I’ve noticed that the picture on my new LCD TV looked significantly better in the shop than it does now I’ve brought it home. Is it broken or have I bought a dud? Duncan First off, the good news is no, your TV isn’t broken, and the chances are you haven’t bought a rubbish model. …

The Linksys KiSS 1600 is described as a wireless high-definition media player. Which reminds us very much of another product we’ve heard about called Apple TV. Amusingly, KiSS is owned by Cisco Systems, who you might remember had a scuffle recently with Apple about the name of a phone… The KiSS 1600 aims to be an all-in-one media solution. It …

It’s not often we see significant advances in the high-definition disc format war, but yesterday — in a move that had us re-reading the press release with our mouths wide open — Paramount announced that it would shift from supporting both formats, to exclusively releasing movies on HD DVD. The announcement also includes Dreamworks Animation, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies, …

The Samsung DVD-HD870 is designed to do one thing — breathe new life into your DVD collection and make your standard-definition discs look like high-definition ones, using upscaling. Upscaling offers wildly varying results — no DVD player can create information that isn’t on the disc — but when a DVD is properly produced, using a decent bit rate, there’s enough …

Toshiba’s HD DVD division is like the kid who doesn’t have anyone to play with — overweight, lazy and beginning to develop an odd smell. Until now, that is — there hasn’t been much competition in the HD DVD market, but that’s about to change with a new player from Onkyo, the DV-HD805. But unlike the aforementioned loser, Toshiba has …

The key difference between HD DVD and Blu-ray is the type of physical media they use — for everything else, these formats are essentially the same. They mostly use the same video codec, the same audio codec and, on the whole, the interactivity is comparable, they’re just run by different software — Java on Blu-ray and Windows CE on HD …

It’s not often we get so excited about a DVD player these days that we jump up and down when it arrives in the office. That wasn’t always the case though — we remember when DVD was the most amazing thing we’d ever seen, and KiSS is keen to evoke such emotions in us once again with its funky new …

If the movie V for Vendetta is to be believed, in the future we’ll all be using Dell computers and watching totalitarian government propaganda on our JVC televisions. While you could rise up against the oppressive future, we don’t think ditching JVC TVs is the way to do it, especially when they’re as good value for money as the LT-42DA8BJ. …

If you don’t care that the new Premier League season starts on Saturday, there probably isn’t a great deal we can say to change your mind. So let’s accept the fact that you enjoy watching 22 men running around after a truncated icosahedron and concentrate on what you watch it on. It’s no secret that sport looks better on the …

I’m a bit confused by the difference between the Sony Bravia KDL-40W2000 and the KDL-40X2000. There seems to be a marked price difference. Can you tell me what the additional features of the 40X2000 are please? Ed Getting to grips with the model numbers of Sony TVs and what they mean is only slightly easier than understanding the basics of …