New TV Gadgets

Hauppauge Digital has introduced the Win TV-CI, which allows you to now watch pay TV channels on your PC or laptop. This is another step towards everything becoming more mobile and with just one device. It has a card reader module that can be used alongside TV tuner cards. This allows it to receive subscription based TV on your computer. It costs about 80 and can receive pay digital TV channels like Setanta and Top up TV from Freeview. Sky channels cannot be used on this device as it has no third party.

La Cie's are storage specialists and have introduced a movie box that can store digital content in it to later be viewed on TV. It looks like a small PC and has between 500-700GB storage space for downloaded movies. It has a remote control for browsing to content on the screen easily and an out port in order to set up surround sound. The movie box hooks up to a computer where you can drag and drop the content on to the TV. This is a great improvement from usual DVD players and good for those who have a large digital library.