This is my first article from the Sony DigiDads Project that we kicked off last week. You can read more about it here. Our first mission (that I definitely decided to accept) was to do an article on a Sony “Connected Living Room Experience.” Well, I ran into a problem right from the start. I already have a huge HDTV that has taken over my living room. I got my 61″Â Samsung DLP well over 6 or 7 years ago. Everyone that visits our rather small house for the first time immediately says “wow, that’s a big TV” when they walk in the front door. The funny thing is, when we got it, I wasn’t the one who wanted the huge size. I was looking at a 51″ but my wife, bless her heart, said, “if you are going to go big, you might as well go all the way.” I couldn’t argue with that!
So, my main entertainment area is in the living room where I have a 5.1 surround sound setup with the big screen. Movie nights are a tradition in our family where we get pizza and watch a movie or perhaps a reality entertainment show like American Idol. When I found out that my first assignment was to set up the living room for a connected experience, I started to sweat. We don’t have a very large house and I already have every corner packed with gadgets of some type or pictures or books. We basically don’t have any room to spare. But I put my head around the challenge and found a great place that mapped to the requirements:
- The Sony Bravia TV needed an internet connection to fully enhance its capabilities
- There needed to be a flat surface large enough to handle a 46″ flat screen TV as well as a Blu-Ray player
- There had to be an area where people could sit to experience the TV fully
To the utter happiness and excitement of my 10.5 year old daughter, her bedroom became the new entertainment area and test-bed for my reviews. For a few days prior to getting the equipment, she couldn’t stop talking about it, actually the entire family (with the exception of my wife who was groaning “Not ANOTHER gadget!”) was definitely buzzing with anticipation.
Here is a quick video introducing some of the Sony gear that I reviewed:
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