who can interact with the TV, even in real time.. We live in a big, wide, wonderful digital world. So how come so many people still record their favorite TV shows onto big, wide and not so wonderful analog VHS cassette tapes? Until recently, in-home digital...

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video recorder. For instance, a Sony DCR-TRV22 can record a film from a computer (DV input), VCR or Hi8 camcorder (analog inputs). This is obviously very useful if you want to retrieve your shots on film or digitize an old VHS cassette on MiniDV. The Hitachi...

been preferable but that may be asking too much. Watching a DivX on a TV through the AV 400 produces really good quality, better than you would get from any VHS cassette. Pocket VCR Video recording is even more impressive. It can be done through a Cinch or...

raw material, which can be captured if it's still on the DV tape. In this case, you need to use the IEEE1349b/FireWire port on the RT2500 card. If you own an analog camera or are using a VHS cassette, the signal will be routed to a breakout box (see the hardware...

view still pictures and listen to music stored on various hard drives around your LAN. The attractively styled dark grey and silver package is about the size of a VHS cassette (remember them?) plastic storage box, and sports the Cisco logo on its front panel...

was worth the wait, but you'll need to read our review to see if we agree.. The 5450 comes in a plastic charcoal gray enclosure about the size of a VHS cassette. The PWR, Tx / Rx, and Warn indicators on the slightly sloped front of the box are viewable in...

and Ad Hoc modes. The 2870W comes in a plastic SMC-grey enclosure with a footprint slightly smaller than a VHS cassette, sloped front and sides, and mounting screw slots on its bottom. The PWR, wireless Tx / Rx, and Ethernet Link / Act indicators are on the...

clothed in Goth black instead of the two-tone grey used by their other consumer products. It's surprisingly light and slightly longer, wider and taller than a VHS cassette. Although D-Link includes a stand so that you can stand it up on end, given its light...

rimmed by a band highly-polished clear plastic running across the front and sides. Because of its unusual internal antenna configuration (more below) the footprint is larger than the VHS cassette size of NETGEAR's other consumer routers. The 824 takes up about...