I am keen to buy a pogo plug and join the community of pogo plug users.  So i have a bunch of questions.

1: Should i wait for the pogoplug video or buy the existing model.  I encode all my video for playback on my mac and iDevices in MP4 H.294, which seems to be the format the current poogplug transcodes "to" for streaming. So what advantage will paying an extra $100 for the pogoplug video give me?

2: Its important to me that i can access my data from the office.  Im sure i can get to my data via the pogoplug webpages and download them if i needed too, but i understand that there is software that will make the pogo plug volumes appear as if they were native volumes attached to my mac.  Will I hit my company firewall in this mode of operation? If so what ports would need to be opened?  Id like to be able to "quick-look" and browse inside "Finder", before deciding to open or copy them.

3: I saw when browsing various articles an article to allow Pogoplug contents to be published as if it were a shared Itunes library.  This seems interesting, has anyone tried to see if this works with Apple TV? it would seem feasible, but before laying out hard earned cash id be interested if some has actually done this?

4:It would be useful to use pogo plug to share my back up drive for backup over the network.  In this use case is will Time Machine work?

a)locally?

b)remotely, incase i needed to do a restore while on the road?

Thanking you in advance