Sony's device strategies and
             the company will no doubt expand this strategy into entertainment center
             In 2003, Sony introduced MPEG-4 (Rhey, 2002). Initially, Sony
             promoted MPEG-4 as a better way to get digital video into a television, but
             there's more potential to support the future of television. MPEG-4 has
             been designed with bandwidth profiles, which are configurations that will
             let it service a broad range of devices. To MPEG-4, all these devices will
             be equal, even if their display resolutions are different. When MPEG-4 is
             combined with the kind of personal video recorder that might be available
             in five years, consumers will be able to record the high-resolution version
             of a favorite television program and then beam it to their cell phone when
             they are away from home. In other words, television any time and place a
             Television signals are moving from analog to digital. This will open
             up exciting business opportunities for Sony. Many are aware that Digital
             transformation will bring greater use of video-on-demand, interactive
             services, multimedia applications, and a nearly unlimited number of
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