Andrew Everard's blog

Strange blog from the usually dispassionate DisplaySearch, gatherer of information and analysis to do with the flatscreen industry, suggesting that Ikea's announcement of furniture with integrated TVs 'shames' the consumer electronics industry.In ...

The Audyssey Lower East Side Media speakers may be tiny, but they can kick up a storm...  Just occasionally products slip through the WHFSV review net: we only have so many pages each month, and the competition for space can get ...

There's an unwritten rule in organising press events: Never let the engineers do the presentation.          Too many times I've sat through endless sets of PowerPoint slides as the R&D people ...

Disc of the month     Super 8: fine film-making and superb sound    Super 8 | Blu-ray | *****    Given Hollywood’s current enthusiasm for low-risk productions, it should be no surprise that so ...

(...Or 'How Japan's consumer electronics companies went from masters of the TV universe to "Holy s—, now what?"') Just about three months ago I wrote a blog post about the fears being expressed that 'Made in Japan' was proving unsustainably ...

I missed out on hearing the Neat Iota speakers when they were launched at the Manchester Show last Autumn, but the buzz from those who were there was such that I put in a request for a review pair unheard.And having finally got my hands on a pair ...

Disc of the month    HBO’s flagship is a Blu-ray must-buy   Boardwalk Empire: Season One | Blu-ray | ***** Thank heavens for HBO. While Britain’s own broadcasters seem mired in a repetitive spiral of talent shows and ...

The death has been announced of the British industrial designer David Lewis, who over almost half a century shaped the design of one of the most iconic brands in consumer electronics, Bang & Olufsen.Born in London in 1939, David Lewis trained ...

There was a disaster movie of a few years back called Nihon Chinbotsu – literally Japan Sinks – which a) beat the much more famous 2012 to the jump, having been released in 2006, and b) doesn't look so far-fetched after the earthquake and tsunami ...

I'm often told hi-fi shows aren't what they used to be, and those with fond memories of thronged corridors and packed rooms often express a wistful desire to go back to those days.You can see their point: with the possible exception of the ...