I saw a two-phone cordless system on sale today at Office Depot. It mimics an ordinary household phone. But you don't plug it into a landline. Instead a base station, linked to one of your cellphones via BlueTooth, ferries voice (phone calls) between the cordless house phones and your cellphone (wherever it is within range of Bluetooth). And yes, you will use your existing household wiring. While the base station is linked to your cellphones, the cordless home phones plug into the househould phone jacks just like any phone. In effect, the Bluetooth base station simulates a landline hooked into your household phone wiring and jacks.

Of course it offers none of the other advantages of a real landline (mentioned above including operating during power failures, reliable 911 service, ability to fax, etc.) but at least it lets you use your household phone wiring and enjoy the better ergonomic comfort of a full-size cordless phone.

Yes the problem is that purchased BluRay discs simply won't play unless your computer system is 100% compliant, at every point in the chain. I have an older rear-projection television which only has composite analog video inputs for HDTV. With Slysoft's AnyDVD-HD I can play BluRay movies on my Home Theater PC since the DRM is bypassed, otherwise no BluRay for me. The fact that I can archive my BD movies on the hard drive is gravy, but it's certainly something many people are interested in doing with a home theater PC. Some may insist that defeating DRM only facilitates "Rent, Rip, and Return" where you can get your movies via Netflix, but except for the fact that you can watch the movie again after returning it, you're still breaking the DRM just so you can watch the darn thing in the first place. I have little interest in re-watching movies over and over again anyway, so I'm not depriving the license holders of anything by postponing when I watch the thing. And I'm so sick of DRM I'm not disappointed if it does upset the producers, sooner or later they'll have to just give up on the DRM nonsense -- it's not like it will ever really stop download piracy, but it does make it hard to make it work like it's supposed to. How is that going to help BluRay succeed? The alternative is just to download everything, legitimate or not.