TV with iPod/Phone Dock?! ...

... yes I must be getting old, by having a "they do what, with what now? Isn't technology amazing" moment when we grabbed a fairly standard TV from argos, that had built in DVD player and iPhod dock.

I have no idea how common these things are, is this fairly standard in the UK now, or is it a new thing?

Anyway seeing as we have no cable or TV aerial these seems to work pretty well. I use the BBC iPlayer to download the programs (mainly Cbeebies) move them over to the now-doesn't-make-phone-calls iPhone, slot it in and ta-da instant TV thing.

Works pretty well. Sadly I have no idea if this would actually push out "live" iPlayer programs direct from the iPhone itself, as the mobile BBC iPlayer correctly identifies our Wi-Fi network as being ultimately being a mobile connection (vodafone).

Modern technology is pretty impressive, next thing you know they'll have Wi-Fi TV's that directly play iPlayer stuff (and C4 too I guess ;)