The supplied breakout box looks great. It's compact and stylish (finished in silver and black gunmetal), with a silver stand, and has plenty of inputs and outputs. As well as the expected composite and S-video connections, it offers component video in/out. Analogue audio input is stereo, via two RCA phonos, and five audio output (phonos, again) are provided for surround-sound monitoring.

There are in/out sockets for optical audio, along with a single six-pin FireWire port and a headphone socket. What could be said to be missing is balanced audio support but we wouldn’t feel hard done-by given the price of the package. We connected the box to a USB 2.0 port on our test PC – that’s the only link required – and found that it installed easily along with the Liquid Edition 6 software.