New extenders this year - honest!

Good news? Who knows. The old (current) extenders suck. Specifically, because they will not play any videos or audio that require a codec. Now seriously, if you are technically savvy enough to want a Media Center in the first place, chances are you are technically savvy to have some videos around encoded in Divx or Xvid that you'd like to have access to on it. Easy enough on the main system (just install a codec pack), but the ability is completely left out of the current batch of extenders.

True wait and see on this one.

Ed Bott’s Media Central » New extenders this year - honest!: "Jason Tsang goes to the MVP Summit and teases us with this tidbit:
V2 Extenders should be out sometime this year (2007). … Unfortunately, the exact dates/timeframes are under NDA …"