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Win a Toshiba HD-E1 HD DVD player and two free movies!

Crave We've got two Toshiba HD-E1 HD DVD players to give away completely for free in our latest competition. Toshiba knows a fair bit about high definition -- it pioneered the HD DVD format and was the first company to launch a standalone HD DVD player...

Tags: dvd player, hd, definition, toshiba

6 June 2007, 7:00

freesat: Does the service have what it takes to be a hit?

Crave Even SD will look great on an HD TV if it has sufficient bandwidth -- DVD proves that. At launch, the HD is also severely limited. There is one channel available: BBC HD. ITV HD is expected to launch soon, bringing with it football in HD, but it's...

Tags: humax, channels, hd, panasonic

7 May 2008, 10:30

Freesat: High definition via satellite, for free

Crave Photos: Hands-on with freesatUpdate: We've had the first freesat receiver in, so check out our full Humax Foxsat-HD (freesat) review. While high-definition television isn't an option over Freeview just yet, here's some exciting news from the BBC...

Tags: humax, television, box, definition

30 April 2007, 11:27

CNET.co.uk Editors' Choice Awards 2007

Crave And the winner is.the Toshiba HD-XE1! Sony PlayStation 3Toshiba HD-XE1 The good news is the waiting's over, as a raft of new 'Full HD' TVs have arrived. At an extraordinarily swanky event in highfalutin' Mayfair last night, CNET.co.uk announced its...

19 October 2007, 9:15

freesat update: Meet some of the launch hardware

Crave The HD GFSAT200HD receiver costs £150 and is similarly similar to the Bush HD model, but again, more expensive. Ian MorrisUpdate: We've had the first freesat receiver in, so check out our full Humax Foxsat-HD (freesat) review.

Tags: humax, models, model, definition

25 April 2008, 11:18

Loewe Connect 37 DR+: LCD TV with built-in media streaming

Crave It's a 'Full HD' 1080p TV, with support for 24p playback from HD media. You can add DVB-S functionality, which enables the TV to receive HD via satellite -- although Rupert Murdoch makes this impossible in the UK because Sky provides no CAM for its...

Tags: loewe, hard drive, playback, connect

26 March 2008, 11:16

What's freesat and how will I get it?

Crave By now, you'll probably have heard of the extra terrestrial alternative to Freeview, freesat, which promises to provide a mix of HD and SD TV channels via satellite. If the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five all join up, and provide HD services, then...

Tags: humax, upgrade, house, air

17 April 2008, 11:38

Photos: Hands-on with freesat

Crave If you haven't already heard, freesat is the new service from the BBC and ITV designed to bring free digital TV to people who don't live in the Freeview coverage area or people who want more channels and the potential for HD.freesat is starting...

7 May 2008, 11:44

Crave TV: Creative Xdock HD hands-on

Crave You may be familiar with Creative's new Xdock HD if you've been keeping your eye on our CES 2008 coverage. But if you're not able to get yourself to CES, you should be fairly satisfied with seeing the system in action via the Intertubes.Less...

17 January 2008, 11:19

HD DVD is dead. Really, they've checked its pulse this time

Crave Psychic powers weren't required to have seen this coming -- although it was rather sooner than expected -- but today Toshiba announced that it would no longer be supporting its own format, HD DVD. We can also say goodbye to the combo disc, the HD...

Tags: toshiba, discs, switch, dvds

19 February 2008, 10:53

Toshiba HD DVD players: A couple of tasty updates

Crave HD DVD is undoubtedly suffering from a lack of support, both from movie studios and hardware manufacturers not called Toshiba. This is becoming more important, because there are a couple of HD DVD releases that have some cool Internet functionality.

Tags: toshiba, hd, ray, blu

6 July 2007, 10:38

Toshiba HD-EP30 and E1 compared: Hot HD DVD player action

Crave When the Toshiba HD-EP30 HD DVD player landed on our doormat yesterday, we were keen to put it next to our long-term loan sample HD-E1 and see how the two players differ. The EP30 can be bought online for as little as £210, and that includes seven...

9 November 2007, 13:27

The week of HD DVD: Toshiba cuts prices on players

Crave Earlier this week we commented on the decision by Paramount and Dreamworks to switch to HD DVD exclusively, instead of continuing dual-format support. This was seen by some as a bit of a victory for the HD DVD camp, even if it did cost them a...

Tags: toshiba, range, hardware, hd

24 August 2007, 11:08

HD DVD: The format of choice for geek TV

Crave If the answer to both those questions is yes, you'll probably want to select HD DVD as your next- generation format of choice, because there are some seriously exciting sci-fi TV shows hitting the format in the next few months.

Tags: high definition, fi, fans, scenes

16 August 2007, 11:22

HD DVD posse: "There's room for both formats"

Crave We've all got so caught up in the fighting between Blu-ray and HD DVD that we haven't really given any consideration to the possibility that neither high-definition format will actually win. Indeed, it's actually possible that HD DVD and Blu-ray...

Tags: hd, europe, definition, ray

22 June 2007, 10:01