I rather like my Hauppage MVP. If they could just standardise on what protocol media servers should use, we could commodotise the damn things and everyone could have a small black box under their TVs that talked to their Tivo/Freeview/DVD player and then plugged into the back of their TV.

Forget Firewire, SCART or anything else - the future of interconnectivity should bloody well be TCP/IP.