Yup, assuming they were on the up-and-up to begin with, they could have saved a bunch of time and effort by just asking anyone who had worked on video playing d

Yup, assuming they were on the up-and-up to begin with, they could have saved a bunch of time and effort by just asking anyone who had worked on video playing devices in the past 10 years if their idea was remotely feasible to bring to market while keeping both open source developers and content providers on-board. The Sony Dash was the only locked-down "tivoized" (in the rms sense of the word) "chumby powered" device and also the only "chumby powered" device that had netflix support. These two facts are not unrelated.