Bought a Sumavision (no, I've never heard of them either) hard disk caddy that includes a digital video player chip and can plug right into the TV for playing AVI's & ripped DVDs. Stuffed a spare hard disk in it, copied a load of AVI files that have been eating away at the hard disk space on my PC and pluddeg it into the telly.

Works an absolute treat. No mre burning DVDs just to have Nero chirpily tell me "burn process failed at 98%". Oh no. Just plug it into the PC, copy the file(s), plug back into the TV and away you go. The kids aren't hassling me to watch something they like that I happen to have downloaded anymore.

I'm going to get another one very soon!