If there’s one thing Crave hates, it’s commuting. We drag our tired, ageing carcasses out of bed at silly o’clock in the morning, haul it to the train station where a recorded announcement apologises for the late running of this service, caused by the wrong kind of pepper on the driver’s boiled egg. Then it’s …

I’m in the process of buying my first LCD TV. I have a Media Center PC, which I use a lot for PC games. What’s the best set to buy for under £1,000? Terry Simpson This is a tricky problem, Terry. There’s no guarantee that a PC will work properly with a particular TV because there are so many different …

What’s under your television? We’ll wager that you could list a whole bunch of stuff — perhaps a Freeview PVR, DVD player, games console and some dust. Isn’t it about time we started to reduce the number of boxes heating up the environment with their evil, polluting ways? Humax has a helpful suggestion: pop a Freeview PVR into the same …

Last week, amid a blaze of publicity, NTL and Telewest vanished from broadcasting and were replaced by a new business, Virgin Media. The whole enchilada has now got a much slicker package, graced by seductive advertising featuring Uma Thurman, as well as the marketing savvy of a bearded billionaire you may have heard of. Virgin is positioning itself right in …

The first thing you’ll say when you see the LG 47LB2RF is “cripes, that’s a bit Darth Vader”. The reason you’ll say this is because it’s finished in exactly the same glossy black finish as Luke’s dad was, post volcano incident. Which is nice, because it’s a cool colour. And when your friends come over to see your new TV …

For those who don’t know, the Solo range is an all-in-one affair. The original Arcam Solo was a CD player, FM and digital radio, amplifier and multi-room control system. The Solo Movie 5.1 is the next step, and adds playback of a multitude of video and audio formats, including DVD audio, SACD, DVD video, DivX, MPEG-4, OGG, WMA and MP3. …

Are you addicted to Coke? 1,667 cans isn’t that many. It’s just two cans a day, for two years. Or, if you prefer, one a day for four years. Which means that if you gave up drinking Coke, after four years you could afford the Acer AT4220. Alternatively, you could give up smoking instead. After just 200 days of not smoking 20 …

It’s sleek, it’s black with a hint of silver, it has a 26-inch screen and it’s HD Ready. Say hello to the Regza 26WLT66. Or ‘Walt’ for short. That’s right, we’ve given this television a nickname, because we’re sick of unwieldy model numbers. Walt is pretty cool if you’re in the market for a smaller-screen LCD for the bedroom or …

We love massive TVs — who doesn’t? — but we hate lifting the suckers. Sadly, the only way to play with the best and biggest screens is to get them into our fifth-floor office. So when we had a call explaining that the Panasonic 50PX600B was here, a silence descended across the office. Eventually volunteers were dragged back from sudden …

Greek TV is weird. First of all, they show about a million adverts per break, including one that appeared to be an instructional film on how to carry two cups of espresso on a huge tray. After five hours, when the adverts had finished, a live game show came on. I know it was live, because in the bottom right-hand …