Latency in a Home Cinema setup

[subsonic]

Won't help for YouTube, won't help for Skype, won't help for games. If it's not a video file, you're still out of luck.

I'm actually surprised this doesn't seem to be a priority for them. The market for music-only (!) lifestyle products (!) has to be smaller than for something that 'just works'.

Exactly. Will not work for playing instruments either. Or netflix, or anything else that is common in my household... Bleh!