
Rather than upgrade my very nice TV
..I bought an Apple TV 2 for under a hundred quid, jailbroke it and installed XBMC and the iPlayer plugin. Viola! A small, silent player with HDMI out and a neat little remote for a very sharp price.
Added bonus, XBMC is a very nice front end for playing all sorts of media from SMB shares and the like. The whole process was very easy with a bit of googling (use Seas0npass to jailbreak), and took less than an hour start to finish, from unboxing the thing, to watching iPlayer HD on my TV- including googling and tea drinking time.