Simon Lucas's blog
Living with Sky+ HD, Sky Anytime and Sky 3D
We’ve showered the Sky+ HD box with five-star ratings and Awards before, but with new 3D capability and the Anytime+ on-demand service, let’s see what it’s like in action If last year’s Product of the Year Award for Sky’s Sky+ HD 1TB box ...
ISE 2011: The art of projector screens
More news from the ‘sad-but-true’ department: despite the burgeoning popularity of home cinema projectors, consumers don’t pay anything like as much attention to the screen they’re projecting onto as they do to all the other aspects of their home ...
Sharp at CES 2011: nearing its centenary, and looking forward to Galapagos
There was a commendable lack of self-congratulation at the Sharp press conference this lunchtime (lunch, incidentally, was of the Saran-wrapped variety that’s seemingly built to withstand a nuclear strike). For a company on the cusp of its ...
LG at CES 2011: Get up, get there, get Smart
8am in the bowels of the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, and the aroma of poorly rested technology journalists hangs heavy in the air. LG is kicking off CES 2011 and the room is packed beyond capacity, self-important cameramen jockeying for position ...
Cabasse Pacific 3 launch in Paris
It’s not difficult to be a Francophile when Paris is bathed in September sunshine. It’s easier still when Cabasse Deputy General Manager Guy Bourreau excuses himself from a most agreeable couple of hours in a brasserie with sincere ...
A meeting with the big cheese at DALI HQ
What better way to spend a Wednesday than visiting DALI in wet and windy Denmark? By DALI I mean Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries, of course, rather than the playful, generously moustachioed and inconveniently deceased Spanish ...
Sharp QuadPixel: to its members it's the fourth primary colour
Are you tired by your TV’s inability to display more than a miserable billion colours? The good people at Sharp think you must be, which is why the company has chosen today at CES to unveil its proprietary QuadPixel technology.As the name ...
CES: Leaving on a Jet Plane... to Las Vegas
I know Mondays can drag, especially when it's the first one back after a break, but this one has been more protracted than most - 32 hours, in fact. My flight from Gatwick left at about noon on Monday, and after a full ten hours sitting ...
Behind the wheel with LG at Silverstone
On the starting grid – Porsche, Lotus and Aston MartinBe in no doubt that the good people at LG mean business. The 2009-10 range of LG LCD and plasma screens is outlined in exhaustive detail here, but if a product launch is worth celebrating it's ...
Worthing, Oscar Wilde and B&W's Panorama soundbar
B&W's Panorama soundbarWorthing is an unsentimental sort of a town – the building where Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest is, these days, a used-car showroom. It could well be the country's only second-hand dealership ...
