Movies are looking for audiences in the millions - hundreds of millions worldwide in the best-case scenario. Scientific literacy is just not that high in the U.S. Movies are movies, games are games, comics are comics. Games have not "exceeded" movies in any way other then financial. Movies are "rented" by downloading the movie to your computer through the iTunes store. The movie, however, is erased from your computer in 24 hours.

Movies are the key here, much more than HDTV, which is available for free over air (hence the lack of a tuner in the Mac Mini. Besides, viewers will tolerate non-real-time movie downloads -- as long as they take less time than driving to Blockbuster and back -- but they won't wait for the evening news to download. Movies are already on thier way to the same level as music downloading…its easy to get them, so why not? Penn State recently put up a firewall in the dorms that was supposed to disable filesharing programs like Kazaa. Movies are available in both the Quicktime (.mov) and Video for Windows (.avi) formats. Click on the desired format to run the selected movie.