Sony brings the Desktop PC to your living room

Sony's VAIO X Living VGX-XL70S brings a Windows XP personal computer with video recording capabilities to your living room. The VIAO X Living comes fitted with both digtal and analog tuners to allow recording of two channels simultaniously. Users can choose from either single or dual 500 GB to provide plenty of storage for all your favorite tv shows and movie recordings. The X Living PC is certified by the Digital Living Room Network Alliance and is guaranteed to interconnect and exchange content with other certified devices.

You can also save a few hundred dollars and go with the VAIO X Video Station VGX-XV80S, which is a somewhat lower end model of the VAIO X Living model. The X Video Station lacks in a built-in computer, but includes more storage and recoding capabilites. Since there is no built-in computer, a network connection is required to access the VGX-XV80S's video vault. With support of up to 4 hard-disk drives the X Video Station can store up to 2TB of storage, which adds up to roughly three weeks of video! Additionally this bad boy sports eight analog TV tuners for simultanious recording up up to eight channels.

It will be Available in Japan and State Side USA.