Update on my experience with the HP Stream Mini 200-010:
If any of you buy this also include at least 4GB more memory and a 128GB SSD in order to save time and shipping costs.
That ups the cost to around $250-300USD State side. Read the Amazon reviews to find out what specific SSD and ram works as HP hasn't made those choices optional yet.
The "32GB" installed SSD only has 22GB free out of the box as it has a 7GB recovery partition. I ran out of SSD free space trying to get Win8.1 up to date.
Overall, it still works great for playing backed up blu ray movies including BD-R at 1080p 60Hz and 7.1 Audio, but still messing with it to get things optimized.
Here is the most useful post on Amazon, comment by "J Chung, Upgrade Instructions" Read this before buying:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-r.../ref=cm_cr_pr_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00R7R1GWK
One other thing, I had an aborted update with windows due to lack of SSD free space (still have the 32GB SSD installed) and noticed that the HDMI Audio channels were scrambled with the actual speaker positions. Messed with the problem for hours until I found the solution was to plug headphones into the back of the Mini Stream. After the headphones were recognized, the 8 channels of audio magically descrambled and everything was fine. Have no idea why that happened but was very annoying. Could not find that problem by Googling, but if anyone comes across it, that was my fix.
Overall evaluation so far is this is not an out of box "turnkey" solution for an HTPC and don't even think about buying this without a willingness to install extra ram and replace the SSD. Also, make sure you create a backup drive with a clean USB stick of at least 16GB before replacing the factory 32GB SSD (it has to be a flash USB drive and not an HDD USB), so add that to the overall cost. IMHO, HP should offer the product with optional SSD and RAM to save the added expense of inevitable upgrading that is required to become a useful HTPC out of box.