Panasonic is launching two new plasma TVs — and making an awful lot of fuss about a concept called the ‘digital hearth’. Apparently we’ve all got better things to do these days than stare wistfully into the fireplace as warming flames lick at wood you chopped and gathered with your own hands that very afternoon. …

If you’ve long wanted to get into home cinema but haven’t had the motivation, you might find the switch to high definition is a good time to get involved. At least, that’s what Panasonic is hoping with its SC-BT100, a Blu-ray home cinema system with 5.1 surround and a bunch of wonderful trimmings. We’ve always been a fan of simple …

Unless HD DVD manages to conjure up a biblical-scale miracle, we’re all going to be buying Blu-ray players from now on for our high-definition movie pleasure. Of course, with Blu-ray having a number of profile specifications it can be a confusing process choosing one. Luckily, the Panasonic DMP-BD30, which has been available for some time in the US, is coming …

As you may know, here at Crave we’re big fans of the off switch. But as we’ve previously noted, it’s an endangered species. Happily, Toshiba is keen to stop David Cameron from mounting a full-on campaign against LCD TVs by allowing its customers to turn them off properly. You probably know what modern TVs are like. You’re pretty lucky if …

Toshiba has announced some flashy new TVs, to further distract us from the ignominious defeat of HD DVD, with two new ranges available in the next few months. The CV and XV ranges replace last year’s C and X lines, and offer a flock of hot-diggedy improvements over the older models. The CV range, which is due in February, offers …

As a tech journalist, I meet a lot of other tech journalists and obviously we talk constantly about technology and the TV show Lost. As you might imagine, Toshiba and HD DVD have been the topic of many recent conversations. What I’ve been able to glean is this: most of us geeks would have been happy for HD DVD to …

By now, everyone understands that Apple TV is a disappointment. Not only is the original hardware not up to much, but the new firmware update is also delayed, and probably still won’t bring much of any real use to the UK. So we’re always keen to see what the competition is up to. In this case, the Archos TV+ is …

Psychic powers weren’t required to have seen this coming — although it was rather sooner than expected — but today Toshiba announced that it would no longer be supporting its own format, HD DVD. Blu-ray is officially triumphant and tech journalists worldwide now have one less thing to write about. Although the format war is over and we can all …

There’s got to be someone left with some VHS tapes. While most of the world has upgraded to DVD, there’s someone out there who is refusing to pay for another copy of Star Wars. If that’s you, then Panasonic has a product it thinks you might be interested in — if it can prise you away from your money. The …

At its 2008 product showcase in Valencia, Panasonic revealed that every year, literally some people manage to hurl their Wii controllers at their expensive flat panel TVs. Anyone who reads gadget sites will have read these tales of woe and possibly even seen the photos. The good news is that Panasonic has created a Wii-proof TV. Well, it’s Wii-proof as …