If you’re the sort of person that buys furniture at Heals and clothes from Dolce & Gabbana, then this new Viera television will fit right in to your highly coiffeured lifestyle. It’s not cheap at around £2,700, but this 37-inch TV looks gorgeously modern sitting on its silver stand. Plasma may be slightly out of fashion next to the sharper …

The BD-P1000 will be the first Blu-ray player to market this year, Seungsoo Park of the Digital AV Division for Samsung has announced. The BD-P1000 is set to land in September for around £800, following a launch in the US in May for $1,000 (£580). The player will support 720p and 1080i high-definition playback, as well as backwards compatibility with …

Samsung’s HT-XQ100, which we saw at CeBIT 2006, may look like a standard home cinema system, but further investigation by Crave’s gadget monkeys reveals something rather revolutionary. It’s not only one of the first ‘in-a-box’ systems to feature an HDMI output for high-quality digital video, but it’s also capable of video upscaling. This means it will turn your standard-definition DVDs into …