Seems to be connectivity to external services as well, many will have hard drives. For the latter, I'll wait and see. For the former, useless up here in Canada as the services are blocked or unavailable. I don't see the new machines out all over the US like the new LG 500 series even listed on LG's Canadian website which leads me to believe they will have a marketing problem with them. Ditto with the other Blu Ray hardware producers. Going to be a fun couple of months...