A Kramer VM-2HDMI 1:2 DA then TP-551 and TP-552 (HDMI over dual CAT-6). Dunno how much they cost right now, but surely this will look as crisp as it gets (you can ditch the analog audio cable as well).

Agree on the "no-hd-over-analog-component" issue: over long cable runs, it requires very good cabling to get proper HD resolution on analog component.

Well, that's more of a question of the quality of the sensor. Even though the processor may be able to encode such resolutions it may be impossible to scan the sensor with a frequency high enough for 720p video. I guess the biggest thing that bugs everyone who hates 3GS are three things:

- iPhone should have been able to do this from day one - adding this feature wasn't progress, it was caching up.
- if iPhone has the power to do 720p now, why doesn't it do it now? I guess it's because Apple wants to make you buy a new iPhone 3GSX next year - this time with 720p video. It's just lame, how Apple mistreats it's customers and still gets glorified.
- it's another "innovation" hijacked by Apple: it's nothing new, just in an Apple package, and suddenly everyone is crazy about it.

Nothing says irony like MPAA explaining why it's bad to rip DVD's by playing a clip using VLC, a piece of software, they want to be illegal for a couple of hundreds of reasons, including its ability to rip DVD's, ignore region coding, etc, etc.

Hmm... The first? Huh, I guess the big write the history ;) In USA maybe, but the first in the industry - that's quite an overstatement.

Really, what's all the fuss about? It's just ordinary, basic laws of physics, nothing more. It's just radio, but instead of focusing on transmitting a signal it's just transmiting power.

Hmm, well - i kindof, sortof miss the point:
so one can get a phone that has a massive amount of features nearly for free, the only downside being it has no flashy touchscreen or visual voicemail, or buy an Apple iPhone for 269 pounds that has next to no features (wow - so there's YouTube and Google Maps - there's YouTube and GoogleMaps for every phone with JavaVM and a media player) - where's the logic in that? I mean, I don't even understand why would anyone in Europe want this thing - lets face it - EDGE is crappy - it was good a few years ago, but come on - at that price it should have 3G and make coffe. And no MMS in Europe is simply a joke - nobody even advertises it because it's just normal that phones have picture messaging. And no Java VM? I don't know how stuff is in the UK, but in Poland a phone without Java games is the lamest thing one could buy - even when you're an executive and it's branded by Apple. I don't see how O2 wants to make profit off this thing - people will unlock it en masse, there are simply no premium services to sell for it and they have to give 40% of their profits to Apple - it's just a dead end. It's not a toy and not a tool nor a true PMP. I guess it's just Apple.

Well, I must strongly disagree. They are more like the Lamborghini of the AV industry: the stuff they make looks perfect, and under the hood it's even better. Their TVs have an architecture more akin to a PC than a TV set: they use modular plug-in cards and each TV set is always built for a specific customer, with the features he chooses (internal DVR, internet access, satelite/terrestial/cable digital twin and single tuners). Even after the initial purchase you can decide that you want to add some features and what you do is simply go to the shop and say that you want an additional feature installed - and a technician arrives with the neccessary plug-in card. Add to that, the service mode is accessable by the customer so he can fine-tune the set precisely the way he wants (disabling and enabling the enhancing systems as he sees fit, changing the LCD color calibration and so on). So, basicly, it's not like Apple Inc. at all.