"It seems that just about everything these days wants to play videos or music at you, wirelessly, streaming or from 3G. Don't we all have mp3 players anyway?"

Actually we don't all have mp3 players. The idea that some people will pay for this interface because even though they could do the same on their computer, they don't want to. We can all watch tv on our boxes too, but most people haven't made that jump. I guess these guys are just betting that enough people will want a traditional radio-style music player. I wouldn't bank on it myself, but you never know.

I need one for my bathroom.

Trust me, this'll have no impact on the job of librarians. Even if they some day manage to have access to all the books a library typically does, the average patron still won't be able to find what they want/need. You wouldn't believe how many people come up asking questions like, "Do you know the book where a guy kills a woman using a garden hoe? I think it's pretty old."

DirecTV DVR

DirectTV HD Satellite for me.

I just can't believe they're going ahead with two rival formats. They should know that somebody's going to lose (probably Sony after taking a bath on that whole cd-protection thing). There's no way I'm touching either one until the issue is settled. I don't want to get stuck with a bunch of disks that are only good as coasters (laserdisk, anyone?)

I just got a new phone, but heck, why not?