Stream Movies / TV - in one box

[J-Skid]

At the suggestion of the helpful chaps on the Computers forum, I'm posting this in here now.

I need a "combination" device that is very easy to use / wife friendly that can do the following:

1. Stream movies from my home server
2. Play / record sky / TV like a Humax or Sky+ box
3. Ideally have a DVD / blue-ray player built in.

The key here is that it needs to be very simple to use just like a Sky+ box. Ideally with a top menu whereby you can choose between movies on server, TV, recorded TV, DVD etc.

Does anyone know of a device that can do this? Price is not important - Keeping wife happy is paramount!

J

[LocoBlade]

A Playstation 3 should do all of those with the PlayTV addon module, I dont know how user friendly it is though as I dont have one.

Failing that some blueray players with hard disks should do the trick, but it needs to be one that's network enabled, something like this Id think as it's got viera cast which is Panasonic's web connection portal which i think can also stream some video content from DLNA servers on your network
http://www.oyyy.co.uk/product.php/85583/panasonic-...

or this might work, which isnt as expensive as it's not a Blueray recorder.
http://www.superfi.co.uk/index.cfm/page/moreinfo.c...

Edited by LocoBlade on Saturday 5th December 10:24