Good news: your widescreen TV is obsolete. Sure, you may well have just spent a fortune on an exciting new flat panel, thinking everything would be cushy until the next big thing comes along, say, ultra-high-definition television. Crave is here to prove you wrong, as JVC has a prototype TV that will make your current …
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Sharp at CES: 14 new screens and a giant
At this year’s CES, Sharp unveiled 14 new screens, plus another one that’s too big and expensive for anyone to buy. At the top end, the company announced the 65-inch LC-65D93U (pictured). It’s set to retail for around $11,000, which sounds expensive but converted to sterling is a paltry £5,600. Not too bad, then, if you’ve got both a burning desire …
Read More »Crave Talk: When will the HD DVD vs Blu
I have no doubt that by this time next year the skirmish between the two hi-def disc formats will be over. Who will win? I haven’t got a clue, to be honest, but what I can comment on is what I like and what I hate. I’ve seen slightly more of HD DVD than I have of Blu-ray. The Toshiba …
Read More »I want to download movies
There are times, when I’m sat at home bored of celebrities shouting at each other, or being told I am what I eat, that I really just want to watch a movie. The problem is, while my DVD collection contains some great stuff, I’ve seen it all. What I need is a way to grab movies off the Internet so …
Read More »A Freeview PVR, with added stuff…
Today I’ve got a Top Up TV Anytime box, built by Thomson, on my desk. I’m excited about this for one main reason: I own the Thomson DHD4000 and I think it’s a brilliant PVR. The DHD4000 only cost me £99 and it’s incredibly useful. The best thing about it is that it’s a twin-tuner PVR, because watching one channel …
Read More »HANNspree HANNSvibe.white.32: A ‘well rounded’ television
Let’s get this out of the way now: the name of this television is stupid. It’s a pain to write, a pain to read and a total pain to search for online. While we applaud all efforts to reduce the number of pointless model numbers in the world, we would prefer something a little easier to cope with. Once you’ve …
Read More »Panasonic at CES: What’s on the horizon for plasma?
Panasonic is promising a plasmatastic (Crave’s word, not Panasonic’s) year. The company continues its whole-hearted support of plasma televisions, claiming they offer the best picture quality of any flat panel. (Despite this, it continues to make smaller screens using LCD, because it’s much cheaper.) The most exciting announcement from Panasonic this year was that it’s working on bringing 1080p to …
Read More »HANNspree TV: The elephant that swallowed a 10
We do so love cracking open a new gadget, but we also love animals. So imagine our surprise and delight when the HANNspree HANNSZ.elephant arrived in the office. The HANNSZ.elephant is a 10-inch LCD TV which has an appealing, soft-toy elephant cover. HANNspree doesn’t just do elephants (or capslock) either: there’s a zebra, a giraffe and even a lion — …
Read More »CES 2007: Microsoft and the wrong trousers
The Gates soft-shoe shuffle at CES kicks off the gadget show each year with the same forlorn regularity as a Windows blue screen of death. It’s comforting to watch Bill climb up to the stage, but prepare yourselves, people: this can’t go on for ever. Gates began his remarks by saying that next year’s keynote may well be his last. …
Read More »Sony OLED TVs: The future’s bright, the future’s organic
Can you imagine a television that makes LCD and plasma sets look as fat and ugly as their CRT predecessors do now? Well, hopefully soon you won’t have to — Sony is demonstrating prototypes of new ‘OLED televisions’ at CES, which do just that. Crave is, of course, bitterly disappointed that we won’t be getting our hands on a fancy …
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