It's always fun to be able to put all the cool technology out there to work. This is a screen capture of me video conferencing with our client in NYC who's adding a new DVD player to their system. I walked him through the hookup via video and am able to reprogram his remote so all he has to do is plug it into his computer and bam! OneButton.

Every year there comes a product surrounded by so much fervor and excitement it commands a line of consumers braving the elements outside for hours, sometimes days, just to be one of the first to purchase it.

Products like the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 have commanded week long lines. Last year it was the Apple iPhone. And this year it is the Apple iPhone. Wait, huh.

So it looks like my phone is now on the annual upgrade path just like my laptop, my iPod, my rotary engine and my TV. 

Every year many of us at OneButton ride in the MS150, a 150 mile bike ride over 2 days. Last year the 13 person OneButton team raised over $8,000 to help cure MS.

This year was a bit different, due to my 104.4 temperature from heat stroke we did not do the MS150 ride this year. Instead, I did my first triathalon- The Boulder Peak (which was actually a duathlon for me). The Peak is an Olympic distance with a 1.5k swim, 42k ride and 10k run.

The purpose of this comparison is to notice the visual difference between Blu-Ray disks which have access to as much as 50GB while the Apple TV downloads usually are 4-6GB in size.

The difference in image quality represents a 5x greater compression for the Apple TV. This difference is usually fairly minimal. The most obvious difference is a slightly compressed color pallet in subtle gradations and the lower resolution source file at 720p. When viewed from a distance of greater than 10ft (on the 61" display) the quality differences are not apparent.

This is my OneButton system: Plasma TV, Apple TV, Netfix Box, Wii, Xbox, DVD Player, and Sound Bar.

Bigger is only better when it come to the TV. See any surround sound wires? There aren't any. The sound bar inside the console does it all with its 40 little speakers. It creates surround sound by bouncing the sound off the walls and around the room - no spider web of cables and ugly little speakers hung all over the place.