Bring me one please.

I want one too.

(disclaimer: I'm bitter, I got an HD DVD player before the end of the war. I still don't plan on shopping for a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, and am eagerly awaiting more HD streaming quality and competition)

How was the format war good for consumers? Were there effects after the war ended?

I'm asking honestly (maybe I can get over the bitterness). All I can focus on is the burn from a technology prevailing despite less flexibility (current functionality at the time) and more restrictive DRM. I believe Blu-Ray did this by distracting unsophisticated consumers with one statistic (higher capacity). This seems like Monster Cable's winning formula: focus on the casual consumer who needs one reason to believe why what he bought was "superior" even if that reason is just a brand; if a few sophisticated consumers buy it too, even better.

My grand adventures will probably include trips to libraries, and maybe a few national parks.

I'd like a Roku digital video player. The rest of the stuff is probably good too.

Send it to me. I'll be good to it.

All this talk about halting running apps seems odd to me. I compulsively close my apps by using the back button until I'm back to the home screen (instead of using the home button); that seems to close every app but the browser.

Yeah, I want one too.

I do kinda want this.

This is probably better than the HTPC I have.