budget

Budget HD: Hands-on with the Aiptek AHD Z500 Plus

Crave It's easy to be sceptical about budget camcorders. Yes sir, it's all about video right now, and everyone loves a bargain, so there's definitely a market for the budget high-definition stylings of the But the lines are blurring between compact...

Tags: aiptek, shooting, budget, camcorders

20 June 2008, 12:02

Lexmark 3840: Budget photo demon

Crave Over the last six months, Crave has blogged about more budget all-in-ones than we can shake a very large stick at, and here's the latest: the Lexmark 3480. The picture was faithfully reproduced, and although colours looked as if they'd been...

Tags: lexmark, usb, budget, memory stick

6 July 2006, 12:50

Denon AVC-A1HD: 'Budget' home cinema behemoth

Crave If you need to eat, pay a mortgage and dress your children, however, the good news is Denon has a 'budget' version called the AVC-A1HD, and it will only cost you a piffling £3,800. A while ago we found ourselves craving the Denon AVP/POA-A1HD AV...

Tags: denon, hd, receiver, vhs

15 April 2008, 12:18

Panasonic DMRES15: Dual-layer on a budget

Crave Unlike many budget recorders, the ES15 also features a DV input, so you can make digital backups of all your home movies from a camcorder. The ES15 lacks the frills of a Freeview tuner, DVD-Audio/SACD support and video upscaling, but it's one of...

Tags: panasonic, scan, ram, recording

23 March 2006, 11:08

LG Flatron W2242S: Budget 22-inch monitor

Crave If you're after a budget screen for low-rent office drudgery, you could do a lot worse. Our chums at LG recently telephoned to say they had a new 22-inch monitor we should look at. We laughed and told them to go away -- Crave doesn't get out of bed...

Tags: contrast ratio, sort, budget, night

19 May 2008, 10:00

LG U300: 3G on a budget

Crave However, it does in fact make other mobile phones and last Friday LG launched the LG U300, a budget 3G clamshell phone in a funky orange casing. Recently LG has been hogging the limelight with its superstar mobile phone the LG Chocolate.

Tags: lg electronics, lg, chocolate, lg chocolate

26 June 2006, 11:08

Nvidia Quadro Plex 1000: Graphics card for Beckham's budget

Crave We've all been there: you spot a product that's supposed to be the best of the best, so you tighten your belt, save your cash and splash out. Then you see a rich guy with an even better and more unobtainable version of what you've just spent a year...

Tags: nvidia, processing, boards, graphics card

7 August 2006, 11:50

Goodmans X-Pro GPDR40: Budget media player

Crave Portable media centres are expensive little weapons. But this Oompah- Loompah from Goodmans is almost an impulse buy. Around £260 gets you a respectable looking media player that'll record video from any source you care to thrust its SCART lead into.

Tags: asf, movie, movies, bag

14 April 2005, 13:50

JVC LT-42DA8BJ: Budget-friendly 42-inch LCD TV

Crave If the movie V for Vendetta is to be believed, in the future we'll all be using Dell computers and watching totalitarian government propaganda on our JVC televisions. While you could rise up against the oppressive future, we don't think ditching...

Tags: jvc, processing, speakers, tvs

24 July 2007, 11:28

Vaio NR11Z: A budget Vaio. Yes, that's right

Crave Calling all cheapskates: Sony's flogging a range of laptops known as the Vaio NR11 series, with a starting price of around £550. And remarkably, we're at pains to find anything wrong with them. We're currently playing with the top-of-the-range...

Tags: sony, ram, cpu, hard drive

3 October 2007, 11:25

Ricoh Caplio RR770

Crave Ricoh has quietly launched the 7.16-megapixel Caplio RR770, a sleek new compact camera to succeed the budget Caplio RR750. Having created what is, for our money, one of the best compact cameras around in the Caplio R7, Ricoh is clearly looking to...

Tags: ricoh, compact, scene, budget

23 November 2007, 10:06

Alcatel OT-S120, OT-S210 and OT-211: Underdog fights back

Crave It's always easy to ignore the budget underdog, especially if they're unattractive or lack finesse. The OT-S120, OT-S210 and OT-211 are Alcatel's latest budget line-up and rather than point and laugh at a trio that put together would cost a...

Tags: alcatel, phones, budget, ot

2 May 2008, 11:40

Goodmans GHD8015F: Affordable recordable

Crave But, in only a few years, prices have plummeted and now it's not just DVD recorders that are stocking the budget shelves but hard disk recorders too. The Goodmans GHD8015F is the first hard disk recorder we've seen that costs less than £100, the...

Tags: goodmans, recorder, hard drive, hard disk

27 October 2006, 11:23

Operation Flashpoint Elite: Crave's Cold War crisis

Crave Elite is set for a budget release on Xbox, offering the original single player game, a new unlockable prequel campaign and multiplayer skirmishes. The game has been an extremely long time in development, and in recognition of this, Operation...

Tags: budget, released, war, operation

12 September 2005, 10:23

Sony Ericsson announces T270i, T280i, R300i and R306i

Crave Similar to the Sony Ericsson T650i, the T270i and T280i have two-tone cases that make them stand out from the rest of the budget crowd -- not very flashy, but then you don't always want to be. As a budget phone, it'll play MP3 ringtones, but it...

24 January 2008, 12:14