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Panasonic launches new HD camcorders and 32GB SD card

Crave Pana's chairman and CEO, Yoshi Yamada, took to the stage to tell us all about the company's "leading position" in the HDTV market. It boasts 3CCDs, full 1080p HD recording and it's pitched as the world's smallest and lightest SD-based HD camcorder...

7 January 2008, 6:43

Photos: Hands-on with the Nokia 5220 XpressMusic

Crave It's an unusual-looking tri-band music phone, aimed obviously at the teen market. We've just been sent one, so we've slipped into our Linkin Park t-shirt and black make-up, and stepped back into the life of the target market.

24 September 2008, 11:57

Sennheiser CX 300: 'Phones for your phone

Crave Sennheiser's CX 300s were particularly good value at £30 -- they're not the best quality in-ear 'phones on the market, but they're a damn sight better than the bundled rubbish. Given the £30 price tag, the Sennheiser CX 300 earphones are also very...

Tags: sennheiser, value, market, headphones

15 August 2007, 14:18

FAQ: the next video game consoles?

Crave Each manufacturer wants to squeeze as much market life as possible out of the current machines, so they won't divulge too many details of future consoles for fear of making their current ones look outdated.

18 April 2005, 18:17

Wanted by Intel: Stylish PC designs -- $1m reward

Crave The Intel Core Processor Challenge was sparked to evolve consumer perception of PCs being "big, grey boxes", and bring to market living-room-friendly designs that fit Intel's Viiv brand of in-home media-optimised PCs.

Tags: pcs, mini, mac os, core

2 October 2006, 12:11

iPod Radio Remote: The perfect podcessory

Crave Just about every MP3 player out there has a built-in FM radio -- like the Sony NW-E507, the Creative MuVo Micro N200 and the iRiver U10 -- but not the market leader, the iPod. Clearly there is a market for the old FM transmissions after all though...

Tags: market, radio, apple, fm radio

18 January 2006, 11:16

Blu-ray trounces HD DVD in sales

Crave During the week of 5-12 January -- the first week the market had to respond to the Warner announcement -- Blu-ray absolutely trounced HD DVD in hardware sales, grabbing nearly 93 per cent of the hi-def disc-player market.

Tags: war, hd, blu, sales

24 January 2008, 9:27

Creative Zen Krystal: Zen Stone Plus gets a doppelgänger

Crave This puts the Krystal in the gym-goer's market just a scoatch more than the Stone, but seriously -- is a pedometer-toting MP3 player really so hotly in demand it desires a completely new product to house it?

Tags: creative, market, product, zen

18 July 2008, 10:57

Sky to launch music download business with Universal

Crave What's particularly interesting is that Sky and Universal are forming a new business together to market the service, in which Sky will be a majority stakeholder, Universal a minority. It's nothing to do with the saturation of the market, but more...

Tags: universal, labels, unlimited, nokia

23 July 2008, 9:42

Everybody's doing the dSLR

Crave It used to be that only the big guns like Canon (most recently with the 30D) and Nikon (with the D200) had any interest in this professional market. Now they want to line their nests with the easy greenbacks this market is raining.

Tags: market, samsung, land, dslr

27 February 2006, 14:46

General Electric cameras: The Americans are coming

Crave Now it's moving into a new market with the G series of compact cameras. The compact market is pretty crowded, with novelty and diversity at a premium. Over the years, Britain has been the birthpace of many American greats: Stan Laurel, Kim Cattrall...

Tags: general imaging, cameras, range, market

2 January 2008, 11:25

Panasonic doubts future of OLED TVs

Crave Currently, Panasonic does not have an OLED product on the market, but Sony does: it makes an 11-inch OLED TV, and is working on a 27-inch model. Though Panasonic is working on making its own OLED set, Sakamoto said, "We may have to redefine the...

Tags: panasonic, market, tvs, lcd

30 September 2008, 8:50

Philips' Media Centre: geeky home cinema goes mainstream

Crave The always-dependable Dutch company pulled out all the stops, with a gaggle of new products, concept gadgets that will hit the market in five years' time and a great look at how it envisions the future of high definition.

Tags: philips, inch, high definition, tech

5 September 2005, 10:11

Crave Talk: Nintendo must make a mobile phone

Crave This could dramatically affect the market, in the same way that the massive proliferation of music phones persuaded Apple to make the iPhone. Before Apple made its music phone, many sceptics said it would be terrible, because it has no...

Tags: nintendo, wi fi, mobile phone, gaming

21 November 2007, 11:44

Toshiba TDP-S25: sub-£1,000 Home Cinema

Crave DLP is the technology that's behind even the most expensive projectors on the market, and it more or less completely removes that annoying 'chicken wire' effect on images. Its silver body may have the same identikit finish as every other projector...

Tags: toshiba, market, cinema, projector

14 June 2005, 10:09