As much as we’d hoped high-end AV companies such as Denon and Arcam would choose to support both HD DVD and Blu-ray, it doesn’t seem to have panned out like that. Instead Denon seems to have plumped for Blu-ray only, with two models recently announced in the US, the DVD-3800BD and DVD-2500BT. The DVD-3800BD boasts …

Big news for UK high-definition fans — some content is actually available. Tonight, Top Gear: Polar Special starts at 8pm on BBC HD followed by the first two episodes of smash-hit US superhero drama Heroes. For those of you who didn’t decide to watch Heroes in 4:3 with Sci-Fi channel logos on-screen all the time, you’ll get to see a …

I’ve heard a lot about Dolby TrueHD recently. What is it, and is it worth a costly upgrade to my AV system to get the best out of it? Steve Since people started watching movies at home, there has been a drive to improve the sound quality. In a cinema, the sound comes from all around the room and produces …

Surround sound is awesome. It makes watching movies a truly exciting experience and teleports gaming into a whole new world. Crave recently had a pop at the new Colin McRae rally game, DiRT, and were blown away by the amazing surround effects, so we are especially excited to hear about these new TX-SR series AV receivers from Onkyo. The new …

We recently looked at a BBC R&D white paper about using MIMO to transmit high-definition TV using the space left over from the analogue switch-off. As a result, we were invited to go along to Kingswood Warren, the home of BBC R&D, to see a demonstration of the system. Kingswood is home to BBC research into technologies that will eventually …

HD DVD is undoubtedly suffering from a lack of support, both from movie studios and hardware manufacturers not called Toshiba. Tosh is totally committed to its format, however, and intends to release two interesting and important updates in the coming months to keep its players on top of their game. The first of these firmware upgrades, available now, adds Web …

American mega-network NBC, part of the Universal group, is claiming that piracy is damaging the corn industry. Rick Cotton, general counsel for NBC/Universal, believes that more people watching pirated movies means less popcorn is sold at cinemas. Therefore, piracy is hurting innocent farmers. No, really, someone from NBC actually said that, and from what I can tell kept a straight …

The Humax 9200T is nothing new — we first reviewed it in November 2005 and generally liked it. So why bring it up again now? Well, Humax has discontinued the old model and replaced it with two new ones with a Freeview Playback sticker on the front. To celebrate this sticker — and the spec standard it represents — the …

You remember Napster, right? Not the legal one, the one that went before it, the one that meant universities across the world had to get bigger Internet pipes just to cope. Napster started the revolution of digital music and introduced the world to a new idea: getting media over the Internet. Now Napster has gone legit, but we probably wouldn’t …

It’s not often we get to make up a word, but our friends over at CNET.com have introduced the term ‘colour-changey‘, so we feel it’s fair we can add our own word to the vernacular. If you use ‘swivellyness’ often enough, dear readers, this time next year it will make it into the Oxford English Dictionary. Hey, it worked for …