Video Playback / Recording Devices

No, this question isn't meant to be timely with the approach of the bunny-laden holiday. I'm talking about DVD easter eggs? I am pretty sure I never tried to find one and am not sure what the draw is.

So I have two questions. 1. Is this still a popular feature of DVDs these days or was it a novelty that has long since worn off? 2. Are any of these eggs worth spending the time to find? Someone give me an example of a cool one and I will track it down. I have more than my fair share of movies to choose from so it is likely that I will have one with an egg...

The device I want is a Tivo with build in ethernet ports and
a firewire 800 port. It would have a near line storage capability so I could plugin 400Gb or 1/2 terabyte drive. I'm willing to
wait a minute or 2 while fetching programs from near line storage. This way I can watch those 6 24 episodes back to back without worring about my wife's food network show or Antiques roadshow.

I was recently turned on to Skype as a VOIP calling solution, which I really like, so I thought I'd get a WebCam to go with it and be able to do video conferencing. To the best of my knowledge, however, Skype doesn't support adding a webcam. I can use Yahoo Messenger, but the video quality is *so* bad. I've seen a couple over software packages out there, but I'm not super thrilled with any of them.

So, my question... Anyone do video conferencing? If so, what are use using software-side with your webcam?