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I had an old system very much like Rockets also running MediaPortal.

Replaced it with a reasonably grunty machine to play every media format there is. Blu-ray/HD-DVD/DVD, stream HD MKV's/Divx etc as well as recording and viewing TV via Freeview satellite.

Rig cost $1000 all up, reusing 2 old HDD's (total 180GB) and my DVB-S (satellite) tuner card.

Considering I can pull out the wireless keyboard and mouse and use it like a normal PC - it was well worth the price over an AppleTV or PS3.

MediaPortal is what I would definitly recommend over one of these pre-built systems. So solid, so well built and so easily expandable with plug-ins.