Toshiba has announced some flashy new TVs, to further distract us from the ignominious defeat of HD DVD, with two new ranges available in the next few months. The CV and XV ranges replace last year’s C and X lines, and offer a flock of hot-diggedy improvements over the older models. The CV range, which is due in February, offers …

As you may know, here at Crave we’re big fans of the off switch. But as we’ve previously noted, it’s an endangered species. Happily, Toshiba is keen to stop David Cameron from mounting a full-on campaign against LCD TVs by allowing its customers to turn them off properly. You probably know what modern TVs are like. You’re pretty lucky if …

Black boxes: not just for airplanes Allo allo, what have we got here? A little black box that records TV shows and transfers them straight to your iPod, that’s what. Pinnacle — of Pinnacle Studio fame — has announced the Video Transfer, a pocketable device that records video from your telly, camcorder or game console and dumps it directly into …