For the most part I agree. Sure there's minor speed improvement, but the cost can be excessive. However I'm planning on using an SSD with my future HTPC rig, reasons being that the case may not be adequately cooled to keep noise down (will have power supply fan and CPU fan, that's it), and the SSD will only need an OS keeping it small, all media is on the network

However, looking at this person's rig, it's generally considered overkill for HTPC use. The SSD is necessary for power savings or noise control (or maybe it can handle/give off less heat), but this PC already has 2 1TB drives in it, and well, you're obviously not worried about a few watts when you've got a quad-core processor. This PC is not a typical HTPC, and perhaps the OP doesn't use it as such. Basically we have to ask ourselves, would a deesktop computer with this setup benefit from a SSD? I think... perhaps.

Hah, why would I pay to get hulu on my tv? Hulu is neat and all, but the obvious appeal of Hulu is that it's free, legal, and easy. Break any of those and it doesn't get you anywhere.

Electric motorcycles and dirtbikes are the only affordable AND reasonable electric vehicles out so far. Like srsly, once I exit my small neighborhood its 45mph+. Just turn in into a go-cart, cheapen it up, and give it to the kids.

VOD can replace BLU-Ray only when the quality has reached the level of Blu-Ray. As fas as I can tell, we don't have Dolby TrueHD VOD streams, and they're certainly not over 40mbps. Maybe someday...

That, or they'll auction the spectrum off to the highest bidder... :)

Xbox Media Center (XBMC). There's isn't a codec it doesn't handle!

Xbox Media Center (XBMC)