Month: November 2003
Digital TV price crash
At last, it looks like being a good Xmas for the UK's digital terrestrial service, Freeview with prices of Integrated Digital TVs (IDTVs) and digital set-top boxes falling through the floor. According to idtv's latest survey, average prices have…
Epson's digital photo album
Remember when photo albums were coffee table sized books with pages that fell out and pictures that came unstuck? Now Epson has come up with an electronic version – a great idea, even if the £499 price tag is around…
Fashion icons?
"If you go into any high-street retailer and look at the consumer electronics, you are confronted by a sea of banal, ugly products which relate to nothing in the world except the other products next to them on the…
Apple's 'world's fastest PC' ad banned
The British TV watchdog has banned Apple's PowerMac G5 TV commercial because its 'world's fastest personal computer' claim could not be fully supported. Though the ad was initially given the green light, the Independent Television Commission (ITC) decided to…
First camera phone with autofocus
Is Panasonic set to become the major new force in mobile phones in the UK? Well it could be if it can bring models like the P505iS to these shores. Just launched in Japan it is the first camera…
02 X1 review
** Latest news – O2 has announced the sucessor to the X1, and it is a much better handset. Click here for more details O2's excellent revamp of the XDA might be its high profile launch for this month,…
DVD recorder for under £200
Manufacturers always said the DVD recorder market would take off when the price of recorders fell to around that of DVD players. Well expect sales to rocket as Sainsbury's is now offering the Mico Espejo DVDR311 at between £199-229. The…
Sony's video iPod
Sony's first ever personal video player, the Giga Pocket PCVA-HVP20, is to go on sale in Japan later this month. The device lets users take view video files from their PC on the move. The good news is that…
Five reasons not to buy an iPod
Eliot Van Buskirk is a very brave man. Last week The Guardian suggested that there might be other manufacturers out there who one day could come up with a better MP3 player than the Apple iPod. Over 100 outraged…
Apple to ignore media centre market
Rather odd news from Apple. In an interview last week CEO Steve Jobs told the press that the company wasn't interested in producing a media centre type product (which includes a TV and video recording software) as he saw the…