I'm hoping a media exec reads this. I'll happily pay $90/month to watch whatever I want over the internet on my gaming console on demand. I live in the future so that's what I expect and that's my price point. I haven't had cable in 5 years. Until you provide this I'll pay $20/month for netflix and torrent the rest. I'd like to pay for it, but itunes/amazon/netflix have a shitty digital selection priced the same as blockbuster. If online rentals charge $4 (same as blockbuster) why does the selection still suck? I don't understand the hesitation to make content available online. Soon as the industry gets on the ball I'll pay for more content.

I work for a small business where we needed to store ~15TB on the cheap. We decided to go with a distributed filesystem called HDFS. It's vastly cheaper than large HA raid arrays b/c the filesystem itself handles the redundancy by creating 3 copies of each file across the cluster. SATA works fine for HDFS so you don't need to pay the premium for SCSI. Since most of our data happens to be log data, we use Facebook's Scribe to aggregate the logs and throw them onto HDFS for long term storage. It's not the most traditional or easy to work with storage, but it's definitely easy to scale out b/c all you have to do is add more nodes to the cluster. Hope that helps