I've been thinking of using one of these for a home theater head unit. http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/products_id/696 Was planning to configure it with the following: Dual 4gig compact flash cards w/IDE adapters (about $50/each) Re-use old 3Ware dual port IDE card to make this a bootable RAID0 array (for speed) Cheap 2.5" 20gig drive for swap and /var partitions Some sort of remote control (haven't sorted this yet) The system has hardware mpeg 2/4 acceleration and DVI/Component video outputs and SPDIF out for audio. It will grab the actual content off a 2TB array that's hiding in another room via ethernet. On the software front, I'm looking at Freevo + Centos. I'm hoping to get it all together for about US$700 in some sort of non-eyesore enclosure for my AV rack. Cheers,