All right, now that I have your attention, let me fill you in on a little lesson I learned at the Sexpo Health, Sexuality and Lifestyle Exhibition last weekend. Get your mind out of the gutter — this is a family friendly Web site. And no, I did not go to Sexpo with a shopping …

Manufacturers wanting to make it in the home technology world had better hire a fashion guru to mix it with their engineers, because on the domestic front, looks count. It used to be that buying a TV was not a particularly big decision.  You figured out the biggest size you could get for the money you wanted to spend, and …

Want to go with 5.1 speakers for the full surround sound home theatre experience, but can’t bear the thought of all that speaker wire snaking around your lounge? The good newsYou’ll never get rid of speaker wire completely, but we’ve rounded up a few home cinema systems that at least eliminate the biggest headache – connecting the long run to …

Having some friends over to watch the game and wish you had a new big screen to view it on? Perhaps you just need to think bigger … say consider hosting the next FIFA World Cup. As part of its extensive sponsorship, Philips is supplying more than 10,000 flat panel TVs along with DVD players and audio equipment to the …

If you have a serious TV addition and need to record everything that’s broadcast, Hitachi’s got you in its sights with its Terabyte DVD recorder, a device with enough space to store up to 128 hours of high-definition digital broadcasting or up to 1700 hours of standard television. Don’t rush out in hopes of recording the entire FIFA World Cup …

Saved your pennies and all set to buy a big screen TV? Alas, the vision you see when you get to the store will more than likely burst your bubble. While out and about on the week-end I took the opportunity to cruise through a consumer electronics mega store that opened recently in my neighbourhood. The new shop was tastefully …

For a nation that generally gloats about being an early adopter of technology, Australian uptake of digital television has been decidedly underwhelming. Four and a half years after the introduction of the first digital broadcasts here in 2001, even the most optimistic estimates put the number of households that have switched to free-to-air digital TV at just over ten percent. …

Digital TV, digital home, digital lifestyle, digital convergence — what’s it all about Alfie? Well, that’s what CNET.com.au is all about — cutting through the hype and techno-jargon to bring you what you really need to know as we move further and further into the “digital age”. But first an explanation of the inside joke of this headline. As we’ve …

We’re seen a fair few quirky speaker designs in our day, but not since The Flintstones have we seen audio speakers made from stone. Bowers & Wilkins have come up with a design for their Signature Diamond speakers that encases the tweeter in a marble housing. The company says marble works because it’s stable, weighty and rigid. It supposedly provides …

Not that many iPods are actually white anymore, but that hasn’t stopped other vendors from continuing to mimic Apple’s ageing product design break-though. Grundig has launched two compact LCD TVs aimed at people who might want to branch out from standard black or silver options with a “designer white” colour scheme. The Grundig TVs also feature an integrated digital tuner …