Samsung’s last LCD TV range heralded the dawn of the flat-screen revolution, with fantastic picture quality, great styling and high-value pricing causing many to ditch their CRT TVs. But sadly their day has passed, and like all much-loved gadgets they must step aside for something newer and shinier. Samsung’s new ‘R7’ range, which we ogled at CeBIT, will be on sale in …

LG’s BD199 Blu-ray player is dead — an abortive experiment that will make way for a combi player with HD DVD playback as well. This will make LG’s unit the world’s first ‘universal’ high-definition disc player, and it will arrive alongside most single-format models if its planned late-summer release is met. Rejoice, you might think — the high-definition format war …

If a doctor were to inspect the world of televisions right now, she’d give it a nice big lollipop and a perfect bill of health. We can’t remember the last flat-screen TV that we’d actively discourage people from buying — they’ve all been spiffing. The problem is that every TV these days is HD Ready, affordable, and even likely to have …