i was looking too, my pc dvd drive wont do double layer aparently, so il let you know what i find.
it seems quite a hassle burning dvds, unles you particularly want to keep them permanently,
the burnt ones didnt seem very reliable so i gave up with them but that was ages ago.
Im also looking at media pcs, but I dont know how good a spec you need, blue ray might be nice, the standalone players are 200 quid for a reasonable make, but there are cheap ones, and some have HDD so you can record, but you can probably put to gether a cheap PC for 200 quid,but i dont know how wel a min spec pc would handle full hd, i downloaded a couple of full hd trailers etc to see how wel mine performs but i think the heavily compressed formats take to much processing power for my pc.
its a shame you cant just send the image in comressed form to the TV, over high speed usb or other serial link, as if they have internal digital receivers they have the necessary mpeg 2 decoder at least.
ive also seen small tvs with built in dvd drives incredibly cheap.
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