Sony LocationFree Base Station

Easily connected to your home network, the LF-B10 can stream live television and other video content, with excellent picture quality, through a home network or across the Internet3 to remote devices. When you are away from home, accessing the Base Station is as easy as logging onto the Internet3. Log-in and watch live TV, change channels, and access and control any additional audio-visual devices hooked up to the system. Featuring NetAV streaming and the ability to connect to PlayStation® Portable, Windows® and Mac OS X computers, TVs, and, coming this fall, Windows® Mobile cellular phones..

The LFA-PC20 LocationFree Player software features an easy-to-use wizard that walks you through the set-up process. Use the onscreen remote control function to easily navigate your media and services remotely from just about anywhere you have broadband access.

Total Entertainment Mobility
With LocationFree® Living by Sony, wherever you go, your home entertainment will follow. Now every show, every movie, all your created video, and even live moments can be where you are. Watch live TV, TV programming recorded on a digital video recorder (DVR), stored digital video, digital camcorder content, and more on a wide range of devices, including PlayStation® Portable System, notebook computers, TVs, and, coming this fall, cellular phones. LocationFree® Base Stations include LFA-PC20 LocationFree player for Microsoft® Windows® XP (single PC license, additional licenses sold separately).

Compatible with a Broad Range of Clients and Operating Systems
With LocationFree® Living, Sony brings total entertainment mobility to millions of entertainment enthusiasts. With the LocationFree® Base Station, you can watch your favorite TV shows, videos, and more on a PlayStation Portable System, Windows® PC, Mac (running OS X or later), or, coming this fall, Windows® Mobile -powered cellular phone.5 And with the LocationFree® TV Box, you can communicate with the Base Station and watch your entertainment content without the use of a computer at all.

"At-Home" Experience Anywhere
LocationFree® Living by Sony truly enables you to take the experience of at-home entertainment with you wherever you go. LocationFree® Living employs advanced networking and video technologies such as the AVC Codec (a dream for digital video enthusiasts), integrated wireless LAN, and NetAV7 streaming for smooth access to video content via the Internet.

Enhanced Picture Quality
The use of the AVC (advanced video coding) codec - also called the h.264 codec - means higher picture quality even at lower bit rates, which is how you're able to take the experience of entertainment in your living room to hotels, coffee shops, airports . . . anywhere else you have broadband access.

NetAV Streaming6
NetAV enables you to connect your LocationFree® Base Station via a broadband Internet connection when you're away from home (hotel, airport, office hot spots, etc.), so you can enjoy your favorite TV shows, movies, created video content, and more wherever you go.

Sleek, Stylish Design
LocationFree® Living is more than your solution for total entertainment mobility. LocationFree® Living looks good, too. Hardware components feature stylish design and a "piano" finish. The Location Free® Base Station can be set vertically or horizontally, so it fits easily into your home theater outfit, and if you choose the LF-B20 Base Station, you can set your Base Station up wirelessly,1 adding the genius of LocationFree® Living to your home entertainment outfit without cluttering it up. And when you're away from the sofa, as you so often are, the LocationFree® TVBOX is compact, sleek, and portable.

User-Friendly Set-Up and Use
It's easier than you can imagine to start your adventure in LocationFree® Living. The LF-B20 Base Station networks wirelessly with your system. And if you choose the LF-B10 Base Station, connecting it is simple and includes automatic set-up for accessing the Base Station when you're away from home. The handy set-up wizard whisks you through the software set-up process, including automatic device registration and automatic set-up for pre-installed security software. The onscreen remote control function makes it easy to navigate your media and services, and the fact that it's equipped with a learning function means that you can replace other remote control devices and control your home theater components through a single, cool-looking graphical user interface (GUI).

DVR Signal Pass-through
You've programmed your digital video recorder (DVR) to save your favorite TV shows for you to watch, when you're good and ready to. Now, LocationFree® Living makes it possible for you to actually watch them, even if you can't get home to do it. While you're traveling or spending long hours at the office, you can use your LocationFree® Base Station to access the TV programming being stored by your DVR