Furthering the integration between TVs and Internet-delivered content, Sony has added support for the Slacker Radio music streaming service to its Bravia Internet Video Link. The Sony Bravia Internet Link is a hardware/service combination that allows users to deliver web-based content to their Sony Bravia HDTVs.
Slacker Personal Radio is a service that allows users to stream millions of songs to the Internet Link for playback over the TV or home stereo system. Other services offered by the Internet Video Link, which retails for about $300, include movies, TV shows, and other web-based video.
This deal is yet another in a long line of pacts that have married web-delivered content with traditional home-entertainment options like TVs. These combinations are to be found in set top boxes, Blu-ray players, and many other products. What’s not present in any of these deals – yet – is support for photo-sharing services.
Things like movies and music may drive people to these products initially, but I suspect we’ll see photo-sharing support added to at least some of these devices in 2009.
On InformationAppliance: Sony Adds Slacker Radio to HDTVs | Digital Picture Frames wrote at January 30th, 2009 at 5:31 am
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