Month: January 2004
Viera – Panasonic's latest signing
After several years of high profile launches Panasonic had a fairly quiet CES. Top billing went to a new range of flat screen LCD and plasma TVs the company has christened Viera. There are ten models in the series…
Onkyo's AV showstopper
The showstopper at the stand of Japanese company Onkyo was undoubtedly its TX-NR1000 AV receiver. In addition to including HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) for optimum quality digital video connections and Dolby, DTS and THX surround sound compatibility, the…
Prismiq media player
Among the newcomers at this year's CES was a company called Prismiq. It paraded a $299 Media Player/Recorder that uses 802.11g to wirelessly transmit video in a home network. Uniquely it boasts software that enables consumers to record TV…
Shell's HomeGenie
One of the more unlikely newcomers to the show was oil giant Shell. Its surprise package is a system called HomeGenie that enables customers to remotely adjust their central heating and lighting either through a PC or a phone…
The best ever compact digital camera?
While we weren't exactly blown away by Sony's line up for 2004, the Japanese giant did display one absolute peach of a product and promised a UK launch for a device that was absent from CES. Sony's killer gadget…
Apple Vs Sony in UK music download showdown
The gossip from the recent Apple Expo in San Francisco is that its iTunes music download service will launch in the spring, possibly coinciding with the arrival of the new iPod mini. While iTunes has been enormously successful in the…
iPod mini killer…
Two days on from the launch of Apple's baby iPods and we already have a product that could give them a run for the money. At CES Aiwa paraded the HZ-WS2000 a 2Gigabyte (36 hours of tunes) player that…
Yamaha's wireless music add-on
Want to pipe music around the house from your home server but don't want to lay loads of cables? At CES in Las Vegas Yamaha unveiled an add-on hi-fi unit for the MusiCAST – its wireless audio streaming system….
Tosh's media server products
Toshiba was one of many companies showing off its digital media server products at CES in Las Vegas. Now available in the US, the SD-H400 features an 80Gb hard drive with progressive DVD player and TiVo-based PVR (Personal Video…
Right on Trac
From Gametrac comes a funky new games console/mobile phone, reports The Daily Mirror Launched at the CES show, it is scheduled to reach the UK in early summer. Users can either play one of the Gametrac's specially created games…