Fair point. I'd counter it with the observation that the past couple of years has seen explosive growth in the use of PCs in entertainment systems (HTPCs), growth in music jukebox software, and growth in set-top boxes that are capable of doing that. (Rio Central etc). I expect that trend will continue over the next 5 years, and that prices will fall into what the mainstream consumer is willing to pay.

Given that SB have discontinued the empeg in favor of licensing OEM (car) solutions, yet have continued to develop home entertainment solutions, I'd expect to see empeg functionality completely integrated into car manufacturers' ICE/navigation/onstar/vehicle control solutions within 5 years. The cost delta of adding a large notebook drive and licensing the software to the display/audio/computing platform that they are already selling today is just too compelling. The OEM ICE suppliers will probably go there first with a less integrated solution though.