If you are at a serious level of income such as a basketball player, baseball player or stockbroker (perhaps not now-a-days) or a whatever at that level of income, this is a nice thing to have installed into your system.

System installers and integrators make money off of consistency and not being called back to repair some hack. Hacks are nice, but the support for a hack is higher than an off-the-rack machine - or in this instance an in-the-rack machine. Install it and leave me alone.

toss a bunch of them into the sewers of NYC and finally put to rest the (flushed-toilet) croc / alligator stories...

Just in case you wanted to know what 36 megapixel might show:
The Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham, Ariz., has taken celestial images using its twin side-by-side, 8.4-meter (27.6 foot) primary mirrors together, achieving first "binocular" light.
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Rome Observatory delivered a first panoramic (36 -megapixel) CCD camera to achieve first, single-mirror LBT light in October 2005.

From:
http://uanews.org/node/18632

while I do not disagree with the conclusion that infrastructure has to build out, for those of us who have high-speed connections Vudu HD instant downloads are great.

I have TWC cable modem w/4820kps dl speed (or more) - easily enough to watch HD instantly.

NOW, the real problem will come when TWC starts charging me bandwidth following their test in Texas.

Great HD TV and great contest, thanks