I think that the price on this is entirely relevant to how many TV's you have and how large your house is. At $500 you are certainly not going to get it for an apartment or condo with 1 or 2 TV's, but if you live in a house that's say over 2k square feet and have 3-4+ TV's then it doesn't seem that unreasonable at all. I mean, even cheap set top boxes for all over the house would end up costing more and if you didn't want to use wifi or didn't already have it, then you have more costs still to set that up. Also, it would seem like the larger the house, the less likely you would be to have a computer convenient near to the TV's in every room, making it more worthwhile to having something that you can remotely hop on the net with.
“Measuring 21.5 inches each, with 1920 x 1080 resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and optical multitouch technology under their chunky bezels, these two models represent the biggest mainstream push for touchscreen computing yet.”
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I think that the price on this is entirely relevant to how many TV's you have and how large your house is. At $500 you are certainly not going to get it for an apartment or condo with 1 or 2 TV's, but if you live in a house that's say over 2k square feet and have 3-4+ TV's then it doesn't seem that unreasonable at all. I mean, even cheap set top boxes for all over the house would end up costing more and if you didn't want to use wifi or didn't already have it, then you have more costs still to set that up. Also, it would seem like the larger the house, the less likely you would be to have a computer convenient near to the TV's in every room, making it more worthwhile to having something that you can remotely hop on the net with.