>so ugly they aren't attractive to steal

Yeah, that idea is that if you see an adult with a bunch of them, you know they stole from children.

Still waiting for series 3 to be announced...

Wait a minute, since when has the 360 been planing to support HDMI. If that is true, that is great! Oh, and I am looking forward to playing my HD DVDs months before the PS3 comes out.

Actually, adding metadata to flag the start and end of commercial breaks would make it considerably easier to create a hacked device that skipped the commercials entirely. If you look at it that way, this is good news.

Reminds me of when MIT put on a star wars musical, Lucas Film had to avoid all contact with scripts etc., or even hearing about how it went, so that they wouldn't get caught in a lawsuit in case they ever wanted to create their own star wars musical. You know, in case they both happened to randomly come up with the idea of tap dancing storm troopers (and who wouldn't).

Woohoo! This is really great news for TiVo fans. Maybe they won't inevitably go out of business after all.

But I still want to buy a lifetime subscription on my series 3, if i am going to get one. In case any of you TiVo employees are reading this.

Hard drive reviews are humorously binary, the drive either crashed or it didn't. That said, the only data I have ever lost was due to maxtor.

I don't want to sound like too much of a Microsoft fan boy, in fact I currently use a MacBook Pro and love Apple products. But, I feel obligated to point out that my previous computer, at Toshiba Tablet PC, came with this feature out of the box.

Alarms sounding based on input from the accelerometers is not all that fancy. Using the accelerometers to play marble madness by tilting your tablet around, now that is innovative.

Funny, just yesterday I was saying that I wanted to get one, but should wait until they switch to the newer panel that Dell has. My bank account is now looking at me in terror.

I wish they would sell an independent ambilight system for use in any home theater. I saw a phillips prototype where they had ambilights set up all around a room and they were playing the movie Final Fantasy the Spirits Within. They of course had to program the lights to match the movie, kind of like creating a new soundtrack, but the start of that movie with ambient light was absolutely incredible. Anyone skeptical about how immersive this technology is should really see the demo, and remember how out of focus their peripheral vision is.