Typical burn-in effect. While the post-Boxing Day sales are behind us, we’re still receiving a lot of email from readers agonizing over which TV to buy. There’s also plenty of general questions concerning plasma vs. LCD, particularly those stemming from concerns over the issue of plasma burn-in. In a lot of cases, those concerns are …

If we hadn’t just ruined it in the title, we could make a snappy joke out of the Denon AVP/POA-A1HD. “What has two boxes, takes two people to lift and costs as much as a car?” But the AVP/POA-A1HD is no joke — it’s Denon‘s outrageously high-end home cinema system and we really want one. The A1HD comes in two …

If Blu-ray is to justify the effort of winning a format war, it has to get better at persuading customers to part with their cash. The best way to do that is to show them how much they’re missing when they watch movies on DVD, and interactivity is a key part of that. Enter the Sony BDP-S350 and BDP-S550, players …

Although Internet video seems to be going mainstream in the US, the idea of tuning in to IPTV content without needing to connect to a next gen console or home theatre PC is not catching on with Australian vendors, let alone consumers. Major vendors such as Sony, HP, Panasonic, Sharp and LG are responding to this demand with new TVs …

The Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray player we checked out recently was terribly exciting, but we’re even keener on the company’s DMP-BD50, which adds one important feature to the Blu-ray arsenal — BD Live. This means that the BD50 — or ‘Fiddy’ as we’ve decided to call it — is basically a profile 2.0 player, making it one of the few announced …

Pioneer Electronics is to cease all production of plasma panels and instead source panels from competitor Matsushita, according to Reuters. The news agency has quoted a source as saying the company is finalising plans to stop all production of plasma display panels, following a report by Nikkei business news. Pioneer President Tamihiko Sudo will be making an official announcement about …

Imagine (pun intended) there’s a race. In one lane is the late, great John Lennon. In the other, James Blunt. The starting gun fires, and somehow Lennon, who has been dead for 27 years now, beats Blunt to the finish line. Well, that’s exactly what’s happened with HD DVD. The dead format has managed to rise from the grave and …

It’s easy to promise you’ll make the thinnest TV in the world, but actually doing it is quite another thing. When it comes to ponying up the goods, Hitachi has beaten the likes of Samsung and Panasonic to produce an impressively thin TV. The range, which is hilariously known as Wooo in Japan, is due to touch down in Britain …

If you’ve long wanted to get into home cinema but haven’t had the motivation, you might find the switch to high definition is a good time to get involved. At least, that’s what Panasonic is hoping with its SC-BT100, a Blu-ray home cinema system with 5.1 surround and a bunch of wonderful trimmings. We’ve always been a fan of simple …

Panasonic is launching two new plasma TVs — and making an awful lot of fuss about a concept called the ‘digital hearth’. Apparently we’ve all got better things to do these days than stare wistfully into the fireplace as warming flames lick at wood you chopped and gathered with your own hands that very afternoon. Instead we all sit like …

Unless HD DVD manages to conjure up a biblical-scale miracle, we’re all going to be buying Blu-ray players from now on for our high-definition movie pleasure. Of course, with Blu-ray having a number of profile specifications it can be a confusing process choosing one. Luckily, the Panasonic DMP-BD30, which has been available for some time in the US, is coming …

The next-generation HD DVD format failed partly because of a lack of interest and external competition from digital downloads, according to Toshiba Australia, but what does it mean for the future of HD? Mark Whittard, general manager of Toshiba Australia said the penetration of both HD DVD and Blu-ray was way below expectations, and that the withdrawal of Warner Brothers …

Toshiba has announced some flashy new TVs, to further distract us from the ignominious defeat of HD DVD, with two new ranges available in the next few months. The CV and XV ranges replace last year’s C and X lines, and offer a flock of hot-diggedy improvements over the older models. The CV range, which is due in February, offers …

As you may know, here at Crave we’re big fans of the off switch. But as we’ve previously noted, it’s an endangered species. Happily, Toshiba is keen to stop David Cameron from mounting a full-on campaign against LCD TVs by allowing its customers to turn them off properly. You probably know what modern TVs are like. You’re pretty lucky if …

Black boxes: not just for airplanes Allo allo, what have we got here? A little black box that records TV shows and transfers them straight to your iPod, that’s what. Pinnacle — of Pinnacle Studio fame — has announced the Video Transfer, a pocketable device that records video from your telly, camcorder or game console and dumps it directly into …