Great article, very in-depth. However, pretty sure this is an Apple-only problem, in that they lock down the entire user experience as much as possible. Expendable storage could easily remedy this.

Still, the whole architecture behind it sounds pretty cool. Remains to be seen if other settop boxes follow this. Really interested in what the data cost will be. Right now, not knowing that cost, I would never want an algorithm to determine what to store/what not to store with something as trivial as games/media. Then again I'm not the target user for something like this. Someone's mom shouldn't have to see the "You only have 0.1GB left, please delete some stuff" message; the ideal UX would indeed be for the system to handle it for them.