All-in-one home entertainment (satellite TV + PVR, IP TV + apps, and Media Centre)

So I am still undecided on media-center / IP TV (Android, etc) and PVR combo .. I'd like an all-in-one am a little surprised why there isn't a clean one yet.

Bucket-list:

1. 2 satellite receivers
2. a couple of terrabytes of storage - for existing picture, music and movies + recorded stuff
3. a media browser and viewer
4. ability to run Internet apps either native or in browser such as Spotify, various On-demand sites, Youtube,  random web-sites etc

Given all that I could have an Android TV stick, a media centre and a PVR - but really? Each are developing at their own pace and the lines are blurring but still there seem big gaps. Surprising really .. Throwing asterisk in there to be able to make audio and video calls would be good too.

So this thread will be for experiments along this lines to see what works 

First cab off the rank (given I can take the PMD server offline for a bit) is GeexBox on my Raspberry Pi.

OpenBox S10 Satellite Receiver

In summary: don't buy one .. read on for details.

Well I've ditched Sky .. was too expensive and the programming wasn't working for me (for the money). So I'm on the hunt again for a cheap satellite (terrestrial no good for me due to hills) receiver with PVR and EPG. So .. hunting around the Openbox S10 looks to to have the specs on paper (ethernet in, 1080i, usb pvr) .. all good.

Well almost.

Problems to date:

1. Lip Sync issues .. still working on a resolution
2. Record function has .. Once and Daily .. WTF? No weekly?
3. Recording locks the channel - limited to one transponder. OK so I should have checked the number of receivers/tunes, etc.
4. Recording output is a .dvr .. urg, yet to try conversion tools or playback as-is on laptop. Will update.

Still to test:

1. Ethernet - worryingly I can't see anything that looks like web-browsing capability on the menus. But I don't have it cabled so they may be disabled atm - will update.
2. Time-shift and proper / more extensive PVR to USB disk capability