Extend wifi for media?

I need a an ethernet connection for my blue ray player, dvr, tv and soon to recieve apple tv.  How can set the airport express to extend my wifi (linksys) and connect to these devices?

One last question if you dont mind...
If I connect a non-apple router with simultaneous dual band to my modem similar to airport extreme and then use this non-apple router as the main base and use the extreme in bridge mode as a wireless access point (bridge mode) to extend the range of my wireless (extreme connected via ethernet to main router). Then I'll connect the ps3 via ethernet to the extreme. If this non-apple router has uPnp capabilities so tha I can plug a usb hard drive on the non-apple router and be able to access the music/videos through the ps3 media server. Will that be possible? I know the extreme doesn't have uPnp capabilites so there is no way to access the hard drive files through the ps3 without using a computer and media server software if the hard drive is connected to the extreme. But what if the hard drive is connected in the main router which has uPnp and will work with the ps3 without the need for a computer to be on if the ps3 is connected to the extreme while the extreme is only acting as an access point.
Hope you understand what I'm trying to do here. Thanks.

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