Good things about MiniX Android TV Box :
- You can install many different players from an Android marketplace, so you shouldn't have any problems watching videos.
- You can browse Internet with it.
- You can watch online videos (including Youtube)
- You can watch videos from a hard drive, local network, Internet TV
- This is a mini computer that doesn't need a noisy fan. It take little space.
- You can use it as a video phone (like Skype) after connecting it to a TV or monitor. Just attach a webcam with a mic.
- You may use either Anroid OS or Linux (Ubuntu is too slow on it, but Xubuntu works fine). This can be a small server for you.
- You can download torrents with it and there won't be any noise.
- You can play games on it. Although multitouch games don't work when you use a mouse.
- You can create a digital photo phrame from it after connecting to your TV.
- You can attach a keyboard and mouse to it.
- You may install DroidMote Client and manipulate your media player from an Android phone.
- It has HDMI output, optical audio output. And you can even add composite video output to it:

Very interesting options for a computer geek. Have you seen anything similar, but from a decent manufacturer?