I've monitored the outgoing traffic on my home computah and found all manner of applications and OS parts and pieces phone home. Many are fairly good at hiding what they're sending, such as under the disguise of "checking for updates". Most are fairly smart about calling home, and wait a few random minutes after the computer boots to call. Few bother to mention that they phone home, except in the EULA and privacy policy, which nobody reads. I'm just wondering if the Blu-Ray recorders are following the same path. My guess(tm) is that they couldn't resist the temptation and will now be searching for reasons for consumers to plug their Blu-Ray players into their broadband connections.