If you don’t love TiVo PVRs, then you’ve never used one. But, if you live in the UK, you’ve a pretty good excuse — although TiVo launched in Blighty a while ago, it sank without a trace for reasons we’ve explained before. The good news is that Virgin is bringing it back to the UK …

We’ve got a lot of time for Sky Player. Many hours, in fact. Not only does it make your Sky package available to you over the Internet, it’s also integrated into both Windows Media Center and the Xbox 360 dashboard. Until now, live channels have been rather limited, but yesterday Sky launched Sky One as a streaming TV service, and …

When Sony announced its first commercially available OLED TV, the 11-inch Bravia XEL-1, in 2007, our AV juices positively overflowed. It took another two years for the XEL-1 to show up in the UK though, and, when it did, it was twice the price of its US equivalent, costing a whopping £3,500. Exact sales figures for the set are unknown, but it’s …

If mobile phones aren’t your bag, Panasonic wants to lighten the burden of this year’s Mobile World Congress with some AV news. First to reach us was word of its new 3D Blu-ray player, an ideal match for the company’s new 3D plasma TVs, and with some exciting new features and an interesting technological solution to pumping 3D over HDMI. …

Projectors aren’t for everyone: they take a certain size room and very specific lighting conditions to really work properly. The gigantic HD image is worth the effort though, and for far less money than an equivalent-sized TV. The BenQ W600 costs around £500 if you shop around, and will throw an image of up to 300 inches, in theory. Gamers …

Humax has had a pretty good year, growing 70 per cent and now commanding 40 per cent of the Freeview recorder market. It’s also been the leader in freesat PVRs, one of only a handful of companies to offer HD recorders for the satellite service. Now it’s time for the company to dominate the recently announced Freeview HD platform, and …

For better or worse, Blu-ray is the only show in town. For HD — and at some point, 3D — there’s no other home entertainment format that comes close to competing with it. But cost is still standing in the way of widespread appeal, and with players coming in at £200 or more, it’s not hard to see why. The …

The new Philips 40PFL9704 is a new LED-illuminated LCD TV with all the features you’d expect from a high-end TV. It’s also a pretty funky-looking thing, and from the minute we yanked it out of the box, we were impressed. The LED backlight is the more capable, but more expensive, locally dimmable system, which makes this TV a promising choice …

If this Crave story is a little shorter than normal, that’s because we’ve got 18 episodes of The IT Crowd to watch, and then The Inbetweeners, Drop the Dead Donkey and The League of Gentlemen to keep us busy for the rest of the week. Yup, we’ve got access to new online streaming TV service SeeSaw, which has hundreds of …

The abiding impression of the Palm Pre seems to be, “Nice phone, shame about the app store.” At a little over 1,000 apps, the Pre app catalogue is a disappointment. Happily, the vibrant community over at pre|central.net has built up a catalogue of its own apps. Some of them will eventually be approved for the official store, while others are …