Using an eMac as a kitchen TV?

I just bought a used 1.25 GHz eMac for the kitchen and I was wondering if it's reasonable to use it, with the appropriate peripheral solution, as a kitchen TV? We have DirecTV satellite and I've been looking at the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid device, but I wonder how usable is it as a TV, how responsive would the menus be etc and how good is the picture?
It'd be nice to have an all-in-one device in the kitchen like the eMac, that could do TV and movies, be rugged, with a nice picture and be a kitchen computer too!
Thanks!
JoeL

does anyone else have any views / experience with eyeTV and an eMac? I want to do pretty much the same as the original poster, except for a kids' playroom.
I need a version of the EyeTV software / hardware that will work with a 1GHZ PowerPC G4 running OS X 10.3.9. It has to receive Freeview...I'm not really bothered about all the iPod compatability functions because I don't have a video iPod. I'm imagining just putting it between an external ariel and the USB port.
So does anyone know whether this is possible with this operating system, and whether it will be just as good as watching a normal TV (or whether there are screen resolution issues etc)?

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By the way I happened to write another reply myself
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