There is plenty of room to improve my lean back TV experience.

• When I turn it on, why does it take 10 seconds for my LCD TV to show me a picture? Why does it take 3 seconds just to decide I actually told it to turn on and make a beep? Close your laptop, open it, how long did the LCD take to come on?

• When the children stop watching, why does it sit there burning 300 watts all night long displaying a blank screen. (Why the children can not be made to understand the difference between turning off the TV and stopping the video is a different question. I'll work on that when they get the difference between a computer and a monitor.)

• Why am I seeing a movie letter boxed in both dimensions for an image that is smaller on my 42" LCD than it was on the 26" Trinitron I replaced? (Why are none of the zoom modes right to keep the aspect ratio and make it fit without losing chunks? Isn't there a computer in there with a digital frame buffer that should notice these things and take care of them?)

• In my letter boxed movie, why are the subtitles drawn on top of the action instead of the black areas?

• Why is my TV unable to remember the volume I use on the U-verse, the Apple TV, broadcast, and the video game? Changing inputs shouldn't send the children running for cover. (Three of those could go away into a good tele vision delivery device.)

• Why does it take my TV many seconds to sync when I change from one HDMI input to another? Sometimes it fails completely on the U-verse and I have to go around again.

• Go around again? I have dozens of buttons on my remote. I want "on/off", "volume", "input select", (and channels for when I watch broadcast). I don't get input select though, just "next in cycle", which I can't just mash 4 times to go around because it has to sync and show me what is on the inputs I don't want to watch before I can move forward again.

• Infrared remotes? Really? Is that so I have to display my equipment prominently for my friends to see?

• If I tried to describe what an abomination U-verse's DVR experience is, my head would explode. Somewhere they did minimize software development costs, well done AT&T.

So Apple, do an iPod. Take an eraser to the "minimum required bullet list" for televisions and give me one that only does what I want. I don't care if it has less space than a nomad, just don't make me be its servant.