It looks as if Sneakernet is the answer to the inter-connected home. The huge problem of how you connect your PC to your TV has been solved by a SanDisk USB flash drive which has a cradle which connects into the standard video ports on the TV.
Sneakernet means you put on your sneakers and carry the flash drive from your PC to the TV.
The much trumpeted concept of the inter-connected home has so far foundered on the difficulty of transferring data between equipment, mainly because of the multiplicity of different connection-types on the devices.
In pursuit of the interconnected home, many products have been put on the market which purport to transfer video from the PC to the TV and vice versa, one of which was the Apple TV, but none of the products has been a hit because of their cost and the technical difficulty of setting them up.
SanDisk’s flash PC-TV flash drive product, which it calls Sansa TakeTV, costs $100 for 4GB capable off storing five hours of video, and $150 for an 8GB which can store ten hours.
Sneakers are extra.
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