Basically ageing TVs are dying and SWMBO wants a new fancy one..
Now we have TV tuners on our 'puters and can record on them on the server which can dish up MP4s or mpegs via Windows NFS or Mac file sharing protocols...and lossa TVS seem to come with ethernet sockets...and I am fairly sure there's a bit of CAT5 curled up behind the faceplate in the room where...
..but the real things is how these stupid pieces of consumer shit actually can be setup - I mean half of them seem to expect you to plug in a USB drive or simply want to grab Iplayer content..
What would be mice is a 32" HD TV (Digital terrestrial tuner)that can read a network drive and play the content thereon - content that will be raw MP4 style files.
And it would be nice, but not essential - if it could record wahts being watched there as well.
I don't want to by a separate box..And budget is limited to £500
So tell me all the woes of latest consumer TV kit...