I’ve got my all-time favourite film, Lawrence of Arabia, waiting for me in glorious high definition this weekend, thanks to the techie bods at Sky. When Sky isn’t being taken to the high court for daring to pull Lost from Virgin Media’s cable channels, it’s been busy adding new functions to its HD service. Called Sky Anytime, it’s a way …

We looked at the MP80D’s little brother, the MP70D, a few months back, and this beast is similar — but with a larger screen (8 inches to the MP70D’s measly 7). It’s a decent little DVD player — it does that job really quite well. Sharp picture, actually in sync with the sound, all the options you’d expect, and it’s …

If you can’t get, or don’t want, full cable TV, Virgin Media would still like to get some money off you. Surely that’s the dream of every company, isn’t it? So how does Virgin persuade people to hand over money without getting anything in return? Offer them something ‘free’ that actually turns out to cost quite a lot of money, …