Elonex Lumina

The PC itself is powered by a 3GHz Intel Pentium 4 CPU, backed by 512MB of PC3200 (DDR400) memory, so it's no slouch in the performance stakes even with the older i865G chipset it uses.

Storage is provided by a 200GB hard drive, but if you feel this isn't sufficient for all your media recording needs, the Lumina can be ordered with either a 300GB or 400GB drive instead. The right hand side of the Lumina houses a slot-loading, dual-format DVD burner which will burn DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW, plus an 8-in-1 flash memory card reader.

The only real disappointment is the integrated 10W speakers but you're not likely to use these anyway. There are audio outputs, including optical audio, so connecting up to a better quality external speaker system presents few problems.

As standard the Lumina comes with a dual analogue TV Tuner card, but there is a single digital FreeView TV tuner card option available. Having dual tuners is a great move as Windows Media Center 2005 (the supplied operating system) comes with dual tuner support, so you can watch one channel while recording another, but the Lumina has another trick up its sleeve. It's an LCD TV, so in reality you have three tuners: you can record two channels via the TV card while watching the third which is built into the TV.