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@Velocio
I bought one of those mini Asus PCs a while ago and just left Windows on it. Windows is great because there are many sites which still use either Silverlight or Flash, such as the Eurosport Player (for the TdF).
You can still install something like XBMC for local media and videos.
And I just have shortcuts on the desktop to open Internet Explorer for things like LoveFilm, iPlayer, etc.
I also adjusted the desktop icon size to be freaking enormous... making them more like large tiles which suit the TV better than small icons would.
The only addition to a dirt cheap PC with a HDMI output was the need for some kind of remote with a keyboard so that I could use the search fields on LoveFilm easily . For this I bought one of these:
http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/product/dinovo-mini?crid=26
The only issue I had was with streaming video within the house from blu-ray rips. WiFi was not good for this and it was occasionally choppy, so I did feel the need to lay some ethernet cable... but only for the lossless Blu-Ray rips that I was attempting to stream. Everything else worked perfectly fine over WiFi.