So finally the great day dawns, and we’ve got a firm date for the arrival of Sky HD to the UK and Ireleand. The great unwashed can start buying the service on Wednesday 12 April, and installations will begin in May, so mark those electronic organisers now. As previously announced, you’ll pay £299 for the Sky HD box, with a …

Liteon may have started out as a cheap alternative to the super-expensive DVD recorders of yesteryear, but the LVW-5055 sees the company making a strong statement of intent on performance. This is a genuinely first-class recorder that panders to the demands of the serious AV fanatic, and the sheer amount of features the company has packed in should make some of …

It must be hard being a projector these days. Like vinyl being faced with the onslaught of CD, projectors just aren’t as sexy as a new flat-screen TV. Samsung is still making token gestures to the home-cinema fraternity, and this SP-H710 is the only home projector that the company currently makes. Still, the £2,500 DLP projector looks good on paper, …