Aside from a few of the scantily clad promotions girls, the most eye-catching model at last week’s Stuff Show was a concept home cinema system from Sony’s latest Esprit range. Sony is well aware that style is regarded as one of the defining factors influencing buying decisions and the ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’ emanating from the …

Having problems with your NTL or Telewest cable service? Confused by the fact that the merged ntl:Telewest company also bought a mobile phone operator, Virgin Mobile? Let your confusion end: from the beginning of next year the whole lot will be packaged under the Virgin brand with a much more friendly logo. So that’s alright then. There’s no question that …

Today marked the unveiling of LG’s Blu-ray player — the BD100. Sparing no expense, the guys at LG marked the rollout by inviting Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Darren Campbell, who was only too happy to lend a hand. The BD100 is a full 1080p model featuring an HDCP-compliant HDMI port, as well as component, composite and coaxial for good measure. You …

With next-generation devices like Samsung’s BD-P1000 Blu-ray player (reviewed here), Toshiba’s HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD DVD players and Sony’s PlayStation 3 (previewed here) moving from prototype to product, television buyers have been eyeing up ‘Full HD’ screens that support 1080p, the smoothest and most detailed of the hi-def signals. Equivalent projectors, however, seem to have been overlooked by all but …

Is it going to be a high-definition Christmas for you? By the end of this year there will be 2.4 million HD Ready TVs in UK households, according to market research honchos GfK. This means that nearly 10 per cent of all households will be HD Ready, compared to 2 per cent at the beginning of 2006. Of course, having …

The deformed children of the first dotcom boom roam the streets like dogs, but it looks like background radiation must be reaching safe levels again because new heroes are rising. Google’s purchase of YouTube for $1.65bn and Murdoch’s acquisition of MySpace for $580m are just two of the more flamboyant transactions sprung from this new-found confidence. But this is just …

Samsung was the first to release a Blu-ray disc player in the US, and has said it will also be the first to release one in Europe and the UK. The BD-P1000 will hit Blighty at around the same time as the Panasonic DMP-BD10, which is two months before Toshiba’s HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD DVD players. We saw the BD-P1000 …

We all know Full HD 1080p tellies are teef. You can spend upwards of £3,500 on a 46-inch Sony, so what hope is there for the broke, stinking proletariat? Fear not — Evesham chief executive Richard Austin seems to have handed us a lifeline. Possibly feeling a twinge of guilt after splashing a tramp with freezing puddle water while driving one of his many …

In a bid that would have had the late Roy Castle reaching for his trumpet and parping an impromptu performance of Dedication’s What You Need, LG has entered the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 with the world’s largest LCD TV. LG’s leviathan 100-inch LCD has snatched the record from Samsung, with a screen that’s 1.5 times larger than the …

I have £1,000 to spend on a new LCD TV but the choice is confusing. I have simple requirements: it has to be HD Ready, be 37-inches in screen size and have the highest resolution possible. I know a lot is down to personal choice, but I simply want a TV for everyday viewing — no games or PC connectivity …

For all its troubles, Sony seems to be the first big tech company to embrace the idea of advertising as content. In this digital age, where we can fast-forward past ads with our PVRs, or go to places like YouTube where there aren’t any ads in the way, advertising has to be its own reason to watch. Sony’s first Bravia …

Crave was tantalised by the idea of the PDT Eye-Theatre. Would it afford relief from squinting at the beautifully clear but frustratingly small iPod screen? Would it finally allow us to enter the William Gibson-esque world of virtual reality immerso-specs? And why does the set make us look so like Star Trek‘s Geordi La Forge? We also liked the price …

Is there a big difference between 1080 and 768 resolutions for LCD TVs? I am trying to decide between two Sony TVs — the KDL-40X2000 and the KDL-40V2000. I was told that the key is to find out if the resolution is interlaced (i) or progressive scanning (p). I can’t see this on Sony’s Web site tech specs on either of …

It may be sooner than you want to think about it, but Christmas is coming. Before you know it you’ll be tucking into turkey, nursing hangovers and engaging in traditional arguments — like what to watch during the peak TV viewing season. With so many channels to choose from on Freeview, keeping all the family happy is going to be …

If you want to watch films at near high-definition quality before the dust settles on the Blu-ray versus HD DVD hi-def format war, an upscaling DVD player is the answer. Denon has concentrated its efforts on upgrading existing technology before becoming involved in any next-generation infighting. The new DVD-3930 uses state-of-the-art technology, which Denon claims produces a picture that rivals …