How do you (easily) get iplayer, C2 OD etc on the box rather than pc?
I thought a hummy etc might do it but it seems not. I might be putting a pc in my living room which would make doing it via cable easy? (but less easy, i.e. no remote, in terms of control?)
Don't Playstation 3's do this?
I've had a look at this and the best solution I found is still a PC. I got a Dell Optiplex 760 with W7 for £160 reconditioned on ebay and it's spot on - quiet, small and trouble free.
I have a Keysonic keyboard/touchpad thing that's brilliant - 5+ years and still going strong.
I use VLC for watching DVDs and use the android app on my phone to work as a remote. There are also free 'mouse' apps for the phone (eg gpad).
PS3 + USB keyboard
it's PS3 season too.
I'm not interested in a PS3 ta, looks like me old pentium may live again!
Why not?
You can get iplayer through the Wii but the quality isnt great
I`m hoping to do it through Ipad and/or apple tv
I would do as GW suggests. Also get BF3, MW3 and Skyrim and forget exactly what you wanted iPlayer for in the first place 
....that or knock up a small media pc or hack an AppleTV.
I like my Apple TV...works fine and not v expensive
does/can you make apple tv record?
no it doesnt record, its just a watching device aswell as link with i tunes for film rentals etc. its simplicity is what i like ..suits me 
if you rent/buy a film on your laptop or i pad you can still play them on telly via the i player too!
I just got a blue ray player from sinsburys £75 or £79 that says it does the internet telly thing.
it is a Sony BDP-S185
It also look like i can get movies onling from love film! see what happens when you RTFM.
Off to find an ethernet cable to try it out.
GW - should I want one? I don't play computer games and have plenty gadgets in the house already.
dunno if it helps, but you can connect lovefilm from your laptop to the tv.
Yeah apple TV is good but has its limits. For an all round media center, I still reckoned that a PC was a better bet and didn't cost much more.
PS3 would work, and can be used as an entertainment system. They are pretty much silent, have a remote and loads of other cool features. You don't have to use it for games. You can play Avi's, DVD's, Blu-Ray, it has a very good upscaler built in and loads more.
AppleTV - I guess you may have to jailbreak it to get the best out of it..
I have a PS3 which I do use for this duty clubber, but I am coming round to wanting a nettop to fulfil the roll. The acer revos are the things I've been looking at, don't know if that's of any use to you.
GW - should I want one?Well it will do everything you are asking and way more. and they are fairly cheap now.
I've lost weekends on computer games when you were in nappies mate! And more recently...
They are £230 on scumbay...I have an old pc & a blu-ray player, what would it do for me?
what would it do for me?
You don't have to play games on it, it's not law, but it is crime.
I've lost weekends on computer games when you were in nappies mate!you do talk some amount of pish Al
Oh sorry I forgot you're in your 40s - it's your immaturity that confuses me :irony:
So can someone give me a list of what the PS3 will do/or correct mine):
1. play dvds/blu-ray (I'm still on dvd, my telly is only 720)
2. stream internet tv like iplayer
3. cost £230
4. stream music/internet radio/spotify?
no it doesnt record, its just a watching device aswell as link with i tunes for film rentals etc.
PS3 can...
1. play dvds/blu-ray/Avi's
2. stream internet TV, iPlayer/ITVPlayer/4od
3. cost £230
4. stream music/internet radio/pandora
5. Stream stuff from your DLNA/NAS/PC (video & music)
6. Play Photos/Videos/Camera's from USB
7. Can record live TV, if you buy PlayTV.
AppleTV is also worth looking at, but you would have to Jailbreak it to get the most out of it.
I use the ps3 for TV I player act But ! crap watching You Tube through it
I've got one of the new Apple Mac Mini's hooked upto my tv via a hdmi lead. Operate it with the wifi keyboard and trackpad. Probably not the cheapest way to get the internet on the tv but all works really well.
think I'll just wait for he xb360 update due shortly...
Apparently you can use the BBC iPlayer app for the iPad and then sling that to an apple TV via Airplay which is pretty slick. Why you can't do iPlayer with the appleTV alone, I don't know.
My Sony TV has iPlayer built in which works really well.
I use the Apple TV for watching stuff from my laptop via PLEX. (worked out of the box unlike XBMC which I couldn't be bothered to fiddle around with)
Brand new stand alone PS3s are around £190 (Tesco/Asda etc.), S/H £100*
*also budget for random spoon modding
if you have an old pc. install xbmc live on it. a fantstic bit of software.
I've got it running on a home build htpc with a tuner card and 2tb storage. I have my video/ music library on it. I can watch and record live TV. and use 4od, iplayer, icefilms etc too
Not exactly. I've got XBMC on my AppleTV and using the icefilms plugin I can download films/TV to watch later. The AppleTV has 7gig of storage space to play with - not a lot but enought for 5 or six films.
Is that an old AppleTV though? Didn't think the new ones had any (accessible) onboard storage. Or a browser come to that?
the older ones had 80Gb/160Gb
Is that an old AppleTV though? Didn't think the new ones had any (accessible) onboard storage. Or a browser come to that?
I have just read this and nodded to myself going " hmm". I have no idea what you are all typing about. 
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