Bom Dia !

Sounds like you have a good plan. I would rather pound the pavement with Havaiianas in Rio, than icy, wet dress shoes in NYC , anyday.

I should also mention a rather important point regarding the HTPC. Using the Gateway SX model with WIndows 7 OS, all region DVD's play in the DVD drive, without the need for a multi-region DVD player. HD DVDs from Brasil, and North America play just as good as our local region DVD's do with this PC.

This eliminates the need for a single DVD player. You just use the HTPC for DVDs. This feature of this computer was not the case before using XP as the OS. If you decide to go this route, then consider the future and make sure that your PC DVD drive burns BR and double-layer DVD's.