[TV orNotTV] Re: How close are we...

2008-12-18 Thread M-D November
The Flickr photo linked in your message is from a Comcast subscriber in Bellevue WA; I suspect that the proximity to MS world HQ might have something to do with the availability of a small STB running a Microsoft OS. As far as I'm aware, the only boxes available from my Comcast office in NJ are

[TV orNotTV] Re: How close are we...

2008-12-12 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Bob in Jersey wrote: But not all TVs are consoles anymore. Plenty of them are tabletoppers (we have two of them here). And not all of them need to get the pay or on-demand channels, just the same ones we've been getting. And, more importantly, they've got to also be able to work with the

[TV orNotTV] Re: How close are we...

2008-12-11 Thread Bob in Jersey
Kevin M, to moi: The width of the current boxes probably won't change because those with elaborately designed (read: custom) media rooms like them to be rack mountable. The height may slim down a bit, but oddly (al-be-it smaller) sized boxes nestled on top of console TVs are most likely a