Here are some things that aren't dead: Jeff Goldblum and plasma TVs. Of course, if you're reading this in 2050 there's a good chance that Jeff Goldblum is now dead, but if it's 2050, why on Earth are you reading about a plasma from 41 years ago? That's like us reading about a black and white TV in a little wooden cabinet. Anyway, how is the future? Are there hoverboards yet? Is 3D TV still a dismal waste of time? Please, do tell us all about your exciting futuristic lives via the comments section -- it's been fitted with a flux capacitor which should enable your thoughts to transcend the usual rules of linear time. So, as we were saying, plasma isn't dead, despite rumours to the contrary, and LG's 50PS6000 should help persuade you of this unassailable fact.

Happy days, news lovers: from spring 2010 you'll be able to watch every disaster, crime spree and corrupt politician in fabulous high definition when Sky launches Sky News HD. Hopefully there will be Dolby Digital surround sound too, so we can hear the boos from backbenchers in Parliament as if we were Gordon Brown himself.

A week after the BBC's catchup service went hi-def on the iPlayer Web site, Virgin Media customers can now stream HD iPlayer content through the Virgin V+ HD set-top box, absolutely free. You'll need to be a licence-payer, of course.

It turns out sorry isn't the hardest word after all. Notorious ladies' man Russell Brand is apologising again, but we don't blame him for this one: he's one of the Channel 4 stars with a message for Mac users. Hit play on the video after the jump to see just what the 4oD catch-up service has to say for itself.

Crave was recently invited to plush old Harrods, if you please, to tour the Loewe mini-store. Donning our best bib and tucker, we got a fascinating insight into the well-to-do audience for the German manufacturer's stylish and desirable TVs. As a shopping experience, it's about as far away from your high street electrical store as you can imagine. While we were being guided around the range, we noticed the Loewe Art SL 42 Full-HD+ 100 DR+, and couldn't help developing a sizeable techno-crush on it.

Last week we reported that the BBC began streaming live TV to mobile phones in the UK. BBCs One, Two, Three and Four, and BBC Radios One to Seven, plus others, are now available for over-Wi-Fi streaming to various handsets, including the Nokia N96, and we've been trying it out over the weekend.

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After ushering in a revolutionary, perception-altering paradigm shift by changing the Eee PC's motto from 'Easy to learn, easy to work, easy to play' to the far more enlightening 'Easy, excellent, exciting', Asus dropped off news about its first wireless LCD computer monitors -- the EzLink Series.

If memory serves -- and it often does -- these Wireless USB monitors were first hinted at in the middle of last year, when Realtek announced its collaboration with Asus on their creation. But we just got word from Asus that they now exist!

Details are scarce of course, and Asus hasn't got back to us regarding exact specifications. But it looks like these monitors will be the first to connect to your desktop or laptop without touching -- y'know, like your parents in bed -- and the promise is the same user experience conventional wired displays offer.

Apple appears to be getting serious about Apple TV.

The company's link between the computer and the big-screen television has long been considered a "hobby" in the eyes of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, at least when viewed against major projects like the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone. But signs have been growing that Apple is thinking about making a more significant investment in Apple TV.

The most recent tip was a survey that Apple conducted online on Tuesday, which has since disappeared from the company's Web site but was captured by AppleInsider. In that survey, Apple asked Apple TV owners a number of questions about the sources of video they are watching on the device, as well as asking owners to describe the one thing they would change about the device.

Sharp has obviously decided that new tellies aren't the order of the (Valentine's) day when a new lick of paint will do. So, with the greeting-card industry's favourite 24 hours looming, the Sharp Aquos LC-19D1E high-definition television is getting a new red edition.

Going red is a good thing. LG may have annoyed the heck out of us when it turned Scarlet, but long-time Craveologists will have noticed that red became our new accent colour in CNET UK's recent facelift. We like the LC-19D1E, describing it in our review as: "A great all-round performer at an affordable price... It's the best-value small-screen TV we've seen yet."

The LC-19D1E is a mere 19 inches corner to corner, but does boast a 176° viewing angle and 1,366x768-pixel resolution -- perfect for catching up with our current favourite redhead, Mad Men's razor-tongued seductive secretary Joan Holloway.

Sony invited us along to a launch event recently for its swanky new OLED Bravia TV, an ultra-thin wireless telly and a new picture frame screen -- we geared up with a camera and mic and recorded the whole thing for posterity in this video. Although the company seemed to be saving money by turning off as many lights as possible, we managed to get a good look at each model.

More exciting TV news from JVC! The LT-42WX70 forms the centrepiece of a modular home entertainment system with one eye on the photographer, designed to give you the freedom to move all the kit around as you want it. JVC calls it 'layout free', which doesn't quite make sense, but we'll let that go.

JVC reckon the WX70 will be perfect for the dSLR camera user, with a DynaPix HD engine under the bonnet giving accurate colour reproduction, and a wider colour gamut than most. This means it displays more colours -- achieving 100 per cent sRGB and HDTV, and 96 per cent Adobe RGB colour spaces, fact fans -- so should give more accurate representation of your pictures. JVC claims you will get perfect colour consistency between camera and screen, so the image you capture will be what you see on your TV.

The WX70 can be used as a monitor as well as a TV for those with an interest in photography. In fact, it's at the heart of a modular range of equipment. From March you will be able to mix and match telly, speaker bar and tuner. Later in the year there'll be a tuner with a hard-disk drive, and a tuner with a DVD player. Meanwhile freesat, Blu-ray and Internet-enabled tuners are on the roadmap.