You know the score: you bought an iPod or iPhone and you find yourself with …

With the ‘shock‘ announcement yesterday that Toshiba would be supporting Blu-ray with its own hardware this year, we sought some chatting time with the company’s very own Olivier van Wynedaele. A senior executive at Toshiba Europe, he’s involved with optical storage and we’ve spoken to him before about Toshiba’s DVD upscalers and HD DVD players. He’s certainly a chap who …

Freeview recorders are exactly like arms. When you’ve got them, and they work perfectly, you take them for granted. But get one munched off by a shark or alligator and you’re really going to miss it. The cruel vagaries of review loan periods, rather than animal attack, mean we’ve gone without a recorder for a while, and it’s actually painful. …