The big news on Friday was Cisco's acquisition of Kiss Systems, a Danish consumer electronics vendor that makes set top boxes, DVDs, PVRs and even a Surround Sofa (fully loaded with built in speakers, subwoofer and amplifier in a sophisticated Scandinavian design).  The transaction (worth an estimated $61 million) is being heralded as marking the official entry of Cisco in the DVR and set-top box market.   

The nice thing about Kiss is that pretty much all of their devices (e.g. DVD players and PVRs) come equipped with Ethernet/802.11 connections - that way, end-users can connect them to the Internet or to their PCs to display on their TVs the multimedia content of their PCs.  The upshot is that these end-users can then program remotely their PVRs to record their favorite TV programs if they get held up at work.