Funny, that's the same they say on the Popcorn Hour forums about running a decent web browser. It is made for streaming, and it streams very well considering the miniscule hardware platform. It can also play directly from DVD, while doing the decrypting on the PCH side. As far as I can tell, it has a Sigma SMP8635 chip running on 300 Mhz. Decrypting DVDs has been done since the first DVD-roms were fitted into 200 Mhz Pentium MMXs. A Cortex CPU doesn't seem that weak compared to the PCH. And all other arguments aside, there are no reasons why there could not be a PC side streaming server that does exactly what the VLC does, but optimized for the Maemo device. I have totally failed to get VLC streaming anything stable. Such software does exist for the PCH btw, and their community isn't that much bigger than this one. It's not only a question about juice. It's a question about technology. Even today the N810 can play rips. So, I don't need to find any juice, I need to find software :B