Aside from a few of the scantily clad promotions girls, the most eye-catching model at last week’s Stuff Show was a concept home cinema system from Sony’s latest Esprit range. Sony is well aware that style is regarded as one of the defining factors influencing buying decisions and the ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’ emanating from the …
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November, 2006
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8 November
Crave Talk: Here comes the cable virgin
Having problems with your NTL or Telewest cable service? Confused by the fact that the merged ntl:Telewest company also bought a mobile phone operator, Virgin Mobile? Let your confusion end: from the beginning of next year the whole lot will be packaged under the Virgin brand with a much more friendly logo. So that’s alright then. There’s no question that …
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3 November
LG BD100: Darren Campbell unveils LG’s Blu
Today marked the unveiling of LG’s Blu-ray player — the BD100. Sparing no expense, the guys at LG marked the rollout by inviting Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter Darren Campbell, who was only too happy to lend a hand. The BD100 is a full 1080p model featuring an HDCP-compliant HDMI port, as well as component, composite and coaxial for good measure. You …
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3 November
Panasonic PT
With next-generation devices like Samsung’s BD-P1000 Blu-ray player (reviewed here), Toshiba’s HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD DVD players and Sony’s PlayStation 3 (previewed here) moving from prototype to product, television buyers have been eyeing up ‘Full HD’ screens that support 1080p, the smoothest and most detailed of the hi-def signals. Equivalent projectors, however, seem to have been overlooked by all but …
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3 November
Are you going to have Christmas in high definition?
Is it going to be a high-definition Christmas for you? By the end of this year there will be 2.4 million HD Ready TVs in UK households, according to market research honchos GfK. This means that nearly 10 per cent of all households will be HD Ready, compared to 2 per cent at the beginning of 2006. Of course, having …
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2 November
The death of TV: Google to smack down UK’s top channels
The deformed children of the first dotcom boom roam the streets like dogs, but it looks like background radiation must be reaching safe levels again because new heroes are rising. Google’s purchase of YouTube for $1.65bn and Murdoch’s acquisition of MySpace for $580m are just two of the more flamboyant transactions sprung from this new-found confidence. But this is just …
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2 November
Samsung BD
Samsung was the first to release a Blu-ray disc player in the US, and has said it will also be the first to release one in Europe and the UK. The BD-P1000 will hit Blighty at around the same time as the Panasonic DMP-BD10, which is two months before Toshiba’s HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD DVD players. We saw the BD-P1000 …
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1 November
Evesham 47″: Cheap Full HD LCD TV
We all know Full HD 1080p tellies are teef. You can spend upwards of £3,500 on a 46-inch Sony, so what hope is there for the broke, stinking proletariat? Fear not — Evesham chief executive Richard Austin seems to have handed us a lifeline. Possibly feeling a twinge of guilt after splashing a tramp with freezing puddle water while driving one of his many …
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October, 2006
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20 October
LG 100
In a bid that would have had the late Roy Castle reaching for his trumpet and parping an impromptu performance of Dedication’s What You Need, LG has entered the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 with the world’s largest LCD TV. LG’s leviathan 100-inch LCD has snatched the record from Samsung, with a screen that’s 1.5 times larger than the …
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19 October
Can I buy a 37
I have £1,000 to spend on a new LCD TV but the choice is confusing. I have simple requirements: it has to be HD Ready, be 37-inches in screen size and have the highest resolution possible. I know a lot is down to personal choice, but I simply want a TV for everyday viewing — no games or PC connectivity …
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