Obviously everyone has their own definition of 'cheap as chips' but it may be worth checking out the Western Digital options at http://www.wdc.com/en/products/homeentertainment/mediaplayers/

I believe that the base model WD TV Live is available at well under �100. I think I saw it at �60 somewhere - possibly Maplin. Its �79 on Amazon.

Review at http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/network-media-streamers/353542/western-digital-wd-tv-live and other places.

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The WD TV Live is fantastically intuitive, but thankfully its ease of use is backed up by broad format support. Everything from lossless FLAC to AAC, and from ripped DVDs to ultra-high bitrate rips of Blu-ray movies played flawlessly. In fact, we only encountered problems with video clips that had their audio tracks encoded in Microsoft�s WMA Pro format, which the WD TV Live doesn�t claim to support. Crucially, movie buffs will appreciate the WD TV Live�s added ability to down-mix DTS soundtracks.

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Shame it doesn't do likes of BBC iPlayer otherwise I would have bought one.

Also some Free/sat/view boxes, blu-ray players and TV's also do this as standard if you are considering upgrading any of those items.

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