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UPDATE First impressions: Simple Audio HD multiroom hi-fi system

By Andy Clough | Tue, 12 Jun 2012, 12:38pm

Read our full review of the Simple Audio Roomplayer 1We've been following the progress of Simple Audio for a couple of years now, waiting for this new start-up to bring its long-awaited high-resolution multiroom audio system to market.Well that ...

The Week in HD - Monday 11th June

By Kashfia Kabir | Mon, 11 Jun 2012, 1:22pm

Hello everyone, and welcome to The Week in HD, your weekly guide to the best HD and 3D films, TV shows, and sports. There's plenty of football on the menu with Euro 2012 kicking off last weekend, and with the hotly anticipated first England ...

While you were bunting...

By Andrew Everard | Wed, 6 Jun 2012, 3:18pm

Here's a brief round-up of some of the tech stories you may have missed while you were trying to keep dry under your red, white and blue umbrella, keeping away from Jubilee overload, watching Fearne Cotton finding everything 'amazing', saving ...

The Week in HD - Wednesday 6th June

By Kashfia Kabir | Wed, 6 Jun 2012, 11:02am

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Week in HD, your weekly guide to all the great HD and 3D TV shows, films, sports (Euro 2012 kicks off on Friday) and Blu-ray releases.Hope you had a great Jubilee weekend! While we were away, the Game of ...

A 73in TV for £1000? Or a flatscreen with LED and laser lighting? Mitsubishi, of course...

By Andrew Everard | Thu, 31 May 2012, 3:14pm

Think Mitsubishi, and most UK enthusiasts will probably visualise one of these,  while the plane-spotters on the WHFSV Forums will probably think...  However, Mitsubishi Electric is a TV force to be reckoned with in its home ...

The Week in HD - Monday 28th May

By Kashfia Kabir | Mon, 28 May 2012, 12:47pm

Welcome to The Week in HD, where we guide you through our favourite HD TV shows, films, Blu-ray releases and sports for the week. What a great weekend it was, whether you were out in the glorious sunshine, or watching Mark Webber win the ...

Too expensive in Japan, and now in Korea, too? Top TV names look to China for the future of manufacturing

By Andrew Everard | Fri, 25 May 2012, 12:36pm

It's been a turbulent week or so in the TV business, starting with the news that Panasonic and Sony, once the driving forces of TV manufacturing, are looking to form a joint venture to develop OLED TVs in order to maintain competitiveness with ...

Review: Stone Roses, War and Peace (Simon Spence)

By Chris Gilson | Thu, 24 May 2012, 3:34pm

Like something from Awakenings, the Stone Roses bandwagon has once again rumbled into life.This time, however, with good cause: the potential reunion of the ‘classic’ 1989 line up, burying of hatchets all round and even a third (fourth if you’re ...

The Week in HD - Monday 21st May

By Kashfia Kabir | Mon, 21 May 2012, 4:05pm

Welcome to The Week in HD, where we guide you through our favourite HD and 3D TV shows, films, sports and Blu-ray releases for the week. We start today with exciting news: the first Skyfall trailer was released this morning, with Daniel ...

Onkyo: keeping the features race and sound quality in harmony

By Andrew Everard | Sun, 20 May 2012, 4:28pm

It's almost exactly five years since I visited Onkyo in Osaka: reporting from that trip back in May 2007, I said the company seemed to be 'an outfit with the established leaders of the European home cinema market – notably Denon and Yamaha – ...