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The annoyance factor is what really bothers me about them. You go in, find the product you want which may be at a reasonable price. All I want to do is pay for it and leave. But first the salesperson wants to upsell you to a better product. Then they want to try and convince you to buy the...

What is he going to use it for? The Mac Mini supports hardware acceleration of H264 video, so it should play 1080p videos without an issue. Not sure about the Zino but it might too. If looks are important, it's hard to beat the Mac Mini, and it's what I would choose if I had $600 to spend...

It depends on your receiver settings. If you have it set to Dolby Prologic or some other processing mode, then yes you will get audio from the center speaker. What comes through it depends on the processing done, but it's often times not just a mono audio version of the sound. I personally...

I can answer some of your questions: 2. They are working on some DVR support, but it's not really ready for prime time in most cases. You'll want to use Media Center for DVR'ing with the Ceton. 3. You have to tell it where to find your files. For music, it will pull metadata from the ID3...

Everyone else seems to have the advice on fixing MC covered, so I'll tackle this question. XBMC is very easy to use. Better is subjective, but in my opinion it is. The skins for it are gorgeous, and it has some functionality that MC doesn't. Such as selecting the audio track or subtitle...

Back up to $80. $75 at the egg, free shipping.

That pretty much sums it up. Great posts.

Spend $50 on an nvidia card and go XBMC Live / Linux. Works really well.

Back when this poll was first posted I voted WMC (7MC). Since then I've switched to XBMC Live (linux based) and have never been happier. No more crashes, no more slowdown, and it boots significantly faster. I also upgraded to a new video card to get hardware acceleration, and my bluray rips...

Sounds like a cool setup. Is there a way with Android to open the remote application when you wake the device? So you don't have to wake the device, and click an icon to open the remote app?

I've been following your thread for a while. Great job on the cabinet, it looks really nice. How are you liking your HomeSeer / Z-Wave setup? Would you recommend it to someone looking to get into HA? I just bought a house and am researching my options for whole house control, and...

Depends what content you are throwing at it. I don't believe that board will do hardware accelerated decoding of H264 content, and at 1.6 ghz, you're not going to be playing 1080p. Not sure about 720p. You could use an ION/ION2 board which is hardware accelerated, run XBMC Live, and that...

I'd recommend the Yuin PK3's. They sound great, are well reviewed on head-fi, and only cost $40.

Nope. The closest you can get is an extender box that requires the tuner card be in another PC on your network. IE: xBox 360 or the Sage HD extender.

Use a USB over cat5 extender.