For your Myth front end box under the TV you might like to check out the Minimyth project
http://www.linpvr.org/

Minimyth is designed to run on a low end discless/fanless PC such as Via Mini ITX motherboards.
Minimyth boots either from Flash, or over the network.

The front end can then be totally silent.

While Via processors are no match for AMD and Intel for raw processing power, they have a hardware MPEG2 decoder which makes them ideal as multimedia players.

Without giving away the plot too much. The scene the picture is taken from was clearly based on this real life incident.


The real life footage was possiby even funnier than the IT crowd version.