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 Noel Gallagher's iconic Union Jack, Les Paul Gibson guitar; Adam Ant's Kings of the Wild Frontier outfit; Amy Winehouse's dress - just some of the real-life pop artefacts highlighted when news of the British Music Experience,  the new ...

 Did you know the average selling price for a 32in TV was £402 in December? Or that there were still around £2m worth of £1000+ DVD players sold last year? Or that turntables are the fastest-growing hi-fi product?Well you do now, and I'm ...

 Having apparently learned nothing from 10+ years of DVD compatibility issues (anyone remember The Matrix DVD debacle?), we’re now starting to see some new Blu-ray discs that won’t spin in every player. Or, rather, they’ll spin, but ...

Our intrepid editor, Richard Melville, is at Sony HQ in Japan. Before he'd even had time to un-bag his laptop, Sony was shoving musical robots his way. Here's the report, live from his cameraphone, of his encounter with the next-generation ...

 Forget all the blather about the long overdue Guns N' Roses album, the most eagerly awaited item in AV land has been a Freesat HD PVR - the first box that enables you to watch and record free-to-air high-definition TV, without a ...

 Many of the tempting technological marvels we encounter promise a life-enhancing effect. But few of the little beauties qualify as life-changing – yet that’s exactly what home cinema projectors have done for me. Before I run the risk of ...

Almost 24 hours on and i'm still smiling. That's the grin-inducing effect of watching the first two James Bond films - Dr No and From Russia With Love - on Blu-ray.The films are due out on October 20th, along with a seemingly random initial ...

 There are many things you’d expect of a consumer electronics company celebrating its 90th anniversary – but changing its name and predicting a radical reduction in the range of products it may eventually sell aren’t necessarily on the list. ...

 Warning, the following sentence could make you feel very old.Today marks the release of Now 70 - the latest chart-hits compilation that originally launched as Now That's What I Call Music back in 1983. Wow - 70 double-albums (plus many ...

If you've a chance to tune into BBC Radio 4 today at 11.30am - or catch it via Listen Again or BBC iPlayer at a later date - you can hear a great slice of hi-fi nostalgia in the form of The Disappearing Art of the Mix Tape: a programme in praise ...