Your agrument is flawed in a VERY apparent way. Why on earth do you assume "one movie player etc" supplants the desire to retain or add others? VCRS are in use in many systems with DVD players. Many hybrid DVD players need to "stick around" to play CDs as Blu Ray players don't support them. As there are no HD DVDRs in existance, you must add an SD version to record TV etc.
Many of us maintain HD and SD Tivos in the same system too.
To also assert the three inputs is somehow the magic max on the back of a TV doesn't stand up after review either.
All that aside, your desire to add capability that you need, but others don't is stupid and has been conveyed by you and others throughout this thread. You doubters b*itch about how much it costs and how it needs to have more capability at the same time.
... doesn't stand up after review either.
- I never said 3 inputs was the MAX (I wouldn't ever make such a statement since my newest HDTV has 6 HD quality inputs) you musta pulled that out of the air! So, if anything your it's YOUR POST doesn't stand up after MY REVIW. :lol:
I did say that most (as in the middle of the road priced) TVs today (the ones that sell the most) are built around the premiss that people paying for a TV with 'average features' will expect to be able to connect their cable box, DVD player *AND* a game console (all connected at the same time) and most tv manufactures have built TVs to provide this functionality.
The manufacturers have also gone ahead and made TVs that may sacrifice on the number and quality of the connections and in return have price those TVs for less. Finally TV makers have gone ahead and made TVs with lots more connection options 2 HDMI + 3 COMPONENT + 2 SVIDEO + 1 DVI and in return for the greater number of connectors they charge more.
I don't really need to explain all of this do I?
A few of you seem to be hell bent on not seeing this is a problem no matter how obvious it is. So, for people who don't see my point, I can't make it any clearer... but as it would happen I stumbled on the following:
http://www.xtrememac.com/audio/av_cables/switcher.php
It goes some of the way solving my issues... Clearly not as elegant as being able to control the switcher from the AppleTV remote itself but beggars can't be choosers and it's priced right but it's also not OUT yet either and we can't speak to HDMI/HDCP issues that the switcher COULD introduce and also the remote problem is still with and the many-many-too-many remote juggling problems.... but hey it's a start. Unfortunately it'll probably come with AUWW too.... (another ugly wall wart)
But it's very EXISTENCE goes to show that others surely see that LOTS of people are going to have the problem. It also has Apples blessing (I'm guessing) since I don't think they'd be using AppleTV in their product lit and have its design so closely match the AppleTV unless they did.
"Too many HDMI devices and not enough ports on your HDTV to connect them? We feel your pain. Most displays only offer one or two HDMI ports, which isnt enough to support all of your devices. Our 4-port HDMI switcher is a simple solution that lets you connect up to four devices to a single HDMI port on your TV."
Gee now where on earth have I heard THAT before...
Dave
Problem solved.
tv is a great piece of hardware with lots of room for new additions-but like several posters have said it wont have DVR-but I do know that maglia has mentions of getting your recorded shows on to 
