Blair,
This is your best yet...I laughed out loud.
"Hi, my name is 0,1032,500300381-500479868-503287803-0,00 and I'll be your server this evening."
Agree with you that broadband and online multimedia will hasten the development of either some type of new or hybrid hardware. Read a review of AOLTV (their new set top box) by Walter Mossenberg in the WSJ. He panned it badly, renaming AOL Anywhere..."AOL Nowhere."
Also, we don't know that the Miramax trials offering the full feature movie pay-per-view download involve DIG at all. Hopefully, a DIG site is one of the three that will offer the download, but, if not, presumably DIG will offer Disney films at some future date (assuming the technology works and the market for it exists).
Threejack
"Listen, Stevie, take a deep breath, willya? Go back in there and tell Koogle he can kiss my ass if he thinks I'm interested in his two-bit online index. And, for chrissakes, look like you mean it!"