New Home Theater Setup

Hi everyone,
looking for some ideas. This may be the wrong category, so let me know if I should change it...
Right now I am running my iMac that has an external USB 1TB hard drive where I store recorded TVshows / my DVDs that I have ripped. I am using the mini-DVI port to DVI connector and am running a DVI to HDMI cable to my 52" LCD. I do the same with a stereo mini. This allows me to watch shows full screen which is great.
I am looking for a good way to separate my "media center" from my Mac so they run more autonomously. My problem with going straight to a Mac Mini or Apple TV, is that they use iTunes/Quicktime codecs and my content is mainly DIVX and AVI. Using Front Row is terrible with these file types.
Does anyone have ideas for the best way of accomplishing this? I have done some reading into SageTV/Popcorn Hour etc., and it seems like they would be reasonable options as I can connect external hard drives and link to my Mac via local Networking. I want the all in one solution that comes with a remote.
The second option would be to think about a TV tuner as well as my PVR can't export shows, which means I have to download them later.
any thoughts?
thanks!!

My questions were finally answered in this thread should you stumble across my old post:::
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10605237#10605237

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