Game Capture HD is incredibly easy to set up, and is a great video capture device for gamers or websites.

This portable drive's appeal lies in its pairing with a Thunderbolt connection. Although its price tag is high in pence-per-gigabyte, it's at the more affordable end of Thunderbolt devices.

This tiny plug-in device turns your iPad 2 into a television

The easy way to watch TV on your Mac or iOS device

This PC/Mac tuner's ability to stream HD satellite TV across a home network is useful, but marred by its erratic Wi-Fi features

Pipe digital TV to all the PCs in your house with this neat little device

It won't win any beauty contests but the EyeTV Sat's allure is under its skin – and Mac-lovers will certainly fall for its charms

With the petite Mac mini and the gorgeously stylish iMac G5 deservingof a place in anybody's living room, playing TV on your Mac is something a lot of Mac owners are getting interested in again.

For years, Elgato has been making the best software for watching TV on your Mac, and though others have tried to compete, EyeTV has always been the preeminent solution. Despite a lacklustre debut, The Tube from equinux has begun to show itself as a credible competitor, and the result of this competition is better software for us.

Despite competition from Equinux in recent years, Elgato remains the natural choice if you want to add a TV tuner to your Mac. Not only is the accompanying EyeTV software powerful, slick and flexible, but the company has a wide range of TV tuner solutions to fit any budget.

With the UK still waiting for movie and television content from the Apple Store, there's still a dearth of content available for owners of the new Apple TV who want to hook their Macs up to their TV set and watch movies in their front room

While there's a bewildering array of hardware options for receiving a digital TV signal on your Mac on the market, they all come with the same EyeTV software from Elgato, who also makes this new EyeTV Diversity.