I understand that! I wanted to build a HTPC with the blu-ray/HD-DVD drive combo but after realizing that it doesn't work that great (plus the need of using anydvd-hd since the Z2 doesn't always work well with HDCP). Also my wife wasn't really willing to deal with the quircks plus the price of the whole thing.
So that's why I got a Toshiba A2 and the ps3. At least the ps3 allows me to stream movies of my main computer through windows media player 11. I'm planning on putting all my dvds on it and stream them to the ps3. So I kind of got what I wanted until the whole hd-dvd/blu-ray htpc business comes up with something better
