I was at Wal-Mart earlier today and noticed a lot of good games are dropping in price. I saw Burnout Revenge for $40 so I'll have to pick that bad boy up.
You still cant stream videos from your computer, however you can copy them from a cd to your HD and play them that way. I thought the dashboard update was going to fix that, but it didnt.
If you want to put a ton of mp3s on the hdd, get an external hdd and stream from that. It's almost the same (plus you can make your own external 100gb hdd for around $50-60).
It should be like this way. you can use VLC360 and play almost any video you want...So far i have played xvid and divx with no issues on it. You definitely enjoy it.