If a 50-inch plasma TV isn’t big enough for you, but you aren’t quite rich enough to afford the gigantic 103- and 108-inch screens from Panasonic and Sharp then you’ll probably want to consider a projector. BenQ would politely offer its W9000 model for your consideration. The W9000 is a 1080p DLP projector that can …
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We’ve all got so caught up in the fighting between Blu-ray and HD DVD that we haven’t really given any consideration to the possibility that neither high-definition format will actually win. Indeed, it’s actually possible that HD DVD and Blu-ray might both be successful in different parts of the world. Most people think that the format war will, for the …
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The introduction of TiVo in Australia has overcome its first major hurdle with all of the commercial networks agreeing to share its program guide data, according to a leading media broker. Harold Mitchell, chairman and CEO of Mitchell and Partners, Australia’s largest independent communications group, claims that an agreement between the networks has been struck. Mitchell said he spoke to …
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If you love the outdoors and love watching TV you’ll inevitably be struck by how incompatible these two pursuits tend to be. After all, installing a TV outside is a foolish endeavour and will almost certainly end with an expensive puff of smoke and the death of nearby people. Amazingly, there’s now a solution that won’t end in a multi-million-pound …
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Full cinema projection is the proverbial dog’s danglies when it comes to watching movies, but some people are more than happy watching full-length flicks on their iPods. Now the portable can be projectable — with ViewSonic’s PJ258D iPod projector. We got word of this back in May and we thought it was a daring idea, but now Crave has one …
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A Swedish court of appeals on Tuesday upheld the country’s first conviction for sharing music files over the Internet without paying, in what the recording industry hailed as a victory. The Appellate Court backed a verdict by a lower court in October last year that saw 45-year-old Jimmy Sjostrom fined 20,000 Swedish crowns ($2,843) for infringing intellectual property rights by …
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No, it doesn’t involve lame 3D glasses — this is the real seat-rocking thing. D-Box is a new technology that synchronises your home theatre seating with the onscreen video and sound to literally make you move with the action. With D-Box, the seating is programmed to move when it enhances the story line. You’re not going to vibrate through the …
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Most of us don’t give a hoot how our TV is delivered, we just want to watch Big Brother with minimal fuss. But IPTV can offer us lots of extra features, such as on-demand movies and maybe one day high-definition TV. Yesterday Crave pitched up at a roundtable discussion about IPTV, which featured bigwigs from the BBC and Motorola, among …
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Are you dying to launch yourself into the high-definition era but hesitating because of high prices? Let us be the bearers of good news… We’ve got two Toshiba HD-E1 HD DVD players to give away completely for free in our latest competition. Toshiba knows a fair bit about high definition — it pioneered the HD DVD format and was the …
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I want to buy a new TV and I’ve heard a lot about 1080i and 1080p — which sort of screen should I go for? Sarah There’s a lot of confusion about 1080i and 1080p. First of all, I’ll explain what both are, and how this confusion arises. There are two parts to these hi-def numbers. The first is the …
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In the HD DVD versus Blu-ray shin-kicking contest there are many victories claimed, most of them by the Blu-ray camp. This week is no exception, as the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies on Blu-ray outsold The Matrix trilogy on HD DVD. The good news is that together, consumers spent about $2m on these films, which can only be …
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From iPods and iPhones to all the other sing-song gadgets, there’s no shortage of ways to get to your tunes. Free and legal music downloads blog A new service–dubbed We7–is about to hit the Net. It offers free and legal music downloads that can be transferred to any MP3 player. June 5, 2007 Nutsie launches in beta: iTunes on your …
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A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. news analysis Apple has plunged into uncharted waters by stripping security software off some of its music. Never before has Apple sold songs without attaching antipiracy software–the digital rights management systems that prevent file sharing and are hated by many music fans. If successful, Apple’s bold gamble to do …
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The concept of a Freeview receiver that can record isn’t new — for a while now companies such as Thomson, Sony and Humax have been making digital video recorders that give Freeview viewers Sky+ style features without making Murdoch any richer. The good news is that there are whole new set of these DVRs on their way, under the ‘Freeview …
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A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. It used to be that music fans believed cryptic messages about Satan or the death of a band member were hidden within rock albums. Nowadays, the secrets buried in digital music are way too easy to find, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The consumer watchdog group, which …
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