Even allowing for the lack of an EPG, this Digiquest gives you a lot of receiver for the money

This budget Freeview reciever flaunts its Eco credentials

Manhattan's Freeview adapter boasts multimedia playback, but how much of a '+' is it?

First Freeview HD box brings high definition to the masses

This inexpensive standard-def receiver may suffer from quirks, but we find that it still has potential

It's rather pricey, but TVonics' latest adapter is the first to meet government standards for Freeview receivers

Metronic bundles its Freesat HD receiver with a dish kit for DIY Freesat installation

Icecrypt applies its digital receiver know-how to Freeview with solid if unspectacular results

Sagem finally produces its first Freesat zapper – but it's not all that it could have been

Yet another affordable PVR-upgradable HD receiver catches our eye

It's expensive, but if you live in a rambling house with many TVs to convert to digital the Multibox may be an answer

It's probably fair to say that the much-hyped Freesat initiative has been something of a fiasco so far. Much of the promised hardware has not yet materialised and, as a result, supply has failed to meet demand. However, there are alternatives - especially if you're specifically interested in getting hi-def for free.

Until now, inroads for Setanta Sports into the PC TV crowd have been stymied by the lack of decrypting hardware. Hauppauge has delivered a solution with the WinTV CI, a common interface module that takes CAMs and cards for satellite and terrestrial pay-TV services (except Sky) when used in conjunction with most recent Hauppauge satellite or DTT PC tuners.

After months shrouded in secrecy, the UK's Freesat service has hit the ground running. Unlike the bandwidth-limited Freeview service, this free-to-view satellite platform has room to spare. And it arrives in UK high streets promising not only standard digital TV services, but also cutting-edge technologies such as HD and IPTV. In short, fellow telly-addicts, Freesat is a broadcast technology with legs.

The Thomson DTI6300-16 Freeview PVR is the model currently being used to promote the Top Up TV Anytime service, which is no surprise as the DTI6300-16 is packed with features

The idea of a digital recorder that merges Freeview reception with online content is both innovative and inevitable. Having IPTV on tap alongside DVB is the natural evolution of digital TV, and BT has beaten arch rival Sky to the punch with its V-Box

Take your home TV set-up on the road

As far as boasts go, Sling Media's is a whopper. The US company claims that its Slingbox will 'transform the way you watch television'. Instead of 'timeshifting', Sling Media's technology is pushing a different idea: 'placeshifting'

For under £70, the TM-5200D not only provides a free-to-air receiver that's easy to use and set up, but it has a blind search to keep up to date with the broadcasting changes, and hardware and software built in to add hard disc recording.

Would you like to record one FTA digital programme while watching another? You can buy twin-tuner PVRs but these might be outside your budget. And what if you already have a DVD recorder?

Most flatscreen TVs have built-in Freeview reception, but if yours is an exception the Freecom DVB-T offers a discreet solution.

Referred to in the press release as the 'Nano' (although this is not made explicit on the box, presumably so as not to antagonise Apple's legal department), this Freeview adapter is a compact 15cm x 13.5cm x 4cm and appears to be intended mainly as a digital upgrade for second-room portable TV sets.

The IP Box 250S, from Slovakian satellite wholesaler AB-Com, joins the growing band of set-top boxes to adopt the open-source Linux operating system - as opposed to proprietary internal operating software ('firmware')

Plenty of us have perfectly good TVs with analogue tuners which will be rendered useless by digital switchover. Thankfully, most have Scart sockets that can be fed by a set-top Freeview box. But what if you're short of space?