Last week I ordered a PCH A110. After researching I was left with the choice between the A110 and the Dviceo M6500. The large community of the PCH and the high number of bugs/hardware faults of the M6500 made me choose for the PCH. Also the possibility to run the PCH as a GB-PVR ‘extender’ was a nice-to-have.
I used to use a Mac Mini as Vista MCE, but since it doesn’t support a DVI>HDMI connection to my flatscreen on boottime, it was not very userfriendly for my family. I had to disconnect te DVI cable, restart Vista, and reinsert the DVI cable after each restart. And that happened, naturally, only when I was not at home. So my wife was not very pleased with the Mac Mini as HTPC.
With the PCH, I can add a internal HD with all the DVD’s the family uses, so it should work without network, connectivity or other things that can go wrong. Just a standalone box and a television.
It will arrive today, so I’ll post my experiences in a couple of days.
