So, you woke up yesterday and Sky One was gone from your channel line-up. Did you weep for the loss of Lost, or blubber over Battlestar Galactica? If you did, I understand, it’s hard having to rely on Rupert Murdoch for your entertainment needs: just ask football fans. What makes the loss of Sky One …

Virgin Media users may be browned off with Murdoch now that Sky channels have vanished from their line-up, but I couldn’t be happier. As a Sky HD user, I’m over the moon that Sky has finally launched the killer app I’ve been waiting for since I played with my first Tivo — online remote record. It gives you the ability …

Last night Virgin’s carriage deal with Sky ended with a bump. Rather than stump up the extra money Sky demanded — rumoured to be nearly double the amount Virgin was previously paying — the cable company decided to ditch Sky’s non-premium channels, yanking them from its programme listings. While we have no doubt this is a stunt by Virgin to …

Get ready to ROCK with this digital radio that’s literally ‘one louder’ than the competition. PURE Digital has taken its big seller, the Evoke 1XT, thrown out the boring wood panelling and made the whole thing look like a Marshall amp, complete with leather-effect casing, gold-coloured buttons and the all-important Marshall logo. And yes, like the amp in the spoof …

It was never going to be long before 1080p screens started to flood the market. With all these high-definition disc formats flying around and those next-gen games consoles just begging to be played, Crave reckons this can only be a good thing. The Samsung LE40F71B (£1,200) is a 1080p LCD with a stylish and dramatic piano-black finish — it certainly …

Initially we were hoping to get Apple TV in for a review this week, clearly this is now unlikely as News.com is reporting it will not now be shipping until mid-March. This is annoying but not a surprise — Apple has a habit of pushing product launches back. On the plus side, at least it takes the time to get them …

If there’s one thing Crave hates, it’s commuting. We drag our tired, ageing carcasses out of bed at silly o’clock in the morning, haul it to the train station where a recorded announcement apologises for the late running of this service, caused by the wrong kind of pepper on the driver’s boiled egg. Then it’s on to the late-running train …

I’m in the process of buying my first LCD TV. I have a Media Center PC, which I use a lot for PC games. What’s the best set to buy for under £1,000? Terry Simpson This is a tricky problem, Terry. There’s no guarantee that a PC will work properly with a particular TV because there are so many different …

Australians may be snapping up high definition (HD) capable equipment, but movie studios and technology vendors face a potential public relations disaster if they can’t help consumers avoid compatibility problems that could potentially force consumers to repurchase equipment down the road. The risk comes from HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection), a technology that encrypts the data of an HD signal …

We haven’t seen many portable media centres from Samsung, and the last one we reviewed (the YH-999) certainly didn’t impress. But that only makes the YM-P1 even more of a revelation — Crave got hands-on with it at CeBIT and our first impressions were overwhelmingly positive. This thing has some serious game. Sporting a 30GB hard drive and a 102mm (4-inch) screen, the YM-P1 will cost £399 …