One point of differentiation from all the other extenders we've tried is that the Echo allows you to configure its various options via a Media Center plug-in.
Big thank you to organizers at the Plug and Play Tech center and my favorite woman in tech, Jocelyn DeGance Graham, the event organizer and the Founder of The Cloud Network of Women.
With a VESA mount, you can hang it in your bedroom and use Windows Media Center to pull in content from your main PC or even plug in a digital cable tuner and use it as a stand-alone entertainment system.