If you were to have a root around the hard drive of the average home PC, you'd be likely to find some digital media. Such is the convenience of storing music, videos or photos on your hard drive, that more and more people are looking to set their computer up as a media hub.

We're a little way off finding an affordable technology that will allow you to view this sort of content flawlessly on other appliances around the home, but a number of solutions have appeared recently that are certainly pointing us in this direction. Conventionally, a wireless network will help you stream data provided you have the right receiver technology to convert it, but in the PC Media Kit, OneForAll has come up with a different solution in the shape of an RF (Radio Frequency) transmitter.

In the box you'll find a 4-in-1 remote control and transmitter and receiver boxes designed to stream content from your PC to a TV or stereo. The transmitter links directly to your computer's graphics and sound card, which allegedly improves the signal quality over more conventional USB solutions. Provided your graphics card has a composite or S-video out, setup is fairly straightforward, although you'll also have to clone or extend your PC's desktop onto a second display.

From here you wire up the receiver to your television using the composite or SCART adapter supplied. You'll also find an RF receiver for the remote control, which hooks up to your PC and allows you to access the SimpleCentre media management software via your TV screen. You can choose to browse photos, music, video or attached USB storage, all of which is catalogued from your hard drive when you install the software. It's a pretty straightforward system if you can get everything running smoothly, but it's here that we encountered some pretty major problems.

Due to the nature of the RF technology used to stream the data, we noticed quite considerable interference on the TV, which we learned could be a result of power cabling, electrical appliances or other wireless equipment running in the immediate area. Despite doing our best to clear a relatively unobstructed line of sight, things didn't improve much. In an effort to find a suitable environment we tested the equipment elsewhere and did notice a cleaner signal in some cases.

To test its performance in an optimum environment we set the equipment up across an empty room, and in this situation it is an effective solution. The remote works well with the SimpleCentre software and it's very easy to browse and play back media stored on your PC. We're wondering how many would look to use the Media Kit in this sort of environment, though, and if you're planning on hooking it up in separate rooms it's highly advisable to test the quality of the signal, if possible, before you commit to buy.

Despite offering some clear advantages to the home user in terms of streaming data to other rooms in the house, we were disappointed by the quality of the signal. This isn't a versatile solution by any means, and although it's cheaper than buying the equipment needed to set up a wireless streaming solution, it's nowhere near stable enough to recommend to a general audience.