I just use a normal PC with a couple of 500GB SATA drives. Does everything I want from Internet TV to DVD to viewing my photos and playing my music collection, and it's great only having one central device for everything.
At the moment I live in a rented house and it has a 2.1 speaker system connected and s-video to a 32" CRT.
When I buy a house I'll be getting a big HD flatscreen and a BOSE 5.1 or 7.1 system installed on the walls and I'll connect into those via HDMI and S/PDIF. Doesn't matter then what the quality of the video and soundcards are like as the PC is just outputting pure digital signal as it reads it from DVD, MP3 whatever. The PC has a freeview card, but as this is built into the TV it is only used for scheduled recording of TV to hard disk, or watching TV when you might want to pause it. A wireless keyboard and mouse gives you control from the sofa, and you can sit and surf the org on your 54 inch screen
