HTPC falls under MPC (Media Player Centers) so do your homework before replying nonsense friend. Media players fall under DMA (Digital Media Adapters) and not MPC’s. Further, a HTPC is not for the average PC user (more for the geeks that keep tweaking and updating all the time) and can’t tip at the convenience / Quality of a media player / NAS combination, not to mention the infrastructure not always is ideal or the consumption / noise of running a PC all the time. There’s a lot of pros and cons from both sides… Some like to fly with Boeing, others prefer helicopters… Both can fly but are pretty different, same with HTPC and DMA comparissons. They are two total different things. Anyway, any discussion with you is too much for me. It took only few words of yours to see how short sided you are and incapable of making a point rather than do some cheap response like this, making any discussion with you uninteresting for me. PS: Don’t blame CDFreaks for this reaction. I am not attached to this site… Enjoy