Let’s start with some wallet-pleasing news. Toshiba’s entry-level HD DVD player, the HD-E1, is dropping in price from £450 to £350. This leaves room for the new HD-EP10 to jump in at the £450 price point. The top-of-the-range HD-XE1 remains unchanged at £650, with no drop in price planned. The reduction on the E1 comes …

Apple and EMI Group will reveal a ground-breaking deal on Monday for Apple to sell the music label’s songs free from copy protection limits, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The report said music giant EMI plans to sell “significant amounts” of its catalog without anti-piracy software, citing people familiar with the matter, and that the music label is …

BT’s Vision product — a cheap Freeview PVR with access to video-on-demand services over the Internet — struck me as an excellent idea when it was launched last year, but I haven’t seen much of it since. The company has just announced some new deals, though, which should jazz up the hitherto anaemic line-up. New partnerships with Warner Bros and …

Crave has just spent a rather pleasant couple of days playing with the very best products Sony is planning on releasing in the next few months. As you can see from the picture, it took place in the idyllic Brit-fest location of Rhodes, with hundreds of attendees from all over the world. Click through our photos for the highlights of …

Every year Sony manages to set our technological taste buds aflutter with gorgeous new TVs. From its sunny retreat on the Greek island of Rhodes it has announced two new Bravia LCD TV ranges, which offer some tantalising new features. The D3000 range (pictured) is clearly pitched at replacing the cinema in the lives of film lovers. It’s about time …

If the thought of wires snaking around your room has put you off buying a set of surround-sound speakers, Sony has the answer. We’ve just been treated to a demo of the Bravia Theatre RHT-G800, a TV stand with built-in speakers that create the illusion of surround sound. There are seven speakers inside the stand — three at the front, …

Blu-ray discs are more resistant to damage caused by scratches and fingerprints than DVDs due to a TDK hard coat applied to the surface of the disc, according to proponents of the storage format. Michael Hoog from the Blu-ray Disc Association and Michelle Garra from the Blu-ray Disc Working Group discuss disc durability with CNET.com.au at the official launch of …

So, you have a 42-inch gap in your lounge that needs filling with something? If you’re an adult, a poster of Pamela Anderson during the Baywatch years probably isn’t an option. Nor, we suspect, is the popular student decorative style known as ‘wall of beer cans’. Instead, we recommend you place a nice big television in the gap. May we …

Electronic Arts will team with Nettwerk One Music to form a full-service music label, the game publisher announced Monday. Dubbed Artwerk, the label will sign and develop new and established artists for publishing, master recording and sync deals, as well as digital and physical distribution of musical works in movies, TV shows and video games. The Los Angeles-based label has …

Giant flat-panel displays are beautiful pieces of technology, but for all that money they should do more than just sit there, shouldn’t they? For some time now, Hitachi has had models that swivel a bit, but in most installations we’ve seen, the display is mounted on the wall. Now that’s understandable — if you’ve got a display that saves on …

LG 50PB2DR  — one of the model’s requiring a software upgrade LG Electronics Australia has announced that owners of LG TVs with integrated digital tuners will require a software upgrade to stop issues with “frozen transmissions”. Reports surfaced over the weekend of pictures seizing up during certain programs while owners tried to watch digital broadcasts on the Nine Network in …

Samsung clearly doesn’t believe less is more: this year it has launched 17 new televisions. Of these, two are whacking great plasmas and the other 15 are LCDs. Crave suspects Samsung doesn’t get out much. There are three ranges: the entry-level S86, the mid-level R87 and fully featured M87. The S86 range offers screen sizes of 26, 32, 37, 40 and …

No gadget show would be complete with a smattering of ‘the world’s largest televisions’ and CeBIT is no exception. This photo story is a collection of the biggest and best. There were not one, but two Panasonic 103-inch plasmas at CeBIT this year. The picture quality of this screen really is remarkable — with 1080p pictures it looks stunning. We’ve …

CNET.com.au first saw Panasonic’s 103-inch plasma last July at the CEDIA Expo on the Gold Coast. Since then, other vendors, such as Sharp, have put forward their claims to the biggest big screen fame, but Panasonic’s the first to move from prototype to reality. Panasonic claims to have already sold five of these 1080p whoppers in Australia, but the first …

Are you one of those people who’s never happy? If so, Sharp has the high-definition TV for you. It’s only at the prototype phase at the moment, but it’s a 64-inch screen with a resolution of about 4,000×2,000 pixels, which basically gives it a resolution of 8.8 megapixels. We feel it’s important to point out that a 1080p television has …