Steve Walker wrote:

My upgrade path is going to be homebuilt mini-itx, or....
Western Digital TV Version2 HD Media Player Full 1080p
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/182438...roduct_reviews

Having personally failed to negtiate the XBMC route, Iust installed my
new WDTV player on Friday (at least the slightly more expensive WD
'Live' version which hooks up direct to various internet sites - not
quite sure of the value of that!).

It's a really excellent gizmo - thoroughly reccommended. It can now
play all my stored music and downloaded video via the living room
home-cinema kit; and it's particularly pleasing to be able to access my
now-pretty-vast repository of digital photos which hitherto have been
stired pretty much undisturbed on the PC for years - putting on an
ad-hoc slide show on the living room wide-screen is a piece of cake.

Don't know if you're aware of the xtreamer
(http://www.xtreamer.net/xtreamer/overview.aspx), which seems very
similar: I spent ages humminging and ha'ing over which one to go for.
Xtreamer has the facility to include a built-in HDD, which I couldn't
decide was desirable or not!

David