my plan is to have all the AV
my plan is to have all the AV components in a rack system in a closet with a projector for the display so there will be little up front besides the screen and speakers. so noise isnt a main concern. The reason for the HTPC and server is for tv recording via a ceton tuner and commercial skipping (more cpu power in the htpc, hdmi 1.4 output with the new DH67 motherboard and sandybridge cpu, etc.) on the HTPC, or can I just incorporate those features into the server build?
The plan for the HTPC was the fixed DH67 MB with a SB i5-2500K and SSD for commercial skipping then move all the finished files to the server along with all my other recorded music, dvds, and Blu-Rays.
And yes I have pretty much decided to stick with Media Center and MyMovies, pretty good usability and GUI as far as im concened.