“Japan’s Sony Corp gave a fresh peek on Wednesday into its
strategy for linking consumer electronics to the Web, unveiling a
Net-connected video recorder that can seek out and record TV
programs it thinks its owner would like.“The device, which uses a hard-disk drive instead of optical
discs or magnetic tapes, will be the first of Sony’s ‘Cocoon’ line
of products that aim to become an alternative to the PC for
accessing Internet content…“Cocoon uses the freely available Linux operating system and a
microprocessor based on reduced instruction-set computing
technology developed by MIPS Technology Inc…”