Samsung was the first to release a Blu-ray disc player in the US, and has said it will also be the first to release one in Europe and the UK. The BD-P1000 will hit Blighty at around the same time as the Panasonic DMP-BD10, which is two months before Toshiba’s HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD DVD players. We saw the BD-P1000 …

We all know Full HD 1080p tellies are teef. You can spend upwards of £3,500 on a 46-inch Sony, so what hope is there for the broke, stinking proletariat? Fear not — Evesham chief executive Richard Austin seems to have handed us a lifeline. Possibly feeling a twinge of guilt after splashing a tramp with freezing puddle water while driving one of his many …

In a bid that would have had the late Roy Castle reaching for his trumpet and parping an impromptu performance of Dedication’s What You Need, LG has entered the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 with the world’s largest LCD TV. LG’s leviathan 100-inch LCD has snatched the record from Samsung, with a screen that’s 1.5 times larger than the …