Having won the format war over a year ago, Blu-ray appears to be going from strength to strength, and now it’s only gone and got itself an official chart. The league table appears at blurayrevolution.co.uk, a cross-industry site promoting the format to viewers here in Blighty. The hit pa-ray-de, compiled by the Official Chart Company, …

Sharp has obviously decided that new tellies aren’t the order of the (Valentine’s) day when a new lick of paint will do. So, with the greeting-card industry’s favourite 24 hours looming, the Sharp Aquos LC-19D1E high-definition television is getting a new red edition. Going red is a good thing. LG may have annoyed the heck out of us when it …

We saw a handful of exciting new concepts today in the ‘future room’ at the annual JVC gadget get-together in Prague. We know it’s the future because there’s 3D TVs sitting in the corner. We’re a sucker for a super-slim television, and JVC’s super-thin LCD technology impressed us with its svelte profile: it’s just 7mm thick — that’s about a …

So Disney is releasing the old classics on Blu-ray. Hurray! Now it’s time to watch such timeless children’s films as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and The Lion King in peerlessly detailed high definition. A new generation can be enchanted by these wonderful tales… Not in my house they won’t. My future kids can ride the Catbus, and enjoy such gems as …

Crave never passes up the opportunity to shape young minds (ahem), so we were excited to get involved with Panasonic’s competition to find the next generation of creative talent. Along with Young Creatives Network, Panasonic challenged students to create a film, storyboard or print ad for the new Viera PZ81 high-definition television. The competition is a fully 2.0 affair: Crave …

Home-cinema projectors: we all want one, but they’re a bit scary — especially if like us you feel that nailing expensive electronics to the ceiling is probably best left to people with certificates in nailing things to ceilings. Fortunately, Epson has unveiled a range of six new shiny-lighty-movie-boxes designed to take projectors into the living room of families, batchelors and …

One trailer that’s never failed to draw a crowd round here lately has been the Iron Man preview. We saw the movie at the weekend, and weren’t disappointed. The problem with comic-book heroes is that the more powerful they are, the more powerful their opponents must be to generate any sense of threat and dramatic tension. Thus, when Spider-Man gets …

JVC has previewed its product line-up for the coming year, and top of the list is a selection of LCD TVs that are — you guessed it — very thin. The top-end V series measure just 39mm at the narrowest point, and 74mm at the widest. The 42DV9 and 46DV9 won’t be around until later this year, but when they …

So I’m at the Sony stand at CES, next to the big tellies. An American guy strides up and demands to know what’s so great about them. Sony booth guy says, “They’re OLED televisions.” “What’s that mean?” “Well, sir, OLED stands for Organic LED.” American guy then does no favours to himself or his nation by living up to the …