Dominic Dawes's blog

There is just something about the London Docklands on a Sunday – silent, weird, half-finished. One is tempted to shout Is there anybody out there at rows of luxury apartments that give off the atmosphere of mausoleums. It's like a futurist ghost ...

 Onkyo has announced a brand new pair of two-channel hi-fi products for the UK.A new CD player, the C-S5VL, and integrated stereo amplifier, the A-5VL, will both hit these shores in June. While exact prices have not been set, Onkyo ...

 4:00pmLast up, we have Stephen Petheram, director of services for Microsoft TV. His talk is largely a series of hyperbolic stats about the (rude) health of the video games industry. And why not? Games consoles like the PS3 and the X-Box 360 ...

Next up is Suranga Chandratillake, the CEO and founder of video search engine, Blinkx. Right now he's doing a brief history of search engines, but hopefully we'll get into the real 'future of television' next. Basically, his schtick is that ...

Hi all. Ok, it's lunchtime at the Digital TV Group summit, and I've just got a few minutes to catch up before I go back into the fray to listen to more talk about the future of TV. At the end of my previous blog I mentioned 'Project Canvas' ...

11:40 am I'm blogging to you live from the annual summit of the DTG. Erik Huggers, director of BBC Future Media and Technology is giving the first keynote speech, on the future of television. His initial comments are about the BBC's ideas ...

Last July I wrote this blog, in which I ranted and raved about some rather limp attempts by the government to look like they were doing something about illegal downloading without actually doing anything at all. The suggestion, back then, ...

 The dust has settled once more over Nevada, the fat lady has sung, the final whistle has well and truly been blown and the staff of whathifi.com have a supernaturally bad case of jet lag. That's right, folks – we're back from CES! This ...

There's been a quiet revolution over the last decade. When DVD came along (offering not just fine picture quality but full multichannel soundtracks), a brand new market sprung into existence: multichannel amps, 5.1 speaker packages, you name it. ...

Last night, I attended a recorded panel discussion organised by speaker manufacturer B&W. The  discussion was about surround sound and its importance to listeners, and it will be posted on the B&W website at the beginning of October. ...