Metrological's Mediaconnect TV points to a PC based CE future?

i don't know what this device will cost, but thats the kind of hardware i would imagine for an extender if WHS integrates tuners!

it is powerfull enough to do the uncoding of 1080p files and to run a softsled media center, so WHS would only serve which makes it much more stable.

and, as you write, it can run other software(BBC iplayer,...)

but in this case there would be no tuners in this thing!!

extenders need to get more power

Actually it is a possibillity to use tuners on WHS. It is just another operating system based on  the XP core.

Procedure would be to build your own WHS Server with suffucient space for pci devices, and have it share its tuners to remote clients that run at localmediacenters. This can be achieved by installing DVBlogic on the server allongside DVBviewer(Using DVBviewer Server). All clients would then have access to networked tuners. And you would have the option to delegate control to as to how many tuners each client should have available.

I wouldn't be interested in one of these TVs because whatever I buy is going to be out of date within 2 years. I've always thought of TVs as 20-30 year devices. There is no way that internal circuity will keep up with what I want to do over the next 2 decades. That is why I favor the TV being simply a standalone monitor with an extender doing all of the heavy lifting. In a few years the extender will be out of date, but cheaper and easier to replace.