HEXUS.net is taking a look at a trio of multimedia products from Gainward: a TV Tuner, USB sound device and some headphones, all falling under Gainward's "Hollywood@Home" umbrella.

I've looked at one of their Hollywood@Home components before, their Hollywood@Home 7.1 not doing too badly and in hindsight it probably deserves a slightly higher score, recent drivers enabling excellent stereo output for music using the high quality Wolfson DAC. Gainward aren't all about the graphics and they do have other tricks up their sleeves.

So it's with an open mind that I agreed to look at a triplet of their latest Hollywood@Home editions. A USB TV tuner, USB soundcard and a set of surround sound headphones, they seem to have applied the same high-value, low-cost mantra that Gainward used to create the original soundcard product.

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