Sky has treated Crave like a seal at a zoo, throwing us very occasional fishy morsels of information on its upcoming HD service to keep us clapping our flippers like demented idiots. But the Internet abhors a vacuum, so rumours circulating about Sky’s biggest project since its launch in 1989 mean that there was little surprise when …

It must be hard being a projector these days. Like vinyl being faced with the onslaught of CD, projectors just aren’t as sexy as a new flat-screen TV. Samsung is still making token gestures to the home-cinema fraternity, and this SP-H710 is the only home projector that the company currently makes. Still, the £2,500 DLP projector looks good on paper, …

Liteon may have started out as a cheap alternative to the super-expensive DVD recorders of yesteryear, but the LVW-5055 sees the company making a strong statement of intent on performance. This is a genuinely first-class recorder that panders to the demands of the serious AV fanatic, and the sheer amount of features the company has packed in should make some of …

Most people’s home cinema consists of a DVD player and, if you’re lucky, a shiny new flat-screen TV. For others, home cinema is a hobby that knows no limits, and once you start getting into projectors and AV amps you’ll soon find yourself with a beard, talking to your slightly overweight friends about the need for dielectric insulated video cables. …

Even as recently as Christmas, we seemed to spend most of our time bemoaning the release of expensive LCD TVs that lacked HD compatibility and Freeview tuners. Now though, every TV that arrives at our door not only wears the ‘HD Ready’ badge proudly on its sleeve, but almost always features a digital tuner (some even have two tuners and …

While the industry giants have only just got around to putting a Freeview tuner in their flat-screen TVs, the ever-nimble giant killer Humax has thrown dual digital tuners and a hard drive into its latest TV. The LGB-32TPVR can record one digital TV channel to its 40GB hard drive while you watch another. It’s also fully HD Ready with a …

Toshiba’s 32WLT58 is the new 32-inch LCD TV from the Japanese giant — an upgrade of the 32WL56. It packs an integrated digital tuner, two HDMI inputs and Active Vision picture processing, all wrapped up in a slinky new shell. The picture quality from this flagship display is excellent, with the HD Ready 1,366×768-pixel panel combining an 800:1 contrast ratio and …

Despite its vocal support for plasma technology, Panasonic is covering its bet in the flat-screen market with the launch of the LXD60 LCD range. It’s set to release 26-inch and 32-inch LCD screens this month, with a 23-inch model to follow in May. The LXD60 range is fully HD Ready, with integrated digital tuners and dual HDMI inputs. Pretty impressive stuff, and the dual-HDMI …

Panasonic’s Viera range of plasmas is getting an updgrade for 2006, with the PV500 range morphing into the PX600 range. While the company is still making LCD TVs, it firmly believes that plasma is the way forward at screen sizes of 37 inches and above. The new range will arrive in May with 37, 42 and 50-inch sizes all badged as HD Ready and …

If you’re the sort of person that buys furniture at Heals and clothes from Dolce & Gabbana, then this new Viera television will fit right in to your highly coiffeured lifestyle. It’s not cheap at around £2,700, but this 37-inch TV looks gorgeously modern sitting on its silver stand. Plasma may be slightly out of fashion next to the sharper …