Catching Up With Neil Young and Sun At JavaOne

Photo by Kim Kulish
A printout of Neil Young's song catalog, represented in its entirety and digitalized from analog masters where necessary, stretches across the entire stage at the Moscone Center hall hosting Sun for the JavaOne Conference. With the necessary advances in technology, Young's vision "crawled out of the blackness, out of the dirge and onto the Blu-ray disk," according to the singer-songwriter, who recommends playing such media on a gaming console like the PlayStation 3 instead of ponying up for a specialized Blu-ray player.

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