There are some good media centers made out there and they are convenient and compact. My only concern would be do I have to replace the whole unit if one component fails. If you do more internet stuff rather than DVD's then it is probably the way to go.
media center verse's dvd player for plasma
Wondering instead of buying a good dvd player say a pioneer 47txi. For my soon to come plasma,will a good video card say a ati x800xt pci in the media center computor work better for dvd video ,or anything else I run through it[audio internet].Of coarse my main amp would be handling the power {pioneer vsx56txi,and M&K speaker sys]Is it to soon to have a all in one media center{quality not there yet]to take advantage of my plasma.Thanks Mluthier