your suprised that media center computers haven’t taken off??? That’s because mainstream America won’t spend 500-1200 on a computer that will pull in media to have it accessed right from any tv in the house. I have been telling everyone that is somewhat tech minded for a few years the benefit of media centric computers. And all I get is a half hearted “cool” and then the subject gets changed… Does my breath stink?? Oh no it’s that price thing again! My father in law still carries all his media around on flash drives, iPods, even though it can be streamed for dirt cheap! Old dog theory.. I guess.

but to be realistic, a bluray drive and 1080p (instead of i) would be cool

Like the Black Eyed Peas say: “you’re so 2000 and late”.

Why on earth would you want to have a music collection when it is all there on the internet? Why would you want to invest in local storage when you don’t have to? And no more mobile devices that can not carry all of the stuff you want to listen to, just stream or download it.

“I’m on that next shit now I’m so 3008 You’re so 2000 and late”

Other than that, it doesn’t do much else you couldn’t get from hooking up a cheap computer to an hdtv and using itunes.

Well maybe they will jut BUY Spotify. But really, who wants their entire music collection to disappear just because you stop paying your subscription? I don’t see this as a successful business model.

And maybe, just maybe, Apple have realized the potential of Spotify and will announce it as a new integrated functionality throughout their range of music players with network abilities. And maybe even for devices without network abilities, through the cacheing function available in the iPhone version only leveraged through the new iTunes 9.

Doing this, they would OWN the online music business for at least another decade. Regardless of what anyone else was doing.

I’ve never met anyone who has one of these.