The new Playstation2 video console will be equipped with a hard drive, modem and keyboard in addition to DVD capabilities. So now avid gamers can virtually blast double agents while downloading porn and waiting for the microwave popcorn before viewing "Terminator 2." The device, available domestically later this year, will also allow users to bypass cable operators and streamline Sony content distribution in the U.S.
Inasmuch as movies, music and games are all simply "content" in the brave new world, the company is restructuring Sony Pictures and Sony Music under a new holding company called Sony Broadband Entertainment Inc. This group, along with Sony Electronics (both under the Sony Corp. of America umbrella) will be headed by Chairman and CEO Howard Stringer. Which begs the question, is Sony setting itself up to be the media Big Brother or, as some analysts believe, does the move foreshadow a spinoff of the company's entertainment assets?
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