I saw the Apple video from their press conference yesterday (it's up on the front page of www.apple.com at the time of writing).

I liked the look of the new iPod Shuffle - it'd work well for me in the gym as it looks pretty small and it has that nice clip already on it (it needs to be fairly strong though to survive the gym where I'm always dropping the mp3 player I currently use in the gym).

The movie announcement didn't really get me too excited but I was interested in the bit at the end where they previewed that box that sits under the TV and connects back to your Mac. Codename is "iTV".

This "iTV" seems to sit somewhere between an XBox Extender and a Media Center. Its limitations for me would be;

• It needs another computer. That is, it's a 2 box solution and I'd rather just have one box if possible. For me, the problem of saying "You have one small box near the TV and another one hidden in a back-office" is that it's right pain to then go fix that box that lives in the back-office when you're just trying to watch TV.
• It doesn't do anything with "normal" TV. It can deal with TV downloaded from iTunes but that really isn't how I watch TV. My TV comes into the house via an aerial on the roof and I'd need a smart box to handle that.

So, for now, I'll stick with what I've got (i.e. my Media Center 2005) but I think we're in for a long and interesting ride when it comes to content, hardware and software involved in getting all your digital media onto all the screens in your household in a sensible way. ( I guess I'm stating the obvious here ).