On December 5th Sony filed a trademark protection application for project Mezone - it’s all speculation at this point, but a lot can be gleaned from studying what features “Mezone” may include…

“computer hardware, set top boxes, remote controls, and computer software and peripherals, namely audio and video receivers and transmitters and computer software programs enabling receipt, download, playing, personalized and interactive viewing, and rental of audio and video programming through the use of internet connections to computer hardware, receiver and transmitter apparatuses that connect to a television set or monitor, computer software for use in database management; computer software for uploading, manipulating, and enhancing digital content, documents, photographs, images, video, and audio; computer software for linking metadata tags with photographic and other media files to enable search engine retrieval and database software collections of files and their on-line sharing….”

….there’s more to the list, it seems like this is a bit of a catch all protection remit — however, considering previously leaked plans involving Home and an on-demand video service, we could be looking at the official name for it …it seems that since the Wii, people aren’t afraid of daft sounding names any more.

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