Alright, so this cheery little effort only has a single digital tuner, and admittedly it looks like something that just dropped off the underside of KITT, but look at the bright side - you can pick it up online for under 20 pounds.

If you like the idea of watching TV on your laptop, but your budget doesn't stretch to a Media Center machine, opting for an external TV card is a viable option. The 320U is a hybrid tuner, so you can watch standard terrestrial channels...

There's been a glut of tiny USB TV sticks appearing recently, each one filled with increasingly elaborate technology, yet still hanging neatly off the side of a notebook. Clearly, though, this takes a degree of technical expertise

It's not the tiniest or most interesting-looking of its kind, but it will fit snugly into a USB 2.0 port on your PC or laptop. A small plastic aerial fitted with a magnetic base is included (though,unfortunately, we could not receive any channels using it)

Media centre PCs have their advocates, but there are problems with many that are currently available, including size, noise and usability. Small-form factor machines offer a workaround, but they often do so at the expense of system expansion...