HTPC

[Sid]

I'd like something to sit underneath my living room TV that's capable of:
- recording digital terrestrial TV (storing it on my NAS)
- streaming video from my NAS
- playing DVDs and Blu-ray
- being operated by a remote control (no mouse and keyboard, thanks!)

My main requirements is that it should:
- not look like a PC i.e. look more like a dvd player
- be as close to silent as possible
- be low power

Software
In terms of software, is Windows 7 Media Center the best thing out there? Is it worth considering anything else?

Hardware
What kind of hardware specs do I need? Are there any good off-the-shelf products or barebones (case, psu + motherboard) units available?

Cheers!

[Bluepixie]

Have you not posted about this before?

[Sid]

I think that was Yega.

Speaking of Yega, where is that sexy hardware guru when you need him?

[Bluepixie]

Ah yes the Yega. How did the song go again? :)

I think that the solution to your problem is this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41UAFGSzM-L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[Sid]

Is the PS3 actually really good for streaming/recording video to a NAS?

Better than some kind of dedicated solution, say?

[To0]

It can't record to NAS. If you use Play TV you can record to the internal drive then manually copy elsewhere but not over the network.

Personally I'm looking at getting this:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/blu-ray/lg/hr600/lg-hr600-blk

Or something similar so that Ems can watch TV/recorded stuff/blu rays and I can play on the PS3. The Home server I have can share torrented stuff with this via DNLA and this can share it's recorded stuff too. Meaning that pretty much every device in the house with a screen has access to all our content. Plus freesat comes in HD :)

EDIT:
Balls looks like I wasn't paying attention I searched for freesat+ with blu ray but there are precious few of those. Hrm, this needs a rethink.