So, the long awaited iappleTV is properly announced and demoed. While in itself, it's all very nifty, I can't help but think that it could have been so much more.

Yes, being able to stream your iTunes video content to big screen TV is A Good Thing, although obviously better if you live in a country where Apple deign to sell you such content. But we have a reasonably large DVD collection whose physical media I'd rather put out of the reach of small children and into storage like our CDs. And when we have broadcast/Freeview TV again, I'd probably like to be able to record it digitally and recall old stuff from a large database living on hefty attached storage.

While eyeTV would probably take care of the Television end of things, for DVD rippage and storage, we're probably talking about mythTV on one of these mothers as the solution of choice for the time being.

Somebody somewhere convince me that there's a better way round this...