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With next-generation devices like Samsung’s BD-P1000 Blu-ray player (reviewed here), Toshiba’s HD-E1 and HD-XE1 HD …

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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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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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