I was so excited to see the features of the Mediasmart HDTV's.  It is perfect for what I'm wanting to do for 1 TV in my house.  But, when I went online to find out more direct info, including pricing I can't find much of anything.  On HP's website it says that they are sold in select Costco stores, so I called my local Costco and they said that they had been pulled off of the price lists.  I called the HP presales and no one there has a clue + they don't even sell them themselves direct anymore -"only Big Box stores" said the guy, well BestBuy, Circuit City, Frys and Costco don't sell them so who does?  Seems like only Amazon and a few niche online retailers have them.  If HP isn't even direct selling them anymore isn't that a really bad sign?

I was considering buying a slightly older model (The 37") and was hoping that they would update it to have the Media Center Extender functionality. All apperances to me is that they are possibly discontinuing the line altogether so I'm sure that they won't be updating the older models either.

Does anyone know what the deal is?