Is there any place I can go and actually see an Eee PC?

They list Costco on their website but the guy working there in the computer dept. acted like I was crazy when I mentioned these small laptops - he'd never heard of them.

Don't see them at Best Buy, Circuit City or anywhere. Are we expected to buy these things sight unseen?

I haven't updated my Ipod Touch since receiving it last week but when I try to update it says I have the latest version (1.1) and no updates are available.

Shouldn't it say 1.11? Anyone else unable to update?

The big myth all of these manufacturers buy into is they think consumers want to make there own Blu-Ray or HDD DVD disks. I know all I want is a Tivo like HDD PVR with two digital tuners for picking up unscrambled digital cable TV.

Making Blu-Ray or HD DVD disks is a waste of time and adds extra cost to the price of the units.

Mine arrived today (ordered from Apple.com with engraving) and the screen seems fine. I went to the Apple store yesterday and looked at all of the display models and they all looked OK also.

There's virtually no market for these pricey media servers that have been announced over the last several months.

All most people want is an HD Tivo alternative that doesn't require a subscription and is a simple device (not a computer based complicated expensive server)

In its current configuration Apple TV is a pointless waste of time.

1st, TV & movie downloads from iTunes look good on an Ipod but terrible on anything larger. In the Apple Store they have Ipods hooked up to larger mac screens playing back movies and the quality is horrendously bad. I can't believe they would even demo them in this fashion. Just about any video format and/or codec I have in my computer plays back better.

2nd, I would never buy an Apple TV unless it could playback all video formats. This thing will never sell in its present form - a definite money loser.

Here's what confuses me. My Philips 42PF9631D Plasma TV has a built in ATSC tuner (but not CableCard) yet I get all the channels I need to via Time Warner Cable including all the networks in HD without using a cable box.

I want to get a Vista Media Center that has the same type of tuner, but all of the currently available HD Tuner cards for computers say that their ATSC tuners only handle "over the air" signals and not digital cable. What's the problem here? Almost all new TV's can handle digital cable directly, why not these Media Center tuners?

I have a 2006 liquid cooled Sony Vaio desktop (was their top of the line model last July) and yet the "Vista Upgrade Advisor" still found a number of hardware and software issues before upgrading. - The Bottom Line - not worth the hassle!

To make matters worse for me, I was going to simply buy Sony's new top of the line desktop but they come with "Blu-Ray" which I want no part of.

Does any manufacturer have a Vista Ultimate Computer with an ATSC tuner for Windows Media Center and perhaps an HD-DVD Drive (but not Blu-Ray)? That's what I'm looking for.

Major blunder by JVC's design team to only include one HDMI port. I wouldn't even consider buying any HDTV that has less than two and preferably three HDMI inputs. HD-DVD, PS3, HD-DVR from the cable company etc ... This is 2007, what were they thinking?

The only benefit Sony has espoused regarding Blu-Ray is that the discs hold more info than HD-DVD, but so what! As a consumer all I care about is that the movie fits on the disk and for all of the reasons mentioned by others HD-DVD is a better performer and better value.

And yes, for computer use a Blu-Ray disc will hold more info but I've been shafted in the past using discs for storage and I'm very skeptical of the archival quality of "made at home" discs.

Prior Example - I invested a lot in Panasonic's DVD Recorder/HD that allows copying to DVD-Ram Discs and also has a firewire input. I bought a couple of hundred discs and recorded/archived all kinds of stuff from TV Shows to my large DV footage library --- but guess what --- a few years later the discs are unplayable --- a huge waste of time and money (all the hours spent copying scenes from DV Tapes, naming the scenes etc). And these are discs that were never played, never moved from a normal environment, never scratched - just a poorly implemented technology that I'm stuck paying for. Now I leave everything on hard drives and always have a back up hard drive as well.