Asian LCD manufacturer Mirai is better known for its computer monitors, but like many other companies it’s getting bored of making displays for Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, and is branching out into the television market. Why should you care? Because not only are its new TVs officially ‘HD Ready’, they’re cheap as chips too. Not only that, but the range stretches from a …

We thought that the award for the year’s most stylish DVD home cinema was in the bag for the Denon S-101. But that was before the equally demure Philips HTS8000S arrived — its pure good looks complementing kick-ass features such as SACD music playback and DivX video compatibility. The system also boasts component outputs, so if you’ve got a flatscreen TV you can watch …

Our AV setup is so complicated that just watching a DVD these days requires a complex series of button presses on three different remote controls. And that’s assuming we can even find them in the first place — usually they’re hidden under a mountain of Chris Stevens‘ MP3 players. Which is why we’re so enamoured with Logitech’s new Harmony 885 all-in-one remote — …