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 it 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.