I will be purchasing a new HD Satellite receiver for the bedroom. It does not have to be anything fancy, it will only be used for watching FTA and wacthing recorded programmes from my vu plus hard disk box which is downstairs so it needs to be able to mount a network share and play back the files. (thinking about it would need to do this wirelessly as I have no (RJ46) LAN cables patched in upstairs, so I am guessing it will also need to be able to work with the open media wifi bridge.

The cheapest I can get a HD receiever for is about £60 for a FOXSAT HD, Now I know this is not linux but it does have the added advantage of being able to watch bbc iplayer.

Does anyone now if you can mount to a samba share and if so will it play back the content recorded from my VU ? over a wifi bridge.

I would get a Vu Solo but cant justify paying £260 for something thats not going to be used to its full potential.

Has anyone got a similair setup or can recommend anything..