I love to watch my videos on my notebook because I simply lazy to connect the notebook to the TV set. Another reason is because I love to watch it everywhere, including on my bed. But watching on the notebook screen is not as satisfying as watching on wide screen TV. The clarity is also another factor that gives user an ultimate watching experience on TV screen.

The Aston Media Gear AP-360T could be the solution for people like me. This media player allows users to enjoy their videos without having to get the notebook to the living room and hook it up to the TV set.

You just need to plug your external hard drive to the device  and hook it up to the TV and you’re set to go. It allows you to watch videos in variety of formats including XVID, divX, MPEG 1/2/4 and WMV. Besides, it allows photo format such as JPEG and flash video (FLV) to be displayed on the TV screen.

This media player also allows to record live TV programmes to be enjoyed later. But to enjoy this feature, you need to install a 3.5-inch hard drive inside the gadget and hook it up to your satellite decoder. However, installing the hard drive needs minimal skills, even newbie can do it.

The user interface is quite user friendly as it is so easy to navigate with the supplied remote control. This device comes with most of the ports and connectors that are usually found in DVD/Blue-Ray player such as composite, coaxial, HDMI and RCA connectors – making it easy to connect to TV set or other satellite/cable set-top box.

And if you’re an advanced users, you can transform this gadget to be able to stream video and audio files directly from your computer or Network Attached Storage (NAS) via the network. The optional WiFi dongle is sold separately.