Ever since the mid-1990s, a variety of manufacturers have been attempting to find a reliable way to turn your PC into a television – without a huge amount of success.

Breakthrough display technology to showcase at CES.

Burn your favourite movies to disc

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

But Apple TV update still off the air.

VoIP, messaging, video and GPS coming to the console.

Capture live video from your camera

As the hype builds for a new-improved iPhone, analysts believe new device could boost mobile TV uptake.

Complete burning & media solution

Complete burning & media solution

Control your PC via macros and infrared

Dvico’s new range of TViX boxes will need all the help they can get if they’re going to take on the likes of Tivo and Foxtel in the PVR market. Fortunately these new media units can play DVD ISO images and VOB files without self-destructing.

Touch Diamond first to use Windows 6.1, and will feature 3D weather reports with raindrops and lightning onscreen. Oh, and a little feature called 3G.

New Digital Entertainer HD unlocks user generated video to couch potatoes.

Bring PC-based intelligence and automation to your home with this complete guide. It's cheap and easy to now have the 'Jetsons' house.

Leigh Dyer lets rip on digital TV, video conversion tools, aspect ratios and video formats.

Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.

In the mid-1990s a debate raged over whether we would eventually end up watching television on our computers, or whether television would take over from the PC. In 1995 a PC called the MyGeNie went on sale boasting that you could watch TV while you worked...