you'v answered your own question "hey, buy a 50 inch 3d 240hz all singing dancing tv for $100 for with a this level of service from this particular cable/satellite operator for 2 years" customer gets a fancy tv for walking around money, tv operators get guaranteed viewers and the TV makers move more of a premium product. I give you the google one phone (or whatever it was called.hopefull dvd to iphone converter can solve itIt actually makes me a little uneasy that a brand new technology was implemented in iOS 4.2.1. I probably wouldn't have upgraded until it was proven to be reliable. How do we know it doesn't make the network operators happy at the expense of the user. I don't care if my battery life is better if my phone doesn't work…