Yeah, I mostly agree with that (FWIW), and I think the fits-and-starts of TiVo laid some groundwork. Consumer electronics are ever-shifting and profitable, provides one bets right. Marketing it as a low-cost (and mostly unavailable; I've never seen one, and I've been looking) CPU upgrade product looks like a normal course of action. It gauges demand for the product in that category. Showing it as a video recorder and player later could pay off bigtime.
Oops. "provided" not "provides".