I see services like this as the future of TV. Consumers will no longer be locked down to a choice of Satellite or their local cable company. Hopefully consumers will be able to choose from a variety of telvesion service providers such as Akimbo, iTunes, Movielink, etc, each which will offer their own pricing scheme. I just jope that they can all get access to the common cable channels and networks and that exclusive deals are not reached to lock out competitors.

BTW, DVDs are not 480p but rather 480i. See: http://www.projectorcentral.com/480i_vs_480p.htm.

This is why they sell Progressive Scan DVD players, they output 480p whereas a regular DVD player only outputs it at it's native 480i.

The point of an upscaling DVD player is that if your DVD player doesn't upscale the image your HDTV will. The HDTV needs to upscale 480i and 480p images up to its native resolution and it may or may not do a good job at this. upscaling DVD players however tend to have more sophisticated upscaling systems and therefore do a better and cleaner job of upsdcaling the video image than your HDTV whose video upscaler may only be an afterthought rather than a feature. However if your HDTV has a great upscaler you may realize no difference with a DVD upscaler.

Sort of off topic but I really think companies should use URLs like Yahoo! does (e.g. finance.yahho.com, mail.yahoo.com, etc.). Then they don't have to worry about other's "stealing" "thier" domain names. If you know that ALL Google websites end with google.xyx then users wouldn't be tricked into thinking unaffiliated websites are owned by Google or whatever other website.

Just to clarify, there is no monthly fee. However it does cost $250 plus $30 activation fee minus $50 rebate. More pricing info is here: http://www.moviebeam.com/opencms/opencms/Pages/WhatIsMovieBeam/PricingInfo.html

Seems pretty reasonable. However unless you have an HDTV this service doesn't seem to offer anything beyond what you could get with your Cable Co's or MCE's Onlight Spotlight Video on Demands. Though this could be a great service for people who rely on just OTA HDTV and use this for their movies.