Category: Home cinema
See-through speakers are back
It is not often we get all excited about speakers but we'll make an exception for the glass speakers from barking mad French manufacturer Waterfall Audio. The company recently updated its range to include a pair of new floorstanders in…
Fusion's screen test
More interesting stuff from UK newbies Fusion Digital. After impressing us with its FVRT100 Freeview decoder/hard disk video recorder and promising an innovative personal video player it is now lining up a plasma screen telly for release. The 42inch FTVPD42W…
LG parades 60incher
LG has unveiled a new range of plasma screen TVs including a 60inch plasma that's one of the biggest on sale in the UK. The company claims that the 60inch RZ-60PY10 and its partner in the PY10 the 42inch…
Sky + for Freeview reviewed
The Guardian has one of the first reviews of the £250 Digifusion FVRT 100 from Fusion Digitec. The digital terrestrial decoder/hard disk video recorder is being billed as the Sky + for Freeview viewer as it is the first of…
2nd largest plasma screen comes to UK
Clear some space in your lounge. Samsung is to bring its flagship 80-inch (which until the recent unveiling of an 84inch screen by Chinese company Skyworth the world's largest plasma screen) to the UK by the end of the year….
Kiss DivX DVD player
Earlier this week Intel unveiled its plans for video over the net (see story below). Now Danish firm KiSS has announced it is planning to introduce a new DVD player that can play high def DivX video files downloaded from…
Tosh hard disk DVD duos
Toshiba is once again gunning for home cinema enthusiasts with the launch of a pair of models that combine hard disk and DVD-based recorders. Due later this month is the £549 RD-XS32 model, which couples an 80GB hard disk with…
Mordaunt Short unleashes Genie
Don't normally get too excited about new speakers, but these curvaceous numbers look very nice and they're from a respected British company too. Called the Mordaunt Short Genie , the home cinema package comprises four magnetically shielded satellites and a…
Chinese take world's largest plasma screen title
So far the race to build the world's largest plasma screen has been the sole preserve of Korean giants Samsung and LG. Now a Chinese company Skyworth is claiming to have caught them both napping and taken the title…
At last – a rival for Sky+
The Sky+ satellite/video recorder is a wonderful product and we certainly couldn't live without it. The trouble is though that you need a dish and a subscription to Sky for it to work. So we are very excited by…