Tim Coyle

We have all known about the restrictions for a while now but have you seen these boxes? They are ugly, very ugly. It will be another box to hide away somewhere. I think that the restrictions and asthetics are so bad that will people will just opt to download their HD content from iTunes, Xbox Live Marketplace, etc.

I think that the Xbox 360 has a good chance at becoming the 'new' set top box and that is definitely what Microsoft would like. The big battle will be whether they can take on traditional cable. I don't think with IPTV's small user base they can do it right now. But the FCC recently won a case against Comcast requiring them to open up the security standards on their set top boxes to provide more competition so things could already be changing.