Nowhereman

HD-On-Demand downloading is a *long* way away, simply due to the sizes of the files and the time it will take to download them, much less store them. Even using WMV-HD (which is something of a jackhammer of compression), your'e looking at about 50mb *per* *minute* of video. Not only would movie or tv show length titles take a tremendous amount of time to download, the new hard drive would have to be very large to store downloaded video beyond a day or two. For example, the Motorola 6412 Phase III box needs a 120 gig hard drive to store about 12 hours of HD video, and that's been bit-throttled by the cable transmission (it's own nasty form of compression)