Change can be a scary thing. Crave still remembers its first day at gadget school. It was scary and we missed our mum. Changing televisions is just as daunting: your trusty old screen discarded like yesterday’s paper and a new upstart put in its place. The good news is Toshiba doesn’t want to scare you, …

I’ve got my all-time favourite film, Lawrence of Arabia, waiting for me in glorious high definition this weekend, thanks to the techie bods at Sky. When Sky isn’t being taken to the high court for daring to pull Lost from Virgin Media’s cable channels, it’s been busy adding new functions to its HD service. Called Sky Anytime, it’s a way …

We looked at the MP80D’s little brother, the MP70D, a few months back, and this beast is similar — but with a larger screen (8 inches to the MP70D’s measly 7). It’s a decent little DVD player — it does that job really quite well. Sharp picture, actually in sync with the sound, all the options you’d expect, and it’s …

If you can’t get, or don’t want, full cable TV, Virgin Media would still like to get some money off you. Surely that’s the dream of every company, isn’t it? So how does Virgin persuade people to hand over money without getting anything in return? Offer them something ‘free’ that actually turns out to cost quite a lot of money, …

We all strive to have the best home theatre we can, but Australian Runco distributor Network Audio Visual sends word of a newly-completed home theatre installation in the eastern suburbs of Sydney that blew past the AU$3 million mark. Two years in the making, the residence boasts two cinemas built around Runco VX55 projectors. The VX55 is a AU$200,000 three-chip …

I think Toshiba’s HD DVD will triumph over Blu-ray in the hi-def disc format war, but I also believe both formats are here to stay. Here’s why: Format recognition HD DVD has a fundamental advantage in the high-def market. When people think of high definition, they think of the abbreviation ‘HD’, obviously. When people think of the newest and greatest …

We’ve got an announcement to make, dear readers: James Bond looks even better in hi-def. But don’t take our word for it — enter our competition and you could win a brand-spanking new 32-inch Toshiba HD Ready LCD TV, which displays amazing high-definition pictures, so you can see for yourself. We had a chat with the kind-hearted people at Toshiba …

I’m getting really annoyed by that advert that appears at the beginning of every DVD I buy. You almost certainly know the one I mean, it goes something like this: Shady looking bloke steals a carMessage appears ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’Shady looking bloke steals a handbag Message appears ‘You wouldn’t steal a handbag’ Shady looking bloke steals mobile phone …

Major record companies are forcing Apple to curtail access to iTunes online stores across borders, leading to higher prices and less choice, the European Commission said Tuesday. The EU executive sent formal charges to Apple and the major record companies last week because consumers can only buy iTunes in their own countries and cannot shop around for cheaper prices and …

EMI Group will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple’s iTunes Store. EMI’s entire digital music catalog will be available in premium DRM-free form via iTunes in May, the music label said Monday at a press conference in London. Beatles tunes under EMI’s control, however, are not part of the plan. …