Andrew Everard's blog

A bit over a month back, we ran a news story about Gear4's UnityRemote, a £99 package designed to turn your Apple iThingy into a universal remote control handset.At first glance it looked similar to the ThinkFlood RedEye system I'd written about ...

Music history and movie locations in the palm of your hand – that's the promise of a couple of iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad apps I've been playing with recently. One is new – Rock Music Landmarks of London, from Musicroom – while the other – British ...

Joined-up thinking: that was the lasting impression from Samsung’s CES 2011 press conference.We saw TVs with slimmer bezels allowing larger screen sizes within existing enclosure dimensions; sleek Blu-ray players designed for wall-mounting; those ...

Let's get the obvious out of the way right at the start: yes, it is a very silly name.Rocketfish is a house-brand of Best Buy, the massive US-based electrical/consumer electronics retailer with big blue stores all over the States – and in Canada, ...

Just announced this morning is Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo, which brings together live TV with catch-up, on-demand programming and web-based applications, all bundled with a 1TB personal video recorder able to store up to 500 hours of ...

You may have been as amazed as we were to read about the plans for TV coverage should Japan win the 2022 FIFA World Cup; among the proposals was the suggestion that games could be transmitted to football stadiums around the world to be viewed as ...

Sony has launched its first TVs with full internet access in the USA. Four models hit the shops this weekend, along with an internet-enabled Blu-ray player for those wanting to upgrade an existing TV.All the products are powered by Google's ...

I've been in denial for months now, but I've finally cracked. We've been having Wi-Fi problems at home: with more and more wireless networks showing up every time I use the WiFi Scanner software – last weekend I counted 22 – we've found that ...

During yesterday's live forum session with Sony's Eric Kingdon, one question cropped up a few times: 'can my Sony TV/Blu-ray player/home cinema system bought a year or two back be upgraded to receive the Bravia Internet TV service standard in new ...

Following on from my blog-post the other day about what NXT's been up to of late, I caught up with David Archer of SoundScience, the maker of the little QSB speaker system I mentioned there. It's the first system to use NXT's DyadUSB ...