A big plus

They've finally started selling Freeview PVRs under the Freeview+ brand. This is very smart: Sky has spent millions telling us what a PVR is, to flog Sky+. Now Freeview's hitching a (nearly) free ride on the plus train (as, less flauntily, is Virgin).

There's talk, too, of PVRs with the iPlayer built in - presumably they've waited until now to let the BBC iron out the iPlayer's kinks.

Now, stick in a decent hard drive (500 gigs at least - why mess with less?) and a Bittorrent client, and you're getting close to beating Scott's Mac Mini, or a fully tricked-out PS3 (which, of course, has Blu-Ray, too).