FAIL... This item should retail for $149 tops.

Dang... as a guy who lives on the road pitching to clients this this thing looks way cool... I need one now!

Can you flat panel guys, please, please, please stop worrying about thin and bring on the BIG panels! I'm tired of waiting for an affordable, kick-butt 65-70" LED/Plasma flat panel that real humans can afford, with killer black levels and electronics to smooth out the SD garbage we still get fed by Satellite and cable.

I'd love to use the touch screen model as a way to enable video and music jukebox capabilities! The size and form factor would make this a nice item on a bedroom dresser or kitchen buffet table. Just walk over and fire up your tunes with a touchh screen UI interface. VERY COOL.

What always fascinates me is the origin of how trying something this novel comes about... two bored medical researchers at a bar drinking beers decide to randomly expose an Alzheimer's patient to extreme infra-red to restore memory? Hope this is more than a parlor trick or that it's not just temporary. I had always read that the scientific community is in relative agreement that plaque that forms in the brain is the source of the memory lapse.. wonder how infra-red actually addresses this root cause.

This is huge! I'm a 15 year dish customer and if this is the real deal I'll ditch Dish in a New York Second! I want my content on my home media server and I want it now!

I will NEVER buy another moto phone with the letter Q in it... they suckered me 18 months ago with all the Q fanfare... I curse this phone daily and have only 6 more months of misery before I can trade to a new phone for free... what's the issue you ask? Even with an extra capacity battery I'm lucky to get 6 hours of use from this phone. Worse is the MS Mobile 5 software... full of bugs, poor design and maddeningly slow. I wish Engadget would do more to cover the early reviews that these devices receive so us gadget freaks don't become the beta testers for all these so called "breakthrough" products... give me a break.

If Sony or MS would simply let me use their device as a practical network media player (streaming DVD/VOB files from my network storage) I would go out tomorrow and buy 4-5 of these PS3's for my home. It's frustrating that the focus for these machines is on adding interesting, but IMHO, impractical service capabilities ( I don't believe for a moment that downloading content will be cheap, fast or as high quality as store bought content).

Give me the ability to stream my VOB/DVD files!!! BTW, yes I know I can do transcoding on the fly and/or transcode my existing files , but I lose video quality and valuable time in the process!

The Korean Hardware Gearheads, ROCK! Jeesh, why can't we get this kind of cool stuff here!

Did any of the above critics actually go the the companies website and evaluate the specifications and details? If you had, what you would have learned is that this is nothing more than an linux based HTPC with a proprietary front-end along with some pre-engineered integration to content (Cable Cards, Ipod, etc.) that are "DRM Freindly"... They're clearly trying to build a living room equiv. of the iPod.

While the liklihood of success is remote (it's the nature of the beast and the immaturity of this product category, remember the iPod was NOT the first hard disk based portable music player), the concept is very sound. I predict a product like this will be the successor to what us geeks with our HTPC's are trying to build at home. Don't believe me, ask a typical Joe Six Pack what an HTPC is and wait for the blank stairs. Ask him what an iPod is and he'll know immediately. BTW, he wont have a clue about what pieces and parts inside the iPod actually make it work, and he doesn't care. Same thing with HTPC's. I'm still hoping against hope that Steve Jobs will reverse course and truly commit apple to a living room HTPC that is everything the iPod has become. Now that's a product I'd bet on.