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Old DVD player case...

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So I've had an old DVD player sitting around doing nothing for far too long... Thinking about installing a blue-ray HTPC into the case. This won't be used to play games but instead will be the dedicated Blue-ray player and HDTV (for now through Clear Qam) playback onto a 1080p through HDMI.
My thoughts are to use a 780G with a low power X2, 2GB of the cheapest ram, a sff psu, and for perifs I'm thinking of a Hauppauge 1600 with remote.
Now come the tricky questions;
What kind of processing power do you think I'll need to do Blue-Ray playback WHILE recording HDTV? What about software? I'm afraid with the Blue-Ray that I'll need to stay with Windows, either XP or Vista (or 7 beta, ha).
The case isn't very tall so I'm figuring on needing a 90d riser for the PCI Hauppauge card.
Last, stupid question that I'm going to try and figure out elsewhere is USB storage. Anybody know off the top of their head of an external solution that will spin-down the drive(s) when not in use? Eventually I'd like to leave this device on 24/7 as my media server but with large TB drives, I don't like the idea of keeping them running for days doing nothing.
 
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