I can't wait for the first person to say: "My coffee table has a virus!"

Imagine playing a first person shooter on an HDTV, and looking down at the coffee table for the battle map. Of course you'd have to make Bill Gates money to do that, but that would be so sweet.

Shoot even a game of chess would be cool on this thing.

For starters, as is the case with most technology, you're probably going to see these spend a half decade as almost completely commercial machines... Hotels, casino's and T-Mobile stores are their starter clients. After that, as the technology becomes less economically intimidating, regular joe's like you and I can look forward to a whole new way of computing, and interaction.

While I don't expect I'll have 10k laying around any time soon for one, I can see this at least changing the way people interact with their computers, even if in a subtle manner. Like a Wii for computers... sorta... Just my 2 cents.

Why a Blu-ray drive ? theres already more advanced formats out that hold more than Blu-ray etc.

By the time you and I have one of these touch computers movies will be issued is some other fashion.

or so the M$ bullsh!t machine would have you believe- i take back what i said about you being an intelligent xbot, whatever M$ serves, you gobble it up. you probably thought that hd-dvd was awesome because M$ supported it but then they announced DD and like a good little doggy- you bought into it, hell if M$ said that eating horse crap was better than eating sandwiches you would go down to the local farm and start munching

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i didnt say he mentioned hd-dvd thats why i said "probably"- besides before the WB announcement, he was bigging up hd-dvd (naturally), and now hes getting horny over something that is largely unpopular but according to him it must rawk because M$ said so

If you didn't notice, he didn't say anything specifically about HD-DVD; he spoke neutrally of all media storage. And it's true. There are, and will be, superior formats to Blu-Ray (see: Holographic Versatile Disc). And besides, Blu-Ray already won. There's no reason for you to keep the fires burning.

Check yourself when you reply next time. Anything anti-Sony, even something as neutral as "there are better storage formats" without any mention to any particular names, obviously ticks you off for some reason.

I am a true-to-life Xbot. I love my 360. It's my favorite console. But I also own a PS3 and a Wii, because I have enough sense to recognize a good piece of technology when I see it. I use all of them obsessively. And I accept that the 360 may not win, because, in all honesty, there are a bunch of things it does wrong, but the same can be said for all the other consoles. Same with HD-DVD. I was happy to see the format war move towards Blu-Ray, because we're now moving towards one format, one that is undeniably a fundamentally stronger choice and has a bigger install base anyways.

The whole point of these tech wars and all the competition is to whittle out these flaws, obsolete old technology, and create new technology based on lessons learned in the past. It's survival of the fittest. You need to take it less personally, because it works in favor for all of us in the long run.