What "would" you suggest?

[scrump]

After a kitchen renovation I'm after a "single" device that can do the following:

• TV
• Radio
• Music (like iPod)
• Internet Browsing - Wired or Wireless

I can't figure out what can do this, I've looked at Netbooks (poor sound, no CD), Mac Mini (expensive), Small PC (noisy & still to big), iPod (No TV, not sure about Radio).  Is it possible? best I can do is a Flat Screen TV + Mac Mini. Perhaps an untapped area of the marke :-)

Any suggestion welcome.

Stu

[jimnoble]

Browsing pretty well demands a PC somewhere - which could be in a different room just leaving the screen, keyboard and mouse in the kitchen. I reckon I've seen a wireless miniature integrated KB/touchpad somewhere.

You were promoting streaming audio and video from a central server at one time so you don't need optical drives in the kitchen . For the same reason, you probably don't need an iPod dock either.

Put a TV/radio card in a hidden PC running Media Centre and control it with the mouse. Most come with a separate remote control and I've successfully extended it's IR sensor cable out to 4m in the past and it'll probably go further.

Flip down monitor bracket
Wireless Keyboard with Integrated Touch Pad

[scrump]

I've still not come up with anything perfect yet, and I think your suggestions Jim are in the same direction as mine.  Even with a PC in another room the issue is getting the TV into an application on that PC to display on the TV - that requires a Slingbox or similar and that all adds up.

This is what I'm thinking about doing.

PC of some sort in the livingroom (will provide access to the Internet for streamed music and Internet access).  Can also plug the iPod in to this too.
LCD TV with VGA/DVI, s-Video, SCART or HDMI inputs.  Provides for receiving the PC signal, TV signal, and radio over Sky too.

Using my existing Cat5 cable around the house put the output of the PC over Cat5 to an input on the TV - Using something like a HDMI to Cat5 back to HDMI and a small Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse.

Using my existing Cat5 cable and KAT5 converters put the signal over the Cat5 again to a SCART/s-video TV input.

Not as nice as 1 box does all,  but at least I don't have anything more than a TV plus a few hidden cable, and a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Small, quiet PC or Mac with appropriate outputs - £200-500
LCD TV - £200
KAT5 TV module - £60-80
Signal Converters - £20ea

Not much change from £500 at a minimum.  Perhaps I need a £20 analogue radio 

We'll thats the thinking at the moment.. a few more weeks before the kitchen is finished to make up my mind.

Stu