£500 to spend at Currys/PC World

[baxb]

I moved house recently & part of the mortgage deal was a £500 Currys voucher. I have a decent TV (5 year old Panasonic plasma VT42) but no catch up TV/Hard disk recorder or a Blu-Ray DVD player. I was thinking of getting something like this http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertain... so I have Blu-ray, Hard disk & catch up TV in one. Anything else I should be looking at to do the job ? Cheers.

[clockworks]

If you get a combined disc player and hdd recorder, you'll lose the lot if it goes wrong.

Look at the new Humax Freeview Play boxes. They have an onboard DLNA server, so anything you record can be watched on another smart device in a different room.

[paulrockliffe]

Chromecast, a 7" tablet to use as the remote control, and a NAS to store your media on, or anything else that'll run a Plex server?

[clockworks]

Humax box will do catchup stuff too.

I'm running Plex on a microserver, but it may be a bit "techie" for the OP?

[baxb]

paulrockliffe said:

Chromecast, a 7" tablet to use as the remote control, and a NAS to store your media on, or anything else that'll run a Plex server?

Thanks, to set the scene a bit - my media consists of a few dozen DVD's & I had to look up chromecast, NAS & Plex as i'd never heard of them ! I have a 3 year old Samsung phone, no tablet & a 2 year old £300 laptop. All my watching will be done on this TV & with upcoming building works I won't be able to throw much more cash at TV kit for a while. Catch up TV is something I do want & to be able to record & save some stuff as well & while my 10+ year old sony dvd player is still fine I thought I could upgrade to Blu-ray at the same time.

[gregs656]

Currys sell the Youview+ boxes - I'd highly recommend them and the Youview platform in general.

The boxes are compact and powerful enough to be decently responsive - you get all the terrestrial channel catch up apps, netflix and Now TV. Also get all the freeview channels and the freeview HD channels.

The EPG and general user interface is excellent. Far superior to the 'Smart' Panasonic interface I used, although panasonic may have improved in that area.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertain...

[rash_decision]

I'll give you £400 for it!?