Magic Box

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Originally Posted by glatt

Seems like somebody could and should put together a box with the hard drive and tv tuner for DVR, a Blu-ray drive, and networking with Netflix capability with an HDMI output for a TV. It should be possible to do all that for under $500. Why hasn't this device been manufactured yet? It's so obvious. It must be licensing problems.

It's absolutely licensing problems. We've had a homemade box running those things for years. (Okay, actually it doesn't have a Blu-Ray drive, but that's only because we're not interested; it certainly could.)