[sickpuppy]

XBMC can play bluray off discs, no? You can use Pipelight to watch Netflix in SuperHD on Linux btw.

I use a usb drive bluray to stream rented discs from MakeMKV to xbmc. It works well, but that's a hack and not the same as running a real disc under something like Total Media Theater. Because of licensing and DRM garbage, I don't think there are any direct-play-from-disc options are available under Linux that give access to all the extra features and delightful "prohibited operations" and forced trailers that you get with a real, dedicated software player.

You sure about pipelight? The Netflix Metro app is HTML5 with DRM extensions. As far as I know, they haven't been hacked. Pipelight is silverlight, and silverlight cannot play superHD. I'd love to be wrong so I could dump windows.

@Selene

Steam in home streaming -- that could be awesome. I was imagining how low-res a game would have to be to achieve 4k/60fps on hd5000 graphics, but this opens new options.

Hey! Now you're into one of my questions! Will the hd5000 Graphics play 4k/50fps? Since the DP supports it it would be Nice if the NUC delivers also.
And does the Choice of OS limit the Graphics? I mean, With 16GB RAM and SSD, would it deliver 4K even in Windows 7?