This post on the Acer Revo thread also claims that BBC HD vids work fine under XBMC. This youtube vid at 4:16 claims to show the Ion 330 with XBMC and the iplayer plugin and it seems to run BBC HD "South Pacific" OK.
Download and install the BIOS following the readme file. Filter by BIOS/UEFI, and choose the corresponding OS information. On the product page, click Drivers & Software. Enter the system machine type or product name. The noise level from the ASRock may vary depending on you system configuration (which fans are inside) and how you use your system. The external power supply is completely fan less and noiseless. Hardware acceleration for Linux is VDPAU, I tried to find anywhere on the net that stated that this supports hardware acceleration of Flash but unfortunately it doesn't seem like it does. Use the following steps to find and download the BIOS: Open Lenovo support website (). Although the ASRock ION 330 does make less noise than most other pc's, it is not completely silent. If you don't care about Flash based HD-video streams on your HTPC, then please have a look at our overview of all available Nvidia ION based products, too."
Although they are great for a Linux based HTPC too, they currently still have one drawback: Adobe Flashplayer doesn't support hardware accelerated HD-video playback yet, therefore they are unsuitable for playing Flash based Internet HD video streams (Hulu, BBC IPlayer, etc). " We have excluded Atom+ION based boards from this selection.
Click to expand.Just found this linux page : Like I said earlier the ASRock ION 330 is a flawed system in terms of noise - unforgivably so considerring its target market.