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Hitachi has announced the arrival of the world's first Blu-ray camcorders, offering 1920x1080-pixel HD recording onto miniature BD-R (recordable Blu-ray) discs. And in a parallel move, recording media companies Imation and Verbatim heralded ...

Most of the talk in the world of radio may be about DAB, but NAD is going against the trend with the launch of a new analogue tuner covering the FM/AM bands. The company says the C425, which will sell for around £200, is designed for ...

What with the European directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, otherwise known as WEEE, and the one on the Reduction of Hazardous Substances, the consumer electronics industry has found itself having to take environmental ...

It's been a bit of a speakerfest around here recently, what with the new models from Mordaunt-Short and Sonus Faber (below). But none of those designs is as radical as the new Naima, from Danish company Kibri, which uses a conventional ...

Italian speaker master Sonus Faber has upgraded its Cremona speakers to create the new Cremona M version. Selling for £5394 a pair through UK distributor Absolute Sounds, the new speaker combines the company's usual superb quality of ...

Not content with having just launched its Alumni home cinema speaker system (see here), Mordaunt-Short has announced upgraded versions of the largest speakers in its Avant 900 range. The 914i and 916i feature the latest version of the ...

Ever since Sony announced the availability in the USA of its BDP-S300 Blu-ray player, which slots in below the original BDP-S1, I've been endeavouring to find out when, or indeed if, it would be coming to the UK, writes Andrew Everard. ...

Mordaunt-Short's Alumni home cinema sub/sat speaker package will be available from next month, either as a 2.1 or full 5.1 package. Designed at the company's UK R&D centre, the speakers use a curved cabinet design intended to ...

Almost five years since it showed a concept system at its DreamWorld showcase in Yokohama, Japan, Sony has launched its first in-car SACD players in the States. One model is a combined DVD-V/SACD machine, and fits in a double-DIN dashboard ...

Sharp has reinforced its commitment to LCD screen technology with the announcement of plans for a massive plant to make the displays. The factory, due to come on-stream by March 2010, has a capacity of over a million screens a month. And in ...