It doesn’t take much to annoy me — anyone who reads the things I write here probably already knows that — and if you ask my friends, they’ll all tell you I’m running on a short fuse most of the time. Sky has today pushed all the right buttons to get me worked up, so here goes a nice little …

Sharp is about to unleash some of the world’s first Blu-ray recorders for HD television with four new models slated for release in Japan from next month. Sharp’s BD-HDW20 and BD-HDW15 Blu-ray recorders to be released in Japan in December. According to the Sharp Japan Web site (via Google Translate), the flagship of the new AQUOS range model will be …

Earlier this week a commission set up by Conservative leader David Cameron — the Orwellian-sounding ‘Quality of Life’ group — indicated that it would advocate the banning of plasma screens, because they apparently use too much power. They didn’t mention the more popular LCD screens, and I’m going to assume this is because they don’t know the difference. They also …