[toecheese]

I have many PCs and use them for about everything... except HTPC.

The reason is cost- I wanted to set up an HTPC, but the case alone was $300. Then add it motherboard, memory, drives, etc.

A good video card to run it is over $100, if I want to decode OTA HD broadcasts, that's another $120 (ATI HDTV Wonder). Then I'll need wireless keyboard/mouse ($80).

This is just to play movies and watch HDTV- which I'm doing for $200 with an OTA tuner and progressive-scan DVD player.