Last week Toshiba filled a country house hotel with more televisions, DVD players and projectors than you’d find in the AV department of John Lewis, then threw open the doors to the best and the brightest of the UK press, or at any rate those journalists most interested in all things audiovisual. We ooh’d and …

I’ve been reading your TV reviews and I’m really interested in the Samsung LE32R41BD. I’ve been looking at different prices around the Web and I was just wondering if you could clear something up for me. Samsung has two models that look the same to me on paper, but have different product numbers. The LE32R41BD is the one you reviewed, …

You know how it is: in your heart you’re Renee Zellweger, but your life’s more Bridget Jones. You ought to be following Hugh Grant down the red carpet, but you’re stuck at the back of the crowd. You want to show movies in your living room, but you haven’t got space, and anyway your partner doesn’t want a mess of …

Sky has treated Crave like a seal at a zoo, throwing us very occasional fishy morsels of information on its upcoming HD service to keep us clapping our flippers like demented idiots. But the Internet abhors a vacuum, so rumours circulating about Sky’s biggest project since its launch in 1989 mean that there was little surprise when the company announced a £299 …

So finally the great day dawns, and we’ve got a firm date for the arrival of Sky HD to the UK and Ireleand. The great unwashed can start buying the service on Wednesday 12 April, and installations will begin in May, so mark those electronic organisers now. As previously announced, you’ll pay £299 for the Sky HD box, with a …

Liteon may have started out as a cheap alternative to the super-expensive DVD recorders of yesteryear, but the LVW-5055 sees the company making a strong statement of intent on performance. This is a genuinely first-class recorder that panders to the demands of the serious AV fanatic, and the sheer amount of features the company has packed in should make some of …

It must be hard being a projector these days. Like vinyl being faced with the onslaught of CD, projectors just aren’t as sexy as a new flat-screen TV. Samsung is still making token gestures to the home-cinema fraternity, and this SP-H710 is the only home projector that the company currently makes. Still, the £2,500 DLP projector looks good on paper, …

Red Riding Hoodie and her best mate the Big Bad Wolf were planning a big night in. They had all the ingredients for a big meal, including a big enchilada, a bigger fish to fry, a big apple and a big cheese. After dinner they were going to kick off their boots, which they were too big for anyway, and …

Most people’s home cinema consists of a DVD player and, if you’re lucky, a shiny new flat-screen TV. For others, home cinema is a hobby that knows no limits, and once you start getting into projectors and AV amps you’ll soon find yourself with a beard, talking to your slightly overweight friends about the need for dielectric insulated video cables. …

Even as recently as Christmas, we seemed to spend most of our time bemoaning the release of expensive LCD TVs that lacked HD compatibility and Freeview tuners. Now though, every TV that arrives at our door not only wears the ‘HD Ready’ badge proudly on its sleeve, but almost always features a digital tuner (some even have two tuners and …