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I think you'd be surprised how advanced and expensive some people's home entertainment systems are compared with some other parts of their lifestyle.

Absolutely agree. I help move some of the poorer families at our church, and I'm always astounded at where their money is spent. One family wore hand me down clothes and had little else in their house, but they had a 60"+ TV in their living room.

Most families have a TV, and just about every TV you can purchase these days has HDMI. I'm incredibly sad when my teacher friends describe how few of their students have computers at home to do their work.

If you look at the actual site (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) it mentions Composite and HDMI video output under the tech specs.

Thanks for pointing that out. I think this is a great project and hope it takes off. I would definitely buy one myself to play around with.

I was also surprised by that. Personally, I do own both a computer and a smartphone, but I do not have the HDMI supporting TV.