DLP HDTV heavy-hitter Samsung announced four new big-screen rear-projection units earlier today and, in terms of potential image-quality improvement, the coolest is the HL-S5679W. This 56-inch single-chip 1080p-resolution DLP an entirely new light engine that ditches the tried-and-true color wheel/lamp system for a trio of LEDs (the “wobulated” DLP chip hasn’t changed, however). The result is elimination of the rainbow …

We’ve long maintained that the Toshiba RD-XS34 is the best combi-recorder on the market, only recently facing a decent challenge from Panasonic’s DMR-EH60D. However, Toshiba is already fighting back with the highly attractive RD-XS55, shown off for the first time here at CES today. The hard drive is bigger — the initial 160GB offering has now been upped to 250GB. …

What’s this? A DVD recorder that has a slot for something called VHS tapes? Oh yeah, we remember them now — VHS was what cavemen used for recording Hollyoaks. Surely they’re not still being used today though? We though that there’d been a government-enforced amnesty and they were all dumped in a massive landfill somewhere, but apparently not. While we expect that the only person …