The HSX is basically a car player in drag ;)

Well, not quite, but though its bus is slightly faster (just over 6MB/sec to/from disk with programmed IO) is still has no external DMA. When Martin & Christoph designed it, they started from the basic carplayer design. 1394 & USB2.0 are barely possible with the architecture.

The HSX however, is not aiming at the "I need 100mbit ethernet" market; it's aiming at people who don't even have a PC, to whom ease of use and functionality is more important than the number of plugs on the back of the thing.

Hugo