CNET.com.au looks at your options for portable video playback. If there’s a consumer commodity hotter than DVD at the moment, we’d like to meet it. Well, actually, we’d not so much want to meet it as invest in it, because if it’s hotter than DVD, then it must be worth an awful lot of money. …
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Don’t worry boys, there’s plenty of action to keep you happy too Laws Of Attraction (Roadshow, 86 minutes) Billed as a cross between a Doris Day/Rock Hudson romantic comedy and a Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy romantic spat, Laws of Attraction features Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore in the classic love/hate relationship. Brosnan and Moore play New York divorce attorneys, jaded by …
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Still burning with nationalistic fervour post Olympics? Then check out our all Australian DVD line-up this week. Puppetry Of The Penis (ACMEC) Let’s start with the nude guys first. Puppetry of the Penis is a home-grown cabaret show featuring two starkers puppeteers, Simon Morley and David Friend, who twist their penises into different shapes, objects and landmarks. Billed as ‘the …
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High-definition (HD) sports coverage will remain sparse this year, as broadcasters continue to focus their attention on movies and weekly prime-time programs. The 2006 Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games and FIFA World Cup will all be broadcast in the lower-resolution standard-definition (SD) format. Technical staff at channels Seven and Nine did not respond to our specific enquiries, but spokespeople from both …
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Sony and Toshiba are reportedly negotiating a single next generation disc standard, which could spell an early end to the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD battle. The battle of the discs has come to a halt…for the time being. According to numerous media outlets, including the Nikkei Journal, Sony and Toshiba have started negotiating a possible single next-generation disc standard that features …
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Having some friends over to watch the game and wish you had a new big screen to view it on? Perhaps you just need to think bigger … say consider hosting the next FIFA World Cup. As part of its extensive sponsorship, Philips is supplying more than 10,000 flat panel TVs along with DVD players and audio equipment to the …
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Manufacturers wanting to make it in the home technology world had better hire a fashion guru to mix it with their engineers, because on the domestic front, looks count. It used to be that buying a TV was not a particularly big decision. You figured out the biggest size you could get for the money you wanted to spend, and …
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If you’re a fan of the Australian Idol series, be sure to take a look at the new releases coming out this week. Australian Idol – Uncut 2004 (BMG, 187 mins, PG) Fifty thousand wannabes and only one spot for an Australian Idol. It’s a show destined for tears, begging, pleading, which of course provides the rest of us with …
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This week we continue on with the Aussie themed DVDs, but don’t worry if last week’s Slim Dusty and Cold Chisel concerts scared you off, there are some decent Australian dramas hitting the stores. Sirens (Buena Vista) It was first released on the big screen in 1994, but this one is fun to revisit, as it’s based on the life …
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Do I really need 54 buttons? Yep, I counted. 54 buttons on the remote control of the Home-Theatre-in-a-Box system I was reviewing last week-end. Bear in mind that this was an entry level system. Call me crazy, but by and large, I want technology to make my life simpler. Not that this remote was particularly hard to understand – Power, …
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