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[publicmenace]

I'm surprised the author didn't mention Netflix over XBox. I can stream thousands of movies from Netflix from within my XBox at HD quality and I still get 3 DVDs at a time in the mail. Very convenient.

[rangerstyle]

This was really a very lazy report. The author himself said he didn't look at any of the "additional" features of any of the boxes he reviewed...What's the good of doing a review unless you do all of your homework. Pretty sloppy in my opinion.

[kennethlawson]

While all of those may work the biggest problem, from what I read here is limited content available natively. Actually the answer is pretty easy, Evey HDTV spec sheet I've seen has a RGB connection, ie, computer monitor. You can go one of two ways, put in dual head video card and run one to the tv. Obviously thats not practical for some people. but you have instant access to you entire network. Ad a wireless keyboard and mouse and your set.
The second option is to get a cheap net book. They have monitor connections, Hook it up and use it to go to where you want to watch and access you local network. While this ideas probably won't satisfy a hd junkie. But for the rest of us, just getting Hulu up on a big screen would be nice.
Also I noticed a lack of Hulu when the different services were mentioned, particularly , in relation to the "Web Enabled" tv. for a tv to be completely "Web enabled", it should have a fully functioning browser, Firefox, or Chrome, and be able to go anywhere on the web.
Yes the report was lazy, to be complete it should have included a grid showing all of the different functions and things each box could do. Allowing you to compare features and functionality to see what would fit your needs best.
Ken Lawson