Category: Home cinema
JVC: 2004 line-up
JVC promises an eclectic mix of new products for 2004 including a 50 inch plasma with optical wireless technology, DVD Recorders with hard drives and, er, a new wood cone speaker technology that has involved a thorough soaking in sake…
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…
Goodmans DVD/DTT combi
Er is it a DVD player, is it a digital terrestrial box? Well, actually it's both. Goodmans is the latest company to have gone combi crazy with a Freeview box wrapped up inside a DVD player (or is it…
Fusion's Freeview box with 7 day guide
At last a digital terrestrial set-top box with a 7 day electronic programme guide (EPG) rather than the near useless 'now and next' facility. According to ERT magazine, the new £79.99 Digifusion FRT100 carries a full seven day guide…
LG goes wireless
Over in Korea LG has been parading the products it intends to launch in the coming year. Due in spring is a DVD-based surround sound system the XD-D6535 that features a pair of wireless rear speakers. Apparently the system…
Elac goes lifestyle (again)
We've always been suckers for the elegance of the German made Elac speakers. They combine ultra stylish contemporary aluminium finishes with a sound quality that has had makers of conventional wooden speakers looking their shoulders. Latest off Elac's production…
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…
LG's flat screen combi
Remember when DVD players were chunky boxes that sat under even chunkier TVs? Not any more it seems. Korean company LG has launched a 17 inch flat-screen LCD telly that features an integrated DVD player. Although obviously computers have…
Fergie Hill reinvents the speaker
Apparently they took ten years to design – and looking at that ultra weird circular acrylic horn we are not surprised. They are the Ferguson Hill FH001 speakers the debut product from a new British audio company. The first…
Dual Layer DVD – 16 hours on one disc
The DVD+RW Alliance, including Sony, Philips, Thomson and Yamaha, announced the launch of a dual layer DVD+R disc at the CEATEC show in Japan. Demonstrated by Philips, the dual layer technology will allow you to record DVD quality video of…