LG is planning to take on Marantz and Yamaha in the “luxury audio” market with a new system designed by audio engineer Mark Levinson. “Golden Ears” Mark Levinson. LG has relaunched its existing range of televisions and AV peripherals in Singapore this week, with an emphasis on providing audiophile quality on a budget, with Levinson …

TiVo has announced its first major addition to its service with its free Movie of the Week download in collaboration with BlockBuster. The new service begins on December 1 2008 and is designed to serve as a taster for a fully-fledged service launching next year. The first Blockbuster Movie of the Week will be The Waterhorse followed by Men In …

This Christmas is going to Blu, if Sony has any say in it. The company is about to go all out in promoting Blu-ray as a technology, and will release with it two new players. The Sony S350 supports the latest Blu-ray standards for under AU$500. (Credit: Sony) The company unveiled the BDP-S350 and the BDP-S550 Blu-ray players this week, …

If you’ve had Foxtel iQ2 installed, you may have heard the company has finally unlocked all four tuners. While this means you still can only record two channels at once, at least you can now watch a third at the same time. And by the way, that fourth tuner is dedicated to OnDemand content and can’t be used to record… …

It’s the nature of television programming, Tuesday nights are chock-a-block with good, and usually overlapping, stuff, while Wednesdays are boring. Foxtel has heard this complaint and decided to finally release a patch to open all four tuners on its iQ2 box. iQ2 becomes iQ2 plus one (Credit: Foxtel) This means users will be able to “tape” two simultaneous shows while …

Philips has announced it is pulling out of the Australian market for televisions in December of this year, and will instead focus on health and beauty products. Sarah Campbell Philips’ manager of corporate communications said the company will continue selling associated products such as home theatre kits and iPod docks but is “looking at a distributor model”. Campbell refused to …

Harman Kardon has unveiled some surprises in its 2008 range of AV products which include an updated iPod dock and a media streamer. With companies such as Onkyo leading the way in terms of features, it’s taken Harman Kardon a while to catch up. But with this new range featuring up-to-the-minute functionality, the company appears to have redressed the balance. …

A new certification program, which aims to simplify the purchase of an HDTV with a digital tuner, may actually complicate matters due to its flexible definition of what HD actually is. The HD Tick logo will start appearing on many new TVs. The new ‘HD Tick Logo’ aims to ensure compliance with Australian digital receiver standards and provide for better …

Full high-definition recorders, plasma televisions and Blu-ray-with-everything were the main focus of yesterday’s Panasonic 2008 AV launch in Sydney. The company is gearing up for its partnership of the 2008 Olympic Games coverage and even had sports stars — runner Matt Shervington and swimmers Ky Hurst and Bronte Barratt — on hand to say how much they love using Panasonic …

Less than a year after it announced the revolutionary Kuro range, Pioneer has unveiled two new products which promise to overturn the industry again. The first is the Extreme Contrast Concept which Pioneer claims renders the contrast ratio rating meaningless — it says there no is measurable light emitting from the television. Black is finally black, it seems. The second …