Martin Pipe

The most affordable Dreambox is small, networkable and offers decent AV quality. So why is the DM100 disappointing?

A machine that's ready for watching and recording hi-def and digital terrestrial TV

With a tiny 160GB HDD, this Toshiba recorder will have to impress elsewhere

A DVD receiver that sacrifices little in performance terms

Hot on the heels of the DM600PVR comes its hi-def relative but obsession with size has compromised its usefulness

Linux goes hi-def with the IPBox 9000HD but is a little compromised by lost opportunities and bugs

Freeview+ should be considered a must-have for those without Sky TV, as it offers all the recording flexibility that the satellite broadcaster (and Ross Kemp) has been boasting of.

Two tuners, hardware blind search and internal HDD support herald this revision of a recent hi-def favourite

The most exciting DVD player we've seen for some time. But can it rival Blu-ray?

Well, you have to hand it to them! Those clever bods down at Dream Multimedia have managed to cram a fully functional single-tuner satellite PVR into a package no bigger than a microwave TV dinner.

Panasonic's DVD/HDD/VCR is the convergence king

Do you want to turn your PC into a flexible PVR?