[Porsche-O-Phile]

I think I just found my wife's Xmas present...

Bonus - it's a gift for me too 'cause I get to be rid of the stupid Direct TV bill!

The more digging around I do online about this the better it sounds. Very neat. It makes me feel REALLY stupid for what I've been doing, which is spending a lot of $$$ every month for dozens of crap channels with no content worth a poo and that I'll never watch, only to get the same stuff I can d/l for very limited cost.

This is seriously changing how I look at television. The holy grail for years has been to get rid of the commercials and get rid of all the stupid channels/content that is worthless. This allows you to do exactly that, and on top of it you're not beholden to network broadcast schedules (although Tivo freed everyone from that years ago).

I can only hope that if stuff like this catches on/continues to catch on, studios will start competing on the basis of content & sellability of their product direct to the end viewer, rather than selling it to some bandwidth provider (or paying them for the privilege of having it included as part of their service packages) only to clutter up my station list.

This is really sounding better & better... Another win for Apple from the sound of it. More later when I get a chance to get to the local Apple store to play around with it and ask a few questions of the staff directly.