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Wireless video (media) streaming sucks (like from a pc to a PS3), it will prove quite frustrating to you when you sit down to watch a movie. I have a PS3, PC (media center) and a popcorn hour that I copy movies to.

I suggest that you plug a popcornhour or PS3 (or a media center pc's) into a wireless router that acts as a bridge to another wireless router. That way you can transfer files to and from it via the wireless network. But when you play movies, on whatever device, that media, streaming or not, comes thru on a wire. I have a USR router in bridged mode next to my tv. I have another USR router next to my PC in my office. All devices plug into those by wire.

In terms of media center software, I can recommend Media Portal and Boxee. You can use the Microsoft solution, but eventually it will drive you crazy and you will get rid of it. At present, I use the Boxee (love boxee) alpha on Ubuntu Ultimate a popcornhour (love my PCH) and my PS3 (for bluray's from netflix - love it too) and am very happy. Hulu is nice for the kids who need their network crap tv shows.

Have fun, but realize that you are still an early adopter. As in my case, I'd love one device to do the work of all three, but that does not exist yet.
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Wireless video (media) streaming sucks (like from a pc to a PS3)

That depends. From all I've read there's something wrong with the PS3's handling of DLNA and UPnP with many routers, so streaming doesn't work well. OTOH, Windows Media to an XBox 360 works great, Netflix over wireless to the 360 works great (when Netflix isn't throttling at the source), and from what I've heard iTunes to an Apple TV works great.

Wireless should be able to handle it. 802.11n gives about 70 Mb/s realistic throughput, and for comparison maximum DVD video bitrate is under 10 Mb/s, and most movies are IIRC around 4 Mb/s (plus you're probably streaming with a more efficient codec than MPEG-2).