Shortly after we’ve unwrapped our Christmas presents, and hopefully before we’ve broken them, Crave will be heading off to Las Vegas for the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show, or CES to its many friends. It’s the world’s largest annual tradeshow for consumer technology, with over 2,500 exhibitors showing off their stuff in over 150,000 square …

My boyfriend is driving me insane with his constant nagging about researching TVs. He wants to purchase a new TV, he thinks LCD is more likely, but would buy plasma if that was the best for what he watches, and he wants a 40-inch screen. He wants the best television for watching sport, more precisely football! So you can’t blame …

I am currently looking to replace my old Toshiba 32-inch CRT TV. In my new house the screen is too small, as the viewing distance is somewhere around 5m. For such a viewing distance, is a) a 40-inch screen size okay and b) would 46 inches be too big, in your opinion? The three products I have in mind are …

I have £1,000 to spend on a new LCD TV but the choice is confusing. I have simple requirements: it has to be HD Ready, be 37-inches in screen size and have the highest resolution possible. I know a lot is down to personal choice, but I simply want a TV for everyday viewing — no games or PC connectivity …

Is there a big difference between 1080 and 768 resolutions for LCD TVs? I am trying to decide between two Sony TVs — the KDL-40X2000 and the KDL-40V2000. I was told that the key is to find out if the resolution is interlaced (i) or progressive scanning (p). I can’t see this on Sony’s Web site tech specs on either of …

Crave has just come back from IFA 2006, the Internationale Funkausstellung in Berlin, Germany. ‘Funkausstellung’ means ‘radio show’, but IFA has moved on since the first event in 1924, when 180,000 visitors examined the first valve radio receivers. Today IFA is a consumer electronics show covering six main areas: television and entertainment, personal computer and games, sound and car media, …

With the arrival of HDTV, Blu-ray, HD DVD, the XBox 360, the PS3 and so on, I am running out of connections at the back of my TV. What do you recommend — an HDMI or component switching box, or is there a better way to connect all these devices? Is there a particular product I should look out for (especially …

When we reviewed the Sony RDR-HX725 hard drive/DVD recorder earlier this month, we whinged about the absence of two key features. The RDR-HX725 didn’t have an integrated Freeview tuner or an HDMI output, which didn’t make us happy. We’re smiling now though — Sony has just announced the RDR-HXD860, which fixes both those problems. Like its predecessor, the RDR-HXD860 has a …

You wait 80 years for a device that’ll stream television from the living room to wherever you happen to be, and then two come along at once. Yesterday we were drooling over the chocolate-bar-shaped Sling Media Slingbox; today we’re ogling the paperback-book-sized Sony LocationFree base station (first encountered at CES). Both these products squirt television signals around your house, or …

We’ve all been there: stuck on the motorway, in the sweltering heat, hours later than you than you meant to be, sick as an overheated parrot because your favourite show is about to start. Meanwhile, your perfectly formed Sky+ box is sitting on its perfectly formed posterior, doing absolutely nothing because you forgot to program it. Sky+ Remote Record fluffs …