Let’s start with some wallet-pleasing news. Toshiba’s entry-level HD DVD player, the HD-E1, is dropping in price from £450 to £350. This leaves room for the new HD-EP10 to jump in at the £450 price point. The top-of-the-range HD-XE1 remains unchanged at £650, with no drop in price planned. The reduction on the E1 comes at an interesting time. Until …

Apple and EMI Group will reveal a ground-breaking deal on Monday for Apple to sell the music label’s songs free from copy protection limits, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The report said music giant EMI plans to sell “significant amounts” of its catalog without anti-piracy software, citing people familiar with the matter, and that the music label is …

BT’s Vision product — a cheap Freeview PVR with access to video-on-demand services over the Internet — struck me as an excellent idea when it was launched last year, but I haven’t seen much of it since. The company has just announced some new deals, though, which should jazz up the hitherto anaemic line-up. New partnerships with Warner Bros and …