Tim Hobbs wrote:

The boys at work are building me such a box right now. With DVD
writer, freeview TV tuner, 160Gb disk and more ports you could shake a
stick at it will cost £400 odd plus VAT. It's all built into a neat
cubic box and will be on my LAN so I can use it as a fileserver too.
Audio quality won't be audiophile, but I can live with that for the
convenience it will give me in general use.

Stick a decent sound card in it - or an external one - and rip your CDs at
320kpbs and you'll get as good quality as you'd get from the Sony