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Andrew Everard
18 November 2009 14:13
The whole Channel 4 3D hoopla had kind of passed me by, until I was exchanging a faulty DVD at customer services in Sainsburys last weekend and spotted a huge dump-bin full of chequerboard-printed cardboard 3D specs. Grabbed a fistful for self, friends
Filed under: 3D TV, The Queen in 3D, Channel 4, Arthur Wooster, Bob Angell
Andrew Everard
20 August 2009 15:12
The price of LCD TV panels is on the up, and that's bad news for those companies who buy in their displays from other manufacturers, and good for those still making screens in-house. The main problems are the huge demand from the emerging flatscreen TV
Filed under: Samsung, Sharp, Sony, LCD TVs, LCD panel price rises
Andrew Everard
17 August 2009 15:17
Ever had one of those moments when you're doing something very routine, and you get a sudden inkling something's not quite right? I had one while being very domestic and hanging out the washing yesterday. Something just felt wrong, and when I looked round,
Filed under: Freesat, Sky, Satellite dish
Andrew Everard
10 July 2009 16:15
Launched in the past couple of days in the States, Sharp's new LE700 Aquos LED TVs – that's LED-backlit LCDs to you and me – not only claim excellent picture quality, but some novel facilities, too. Yes, I know: every new TV range claims unsurpassed picture
Filed under: picture calibration, Aquos LED, Aquos Advantage Live, Sharp
Andrew Everard
07 July 2009 16:35
With all the talk about the Global Economic Situation, you might expect that things are a bit slow for the world's TV makers. Not so – massive demand for the latest eighth-generation LCD screens means that the world's biggest manufacturers are struggling
Filed under: Paju Display Cluster, LG, 8th-generation LCD, China, LCD TV TV
Andy Clough
06 July 2009 13:58
How much TV do you watch online? I ask the question because the BBC iPlayer has been a huge success, and today The MediaGuardian reports that the US catchup TV portal Hulu is heading for the UK. Never heard of Hulu? Nor had I. But what I do know is that
Filed under: YouTube, Hulu, broadband, Project canvas, internet TV, IPTV, BBC iPlayer
Andrew Everard
27 May 2009 12:23
They may be spending more time than usual keeping a nervous eye on what's going on just north of their Paju display factory at the moment, but that hasn't stopped LG's TV engineers coming up with a couple of serious technological breakthroughs of late.
Filed under: 3D TV, thinnest LCD TV, flatscreen displays, Paju Display Cluster, LG
Joe Cox
22 May 2009 16:31
Welcome to The Week in HD. This week, you're in for a treat. Tom is currently easing himself in to his lederhosen and no doubt sampling some sausage on a romantic weekend away with his good lady in Munich - he assures us that the clash with the Munich
Tom Parsons
15 May 2009 14:26
Ok, so it’s magazine deadline week and all those exclusive reviews aren’t going to write themselves, so this Week in HD is going to have to be a quick one. So yes, I’ve cheated, and there are some things listed here without any explanation, and some with
Andrew Everard
12 May 2009 11:13
OK, OK, so the press image is more than a bit fanciful – never was the disclaimer more relevant – but NEC's engineers think they're on to something when it comes to the one thing likely to crack 3D TV in the home: the ability to get dimensional effects
Filed under: LCD TV, NEC, 3D TV
Tom Parsons
08 May 2009 16:11
This week's another fairly quiet one for games and Blu-rays, but the TV line-up includes plenty of cricket, football and some cracking shows. Oh, and remember, if you're a Sky user you can set recordings from sky.com, but you need to have set up Remote
Tom Parsons
01 May 2009 18:14
That’s right, the greatest blog-feature in the history of the internet* is back! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, this is my regular look at the best HD content coming over the next week. It doesn’t matter if it’s a game, Blu-ray or TV show –
Filed under: home cinema, bbc hd
Andrew Everard
14 April 2009 12:11
It seems Pioneer's decision to pull out of the TV market , depriving consumers and retailers of reassuringly expensive flat-panel models, is providing an opportunity for other companies. And clearly some of them believe that, even in These Difficult Economic
Filed under: Samsung, plasma TV, Panasonic, LED TV, LCD TV, Pioneer
Andy Clough
26 February 2009 12:07
As we've already reported in our News channel , Panasonic has unveiled a staggering array of new Viera TVs for 2009, plus two Freesat HDD/Blu-ray recorders , three new Blu-ray players , a host of Blu-ray home cinema in a box systems, plus new DVD players
Richard Melville
18 December 2008 13:41
Ok, so it’s not often you get to go to BBC’s Television House and see the return of one of the country’s most-loved TV shows but that’s exactly what we did recently. What are we talking about? The return of Top of The Pops , of course! It’s back for one
Filed under: bbc hd, top of the pops, alex burke, x factor