The Toshiba HD-EP35 is an anomaly: it’s a high-end HD DVD player, but it doesn’t actually replace the old top-of the-range Toshiba machine, the HD-XE1. Instead, it sits between the XE1 and the EP30, with some features of both. Toshiba’s HD DVD player line-up can be confusing, so to clear the situation up, here’s a …

It would be easy for us to lapse into stereotypical Australian jokes about BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4’s on-demand video service, which is code-named Kanagroo. So we will. Strewth Skippy, they’ve only gone and created a joint video on-demand service so Bruces and Sheilas can watch their favourite shows from the past and present online. Bonza! Antipodean colloquial hilarity …

Christmas — or Xmas as it’s now known, on account of Jesus being largely forgotten in the rush to sell tat — is coming and that means coloured TVs and other electrical goods. We saw the Sony Bravia KDL-20S3070U coming from a mile away, and we don’t just mean because it’s brightly coloured — each year parents seem to give …

Because Crave leads such an active social life (read: we can’t stop playing World of Warcraft), we’re very rarely around to watch TV. This means Freeview hard-drive recorders are absolutely invaluable. One of our faves was the excellent Panasonic DMR-EX75, so we’re overjoyed to see an upgrade: the EX77, which allows digital recording to either DVD or its built-in 160GB …

One scary night in the dead of winter, our hero, let’s call him Nate, is settling down for an evening of entertainment with the latest movie in his favourite book-to-movie franchise, Harry Potter. But he’s afraid, he doesn’t want to watch a movie as scary as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix alone. He needs a friend, but …

No one could argue that when it comes to decoding surround sound Denon has an excellent track record. Its AV receivers are built like battleships and sound amazing. The latest effort from the company, the AVR-3808, includes support for every format known to man and every input ever invented. The 3808 supports up to 7.1 channels, but you’d need a …

We’ve long been keen to see some high-definition material on Freeview, but we understand the issues surrounding available bandwidth — although we’re a little upset that our constant calls for shopping channels to be removed are being ignored. But it now appears that under new proposals announced today, Ofcom wants to do some spectrum jiggling to get HD on Freeview …

When the Toshiba HD-EP30 HD DVD player landed on our doormat yesterday, we were keen to put it next to our long-term loan sample HD-E1 and see how the two players differ. This is especially important because if you’re an American (the EP30 is called the A30 in the US and the E1 is known as the A2), or you …

After years of the chunky monkey CRT dominating the living room, LCD and plasma screens have enormously reduced the space needed to house a TV. There’s still an unsightly thick plastic frame round most screens, though — because big frames increase the structural strength of the TV. But now Toshiba has overcome this engineering challenge with the X Series Picture …

So you’ve got all that wonderful home cinema gear installed in your house, everything is looking rosy, but then you make a horrifying discovery. You installed the screen too far away from the HD DVD player and moving it would mess up your whole setup. Enter the HXC5, a box that can send HDMI-compliant video over Cat 5 cable. Crave …