For starters the HTPC would not require a standalone BR player as you can get BR drives for PC's.

The 3808 has a built in media player which will play music and display pictures from any hard drive it can find on your network.

You could get a Network Attached Storage to store all of your files on and then it acts as a server for all your media needs on your network.

Jason
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