iPod TV docks aren't too expensive (mine was about $40) and I can see downloaded TV shows on there from my iPod Touch. The quality of the video isn't great (but not very bad eitehr) but i've not tried the HD versions of the shows yet.

I like having video to watch on my ipod Touch for my hour-long commute on bus and train each morning and evening.

I've never been able to stomach the Today show crew - they always seem so pretentious and seem so fake. None of the other network morning shows are much better in that regard, but Today is the worst.

The "man candy" joke might be funny out of context, but coming from anyone in that crew makes me cringe.

I work on a college campus and, even though the show isn't really representative of reality of what goes on at a university and in greek life, it is a lot of fun.

I really don't get Archieboy's appeal. He's just cute-ish and so very pageanty that he makes me tired. Ignoring the gasping for breath and constant lip-licking (Hey Blistex - are you looking for a spokesmodel?? seriously, send this boy several boxes of DCT and LipMedex before it's too late! If you don't get him, one of the asthma inhalers will snap him up.), just the fact that his MOM got on stage and completed a song for him during a live performance should demonstrate that he's basically a male version of Jon Benet Ramsey with an obsessed parent living through her child (is it true that Mommy-Archie was trolling the Idol boards telling his fans to call themselves the ArchAngels?).

In general, though, I find myself uninterested in the contestants this season. In honor of Danny, N. I will root for his BFF Ramiele and I'll enjoy the VoteForTheWorst.com fun that Amanda adds to the show. Stripper Hernandez has already become tiresome with his Celine Dion drag shows (he may not have the dress and wig, but he sure has the eyebrows going), and I'm not even going to discuss how annoying the "front runners" (read "plants") Carly and Michael Johns are.

Noriega is definitely what Sanjaya wants to be and VoteForTheWorst.com should keep him in the competition for a while.

David A. is this year's Jordin with Randy pulling that "You're only 16??!!??" right from the start. Jordin, however, started small and grew - David A. is being uber-pimped from the get-go and he might crash and burn before the end. He did win on Star Search, though, so perhaps he can keep it going.

Over all, i liked the two Jasons the most. Yeager's song choice might have been strange and he really did corn it up in a very Disney-theme-park kinda way, but he came off as real/sincere. Castro's much better than his dumb hair would lead you to think, so I'm hoping that he'll show up totally cleaned up with good hair one week to change things up big time - but not in a dumb just-for-attention-to-distract-from-an-awful-voice way like Sanjaya did.

Speaking of hair and last year's freak, is the mess we saw last night thanks to Sanjaya? Noriega's new emo cut is a 180 degree turn from the short cut he wore last year and is very, very Sanjaya-esque. David Cook's hair HAS to be designed to make you stop thinking about how badly he sings. Boy-Band-Brittneys-Beau guy is trying to pretend to be a rocker with his long locks. C'mon guys... stop with the posing and try to entertain us with some actual singing, ok?

In my entire life, I've only had cable television when it was included in my rent for a few years.

I'm a LOST fan and I, too, was hoping for something more like pop-up video or DVD commentary with behind-the-scenes info or pointing out goofs. While I was disappointed, I actually thought it was a nice tool for catching people up on the action of pretty much everything that happened in season 3.

I didn't catch the first bit where they blew the cover of Jack's LA scenes being a flash forward, though. THAT was dumb because that was a big deal that would be cleared up soon enough. They also exposed it by mentioning that the letters in the name of the funeral parlor could be rearranged to form "flash forward" and I think I would have been OK with that exposition coming there, but not in the first 30 seconds of the episode.

What I wanted more of were the character retrospective promos like Sawyer and Locke got. I heard Paul Oakenfield's "Faster Kill Pussycat" this morning during my drive to work and I thought how that would work nicely for a Kate-centric promo. Jack's could be set to the tune of "Doctor, Doctor" by the Thompson Twins :-) (search YouTube to hear both of those).

this looks nice - would love to win it

Sounds great - so make smartphones with e-ink displays and we can all just use those.

Actually, New York libraries have had ebooks for a couple of years already:
http://ebooks.nypl.org/

... so it is possible and has been done.