We just rearranged the living room and my wife wanted me to get rid of the computer armoire we had housing the desktop. I like my desktop, it is my gaming machine and very current with tech, and was loathe to get rid of it. I decided to retask the machine as our new multimedia computer. Our HDTV has a VGA input so it is an easy connection and the modern black motif of the HP computer matches well with the Ikea media table we got. The upside is that the desktop came fully equipped as a multimedia machine with a MCE remote and tuner card. The machine works great for the lower cable channels, music, and DVDs, though it takes some tweaking for other multimedia. A quick search of the web led me to plugins that allow me to directly access Hulu, BBC, IPTV, and different video formats (including my favorite XviD). Now I can directly access all my multimedia with a single system (except the higher cable channels).