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CES 2010 may have only just closed its doors, but already our thoughts are turning to the Bristol Sound & Vision Show , running from February 26th-28th at the Marriott City Centre Hotel, Lower Castle Castle Street, Bristol BS1 3AD. Join us there and...

After years of being passed over for the glossiness of other genres, folk is now starting to make a resurgence – and not before time too. Not so long ago, the popular perception of folk music was your archetypal arran-sweatered, bewhiskered patriarch...

Blu-ray vs HD-DVD and MiniDisc vs MP3 remain fresh in the memory, but for the biggest format battle of them all you need to go back to the late 1970s. Having had little competition for its professional U-Matic video cassette player, Sony had high hopes...

I was at the Emirates yesterday as a guest of Sky, and watched the first half in 3D with the rest of the assembled tech media throng. Interestingly, some of the journalists there hadn't seen any kind of 3D demo before, and were pretty excited about finally...

Our man at the official Apple iPad launch, Tom Dunmore, has managed to get his hands on an iPad overnight and grabbed some shots of the device in action. Just in case you missed our coverage of the launch last night , here's a quick recap of the iPad's...

Aston Martin BeoSound DB9 Volante £125,717 4 stars For Fantastic integration between speakers; excellent imaging; poised, controlled bass delivery; expressive midrange; oh, and that V12 engine note Against Unintuitive interface; small display; sounds...

Anyone who's spent a rainy day meticulously compiling a mix tape will have fond memories of the audio cassette. After all, presenting your loved one with an iTunes playlist wouldn't go down quite so well on Valentine's Day, would it? Of course, finding...

THE TEST It’s a problem that most hi-fi lovers have encountered. We start with a modest hi-fi set up, and love listening to our music on it. But over time, the inevitable desire to upgrade arises. Now, it’s easy to say, “No problem, just bin your system...

THE TEST The prospect of hooking up a home cinema amplifier can be a daunting one. They can be intimidating in the extreme, what with all those acronyms across the front panel and different inputs and outputs at the back. So it's no surprise that many...

We caught up with Sony's 'Mr 3D', Tim Page – senior manager, Technology Marketing of Sony Europe – at CES last week, and quizzed him about Sony's plans for 3D TV. Here's what he had to say: 1. What do you think will be the biggest content types to drive...

Rock documentary. Be honest: the next words that entered your head were ‘ This is Spinal Tap ’, right? Yet, helmed by An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim, It Might Get Loud couldn’t be further removed from Rob Reiner’s majestic spoof. Instead...

The new 2010 Sony Bravia range includes Full HD 3D and 3D-ready TVs, plus the company's first 3D Blu-ray player and home cinema in a box system. Many of the new TVs include wi-fi for easy access to Bravia Internet TV, MotionFlow technology for smoother...

Amidst all the hullabaloo of the 2010 International CES, dominated by the massive stands of the best-known global consumer electronics companies, one of the biggest-selling TV manufacturers probably got overlooked by the majority of showgoers. It's not...

We got the full low-down on Panasonic's 2010 range of TVs, Blu-ray players and home cinema systems at CES last week, so here's the range in more detail with technical specs and pictures. Bear in mind these are the US models, with slightly different model...

This is Arcam 's forthcoming Solo Neo, the wi-fi-equipped version of the company's popular all-in-one music system. First shown at CES in Las Vegas, it should be in the shops in April or May this year. From the front there's little to distinguish it from...

It's little surprise, perhaps, but the biggest story to come out of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the continuing, seemingly unstoppable, rise of 3DTV. I say unstoppable. Certainly if the big TV manufacturers have their way, it...

The Taking of Pelham 123 is a movie with all the right ingredients: action movie stalwart Tony Scott directing Denzel Washington and John Travolta as they square up against each other as deal-maker and hostage-taker in the remake of a much-admired heist...

It’s hard to ignore the fact here at CES that the big TV manufacturers are hell-bent on 2010 being the year of 3D TV. Yesterday Sony wheeled out its new Brand Ambassador, Taylor Swift, to perform ‘live in 3D’ – there was something slightly surreal in...

The Samsung press conference at CES 2010 began with the longest queue I've ever seen – by the time I'd reached the back of it I think I might have crossed the border into Utah. But by the time it ended I'd seen the launch of a new app store, the thinnest...

Are you tired by your TV’s inability to display more than a miserable billion colours? The good people at Sharp think you must be, which is why the company has chosen today at CES to unveil its proprietary QuadPixel technology. As the name suggests, QuadPixel...

This just in from WHFSV's crack away team on the ground in Las Vegas: LG played host to a global selection of bleary journalists at the first press conference of CES 2010 this morning, and in spite of an over-long and frankly irrelevant preamble regarding...

How ironic that amidst all the sound and fury of Hollywood’s high-concept, effects-heavy summer outpourings, Kathryn Bigelow’s comparatively low-budget war movie should deliver some of the most profound thrills we’ve experienced in modern cinema. Produced...

I know Mondays can drag, especially when it's the first one back after a break, but this one has been more protracted than most - 32 hours, in fact. My flight from Gatwick left at about noon on Monday, and after a full ten hours sitting bolt upright in...

Morning. Happy New Year and all that. Bit confused today, not least because by the time you hit the big bongs and the Auld Lang Syne , we were already having breakfast. The slight sake hangover didn't help, and neither did the memory of a four-hour plus...

Neill Blomkamp’s genius, and the secret of District 9 ’s appeal, lies in simplicity. The screenplay, which he co-wrote, isn’t hugely original: many of its key plot devices have been used before, most notably in James Caan’s 1988 sci-fi actioner Alien...