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NEWS: Nine Inch Nails give record companies the slip

By Joe Cox | Wed, 7 May 2008, 11:46am

Nine Inch Nails have made their latest album available to download completely and utterly free from the band's website. What's more, 'The Slip' is available in four different formats – MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC and WAVE ...

NEWS: Accept no imitations: original Marvel classics set for DVD release

By Joe Cox | Wed, 7 May 2008, 11:18am

Whether you'll be getting the chance to watch them for the first time or, perhaps more likely, you'll be reliving Saturday mornings spent in front of the TV as a nipper, we have great news: the original Marvel animated classics have ...

NEWS: Audio-Technica's £250 in-ear buds

By Joe Cox | Wed, 7 May 2008, 10:49am

Hot-on-the-heels of our review of the fine ATH-W1000 Sovereign high-end headphones in the June issue of our magazine – available now in all good newsagents – Audio-Technica has announced the ATH-CK10. Despite the name, there's no ...

NEWS: Intempo launches internet radio portal

By Joe Cox | Fri, 2 May 2008, 9:30am

Intempo is set to offer radio listeners more choice with the launch of the first version of its Radio Portal this month. The portal allows users to access over 30,000 radio stations and podcasts, whilst also allowing access to services ...

NEWS: LG sees Scarlet with new LCD TVs

By Joe Cox | Thu, 1 May 2008, 12:39pm

The 'Scarlet' range? Has LG been playing 24hr Cluedo marathons again? Can we expect to see the 'Mustard' and 'Plum' ranges any time soon? Who knows? What we do know from these pictures is that this new range of LCD ...

NEWS: Wireless Sharp TV hits Japan; US to follow...

By Joe Cox | Thu, 1 May 2008, 11:58am

Sharp has teamed-up with wireless technology company AMIMON to launch a slimline LCD TV complete with wireless HD TV capability. Sharp's X-series models will feature a separate tuner box capable of delivering uncompressed HD video ...

NEWS: Dualit launches DAB Lite radio

By Joe Cox | Thu, 1 May 2008, 10:43am

We were surprisingly impressed by Dualit's first offering to the radio market, the Dualit DAB kitchen radio offering a stylish finish backed-up by decent sound. A year or so on and the company has got round to a second release. The DAB ...

NEWS: Sharp's new 2.1 home cinema system

By Joe Cox | Wed, 30 Apr 2008, 2:56pm

Sharp has announced its latest 2.1 home cinema in a box system, the HT-DV50H. From what we can see it's essentially a floorstanding version of the HT-DV40H, with two tallboy speakers rather than the small, horizontal standmounters used ...

NEWS: We7 and Sony BMG offer tunes for free

By Joe Cox | Mon, 28 Apr 2008, 5:49pm

We7.com has added Sony BMG to the list of record labels on its advert-supported download service. The website has over 500,000 tracks from the likes of Bob Dylan, Editors and Alicia Keys thanks to the Sony BMG tie-in. Tracks are available ...

NEWS: Intelliplug wins Innovation Award

By Joe Cox | Tue, 22 Apr 2008, 2:47pm

In the past it may well have been hard to square your love of AV with your natural concern for the environment, but slowly but surely, it's becoming easier to offset your ravenous consumption of power. Not only are TVs becoming more ...