Well my time experimenting of with the VIA EPIA EG 1000 board appear to be over. I tried upgrading its bios and the process failed After more than an hour it was still running, and apparently bricked the board.
Merde as we say.
So I have replaced it with a ZOTAC Intel Atom N330 based board with an ION graphics processor. This is a much better board for mythtv purposes. It is much faster so you can move around the web and do general computing without any of the stickiness that the VIA showed. Moreover, it will display video off the internet including Hulu.com without noticeable delays or artifacts -- which was plain impossible with the VIA.
Finally it is supposed to be HD capable right out of the box. I don't have an HD TV so can't verify that -- yet.
I got it at newegg.com for less than $200, with powersupply and wifi N included.
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