Remote Video Recorder

This remote digital video recorder from Hammacher Schlemmer allows you to record and watch your favorite TV programs from anywhere in the world. The unit connects to your TV, DVR, satellite box or cable and streams its live signal over your home network to the Internet via your computer. The included software allows you to remotely control any A/V device with which the device is connected. It recreates an exact image of your remote, including the same buttons that you are used to, right on the screen of your computer, pulling from a database of over 1,000 popular brands of televisions, DVRs, cable and satellite boxes.

Your favorite programs can also be recorded to your laptop’s hard drive as MPEG2 files to be viewed later. You can also watch and record your programs from a computer on your home network. This system requires a home network with Internet access. Included are RCA/composite/S-video cables for plugging into most A/V devices. Available at Hammacher Schlemmer for $249.95.

Today is the final day and you will absolutely have to deal with it. The transition to digital TV will be official and hopefully you got yourself all the much needed technology behind it. And this time nobody will delay the whole thing as they did a while ago. Let us know how the whole DTV transition works for you. Having problems getting your favorite channels? Make sure you drop us a line.

Television viewing will be a different experience for you with the newly launched GefenTV Digital Audio Decoder. This new product has been designed to allow you to enjoy Dolby with any movie or television program broadcasting. It supports 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio and features an output in analog two-channel format.

The new GefenTV Digital Audio Decoder also allows the audio from a set-top box and media center PC or component video source to be heard from an existing pair of analog speakers. This one a unique product that makes listening music and watching videos an ultimate experience.

GefenTV Digital Audio Decoder comes with an in-built digital to analog converter and a digital interpolation filter for supporting up to 6 channels of audio encoded in Dolby Digital. It can be easily connected with a computer and any two-channel audio system.

Sagem HDMI Digital Recorders

Sagem Communications announces its new “top-of-the-range”, HDMI digital TV recorders. These new DTR 67320T Eco and DTR 67500T Eco offer hard drive memories of 320GB and 500GB respectively, claiming recording capacities of 160 and 250 hours. With an 8-day electronic program guide, the PVRs let you record live TV, pause, rewind, record two channels at the same time plus watch a recorded one, in addition to picture-in-picture functionality.

Offering HDMI upscaling, Sagem says the units can improve the quality of your picture to 1080i or 720p. The new products also have a USB transfer function that lets you side-load recorded content onto a USB memory stick, as well as play MP3 files and view pics on a USB stick on your TV. The “Eco” label comes in with the device’s energy consumption of less than 2W in standby mode. The DTR67320 Eco retail for £149.99 and the DTR 67500 Eco at £179.99.

Now, feel free to receive on air high definition TV broadcast via the newly launched Tivax STB-T8 Digital to Analog TV Converter Box. The new Tivax STB-T8 Digital to Analog TV Converter Box is a NTIA certified and qualified product for government coupon program.

Measuring 1.8 x 8.7 x 6.3-inches in dimensions, Tivax STB-T8 Digital to Analog TV Converter Box weighs just 1 pound. It is capable of supporting both 4 x 3 and 16 x 9 TV aspect ratios. Apart from this is also capable of supporting Dolby Digital.

The new Tivax STB-T8 Digital to Analog TV Converter Box comes with Antenna/ RF Coaxial and Smart Antenna Interface along with Composite Video and Antenna/ RF Output. It works efficiently with a remote control and two AAA batteries. You can grab Tivax STB-T8 Digital to Analog TV Converter Box in just $49.99 at Amazon.com.

Digital Media Player

This digital media player from Digital Concepts allows for convenient playback of video, pictures and music on a HDTV from almost any source of media such as iPods, cameras, memory cards and external hard drives. You simply connect the device’s AV cable into your HDTV to display images at 720p resolution.

The media player recognizes GIF, BMP and JPG, images which can be seen as a slideshow or individually. The media player has a USB 2.0 port and the ability to read MS, CF, MMC, SD, MS, CD and XD memory cards. On-screen controls are accessed via included remote or push buttons.  It also includes component video, USB and RCA A/V cables. Plugs into AC and the remote uses CR2025 battery. Retails $130

The U.S. has been waiting for this move for a while now. Analog TV signals will be shut down in favor DTV. There’s a date for that, February 17, 2009 which was set a few years ago by the government. Shouldn’t that decision be respected?

It looks like the DTV switchover might be pushed back to June 12. And it’s the digital coupon’s fault in case you were wondering. Funds for those $40 coupons you needed ran out a few weeks ago but there are still users applying for them. About 2.1 million of them. That’s what happens if you fail to act on time like so many consumers have. If you know DTV is coming, why not get ready for it?

Will Congress push back the date to June? Instead of working on more important business the government is thinking about all those people that won’t be able to watch TV for a while. But hey, even the Romans were doing their best to offer as many Colosseum shows to the people. That way some of those other important matters of state can pass on unobserved by the public. And all the public needs is DTV, a remote in their hand and a Plasma TV on their wall.