doni,

You don't really think that streaming from the cloud will match playing a video thru a 1 to 1.2 Ghz CPU do you? I don't have that kind of faith in wireless. No, fine to store on the cloud, download with timeshifting, but then I would definitely prefer the full horsepower of the CPU to be focused on playback of that High Def content. Having the file already on your local flash mem chip fills that bill optimally doesn't it? Maybe I misunderstood your point.