Apple TV scored the #1 position on Yahoo’s 10 Worst Tech Products for 2007.  I’m no fan of it, but as it appears Apple might finally be launching movie rentals in iTunes it could get a second coming.  Renting movies from the Apple TV would defiantly add significant value, but then again so would iTunes purchases in general from Apple TV. 

Microsoft Surface and Windows Vista also were included in the list.  I can see Windows Vista as the public perception of it is horrible, but not Surface.  The author of the article seemed to be taking Surface as a consumer product, complaining about the requirements and price.  At some point, when technology prices drop that will be true, but Surface was introduced as a business and public display product.

There have been a few new Media Center remotes released into the wild that I don’t think have got any coverage.  MediaGate has a silver remote that looks like all standard Media Center remotes, but they also have a black one that has an interesting design.

Philips has a nice Media Center remote with a display (Via The Green Button) for browsing your music library.  It might not be SideShow, but if music is your main goal you might want to look into it.  Of course, they also have this one which was one of the first Vista remotes seen.  I’m not sure that I’ve seen them officially for sale in the US however.

Ed Bott got his Linksys DMA2100 and seems pretty happy with it.  “It takes about 10-12 seconds to go from a cold start to the Media Center interface” says Bott.  Is it bad when the remote is nearly as big as the actually product?