Seriously…. what took so long?  What in god’s name does anyone in the MCE business think they can do without a solution to compete with Vudu and Netflix?

Now, if someone could deliver a full-blown MCE unit for $799, then the platform might actually go somewhere.

Download is great, but would you download and trust your $10k ~ $30k of movie content to a consumer grade solution. Niveus does a great job on their storage devices, they are far better (and more expensive) than the drives and RAID arrays which the consumers of an $800 MCE will be loading too. Also, with spending that much money on content, wouldn’t you want to have the original disks in case of loss?

Correction: the movies aren’t downloaded, but ordered from HDGiants. They’re sent on a hard drive and can be integrated into the Niveus Movie Library.

Download, upload or external HD, you still don’t get the actual DVD- do you??

To Joel’s point, owning the original DVD or CD adds the advantage of a second form of backup.  Anthology media collections include the discs in addition to the server-grade content and metadata. Another advantage of discs is it allows for the greatest library of content to select from, since not all labels and studios are on board with the download business model.

Learn more at http://metarip.com/anthologies