Yeah, what do these do that a much cheaper Grado (which is considered a very, very good headphone)
doesn't?

Does it allow multiple room controls, where , say, you have three identical Sonys in different rooms
and want to control only one? . A Universal Remote remote can do this with UHF extenders. I've not seen a Harmony that has this ability.

Use the Kindle ap on the iPhone. It's in color.

My problem with this is the stations that still don't (and won't by deadline) have enough digital coverage for fringe areas. So it doesn't matter if you are ready or not. A lot of people are still going to get a blank image when they turn on the TV.

You're not missing anything. Anything they have done to these headphones to 'tune' them
*HAS* to make them worse. This is pure marketing.

It sounds like a description of either an electrostatic speaker (mylar film with a conductive coating)
or more likely a Magnepan (mylar with thin wire embedded). Both have a magnet in front of (and/or behind) the mylar. Really nice speakers. Really fast and resolving (you haven't heard detail in any cone speaker, if you think you have, you're kidding yourself. Yeah, they are that good. You don't need double blind or long periods to tell either, its orders of *magnitude* better than anything at Best Buy or a Bose speaker, etc.). I would imagine that these aren't quite so faithful, but from the article they sound like (no pun intended) they are infringing on patents held by Quad, Martin Logan , Magenepan et al.

I went to one at lunch. Prices were jacked up. But, there were lines of people at the checkout.
Go figure.

Put me in the minority as well. I don't want this.

My only concern is when it gets to blu-ray, are we going to have to put up
with those paper glasses that make everything look black and white?

I've tried Harmony remotes and can't understand the appeal. If you have
any sort of complicated setup to perform, programming a Harmony is like
pulling teeth. They also force you to view things in a particular way, even if what
you want to do doesn't fall into that view. URs are by comparison much easier
to do complicated programming on, are more adaptable (you can have the same
equipment in different rooms and never have say, one Sony, respond to a command
meant for an identical Sony in another room). The only thing I've found positive about
Harmonys is that they seem to post updates a bit quicker.

CMM