> Should they make 3-style software for the MIPS platform? I'm sure
> they've done the market research. Let's face it guys, you don't upgrade
> a TV set (not even the ones that cost more than RaQs). It's an
> appliance.
True -- I know that for myself, I'd be happy to pay an annual "software
maintainance" fee to get continued feature upgrades for the old MIPS
hardware. I don't want to pay for bug fixes, but for feature upgrades or
version upgrades, a couple hundred bucks a year would be fine, and that is
what would pay for the development time to 'back port' improvements from
the newer products.