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NEWS: BBC plans full-scale HDTV service

By Andrew Everard | Fri, 8 Jun 2007, 11:51am

The BBC is planning to evolve its existing HD trial, available on Sky and cable, into a full-scale HDTV service. And that could mean up to nine hours of HD content every night. The plan is that the service will be available entirely free on ...

NEWS: Terratec combines wi-fi radio with iPod dock

By Andrew Everard | Fri, 8 Jun 2007, 10:44am

Just when you thought you'd seen everything there was to be done with iPod docks – and indeed internet radio devices - along comes TerraTec with its Noxon 2. Not content with being a wi-fi music streaming device with internet radio ...

NEWS: 02 Wireless Festival to be broadcast live online

By Dominic Dawes | Fri, 8 Jun 2007, 10:34am

Are you a fan of The White Stripes? How about Kaiser Chiefs? What about Daft Punk, or even Faithless? If you answered 'yes' to all those questions, you really should have tickets to the 02 Wireless Festival, which runs from the ...

NEWS: Hide your flatscreen TV in the fireplace

By Andy Clough | Fri, 8 Jun 2007, 10:26am

Lottery winners roll up! If you want to get one up on your neighbours, we’ve got just the thing: a marble fireplace designed to hide your flatscreen TV when it’s not in use. Picture House has created the Kiara, yours for the princely sum of ...

NEWS: Armour unveils 160GB music server

By Andy Clough | Thu, 7 Jun 2007, 5:22pm

Armour Home Electronics has taken the wraps off its new Systemline hard disc drive music server, available now for £1250. The 160GB device allows users to store, navigate and play their CDs, selecting music by genre, album or artist, and to ...

NEWS: Backlash against 'too loud' albums

By Andrew Everard | Thu, 7 Jun 2007, 5:00pm

You know those people who're always grizzling on about how modern albums sound rubbish, and that they're nothing but noise? Seems they may have a point: an article in The Times recently talked to some producers of classic albums who ...

NEWS: Denon brings back budget hi-fi

By Andy Clough | Thu, 7 Jun 2007, 4:36pm

Denon is returning to its hi-fi roots with the launch of the budget 500 Advanced Evolution series – the PMA-500AE hi-fi amplifier (£180), and matching DCD-500AE CD player (£160). Both components are designed to offer high performance at ...

Digital radio - not all it's cracked up to be?

By Andy Clough | Wed, 6 Jun 2007, 5:54pm

So, the BBC reckons some parts of the country will never get DAB radio as it's too expensive. Given my own experience of the format, I wouldn't worry too much, says Andy Clough. DAB is supposed to give crystal-clear sound without the ...

NEWS: Toshiba takes laptop route to deliver big push for HD DVD

By Dominic Dawes | Wed, 6 Jun 2007, 2:49pm

Toshiba aims to put HD DVD disk drives on all its laptops next year. The company is in direct competition with Sony and Blu-ray, as it tries to counter Sony's advantage gained by all those Blu-ray drives sitting in every PS3 console. The ...

NEWS: Warners teams with web company to give away music – for free!

By Dominic Dawes | Wed, 6 Jun 2007, 12:35pm

From today, visitors to website lala.com will be able to listen to the digital music catalogue of Warner Music Group Corp. on their computers - for free. The site allows you to stream music freely on demand, only buying it if you want to ...