I agree that there are better players out there, but I was hoping to eliminate my Panasonic S97 with the whole HTPC thing/XBox 360 combo.
Maybe a HTPC in the home theater (should beat any stand alone DVD player), and then a TV out card on the PC I am typing on right now? Then, if I had file sharing on, in theory, I could play the file off of the HTPC through this PC to our standard def TV in this room.
What if I had Media Center Edition 2005 running on this PC and Vista running on the new HTPC. Could they "talk" to each other and share kind of like having a Media Center Extender?
I'm just trying to maximize my features, and my wife LOVES DVR, so by getting DVR in the home theater, that is a plus, but if I can "displace" (or replace) the Dish DVR in this room, I could reroute the Dish DVR to our kitchen TV where she has been wanting it for years. Then all of our TVs, AND the home theater, would have DVR and not just 2 TVs...
Of course, that would mean no XBox 360 for games, but that is OK, I guess...
Thoughts? Ideas?
