I gave up on those walled-garden crippled-pc set-top boxes and just took an old pc, hooked up the HDMI port to the living room TV, added a wireless mouse, and a

I gave up on those walled-garden crippled-pc set-top boxes and just took an old pc, hooked up the HDMI port to the living room TV, added a wireless mouse, and all was well with my family. They have completely stopped watching regular TV. They now watch YouTube Videos, Foreign films, can play games on Steam, and Stream European cable tv nearly 24/7. Everything from bittorrent to youtube to netflix to Amazon to whatever can be played on a PC. Music and Video Games included. My Home Theatre PC is on 24/7. The reason these Set top boxes like (GoogleTV AppleTV Boxee) keep failing is because they're just crippled PCs. It's not about the UI, it's the freedom, it's the usefulness. People will take something useful and ugly over something useless and shiny. Why get a set top box when you can just watch things on your laptop? What's the point? You want to watch on your big screen tv? Then hook it up using an HDMI cable to your big screen tv. Or grab your tech savvy son or daughter and have them hook up an old pc to the big screen tv.