Simply can't live a day without  watching your favorite TV show? Well, Buffalo Technologies' latest USB offering is the right one for you. The DH-KONE4G/U2DS is a two-in-one gadget. It acts as a flash disk and as a TV tuner as well. Check out the details on this USB dongle in the full article.

You have your TV, you have your PC. Ever wish you could just do away with one of them and just watch your shows on your computer? You may want to take a look at this little gadget: the AVerTV Hybrid Volar MAX, a TV tuner stick that allows you to receive TV signals (and FM radio to boot) on your PC. Details and pricing in the full article.

Asustek has just announced a new Eee product line for the year 2008: E-DT, E-Monitor, and E-TV. As we all know, Asustek and its Eee PC have recently been associated with low cost or competitive prices, and you'll be glad to know that the new products take after the Eee PC in terms of pricing and quality. There's bad news though for those hoping for touchscreen Eee PCs. Check out the full article for details.

The Nintendo DS 1seg TV tuner in Japan caused quite a ruckus over demand. Online order placement for the DS/DSLite attachment were opened a few weeks back without any announcement whatsoever, but still, traffic flooded in.

Meanwhile, a recent survey conducted reveals that only 18% of the DS population want the TV tuner... But considering the sheer size of the DS population itself, the "only 18%" goes a loooong way indeed!

Advance Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD has just announced that it's expanding its line of TV Wonder products. This time AMD seeks to turn your ordinary PC into a HDTV multimedia system with new Tuner equipment called TV Wonder 650 Combo.

The ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB allows users to watch and record off-air Digital TV and HDTV, unencrypted Digital TV (ClearQAM) cable programming, analog TV, and lets you listen to FM broadcasts with two tuners included in the set. It sells for US$ 149 in NewTek stores found in Best Buys across North America. Wonder 600 PCI and TV Wonder 600 PCI Express TV tuners break new ground by offering high-quality ClearQAM at the affordable price of US$ 99.

Windows Media Center bundled with Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate easily recognizes the ATI TV Wonder and hybrid combo TV tuner solutions for ease of use to users of all skill levels.

"AMD’s TV Wonder family makes HDTV multimedia PCs a reality," says NewTek EVP Michael Innes. "The ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB and ATI TV Wonder 600 series deliver exceptional performance at a great price for PC owners who want to experience HDTV in their home, office or dorm room. "

The AMD TV Wonder comes along with the Catalyst software set which gives owners a big screen TV interface and advanced electronic programming instructions to give buyers the most out of their money.

Be it the AQUOS BD-AV1 or the BD-AV10, you'll get 1 Terrabyte of hard drive storage to boot. These new Blu-ray player-recorders from Sharp pushes the envelope for capacity in-house, though the AV10 will be your choice for premium capacity on recording - it supports dual-layer Blu-ray burning.

Otherwise, both units will come with a single digital TV tuner, one HDMI port, a single FireWire (IEEE 1394) port, and an assortment of connectors for the usual composite connections to standard players and television sets.

The AV10 comes in at a hefty US$ 1,040 price tag (JPY 120,000) and US$ 865 (JPY 100,000) for the AV1. Prices get slashed by approximately 50% if the versions without the hard drive are picked up. We're not sure where the new units will hit first, but these babies will most likely appear in Japanese electronic entertainment stores before anywhere else.

This is definitely for the food and music connoisseurs out there. Enter the Philips DCD778 Docking Entertainment System. Perfect for your posh kitchen.

The Philips DCD778 Docking Entertainment System features an 8.5-inch widescreen LCD display, where you can watch DVDs, MP3 CDs, and VCDs. It has a ATSC/NTSC TV tuner, AM/FM tuner, plus it's compatible with fourth and fifth generation iPods - along with iPod mini and nano - to play both audio and video.

Since it's bound to be mounted underneath one of your kitchen cabinets, it also sports a cooking timer and clock (just so you don't lose track of time and burn whatever you're cooking), wireless remote, and two 2-inch speakers.

Anyway, the Philips DCD778 Docking Entertainment System starts shipping next week and will retail at around US$ 400.

Now all ye landlubbers out there probably know that the whole new Windows experience is going to become one whole bank-breaking one. But the Chinese seem to have it good - up to July 2007 that is.

So what flavors does the Vista come in? There's Home, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate. And because the Vista consumer editions are slated to come out on January 30, we thought we'd take a look at the consumer's choices.

Home Premium is reasonably priced for its features, but it just couldn't cut the cake with some networking and hardware failure prevention features taken out. The complete Vista experience would only be available in the Ultimate Edition which struts around in a US$ 399 price tag (plus a TV tuner is required). There's just got to be a cheaper option.

And voila! There is a cheaper way. Checking Microsoft's web site, a cheaper, basic version of Vista is available for all new computer users and low-income markets. It's dubbed as Starter Edition. It's not feature-rich, but it's affordable in the most legal sense.

You can follow up on the Read link to check up on the editions available and what you can get out of each. Oh, and about the picture, don't worry, it's not true. But it sure feels like it, doesn't it?

A while back, Adaptec released the AVC-1410 GameBridge model which originally sold for $99.99. However, it was recently put on sale for 24.99 USD, and now we've found an even better deal! The GameBridge can be bought for only 19.99 USD (plus shipping).

What these things do is that they allow you to play your console games in real time through your PC or laptop. If you've ever wanted to play your GameCube, PlayStation2, Xbox, or Xbox 360 games using your laptop or PC, then you might want to check this out.

Among its other features, it also allows you to record your gameplay in MPEG-1 format as well as take screenshots at will. The AVC-1410 allows you to record video in both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 format depending on your settings. Most solutions for playing games through your PC and Laptop are very costly and have input-lag time but the GameBridge boasts of zero lag and games can be played in up to 1024x768 resolution.

Yet another interesting contraption for all those who love playing games.

A company called Qrio have released what seems to be a very stylish DMB portable TV. Called the QT-9, it measures a very slimline 9.8mm and supports a wide crisp 3.5" QVGA screen. Rival models including the iRiver B10 only have 2.2" screens and have a 17.1mm thickness. There is a single built in speaker and an extendable aerial. Details show that there will be two colours available, pink and black. By taking advantage of the H.264 coding format, the DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcast) TV uses a terrestrial signal to send you a crisp signal courtesy of ground transmitters.

No details on release date and price are not yet available, however expect this to be a Korea only product. Rival units retails for between $120-160 so therefore it would be logical to think this will follow suit. Be warned, those who think they can get the Korean model and bring it to Europe or the US, think again, besides the DMB service not being fully operational, these countries require subscription of sorts. Again following rival models, battery life should be in the region of 3 to 5 hours.