and why is there a (noisy) fan in the back..?
rediculous, all pc manufacterers are trying to adopt passive cooling and more and more consumer electronics brands are putting in very cheap and thus noisy fans. cut it!

well.. I use a snazio Tera Nas HD Pro, which was bought as a DIY kit. threw in 4x 400 GB Samsung in hardware raid 5 and off we go.
it is DLNA compatible so ideal as a mediaserver, and it has gigabit too.
see http://www.snazio.com/Links/TeraNAS%20Intro.htm for more.
another option is the buffalo offcourse (no hardware raid though. it uses software.)
http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97

This is exactly the same quality as my ota subscribtion in europe. they simply compress too much, this way it is hard to see if you are whatching SD of HD.
for me, satellite is the only way to go.
and for the dvi thing, that's nonsense too, never heard of a HDMI to DVI cable?

no damn at all.
i see 15 FPS in the top right..
what if you would have 4 pcixpress dual head cards with 8 triple head to go devices? No linux servers, just mucho video card power! and 24 screens...

Almost perfect, if they would make these daisy chainable with firewire and connectable to the home network over CAT5 cabling, this would blend in nicely on the living room bookshelf, you would not even notice it's there, and all your knowledge would reside on the same place!

Who Cares about the shortcuts, they are all shortcuts to pre installed useless programs. If you are going to buy a high spec machine like this, just format it as you turn it on and install what you need. that way, you'll have it to your liking.

This will be available to a small public in Holland.
So an invasion will be somewhat exaggerated. As the owner of the 2 new channels is part of one of the major cable companies, this will be available on cable only, so no OTA (DVB-T) or Satelite (DVB-S) hdtv yet (certain tests have shown that with the current bitrate used on cable and terrestrial broadcast even sdtv is not up to par with sattellite or dvd quality so broadcasting hdtv will be an even larger challenge, probably the image size will be hdtv, but the compression rates used will completely destroy the picture as they do now

If I was to design a device like this, which would be all screen in the front, i would invert the clickwheel on the back. using your middle - or pointing finger, it should be ok to control it, the click button could be on the side, where you put your thumb. that way, you won't have to touch the screen

This is just an Aopen barebone which is filled with standard components by Blueado. that means you could probably do the same trick for a couple of hundred bucks less

You guys in the UK have Sky digital over satellite, HDTV is just around the corner man, even the settop boxes are allready announced