digital tv

Sharp W51SH: The future of UK mobile TV?

Crave We in GB haven't agreed on a standard for mobile digital TV broadcasts, and we're not going to get handsets like these until we do. Sharp told us the successors to these phone models (there were several very similar handsets to the W51SH on display...

Tags: sharp, handsets, broadcasting, clamshell

30 August 2007, 14:38

Toshiba 27WL56: Checking us into rehab

Crave Despite being about the same size as a USB input, HDMI can carry digital video and audio along the same wire, meaning you can cut down on the spider's web of cabling at the back of your TV. Most LCDs above the 26-inch mark have been updated with...

Tags: toshiba, input, lcd, carry

25 July 2005, 10:59

Win Things: Win over £1,000 of gaming gear!

Crave You could win an Xbox 360, a 32-inch Samsung LCD TV and three great games to play in the second of our competitions in our Win Things section in Digital Living. Yesterday we launched our Digital Christmas competition -- a festive frenzy in which...

Tags: section, lcd, samsung, inch

2 November 2006, 12:09

Photos: Sony's E4000 range of designer TVs get swanky launch

Crave To complement the way this TV is styled, it's been optimised for showing digital photos. Bids for this original digital artwork should be addressed to Crave, via our Lavington Street gallery. Last night Crave was invited to a swanky TV launch -- we...

11 July 2008, 12:35

The happy tale of our Digital Christmas competition winner

Crave Our Digital Christmas competition offered one lucky reader the chance to win over £4,000 worth of top-of-the-range tech loveliness, including a 37-inch Panasonic plasma TV, a 15-inch Asus multimedia laptop, a state-of-the-art digital SLR from...

Tags: christmas, inch, digital christmas, panasonic

15 January 2007, 11:58

LG picks up award for best plasma TV

Crave Most prestigious is the Best Plasma TV Award for the 42PC1RR, a 42-inch plasma TV with an integrated digital video recorder. The new RH200MHS takes the Best Digital Video Recorder Award. It's the world's first TV with a built-in pause function that...

Tags: lg electronics, recorder, award, lg

24 August 2006, 8:28

Sharp LC-37B20E: 1080p LCD with a delightfully svelte bezel

Crave You also get optical digital out to connect the TV to a surround-sound system. You even get to chose if you want to set up digital or analogue tuning, which is quite handy for those who have one but not the other.

Tags: sharp, panel, lcd, analogue

20 June 2008, 10:49

Crave Talk: One megapixel, and nothing's on

Crave The BBC has also been a major driving force behind the Freeview digital TV roll-out, in which we're world leaders. But it works: as a nation we're way ahead of the curve on digital deployment. Other broadcasters will want it -- after all, it'll do...

Tags: air, stations, programming, matter

29 June 2006, 10:27

Win a Digital Christmas: Can you find the present icon?

Crave As well as the Panasonic plasma TV and the Asus laptop, it includes a state-of-the-art digital SLR from Olympus, a Samsung E900 slider phone, a Denon DVD-1730 DVD player, a pair of Sennheiser PXC 300 noise-cancelling headphones, a Sling Media...

Tags: icon, laptop, inch, panasonic

8 November 2006, 12:06

Photos: Pioneer Kuro PDP-LX6090 is big, black and beautiful

Crave We certainly aren't looking forward to testing it with Freeview, although we're sure the Pioneer will make the best out of our great nation's over-compressed national digital TV system. There's also a side-mounted USB socket for looking at your...

1 July 2008, 10:56

JVC 32DS6B: Yet another HD Ready IDTV

Crave Now though, every TV that arrives at our door not only wears the 'HD Ready' badge proudly on its sleeve, but almost always features a digital tuner (some even have two tuners and a hard drive). The integrated digital tuner means you can access...

Tags: jvc, lcd, hd, inch

29 March 2006, 10:38

Crave Talk: ITV rewinds while the world fast-forwards

Crave There's good news coming for digital telly fans who've resisted the temptations of Sky and cable. For example, the Blu-ray drive in the Sony Vaio VGC-RC204 PC won't play movies, because they can't yet comply with the HDCP digital rights management...

Tags: youtube, companies, sky, watching

17 August 2006, 9:02

Yamaha HTY-750: Surround sound in one small speaker

Crave This means you can hook up a games console, DVD player and even Sky+ or other digital TV service. You get a coaxial digital and two optical digital inputs. Yamaha aren't going for the 40-inch TV market with this model, instead suggesting it's a...

5 November 2007, 11:08

Sharp Aquos LC37RD2E: Making jerky things smooth

Crave There are also built-in digital and analogue receivers so you can pick up Freeview, or regular TV signals if you don't live in a digital area. It's always good to see a new Sharp TV. These are all the rage at the moment and can make a huge...

Tags: sharp, component, eye, motion

23 May 2007, 10:00

Samsung LE40R51B: Super-size me

Crave Well, the TV's innards are bereft of a digital tuner, so you'll have to buy a box or put up with the smeary mess of an analogue signal. Thanks to the price, this TV and its smaller brother, the LE32R41BD (which has a digital tuner) have got the AV...

Tags: samsung, lcd, inch, tuner

10 October 2005, 11:47