I owned one of these - well, not one of these - but a pretty good one. Limited edition, 500 sports coupe with high performance 289 beefed with Shelby GT350 parts, Borg-Warner t-10 and 4:11 in the back. Great car for the time and clicked off in the 13s for the quarter. But in my dreams, my car never looked this awesome. Memory lane on steroids. Love it.

OK - I'm not coming from too much of a geek side, but it seems to me the integration could also be in the STB or receivers. HTPC people already can figure this all out with mad geek skills, but the average joe would just need to plug his wifi dongle or ethernet into the box. And it goes! I pretty much had that in the dark ages with ReplayTV, though I needed third party software. Clearly cable and satellite companies don't want me messing with their software, but they could really make themselves invaluable with a PnP setup to the WHS unit. I'm probably missing a bunch of stuff, but it seems to me the problems are companies trying to guarentee their income stream, not on the tech side.

Don't know if they are still available - I've got the Samsung 58" plasma series 5 (550) and my neighbor bought the 52". SOOOOO good for the dollar and I have zero complaints - would buy it again tomorrow.

I believe I take exception with the "yet weirdly, no actual "New-ness"" comment. Though I cannot be certain, of course, this looks like the cloud computing in the hand that we all have wondered is possible. That and the excellent email management and super-threaded SMS/CHAT (if it works) is pretty new and very creative. That all being said, I am a Palmite of long standing and I am on Sprint (yea!!) so I am pretty excited.

In your comments on DVR to buy, you talk about the various user interfaces. I have been with ReplayTV until this month moving to Dish. Replay had MRV for at least 8 years and it worked GREAT! Only now has some DVR's offered this, and I went to Dish because they have an ok MRV system. But the interface and the remote - not so good. In fact, even Tivo does not have as good an interface and remote combination as Replay has forever (in tech time). And, of course, the commercial skip feature (not a 30 sec skip -- a true commercial skip) was incredible. So I say the best interface and remote has been around for many years - they just did not survive to make it to HD, and both my wife and I are grieving the loss of our dear buffed up Replay units.

I enjoy the podcasts, thanks.

Oh, yea, this would be excellent with my two replaytvs. Thank You!