Good "extender" solutions?

[Pandamonium]

Is there anything on the market that serves as a:

1) VMC extender
2) Hulu player
3) Netflix streamer

I only care about VMC extending as far as being able to navigate through and play back my recorded TV shows. Being able to interface w/ Hulu and Netflix would be perfect. I am trying to not build another HTPC.

So far I found a project to get Hulu on Vista Media Center: http://www.secondrun.tv. This project sounds like it works very well on the Vista machine directly, but doesn't have a working workaround for streaming Hulu to extenders. (There is no audio yet, and it sounded like the author said this was b/c there isn't enough bandwidth to send the data in its current form)

I also looked at the Netflix Roku, but there hasn't been any word on Hulu integration in 8 or 9 months.

Does anyone have a working solution?

 

[Alienwho]

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[nsafreak]

XBox 360 + playOn = your solution

Has all the features that you're looking for and it can do some other stuff as well if you so choose.

 

[Pandamonium]

Oh playon looked interesting. It totally slipped my mind- I think I was waiting for the Wii-compatible version so that I could get away with a ~$100 extender and the $40 playon license instead of a $300 360 and a $40 license. I was thinking that I'd splurge for a 360 if they gave it an internal blu-ray drive.

 

[swbsam]

You can use an xbox 360 arcade for extending and netflix. There's a lot of misinformation out there- NXE does NOT require a hard drive.