We are looking at buying a new DVD player for our new LCD 1080p TV and are looking for recommendations on a model that would provide all of the following: – HDMI Output – 1080 capability / upscaling capability – All regions playing capability (NTSC/PAL) – Will work on European power (220V) – Card-Reader (SD …

Television body Free TV has announced that Networks Nine and TEN will transmit a free seven-day guide for all digital TV viewers from November 19 2007. In what is a win for consumers, most digital receivers and PVRs on the market should be able to receive and use the guides. Initially, Free TV announced that tuners would need to be …

In the latest skirmish in the hi-def format war, the HD DVD promotion group announced on Monday that in Europe, HD DVD is the king of the ‘attach rate’ — the average number of discs each person buys for their player. The headline number was that HD DVD owners are buying, on average, 3.8 movies each, with Blu-ray owners buying …

If you want the best picture from your DVD player, you’ll want to spend more than the £20 some companies charge for their players. Oppo, a company not especially well known in the UK but popular in the US, is bringing its range of upscaling DVD players to the UK, starting with the DV-981HD. So, what’s the big attraction of …

BT has a Vision. You can tell it’s important because of the capital V. It’s going to be a revolution in television — in BT’s words it will be ‘the next generation of television’. Crave tootled along to the launch this morning. The reality, as always, was somewhat more prosaic. BT Vision, it turns out, is a service that uses …

During the forthcoming festive period, many City folk are likely to receive very large bonuses, which they will need to spend on something to impress their snooty mates. Sony has cleverly targeted the super-rich pillock market — its Bravia KDL-70X3500 will certainly soak up a good chunk of that extra cash, and will definitely impress everyone in a 3-mile radius. …

Here’s the main problem with the high-definition formats: the discs are very costly to produce, while DVD is dirt-cheap. Sure, it won’t be many years before HD DVD and Blu-ray are as inexpensive as DVD is now, but until then, what do the smaller, independent producers do? There is a solution of sorts — namely, burning high-definition video to a …

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Trent Reznor of the band Nine Inch Nails walked into the Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters of Musicane last month and stunned the start-up’s employees with his tech knowledge and fierce attention to detail. Typically, when artists sign on with Musicane, a company that helps musicians distribute their music online, …

It’s that time of year again: time to pop the champers, plonk a silly hat on your head and crowd around the communal telly. This week we crash the office Melbourne Cup party for views on hats, horses and online betting. From fronting up to Flemington to crowding around the wireless to kicking back in front of a plasma screen, …

We don’t have a degree in business, but it stands to reason that reducing the cost of a formerly expensive item down to a rock-bottom price might possibly produce a sales boost. In the US last weekend a number of stores reduced the price of the Toshiba HD-E1 (they call it the HD-A2) down to just $99 (£47). Unsurprisingly, they …