Nosing in to Avermedia TVs

AVERMEDIA HAD TWO toys I found interesting at Computex, a TV and a SDIO card that turns your PDA into a TV. Neither was earth-shattering, but both fill a solid niche, and are worth a look.

The AverTV Porta3 is what the MS Origami boxes should be, thin, light and functional.

One thing this is not is a PC, it is strictly a video display. It takes almost all types of analogue and digital TV, and has video in. The screen is 7 inches, and doesn't look all that bad in real life. A solid idea that looks to be well executed.

To continue the MS cheap shot and TV theme, is a SDIO DBV-H card. This makes your Wince PDA useful again as a TV. There isn't really much to it, it's simply small and puts TV on a PDA. If you have a long commute on public transport, you can catch all the scintillating morning TV you had been missing up to that point. Yay, progress! µ