You obviously don't get it. Remotes like these are not for merely turning your tv on and off, but are meant to control your entire home, every thing from the Air Conditioning, to the Oven, Garage Door, Outside Lights, Pool Pump, DVD Player, ETC (and the list goes on) is meant to be controlled by devices like the Monster Remote. $550 is nothing, you should check out Crestron's $3,000 grand daddy tv remote, home controller, and information center. The possiblities are almost limitless, heck you could even rig it to remotely start your car on cold mornings. http://www.crestron.com/features/applications/home/
You can even connect the IP the surveillance camera mounted near your front door to this (Crestron) thing, so you will know who is at the door before you even open it. Great for those time when you wish to ignore door to door Kirby Vacuum Cleaner Salesmen. And you can do it with out missing a minute of your favorite episode of Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood.
It just goes to show how nVIDIA, ATI, AMD, and Intel are really jacking up prices. What ever happend to high end CPU's costing around $500 and high end GPU's $300 (9700 pro at launch)? It seems that they can charge double if they slap the words Gamerz or Gamer on the package, those words aint cheap to print!
What ever happened to these companies (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft,ect)? I miss the days when they would release only one version for all to play on with all the features enabled. PS2 came with DVD standard, there never was such a thing as SNES Basic and SNES premeium or PS1 Ultra Edition with DVD playback or XBOX 1 with the ability to network as an option. I am getting tired of this and just come out with a darn console that is one size fits all (meaning all features).
"I have a MacBook Pro and an Xbox 360 and I would like to get a 20- to 24-inch display that will support both devices. The speakers should be inbuilt, or there should be an aux out on the display to hook up external speakers. Help! Please!"
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