Got a new toy over the weekend: an Apple TV unit. I was initially uninspired by this device, a digital media receiver designed, marketed and sold by Apple designed to play digital content originating from the iTunes Store or another computer onto a high-def widescreen television. It can store content on its internal hard drive or stream it across a network from another computer. I really didn't see the need for it, but the prospect of renting movies directly through the web without having to mess with Netflix tempted me. So far we are blown away by looking at our digital photo albums in high definition. The screensaver of floating pictures of your life while your favorite tunes are playing on the home theater system is quite compelling - we watched it for hours for the past couple of nights!