Clever3000 HD10 Media Center

If you are looking for a seriously high performing media center, then the Clever Technologies Clever3000 HD10 is the one for you.

Designed in the style of an AV receiver, the Clever3000 HD10 can be located with your HiFi rack system, or can be centrally located to act as your main AV server for a multi-room system.

The Clever3000 HD10 is a high specification, high performance PC running Windows Vista Home Premium on an Intel Core2 Duo E6750 processor, and an Intel P35 chipset supporting Dolby Master Studio. Like the other Clever technology media center PCs it has been designed specifically for Media Center, and it brings the convenience of all of your home entertainment equipment into a single, very user friendly, device. Like normal TVs (but unlike PCs) the Clever3000 HD10 has an instant on/off switch, courtesy of its Viiv technology.

NB: The Clever3000 HD10 is designed for plasma and LCD screens. It does not support output to a conventional CRT TV.

The Clever3000 HD10 replaces your:

• TV tuner/Freeview digibox, the Clever3000 HD10 replaces your terrestrial TV tuner or your Freeview digibox having two hybrid (analogue & digital) tuners. A hand held remote control, with its "back to home" green button, which makes the system very easy to use, is supplied as part of the package
• DVD player, with High Definition Multimedia Interface video output (HDMI) for the ultimate pictures on your large plasma or LCD screen, and Dolby Digtal 7.1 surround sound that you can connect directly into your AV amplifier or AV receiver to give a true home cinema experience
• DVD recorder, with a soft touch optical drive tray and the two TV tuners that allow you to record one programme whist watching another or record two programmes simultaneously. The Clever1750 also allows you to 'pause' live TV and even 'rewind' live TV for a short time when you haven't tried to record it
• BluRay or HD-DVD plus BluRay disc player (latter is optional) to allow you to get the best high definition output for your screen. The BluRay player allows your Media Center to give FullHD (1080p) video using the more popular BluRay Disc (BD) format, but by opting for the HD Combo version you can enjoy playing both disc formats.
• CD player either as a single disc player, or with the hard disc (500Gb, expandable) storage on the Clever3000 HD10, you can store your whole music library, in either uncompressed or compressed eg MP3, format and have them instantly available for play back through your HiFi system
• WiFi PC computer, since this is an impressive Intel Core2 Duo processor based computer. This allows you to perform all of the normal PC functions using the Clever3000 HD10, including surfing the Internet, but using your plasma or LCD screen as the viewing device. A Microsoft Infrared keyboard is supplied as part of the package

NB: If you wish to connect Sky to the system you should specify the tuners as analogue. This will allow your Sky box to be directly connected, use the S-video and stereo audio outputs from Sky into the Clever1750 and select this as your Sky box connection during the set-up procedure. You can find AV connecting leads here

Specification Clever3000

• Intel Viiv technology
• Intel Core2 Duo E6750 processor (Intel P35 chipset, supporting Dolby Master Studio)
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
• 4Gb DDR2 SDRAM memory 800MHz (option: expandable up to a maximum of 4GB)
• 500Gb hard disc drive; and optional second/third/fourth HDDs of 250GB or 500GB each
• ATI Radeon 2600 graphics card
• MS+Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra
• Dolby Labs Certified High Definition 24-bit audio
• Dolby Digital Live Technology (converts stereo sound to Dolby Digital in real time for unrivalled audio reproduction)
• BluRay disc drive (HD-DVD/BluRay disc combination drive optional)
• Dolby Digital output and DTS support
• Analogue 7.1 surround sound output
• Dual hybrid TV tuners, (ie selectable digital or analogue) with electronic programme guide. Expandable to 4 digital tuners
• Silent operation

• Firewire: 2 (1 front, 1 back)
• USB: 6 (2 front, 4 back)
• RJ45 data port: 1 10/100/1000Mbps
• Wireless: 80211b/g WiFi