Concepts that seem obvious to those of us who cultivate technical savvy are utterly alien to the nontech majority--with good reason, since most products, services, and technologies aren't nearly as simple as techies and tech companies would like to believe. Just ask anybody with half a dozen remotes on the coffee table and a spouse who merely wants to watch a pay-cable show--even without the complication of getting it to play through a home audio system.

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