Interesting... by the time the PCH is available again, the new WDTV should be out, the one with DTS audio & network capability, etc... Sure it won't have a SATA bay for a HD / BluRay player but at $299 vs. $129 (or whatever), I'll take the WDTV (assuming it looks like a decent product).

Any idea when the WDTV2 is scheduled to drop? Even though they're not 100% identical products, there is enough overlap that I'd love to see a shootout on the areas where the 2 products overlap.

I've always liked Geexbox....

The price is so high, and I don't see a justification for it.

As far as the direct / retail channel, I just don't see this thing making a dent from what I've read. Either people have their TiVos, their cable company DVRs, or their Media Center PCs.

Maybe if it was $299-$399. I guess $399 considering the hardware cost, this isn't a toy.

It seems like the company is attempting to recover its NRE (development) costs way too quickly. In an economy like this (esp. the next 18-24 months), a premium DVR is a tough sell.

Unfortunately the company will probably be swirling the drain in 24 months, assuming their quality & customer service are good enough to last even that long.

Just my 2 cents, I don't have a dog in this hunt, it just sounds like poor execution and that's a shame since we do need a good, feature-rich, affordable HD DVR product, and I would have liked to have seen this be a viable alternative.

Great list. Love the concise format, "just sum it all up for me" kind of presentation.

For $800, I'd expect this mudder-hucker to have 2TB and to have breakfast waiting for me in the morning when I wake up.

This think will be $499 by the end of the year.... or Moxi'll be "tits up" by that time.

For that money, I can buy a powerful, small form factor PC plus Windows Media Center, and roll my own.

Sorry Moxi, you picked the wrong time to roll out a boutique appliance, the public is shopping at Wal Mart these days, not Tiffany.

Too little too late, dickheads (Time Warner.)

Just switched to FiOS & couldn't be happier.

I always knew FiOS would be an improvement, but inertia won out until recently... easier to just stay the course. But then recent outages, also what seemed like caps/throttling, and rumors like the pay-as-you-go experiment made me decide to switch.

If they can't manage their network and build-out properly, that's their own damn problem.

If they want to offer me 20M/5M for $29/month, lifetime, fine I'll come back, otherwise, HIT THE BRICKS, PAL!!!!

And the other 10% are brain-dead.

Do they ask for permission before going to the bathroom, too?

Redbox rocks. Hollywood (OK, Universal) better stop crying & be glad places like RedBox at least generates some revenue for them!

With so many alternatives, the day of plonking down $19.95 for a DVD you'll watch 2x, maybe 3x, is long past..... not to mention the economy.

If studios were wise, they'd release DVDs for $9.95 the same day as the theatrical release. Word is at least one major studio is studying the idea (they already do it in China because the Chinese will pirate it the same day anyway.)

Off by a factor of 10 in each dimension.... so you presented this device as *literally* 1000 times smaller than it really is.

It's still small, but let's get the decimal point in the right place!

Netflix....RedBox.... nein. No DVDs bought since 2006.

Price everything at $4.99 in a cheap cardboard sleeve, or make DVDs available for $9.99 the day of a theatrical release, you'll get me to open my wallet.

But it's just too easy to get good entertainment cheaply these days. Who's tossing around $20 bills to buy DVDs that they'll watch 2x a year for maybe the first 2 years?