I suppose it depends how troubled you are with the current underkill... a Squeezebox Duet seems to cost £240 and just does audio, an Apple TV plus an Ipod Touch adds up to £370 and does audio and video. I suppose that's not really a huge markup for the extra functionality. The same amount of gear from Sonos would be £500 and only do audio.
In fact, for £570 you can get a Mac Mini and an Ipod Touch and have, at least the hardware for, everything you need at the "head end": CD, DVD, A/V network streaming including TV. You'd need some kind of UPnP A/V v2 "Tuner"/"EPG" server elsewhere, plus a client in the Mac Mini, to move the Tivo's winchester and fan out of the sitting room and into your home cloud, but none of that's rocket science. (UPnP A/V v2 lets you expose and control EPG and PVR facilities over the network.) Then you really could leave your TV and hifi permanently stuck on one input, and have a single remote. (Oh, unless you're also a gamer, I suppose.)
Peter
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