Self Server
YOU DON'T USE your stereo to do your taxes, so why store your music and movies where you keep your spreadsheets? Niveus's Rainier Edition Media Center (from $3,200, niveus.com) is a computer built for the living room, leveraging Window Vista's enhanced media capabilities to feed your entertainment system all the digital goodness it deserves. This unit will store everything you've got and more, and it can send pics, audio and video to up to five stereo or TV setups at once. Plus, its extruded-aluminum chassis acts like a massive heat sink that cools the server's guts without a noisy fan.