commentary It’s been a few weeks since I last poured scorn upon Channel Ten. Since then, The Biggest Loser has returned to our screens and browsers, February — the month in which Ten’s new site will launch — has hit, and I’ve sat down for a good long chat with Damian Smith, general manager of …

What’s under your television? We’ll wager that you could list a whole bunch of stuff — perhaps a Freeview PVR, DVD player, games console and some dust. Isn’t it about time we started to reduce the number of boxes heating up the environment with their evil, polluting ways? Humax has a helpful suggestion: pop a Freeview PVR into the same …

Last week, amid a blaze of publicity, NTL and Telewest vanished from broadcasting and were replaced by a new business, Virgin Media. The whole enchilada has now got a much slicker package, graced by seductive advertising featuring Uma Thurman, as well as the marketing savvy of a bearded billionaire you may have heard of. Virgin is positioning itself right in …

Good news for anyone who likes to veg out in front of the telly: Evesham has just released a super-cool new set-top box that can do pretty much everything. Dubbed the iplayer, it’ll let you watch and record Freeview in (upscaled) high definition, browse the Internet, listen to podcasts, and if you ask nicely, it’ll probably even make you a …

The war between high definition video formats Blu-ray and HD DVD has escalated today with major retailer JB Hi-Fi announcing it will only sell Blu-ray movies through its stores. Speaking at the official launch of Blu-ray in Sydney today, Scott Browning, marketing director at JB Hi-Fi, said the format had the support from Hollywood and predicted that “content will be …

The first thing you’ll say when you see the LG 47LB2RF is “cripes, that’s a bit Darth Vader”. The reason you’ll say this is because it’s finished in exactly the same glossy black finish as Luke’s dad was, post volcano incident. Which is nice, because it’s a cool colour. And when your friends come over to see your new TV …

For those who don’t know, the Solo range is an all-in-one affair. The original Arcam Solo was a CD player, FM and digital radio, amplifier and multi-room control system. The Solo Movie 5.1 is the next step, and adds playback of a multitude of video and audio formats, including DVD audio, SACD, DVD video, DivX, MPEG-4, OGG, WMA and MP3. …

Are you addicted to Coke? 1,667 cans isn’t that many. It’s just two cans a day, for two years. Or, if you prefer, one a day for four years. Which means that if you gave up drinking Coke, after four years you could afford the Acer AT4220. Alternatively, you could give up smoking instead. After just 200 days of not smoking 20 …

It’s sleek, it’s black with a hint of silver, it has a 26-inch screen and it’s HD Ready. Say hello to the Regza 26WLT66. Or ‘Walt’ for short. That’s right, we’ve given this television a nickname, because we’re sick of unwieldy model numbers. Walt is pretty cool if you’re in the market for a smaller-screen LCD for the bedroom or …

We love massive TVs — who doesn’t? — but we hate lifting the suckers. Sadly, the only way to play with the best and biggest screens is to get them into our fifth-floor office. So when we had a call explaining that the Panasonic 50PX600B was here, a silence descended across the office. Eventually volunteers were dragged back from sudden …