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Buy a car - you remember, it involved going into a dealer and poring over accessory lists, colour charts and all that stuff? - and there are some things you take for granted these days. Like a sound system.Just about every new car on the market ...

  Following our behind the scenes trip to Arcam last week, this week we’ve packed our camera, notepad and ventured to Milton Keynes to visit Yamaha.As you may know, Yamaha merged its AV and music divisions last year, meaning that you’ll ...

It seems the switchover to digital TV in the US is getting even more confusing, with some serious 'will it, won't it' wrangling going on in the hallowed chambers of the legislature.You may remember our news story a few weeks back about move by ...

You know that endless wait while a Blu-ray Disc title loads into your player before the first menu screen appears? And those discs that either refuse point blank to load, or load then stall?Well, it seems it might not just be that the players ...

"What is Arcam up to?" is a topic of much heated debate on our Forums. It's a sign of the interest in one of the stalwarts of British hi-fi and home cinema that one of the most read news stories on whathifi.com right now is our report that Arcam ...

Regular blog readers may remember my report from the Autumn Hong Kong Electronics Fair about these B&W Nautilus lookalike speakers. They're the F-151s from Taiwanese company Forgings, described as being 'in Nau Tilus shape'.Well, the ...

 The dust has settled once more over Nevada, the fat lady has sung, the final whistle has well and truly been blown and the staff of whathifi.com have a supernaturally bad case of jet lag. That's right, folks – we're back from CES! This ...

So you've been reading all the news from CES in Vegas but we thought you might like a peek behind the scenes from the early set-up of the show to choice snaps from the big press conferences.... From Tom Hanks and Usher helping Sony spread the ...

Giving his CES 2009 keynote speech, Sony CEO Howard Stringer today spoke about the battles Sony faces in 2009. He stressed that through innovation and going green, the company would fare well in the year ahead and offer the ultimate entertainment ...

There's been a quiet revolution over the last decade. When DVD came along (offering not just fine picture quality but full multichannel soundtracks), a brand new market sprung into existence: multichannel amps, 5.1 speaker packages, you name it. ...