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 ...

At first glance, there's not a lot to endear the TV@nywhere board to a novice user. It requires fiddling with a jumper setting pre-installation to make sure you get proper PAL compatibility (although that's also testament ...

It's happened to all of us at some time. Your favourite TV programme is showing, and you're fighting a growing urge to go to the toilet. Of course, you won't have time to fumble around with ...

The Matrox RT.X10 is a hardware and software video editing solution for high-end PCs. It combines an expansion card, designed to boost video capture and editing performance, with a full copy of Premiere, Adobe's semi-professional video ...

This is Pinnacle's top-of-the-range video editing package for the home user. It's designed for those who want to work with their home videos, either analogue or digital, tidy them up with a few well-placed edits and ...

We're coming to the end of an era as the Government gets ready, in a few years' time, to pull the plug on analogue TV and radio. In their place we'll have newer, shinier, digital versions. ...

TV tuner cards have always had a mixed reception (if you'll pardon the pun) in the UK. While many can see the advantages of a PC - particularly a home PC - that can double as ...

One of a range of video digitiser products from Hauppauge, the WinTV USB does just what it says on the box; it allows you to watch TV on your Windows PC courtesy of a simple USB ...

"Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours", apparently. But you can't get your daily dose if you're stuck in front of a computer all day. Luckily, TV-PC integration works both ways. With set-top boxes the TV can do ...