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A gadget we found while scouring an IT Mall in Singapore. Among the few things this blackbox can do:

We can now record Astro programs automatically — yes, it enables scheduled recording. You do not need to buy the costly Astro MAX (RM 900++ if you already have astro. Or new subscribers will have to part with their RM1k ++).
This gadget claims that we can watch two program at the same time!! Well, they mean – I can watch Liverpool playing on ESPN and record Everton on AstroSports, at the same time (but why would I want to record Everton’s games? Huhuhu!). We havent tried this — even though we are sure that what’s needed is to plug in a SATA HDD and record .. [not sure if this has a built-in tuner to enable watching one channel while recording another --- maybe not ?].

Of course, if a bathroom break is needed; we can pause a live show, and rewind to watch late. Cool eh.. Recording hrs? .. that would probably be about 1200 hours (yes, 50 days!) on a 1TB HDD. Otherwise, we can just record a short clip directly to a USB stick and take it anywhere.
This is the even cooler part — since we already have a wireless home network, by simply inserting the USB Wireless dongle, scan for our ssid and WPA password — in short time, we are alreay able to browse our laptops & deskptop! We actually can watch movies or photos (bmp & jpeg) stored in the desktop/laptops, on our TV now… this is quite similar to xbox360 setup (eventhough xbox requires a software to be installed in the computer i.e. we are still using TVersity).

This gadget does not do internet browsing (yet), but it streams internet radion stations! Hahaha.. some Romanian radio stations were really relaxing to the ears. And we can record it!