Joe Cox's blog

Now here's a speaker design you don't see every day... Perfect8 Technologies is a Swedish speaker manufacturer that aims to make speakers that double as sculpted 'works of art'. Now we've all heard that kind of claim ...

We may not have been overly enamored with the Xbox 360's HD DVD drive when we saw it, but Microsoft is doing its level best to sell its player as an HD source. The latest HD development for Xbox owners comes with the release of Xbox LIVE ...

You may know Hauppauge for its shiny little TV tuners or assorted PC peripherals, but here's something a little different. The XFones PC-2400 are wireless, USB headphones, designed to deliver an idiot-proof way of listening to your PC or ...

If you're in the market for some MP3 accessories for Christmas, you could do worse than look at the latest that Proporta has to offer. Find yourself something nice and you could win one of many Apple iPods, and other assorted prizes, in ...

Yes, you read that right: the latest HD player is coming to a shopping channel near you – QVC to be precise. Out on December 29th, the Venturer SHD7001 will almost certainly be the cheapest HD player on the market – we expect it to retail ...

KEF has announced a plethora of new systems to join its KIT range of 'Instant Theatre' systems. From solutions that aim to deliver surround sound from just two front speakers, to KEF's trademark 'egg' 5.1 systems, all ...

If you were thinking of buying the excellent Q Acoustics 1010i 5.1 system in time for Christmas then you might have a problem. News reaches us from Q Acoustics of a supply problem with the 1000Si subwoofer meaning, simply, there aren't ...

We're well aware there are plenty of people who do all of their home music listening via a PC or MP3 player – we have a few such people in our office. So it was no surprise that we were so enamoured with the original Audioengine A5 ...

It may be a touch predictable, but we greet the news that consumers are shunning both DRM-protected files and MP3s encoded at lower bitrates, with a great deal of pleasure. The good news comes from digital download service 7Digital, which we ...

BenQ has announced a host of new projectors in time for Christmas. We'll turn a blind eye to the three office-aimed business projectors and instead focus on the two 1080p, widescreen efforts – the W5000 and the W20000. We've been ...