KWORLD TVBox 1440 in Uruguay  One of the challenges of moving into an unfurnished apartment was making it comfortable to live in without breaking the bank.Since consumer electronics tends to be a bit expensive here. 20" LCD TV starts at about US$550. I had the brilliant idea of using one of my nice LCD computer monitors for a TV. I never have much luck wiht TV Capture Cards... the software is always funky and the image sometimes of dubious quality, or the picture lags a few seconds behind the audio.. plus your computer always has to be turned on. I found plenty of options for TV to Monitor converts on the web and ebay. They almost all indicated they were for the NTSC TV system and Uruguay uses PAL-M. I emailed one manufacturer and they said their system worked with PAL-M. A seller on ebay insisted it was only NTSC. I didn't want to risk buying something that didn't work. That manufacturer wouldn't tell me if they had any distributors in Uruguay, even though they had very quickly answered my question about NTSC/PAL. Looking around computer stores in Uruguay I didn't see any such boxes, just loads of TV Capture cards. I asked at TFK (Guayaqui 3382, ph: 708-4765) and they said it was definiately available and probably under US$100. They would look into it and call me back. After not having gotten a call back I stopped in again and was told not possible for a "TV Box" and have me the price for some memory I wanted. After checking memory prices I went back to TFK to tell them I wanted the memory and they said they though they could get the TV Box and would call me. I didn't hear anything for a couple days and stopped by again. They said yes they can get the TV Box and it would be US$120. I said if it would be less than a week I wanted it. They called back in an hour and said they HAD IT and I could pick it up. Turns out to be the Kworld TV Box 1440 (which all the ebay listings, kworlds website, the box, and the onscreen menu all say is NTSC -- yet it works perfectly with the PAL-M system). It works greats. A cable is included so you don't have to mess with cables to change between your computer and the TV. I have it hooked up to a RCA Home Theater System so the sound is superb (though it seems to have a built in speaker). The "buy it now" prices on ebay range from $58.95 to $80, so the $120 wasn't a bad price taking into account shipping and import taxes (which would have been 60%). I was happy TFK really dug into finding the item for me. | 
