I get to see most new gadgets as they pass through the office, but some things you can only touch at trade shows, and even then some security guard is watching over you, ready to break your arms if you look suspicious. There have been a couple of examples this year — the best home projector I’ve ever seen in …

Toshiba has been shouting about the HD DVD format for a while, fighting off Sony’s rival Blu-ray in a bitter standards war. Toshiba’s format is supposedly cheaper to produce and has the backing of Microsoft, but so far we’ve yet to see a non-prototype HD DVD player. Today at CES, Toshiba showed off not one but two new players, one designed to hit …

Hooray — there’s going to be more high-definition stuff on Sky! Now that Warner Bros is on board, it has deals in place with all the major Hollywood studios, so we’ll be getting films like V for Vendetta and Syriana, among others. Sky has also announced its latest stats showing that 244,000 people have signed up to Sky HD over …