This is what CES is all about. Forget your fancy big TVs, your Lamborghini laptops and the Bill Gates keynote. No, if everyone was truly honest with themselves, the product we’d all like to take home is this. It’s a home cinema system in a box that just so happens to look like everyone’s favourite …

It’s all about women, or at least that’s what Philips tells us. The new head of the cloggy company has just finished telling the press how it’s preparing to unleash a raft of products aimed at nabbing the female dollar. The push is being led by the products in the Design Collection, which feature ‘holistic and iconic designs’, apparently. The …

“Contrast ratio is officially irrelevant.” That was the claim today from Pioneer, which unveiled two new concept TVs that have the potential to re-write the rules on flat panel displays. The first, codenamed ‘Extreme contrast model’ produces blacks that are actually black, rather than the slight grey seen on all flat-panel televisions today, with such a high contrast ratio “it …

If you splurged out on a smashing great big TV set before Christmas, only to fall into a deep, turkey- fuelled sleep in front of it, you’ll be kicking yourself. Now it’s the day after Boxing Day and prices are dropping faster than the nation’s eyelids during the Queen’s speech — here are five great deals on high-definition TVs. 1. …

Crave hopes you haven’t just rushed out and bought Toshiba’s top-end HD DVD player — there’s a new one that’s basically the same, but cheaper. The HD-EP10, unveiled at CeBIT, has a similar look to its bigger brother but is made of standard DVD player plastic rather than the HD-XE1’s bullet-proof, shiny metal. Crucially, it can output video at 1080p for …

Sony’s first projector to sport the high-end Bravia TV brand is a marvel. Normally you need a very dark room to get a decent picture from a projector, but, providing you buy the screen Sony is selling to accompany its new AW-series, you can watch a movie with the lights on. It really works — Crave was treated to a …

I’ve got my all-time favourite film, Lawrence of Arabia, waiting for me in glorious high definition this weekend, thanks to the techie bods at Sky. When Sky isn’t being taken to the high court for daring to pull Lost from Virgin Media’s cable channels, it’s been busy adding new functions to its HD service. Called Sky Anytime, it’s a way …

Crave has just spent a rather pleasant couple of days playing with the very best products Sony is planning on releasing in the next few months. As you can see from the picture, it took place in the idyllic Brit-fest location of Rhodes, with hundreds of attendees from all over the world. Click through our photos for the highlights of …

If the thought of wires snaking around your room has put you off buying a set of surround-sound speakers, Sony has the answer. We’ve just been treated to a demo of the Bravia Theatre RHT-G800, a TV stand with built-in speakers that create the illusion of surround sound. There are seven speakers inside the stand — three at the front, …

Virgin Media users may be browned off with Murdoch now that Sky channels have vanished from their line-up, but I couldn’t be happier. As a Sky HD user, I’m over the moon that Sky has finally launched the killer app I’ve been waiting for since I played with my first Tivo — online remote record. It gives you the ability …