An afternoon stroll in Freo

Kaiser Baas USB HDTV

As we don't watch a lot of TV shows, I tend not to spend (waste) too much on a digital set top box and yes, we still use analog tvs :) We bought a $99 DGTEC hd tv tuner about couple years ago for our bedroom and it lasted just that. So I decided to try something different (and even cheaper) this time round, a USB tv tuner for my bedroom pc. It was an amazing piece of technology I think for the price I paid for it at Harvey Norman. It is made by an OZ company who makes digital photo frames :) This USB stick is capable 1080i display and it allows typical PVR features such as schedule recording with EPG and time-shift for those emergency toilet breaks. It comes with a copy of PowerCinema 5 by Cyberlink which is rather pleasant to use. Setting up the device is a no-brainer, fully plug and play on XP and Vista. However, I was a little disappointed with the remote controller provided, the remote only works at direct line-of-sight only and I mean direct!! So if you plug this thingy at the back of your computer, the remote will have no use at all. Luckily my Logitech diNovo Mini never let me down :)