the 500c with a built in drive?, that would be something but i would worry about heat probs, i recal ppl saying they are having boxes crash in the hot weather, having an internal hd would add to this. I personally think they will most likely add a usb / ide connector to the back of the box, this would make sence to do as these things are tiny!. Also the beauty about having the box on a network is being able to burn straight to disk (although ive yet to do this), our dvd recorder went for a dive months ago and we have been using a video (yuck), but now we can record and have the films / proggies done without realtime recording... much quicker.