It was probably a tossup whether Verizon would roll whatever OnCue was to become into the Redbox brand, and then came the Redbox billing clusterf*ck, which made the decision for them.

Verizon has no need for two streaming video services.

You mean, of course, "Javascript", not "Java". NoScript is actually a better solution than the browser implementing a global Javascript switch, because one can easily use it enable Javasdcript selectively by domain.

... as 2GHz clock speed, how much could overall power consumption be reduced by underclocking it by 50%?

If ARM isn't selling wolf tickets, that would still yield 250% of the Atom's processing power in that circumstance.