So you’ve got all that wonderful home cinema gear installed in your house, everything is …

After years of the chunky monkey CRT dominating the living room, LCD and plasma screens have enormously reduced the space needed to house a TV. There’s still an unsightly thick plastic frame round most screens, though — because big frames increase the structural strength of the TV. But now Toshiba has overcome this engineering challenge with the X Series Picture …

When the Toshiba HD-EP30 HD DVD player landed on our doormat yesterday, we were keen to put it next to our long-term loan sample HD-E1 and see how the two players differ. This is especially important because if you’re an American (the EP30 is called the A30 in the US and the E1 is known as the A2), or you …