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When your iphone screen is just not large enough; external viewers with digital TV support

I was going to write a review on Chinon's TV Ipod docking station, with digital TV capabilities, but another writer beat me to it.  (life as a blogger :)  http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/5/iphoneipod-dock-includes-tv . But as I was testing it, I was also looking another product that also does digital TV and also displays images from your computer on the screen. One of the things I thought the Chinon would do is give me a photo slide show of my images.  Nope.  But it does play video which is the whole point.  But the screen is kinda small.  (it IS portable though, so fair enough)  Still, it got me thinking, how can I get my iphone slide show to play on a nice screen?  Well, enter KWorld's TVBox. Its Pretty nice.  I could not get it to work the first time because of a monitor fail, but I connected to another one and boom, working out of the box... well mostly out of the box.  Although the reception was better then the Chinon, it was still hit and miss. I then connected a proper antenna and then we were rock'in.  The win here is you can take full advantage of your widescreen, high-definition monitor, yea I know you have one. It looks REALLY nice. Now add the fact this comes with a remote.  Win.  So, use your second monitor at work (and yes I know you have that too) and you can play your slide show through the TVBox.  Sweet.  Now, as far as working as a digital TV Tuner, its good for the price. <$100 if you look hard enough. I had some issues with the remote (really confusing) and did not get the QAM working (of which I blame myself because I did this quickly) but in general, it did all that was promised.

So between the Chinon ipod docking station, and the KWorld TVBox, you are pretty well set. :)

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I received my Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in Architecture. My focus was on Collaboration in Virtual Environments delving into methods that facilitate designers and engineers to improve communication.
I have an interest in and have worked on rich media web based applications (RIA) since 1995. The last six years has been based in the startup world with less a focus on code and more on strategic direction, company structure and management.

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Hi, Christopher. No problem

Hi, Christopher. No problem blogging about something a second time. If it's a great product, it's good to have it keep coming up before our readers.

Jim