That clip is from part 3 of Moon Machines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Machines

Western Digital's WDTV Live can play any file you throw at it. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=330

It supports many online services as well, but unfortunately no Prime Instant Video. I have yet to see a box that offers everything I want: Local and network media playback, Netflix, Prime.

However, I wish the WDTV had better specs and UI - it can be a little clunky.

Roku is close once you use Plex. You get local network playback + Netflix, Prime, Crackle, Hulu, Pandora which is what I want. The video quality, performance, bugs, and gaming support of the Roku suck though. I keep swapping my Roku for a Chromecast and back again.

I'd like a box that supports Prime, local network playback, and casual gaming/emulation. If Amazon would have released a Prime Video app I'd switch to some of those cheap Android PCs on an HDMI stick by now but they've been holding out probably to use as a carrot to get people locked into their app store.

I hate having to side-load apps but if I can on the FireTV and get local network playback working I very well might buy one.

Edit: Looks like it will have Plex and Miracast support.

I used to use Plex for network playback with my earlier roku's but with my Roku 3 I can play videos, mp3s, photos etc. natively directly from my NAS.

I've been holding off on the WDTV because of the UI and a few other issues I came across while researching it.

I'm on the verge of doing the exact same thing. On that plan are you able to use any of that data for tethering or mobile hotspot? A customer service rep said you can use all of your "up to 5GB" 4G data for tethering if you want, but I found that a little hard to believe.

Tethering is not officially allowed, you have to spend another $15/month for it.

It's possible to tether anyway, but YMMV - it's through workarounds like using only HTTPS, setting up a VPN, or changing your desktop user agent.

http://i.imgur.com/tKZMSAK.png

I see very highly rated negative reviews all the time. They even make a point to show you helpful critical reviews.

Tangent: How on earth do product blogs not have a link to their product page? Nowhere is there a link to feedly.com in their header or sidebar, I have to manually edit the URL. Ridiculous.

That 25/month for one year on the free plan is only for 5Mb down, 1Mb up... not Gb speeds.

Well, that depends on your ISP and where you live. I pay $160/month for a higher-tier internet (Blast) and basic cable from Comcast.

Even if Apple was the first company ever to have a disappearing scroll-bar on a mobile device, I'm amazed something like that can be patented. To me it seems like a common sense evolution when shrinking things down to mobile proportions.

"You know there isn't much screen real estate here, so lets get rid of the bar, and only show the scroll head when you are scrolling. Good idea!" Why should someone be allowed to patent that?

It's like the first website ever to say, "We really have a lot of menu items here... I know, let's group them into sub-menus that 'drop-down' when you mouse over them?" Boom, drop-down menus are now patented, pay up if you want to use them in your website. Sure there were drop-down file menus on computers before this, but I'm the first one ever to do it on a website.

Can someone explain why the two are nothing alike and I'm an idiot for feeling this way?

You are not an idiot for feeling this way. The patent system is horribly broken.

Windows had disappearing scroll-bars since the early 90's. It was called scrollbar.display=auto.

That meant they disappeared when there was nothing to scroll (correct?)... not disappear when not scrolling.

I think he was referencing the Office Space comparison and Smykowski defending his job by saying he was good with customers.

This jacks up the header for me in Chrome.