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As an Apple Consultant and fan I think you need to understand Apple's thought process. They take baby steps and make sure the product performs well and has no bugs. Sure it might not have all the features you want immediately, take a look at the iPod. After all these years it doesn't have an FM tuner, doesn't play OGG or WMV DRM files, and it's still the #1 selling mp3 player. Same approach with iTV. I have 4 Macs in my house and 2 PC's. One PC is my test SBS 2003 server and the other is my HTPC running BTV.

iTV won't be for people like us who like to tinker, it's for people like my clients who have all their music in iTunes, their pictures in iPhoto, and purchase shows from the iTunes store and want to easily put them all on their TV. So what if it does 640x480 now? There's an HDMI port on the back and 1080i should be possible if the bandwidth is there to stream across your network.

Apple's "innovation" has always been to make something pretty difficult extremely easy to setup and use.