I have bought a Korean 27" Crossover a month ago and I'm happy with it, it's a lot better than my previous TN screen. The difference shows best when playing a game like Diablo 3 or the Witcher 2, the colours look way better than on my old screen. The only downside is still having a 20" screen at work, the difference is huge, I can now clearly see that the white is more of a grey on that screen.

I paid €60 for a tiny, sitecom mediaplayer plugged into my network which has played everything I threw at it. Do we still need HTPC's?

Blocking content on a region based criteria sucks for everyone not living in the US. Why can you guys watch some video clips and we can't? We just have to download them illegally? And the fingerprinting does have its use too. Take Last.fm. Every song I have in my library gets "scrobbled" after which its smart enough to identify the composer & song name. A great way to keep track of what you're playing. It was only a matter of time until this can be done for videos.