As I said above, it seems a waste for anyone in the US to buy a receiver that is aimed at the
European market.
However, there is a chance that this is just a computer, and the spare slot for an additional tuner, might accept a generic ATSC tuner, such as an Air2PC or
Twinhan, or similar card. Although to do so, I assume that the receiver would have to be upgraded with drivers for any add-on card. If, however, they do allow use of generic tuner cards, then despite the likely high cost, this could well be a powerful box. However until we see just what it can do, I sure wouldn't invest in one.
I have this hope, that the software for this thing will also be open archetecture, so that programmers can write plugins, etc, but that is probably just wishful thinking. Definately something to watch though, particularly after they get their forums going. Ie their web page,
http://www.lyngbox.com/ has a button for forums, but it doesn't work yet. Once the forum thing starts to function, I think we'll be able to see what it is capable of.