What's a good'un? Bro in law wants a new one, all bells and whistles.

 

What does he want to pay?
£400 or £4000?

 

Does he want ?

1. Blu-ray playback
2. Freesat
3. Freeview
4. Multi-channel sound
5. HDMI

Just buy a pretty box and build one, I use CCL as they are quite close to where I live.

Mine is :-
Thermaltake Bach Series Media Lab VB8000BNS case
Asus P5K-E with Q6600 plus 4 GB of memory
Cinergy 2400 DVB-T twin tuner card
WD caviar black 1 TB hard drive
Intel 80GB SSD to speed up booting
Pallit 460 1GB graphics card, cool and very quiet
Use a HDMI lead to the Panasonic TV and coaxial digital feed into the Cyrus processor. Finally ending in a 5.2 speaker set-up.

Windows 7 with media player is O.K.
I also like the remote my case came with

Any specific questions, just ask

Regards,

dunx

P.S. Easily holds all my DVD's and CD's, but I'm not a hoarder...

 

This is what he said when I asked him:

It is called a media centre PC. Dell do one called the Inspiron Zino PC. Direct HDMI connection to a HD TV. Up to 8Gb ram and 1Tb hard drive. Needed to store avchd movies from my camera and play them back, as well as to operate as a PC. If connected to my router (via LAN), will it be able to communicate with my present PC as well as to the internet??
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Well then it's purely a matter of aesthetics...

Big cheap ugly box, or a svelte slinky number...

If he's not bothered with Free,sat,TV,FM radio, it's just a PC with HDMI and maybe firewire or USB to transfer files from the camera onto the harddrive.

HTH

dunx

A trawl around the CCL Computers site will show you how cheap a std. PC shaped box can be.
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...=0&tid=cs-102b
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...tid=h55itx-a-e
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...d=bx80616g6950
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...=tw3x2g1600c9d
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...0&tid=wd20ears

So around £340 plus windows 7 home edition. For a properly quick machine. Blu-ray writer would be a good option too !