Rob wrote:

... You simply dial in at the Cambridge or
laptop interface, which can sit (fairly) unobtrusively by the hifi.
You could easily site a pc near the hifi - but then you've got
cables/monitor/noise etc.

My video card has an s-video output - the computer's display goes to the
(cheapie) wide screen TV, and I use a wireless keyboard and mouse to drive
the computer while slobbing back on the sofa. A long USB cable goes to the
keyboard/mouse receiver which is under the sofa - the cable goes under a rug
and isn't in the way. The mouse and keyboard are just treated as (yet) more
remotes that get piled in a drawer in the coffee table. (It's a
smallish-footprint keyboard.)


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