March, 2008

• 14 March

  Onkyo LS

  

  You look over at your TV and you feel a little twinge of joy. It’s beautiful and you’re proud of yourself for choosing (and paying for) such a divine piece of technology. You switch it on and marvel at the glorious high- definition picture and once again, you give thanks for your genius at selecting …

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• 14 March

  TVs, DVD recorders and hi

  

  I’d like to direct my right honourable friend to the recent news that MPs are entitled to claim back up to £23,000 a year in expenses to help them furnish their London bolt-holes. That’s right, your local MP is entitled to claim back more every year than the average British salary, just for kitting out a second home. This is …

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• 13 March

  Jamo DMR 70: Build your own home cinema

  

  One of the problems with traditional all-in-one-box home cinema systems is that you’re stuck with the speaker setup the manufacturer decides on. The Jamo DMR 70 lets you customise your system by offering a number of different options, for a wide range of prices — but keeping the convenience of the all-in-one. At the heart of the system is a …

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• 13 March

  Steve Jobs is right, Apple TV is a failure

  

  There have been some reports in the press recently that Steve Jobs considers Apple TV to have been something of a failure. I say he’s totally correct. Apple TV, shown here in the middle of an epic, epic fail Despite its current high level of fail, there are many promising aspects to Apple TV that give me some hope for the …

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• 13 March

  BBC and Missy kick goals for 3D TV

  

  Missy Elliot probably does not watch a lot of English Rugby, but the hip hop artist has one thing in common with the grunt and grime of football: both have recently been involved in raising the profile of 3D TV. Missy’s latest single was recently launched on MTV (US) and can be seen online in a 3D version, although you …

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• 11 March

  Plasma burn

  

  Typical burn-in effect. While the post-Boxing Day sales are behind us, we’re still receiving a lot of email from readers agonizing over which TV to buy. There’s also plenty of general questions concerning plasma vs. LCD, particularly those stemming from concerns over the issue of plasma burn-in. In a lot of cases, those concerns are stopping people from buying plasma. …

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• 11 March

  Denon AVP/POA

  

  If we hadn’t just ruined it in the title, we could make a snappy joke out of the Denon AVP/POA-A1HD. “What has two boxes, takes two people to lift and costs as much as a car?” But the AVP/POA-A1HD is no joke — it’s Denon‘s outrageously high-end home cinema system and we really want one. The A1HD comes in two …

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• 7 March

  Sony BDP

  

  If Blu-ray is to justify the effort of winning a format war, it has to get better at persuading customers to part with their cash. The best way to do that is to show them how much they’re missing when they watch movies on DVD, and interactivity is a key part of that. Enter the Sony BDP-S350 and BDP-S550, players …

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• 6 March

  IPTV off the radar in Oz

  

  Although Internet video seems to be going mainstream in the US, the idea of tuning in to IPTV content without needing to connect to a next gen console or home theatre PC is not catching on with Australian vendors, let alone consumers. Major vendors such as Sony, HP, Panasonic, Sharp and LG are responding to this demand with new TVs …

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• 5 March

  Panasonic DMP

  

  The Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray player we checked out recently was terribly exciting, but we’re even keener on the company’s DMP-BD50, which adds one important feature to the Blu-ray arsenal — BD Live. This means that the BD50 — or ‘Fiddy’ as we’ve decided to call it — is basically a profile 2.0 player, making it one of the few announced …

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