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Adventures in home entertainment

Keith Shaw By Keith Shaw
Before I left for this week's Consumer Electronics Show, I tried to quickly install Sony's LocationFree LF-V30 Base Station (about $250), which acts like a Sling Media Slingbox, in that you can go across the Internet to view TV content live or stored on a digital video recorder. But I ran into some problems with the device, the main one being that my wireless network is only an 802.11g network. Read full story

Keith Shaw is Programming Director at Network World, responsible for multimedia strategy (videos, podcasts, chat events). In addition, he writes the Cool Tools column, which looks at personal technology, gizmos, gadgets and other fun stuff. You can reach Keith at kshaw@nww.com.

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