The Compro VideoMate E700 TV tuner is the sort of hardware that ought to catch the eye of any discerning technophile. For starters it has dual DVB-T digital tuners, which put it ahead of lesser cards ...

It's amazing how TV tuners have advanced in the last year. You used to have to have a spare PCI slot and plug in a large card with a square tin can soldered to its side. ...

There are several products available to capture analogue video on the PC, but far fewer for the Mac. Pinnacle has turned its attention to this shortfall by introducing the inspiringly-named Video Capture for Mac. This hardware ...

Media PCs are all the rage these days: the sheer versatility of having an adaptable and upgradeable source device, such as a computer, hooked up to a TV or decent-sized monitor suggests they'll be all but ...

There's no shortage right now of products that add television services to your desktop or laptop machine, and Hauppauge's latest salvo into this market is one that's designed to work happily with either. The WinTV Nova-TD ...

The KWorld DVB-T PE310 stands out from the crowd as it uses a PCI Express x1 interface instead of the more usual PCI slot. Depending on your point of view that may seem like a welcome ...

One of the most attractive features in a media centre PC is the ability to watch, time-shift and record live television. To do this properly and in particular to record one channel while watching another, you ...

The MSI Megasky 580 TV tuner is one of the smallest PC gadgets that money can buy, and at first glance looks like a regular USB memory key, albeit with a shiny black-and-white finish. On the ...

Terratec has added a new model to its extensive range of TV tuner cards. The Cinergy 2400i DT is unusual in two respects; in part because it carries dual digital tuners but mainly because it uses ...

The Leadtek Winfast DTV Dongle is a USB 2 device, a little larger than a typical memory stick, which allows you to view and record free-to-air digital TV on your PC. It is designed to be ...

Considering it's available for around £85 (if you're willing to shop around), Hauppauge's WinTV-PVR 150 isn't a bad way to take your place on the media centre bandwagon. This particular vehicle bundles in a remote control, ...

As happy in a desktop machine as it is in the laptops it's clearly been designed for, Terratec's Cinergy Hybrid T USB XS not only, er, sports a catchy name, but also serves as an effective ...

So you want Freeview, the 35+ channel digital TV service we'll all have to switch to by 2012. You can either buy yourself a £40 set-top box to plonk on top of your TV, or this ...

Creative's sound boxes are getting more and more sophisticated. They started by selling a set of sockets and controls tucked into a drive bay, but now the company's decided it needs more room than that and ...

With the majority of modern day video capture devices and software showing clear preference for digital camcorders, it's refreshing to find that Canopus hasn't forgotten about those of us with trusty old analogue equipment. So if ...

Although the slow take-up of digital TV in the UK has taken many by surprise, not least of which the current government, things are slowly improving, aided by free-to-air digital services from the likes of Freeview. ...

Perhaps manufacturers are running out of features to list on their boxes. With TV cards very much an everyday component to many PC users, AVerMedia's latest notebook TV tuner is left to champion factors that, to ...

A typical TV tuner card for a PC gives you four terrestrial channels, or five if you're in a five area. This is analogue TV, which has done well for us over the last 50 years, ...

It's a veritable box of tricks, this latest product to roll off the Trust production line. The Combi TV-PC Pop View has a core function of simply allowing you to watch full-screen television pictures on your ...

There's a refreshing simplicity at the heart of Pinnacle's Studio MovieBox USB that makes it a product worthy of consideration. It's also testament to how far computer-based video editing has come, and how - in the ...