Before posting this, I thought I should do a search for Sezmi, and I noticed the date on the original post (May '0Cool. When BOL mentioned this, I immediately went to sezmi.com to try and buy the thing. Of course, it wasn't available in my area, so I signed up to be notified by email.

Today I got that email. I browsed around the website, $149 (on sale) for the box, $4.99/mo for the service, and it's basically an over-the-air dual-tuner HD DVR with the capability to play YouTube videos, video podcasts, and it has some kind of network behind it to provide on demand movies and tv shows (for an additional fee, like Amazon VOD I guess). I remember being so freaking excited for this thing, and completely forgot about it until now!

Unfortunately, in today's world of Roku boxes, cheap media center HTPCs, Netflix streaming, Hulu, and the upcoming promise of GoogleTV, there is NO WAY I can justify paying $149/once + $4.99/mo for a DVR that only works with OTA digital broadcasts. I suppose it's cool that, if I lived in LA, I could pay $19.99/mo and get a selection of cable channels OTA, but...I'm just so disappointed. I guess for someone who doesn't want a full-on HTPC in their living room, yet wants to ditch cable and doesn't already subscribe to Netflix, this may be an OK match, but there's just so many other services (free and otherwise) that do everything this can do - and more - for substantially less money.

Does anybody have this service? What's it like in the real world?