[seamas77]

Thanks for the advice - I'll have a look around. To be honest, a mini-ITX might do me only because I don't actually need a full-blown MCE box with TV capabilities. All I really want is to build something which can connect to all the digital video content I have and play it back at up to 1080i, and preferably handle the music too.

Perhaps the main criteria is finding a decent operating system to run it on! MCE is good of course, but sometimes I find it lacking. For example, I HATE having to organise my music using metadata.....am I the only one who hates it?? :-)