I just received an email from VidaBox about a a new product they're releasing. Before I go any further I must say that I think VidaBox is a great company and are doing great things for the Media Center community. The new product is called the PicoPC. It's a small PC running XPe (embedded XP) on solid state disks so there are no moving parts. They're marketing as a PC for your HDTV to use to surf the net and check email. I thought that phase (webtv anyone?) was over but I guess I was wrong. Also the box is almost a grand, $929.
I'm sorry guys, but I'm just not seeing the value. I hope this new area doesn't distract them from their true talent of building very nice Media Centers.
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