With the i945Ga-PHS AOpen has created a very solid multimedia motherboard. The available features are exactly what you would need. Several motherboards are already offering on-board VGA, but this one offers HDTV component output on top of that - unique.
AOpen has put many nice features in their BIOS which help reduce fan noise. For example each fan output can be set to a fixed percentage or the fan speed can be adjusted according to a temperature limit. All this works without the use of any additional software.
On the performance side the board is a bit faster in most benchmarks than the ABIT AL8 which uses the same i945 chipset. When it comes to overclocking your options are a bit limited, but in my opinion a Media PC shouldn't be optimized for raw performance (which needs a lot of cooling), it is better to have a quiet system.