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Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll(Entertainent in Video Blu-ray, Cert 15) Confession time: I'm old enough to have seen the Pistols during their brief moment in the sun, to have emerged drenched in sweat, beer and god knows what else into a ...

With 2m sold worldwide in a couple of months, and queues still outside Apple Stores, the success of the iPad looks pretty much assured – even though some are hailing it as the future and others aren't too sure what it's for.However, the consumer ...

It's been niggling me ever since I got the iPhone a few weeks back: how could I turn it into a remote control for the home AV system? OK, so I already have the excellent Logitech Harmony 885, which gives me one button fire-up of everything ...

3D could be come the de facto entertainment standard in as little as a couple of years – that's the view of Avatar director James Cameron, speaking at a technology forum in South Korea this week.Cameron told the Seoul Digital Forum that he sees ...

Day oneForum member Garth Man posts a find. A multiregion Blu-ray player, selling for just £57.99. We follow the link, have a quick look at the Foehn & Hirsch BD2101, and within an hour someone with more credit limit than sense – ie me – ...

Not sure where else to put this, but thought you might like to be kept up to speed with what's going on with moves to bring 3D TV into the home. No, not just the Blu-ray stuff, but proper telly in 3D, too.Panasonic showed three major elements of ...

Shares in Arisawa Manufacturing Co rose 7.4% yesterday on the Tokyo stock exchange.Why should that mean anything to anyone? Well, the increase in value was all to do with reports that the company is planning an increase in manufacturing and sales ...

For those of us brought up on the old order, where the big Japanese companies held the technological high ground and the upstart Korean rivals carved out a market share with aggressive pricing, here comes a culture-shock.Sony has announced plans ...

Panem et circenses. It's worked since the Roman days, and it seems it still hasn't lost its appeal to politicians when it comes to getting the populace on-message.The OFCOM ruling requiring Sky to cut the wholesale prices it charges to other ...

While we wait for Sky to announce the go-date for its consumer 3D offering, and broadcast services supplier Technicolor has the dress and all the accessories, just no party to go to yet, in Korea the broadcast providers are supporting their local ...