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Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

deusdiabolus — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:38:55 EDT

Your grandparents will love it.

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

whootowl — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:39:42 EDT

$400 would be a nice price if the unit supported CableCard 2.0 and HD-DVR with the necessary I/O (including HDMI 1.3 for 1080p). Best support eSATA for expansion.

I also want to hit one button on the remote to print a photo.

whootowl

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

yelohbird — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:27:19 EDT

@Spyrojoe:

How is this necessary? I would venture to say that most people already have some kind of device hooked up to their TV that is either already networked, has card slot, or at the very least, a USB port. Hell, even most new TV's have these things built in. So not worth $400.

You venture wrongly.

At present, most people have CRT TVs with either a VCR or a standard DVD player. Most people don't know it's possible to network non-computer devices, and most people can't tell a card slot from a USB port from a gaping hole drilled behind your device.

Sad as it may sound, there has always been a demographic of the rich and technologically impaired who will pay for the newest gadgets that can do the simplest things. Get a life, guys...Sony isn't designing this product for sexless geeks who mod their Xbox to stream slideshows from Flickr.

If Apple can justify a $400 iPod which plays music and photos, why can't Sony justify a $400 home-networked computer (potentially hackable into a presentable small form factor HTPC) which plays music and photos? I for one think this will be a great gift to get my grandma so that I can just burn her CDs of my pictures that she can just load in and flip on the remote to watch without knowing how to use one of them newfangled computer thingamajigees.

yelohbird

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

cocoalektro — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:58:33 EDT

And they said AppleTV was bad..

cocoalektro

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

ideaman2020 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:14:18 EDT

It can't play music, because according to Sony's head legal counsel, making one copy of a song is stealing one copy...

ideaman2020

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:09:00 EDT

@iForgot_my_iName: There might be a Walkman around there somewhere, perhaps in one of the pockets of the Sonylicious people.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

DeadPlasmaCell — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:04:48 EDT

WTF.. my Wii can do this.. not in "HD" but my 360 can.

DeadPlasmaCell

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Attrition — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:22:39 EDT

10/100 lan?

Wheres the 1000? transferring 80 gigs must be a pain at 100 mbps

But still that whole professional automatic slideshow maker with facial recognition.

How many ipods, Apple tvs and seagate HDD's have that along with a dvd burner and a slideshow maker that also can add music to the slideshow and all of this without having to turn on your computer?

I'm waiting.

Attrition

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

iForgot_my_iName — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:43:09 EDT

sonylicious home... is that why there is an ipod in the dock by the A/V receiver? or do my eyes deceive me...

iForgot_my_iName

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

bdkennedy1 — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:39:28 EDT

Good 'ol Sony with it's finger on the pulse of the consumer. Just what everyone needs. A server to store PHOTOS on. Why store them on a small iPod when your can store them on a machine 10x as large?

Headline: "Sony Photo Server crashes. Family kills self."

bdkennedy1

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Ultraorange — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:16:01 EDT

@Spyrojoe:

Uh what world do you live in. I would say the amount of people with some sort of digital link between their digital files and their TV is in the severe minority. I would even venture to say that most of the people that do have this feature rarely use and and most probably don't even know how.

This looks like crap, specs are meh, price no thank you.

Ultraorange

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

mickhyde — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:38:06 EDT

What is that huge fan doing? it's only a 80GB HD!!
I haven't room for any other device in my setup, my last purchase was an Xbox\XBMC... and I don't know where to put that... and it's bit more useful than this thing.

mickhyde

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:20:57 EDT

You know what would really top this thing off...having a Rolly dance on top of it.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Navin R Johnson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:47:36 EDT

80GB? Really? That's what you're going with? I can't even BEGIN to understand why.

When you can buy a Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB Hard Drive retail for $120 there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to be at a meager 80GB.

weak.

Navin R Johnson

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Kamalot — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:41:38 EDT

Sony has lost their blinkin' mind. This product's anemic features and inflated price tag give the illusion that the PS3 is a good value.

Kamalot

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Namarrgon — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:41:16 EDT

So what does this do that my modded Xbox/XBMC doesn't? I use it for 1080i slideshows of my pictures over component, and far more.

Is CD burning, HDMI and a double-take pricetag its only standout features?

Namarrgon

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Protocol X — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:13:59 EDT

Yet another sign that Sony no longer innovates.

Network port is included on the device so that you can easily install a root kit on your computer.

Protocol X

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

jrog — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:37:44 EDT

AppleTV FTW! I can stream movies, TV Shows, music, podcasts, youtube, and sync my pictures. It's cheaper (40GB), works with all my itunes library, Mac and Windows support, and even has 802.11N wireless. I don't need a DVD drive attached to it, or media card slots, as I load all my pictures into my COMPUTER.

If this is the device that's supposed to be to bridge the gap between computer and television for photos, then why make a product that is more like an editing/reviewing storage box that stands all alone?

jrog

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

SoloSalsa — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:27:12 EDT

Is the OS on some internal flash, or is it running off of the hard disk? If the disk is for nothing but picture storage, then the user could probably swap it out for any size disk they would like...
If it played MP3s as background music, and played AND upscaled DVD videos, then it is worth it.
It looks like a GameCube...

SoloSalsa

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:12:51 EDT

You seem to have missed the point that it also has a DVD/CD burner drive as well. I don't think you'll find that on Apple TV.

Despite the derision heaped on it by you lot I think this is a reasonable product at an unreasonable price.

Most people's digital photos languish on hard drives largely unviewed and this gives them an easy way to view them. Sony has built-in every format currently known to people including NAS by the looks of it, has made it easy to get stuff out of it and has given you the option of using it stand-alone with a screen or as part of a home network.

I think it's a great idea and a great product but poorly priced and with woefully insufficient storage. I need to see if it has backup options as well and lack of wifi is possibly another oversight.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

blank — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:10:47 EDT

In the bottom picture, the guy in black staring at the unit is saying:
"Sooo... It really just shows pictures? It doesn't play music? Does it have a DVD player at least? No. Just pictures and slideshows... Huh... No, that's great... really... You, uh, you have a lovely home."

blank

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

daftrok — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:46:24 EDT

Make it 320 GB and $199 and you got an awesome product

daftrok

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

scarbrtj — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:30:00 EDT

Why?

scarbrtj

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

RiceBandit — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:08:50 EDT

Are there really people out there who'd buy something like this, just to look at photos? Unbelievable.

RiceBandit

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

sam_i_am — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:46:17 EDT

sure, it has xd/cf/sd slots, but do they work?
I reckon sony has put a little mulcher in there that will chew them up and spit out the bits.

sam_i_am

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

joelja — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:39:33 EDT

mac mini?

joelja

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Spilt_Milk — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:22:03 EDT

Wouldn't you be better off just to buy a ps3?

Spilt_Milk

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

zarchitect — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:09:38 EDT

great.. another odd-sized piece of equipment to collect dust and not fit in a normal cabinet alongside normal-sized equipment. Too little too late sony - too little too late.

zarchitect

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

Spyrojoe — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:06:22 EDT

How is this necessary? I would venture to say that most people already have some kind of device hooked up to their TV that is either already networked, has card slot, or at the very least, a USB port. Hell, even most new TV's have these things built in. So not worth $400.

Spyrojoe

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

schrosa — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:58:09 EDT

So, less functionality and 1/2 the space of an apple TV for the same money. Sign me up.

schrosa

Sony Introduces HDMS-S1D, an 80GB Networked Digital Photo Album

chaos421 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:55:22 EDT

looks pretty neat... but only 80gb?

chaos421