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Submission by Paul Gale - Following a post by one of the members of the UKHA_D mailing list, I recently bought a home brew product that enables control of a Sky or Sky+ box from a PC (Windows or Linux) and ultimately, the Internet. I've been looking for something to do this for years so thought I'd share my findings with my fellow HAers...

We've just received this press release... "Capitalising on the massive success of the iPlayer+ and the PhantomPVR in their own fields, Netgem and Bluedelta Design have teamed up to bring you the next generation of freeview functionality..

What's the best way to get a new touchscreen PC into the house this Christmas? Buy it as a prezzy for the other half of course ;) "The iCEBOX CounterTop brings all your favorite entertainment options together in one charming, easy-to-use device specifically designed for the kitchen, featuring:

Television o Internet o DVD/CD o FM Radio o Home Video Monitoring o Touch Screen o Washable, Wireless Remote & Keyboard"...

Pluggedin.tv Europe Limited, specialists in improving audio and visual performance have just announced the immediate availability of a range of specially upgraded Sky Plus satellite receivers, capable of outputting pure digital video.

For those unfamiliar with SDI, it is a digital video standard which allows the picture information to be input to your scaler or PC capture solution completely digitally, in other words the usual conversions from the MPEG decoder within Sky, to either composite/S-Video/RGB , which would then be converted back in to a digital video signal within your scaler or PC are all completely bypassed. The results are simply the most accurate, revealing and noise-free picture achievable on the Sky platform at any cost...