[slinkelist] Re: CX300

Sinan Karasu allahsiz@home.com
Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:34:52 -0800


rbrocaw wrote:
> 
>  Scott Garrett <sgarrett@technomancer.com> wrote...
> 
> >On another note, apparently Sony is planning to abandon the S-link
> ports
> >altogether and go to a bi-directional IR communication method in future
> 
> >models.
> 
> Maybe if Sony didn't keep the facts and features about S-link a secret,
> it would have been more successful.  Probably only one person in a
> hundred (and that's being generous) could care less that there is an
> S-link port on the back of their equipment.
> 
>[...]

Actually I believe that there is more to that statement than meets the
eye.
I believe the tech was implying that Sony will be using "wireless
firewire",
an infrared/rf communication protocol based on HAVI/Java.

 For more details go to

 http://www.havi.org

 And make SURE you don't go to
 http://www.mavi.org , since all you'll get is a picture of
our parrot...

Sinan