Name: Corega CG-1SGT
Category: 1-seg tuner
Price: JPY6930
Release date in Japan: Late April, 2008

Yokohama-based Corega hopes to have you watching more TV on your Windows Vista/XP PC with its low-cost CG-1SGT tuner. It's cheaper than the company's JPY11,025 CG-3SGTR, though lacks that model's digital radio.

Plug the tiny 14-gram One-seg tuner into a USB port, find your show, and watch on-screen or record to hard disk. Just like the big HDD recorders, you'll have EPG and iEPG program guides, news and weather data reception, fast-forward/reverse controls for recorded content, and "timeshift playback" to stop and later restart currently-playing broadcasts.

If the dongle's small antenna isn't pulling in the show, position the included 45-cm long tethered antenna elsewhere in the room for better reception. It's all powered by the USB port, so take your TV-watching habits wherever you and your laptop go.

More info: http://corega.jp/prod/1sgt/ (Japanese)