digital tv

Michael's Christmas Shopping: Bulletproof music

Crave So the next-best tactic is camouflage, which means my first purchase can only be one thing: the Sonos Digital Music System. Not only does this wireless home stereo system stream digital music around your home from your Macs or PCs, but it has the...

Tags: sonos, case, digital music, christmas

13 December 2005, 10:47

Digital Theatre media centre: Home cinema hunk

Crave That's more than enough to record plenty of television shows from the high-end Nebular digital TV tuner card that comes bundled. While Crave was pounding the floors at CeBIT last week we were collared by a man from a company called Digital Theatre...

Tags: hd dvd, spec, theatre, media centre

20 March 2007, 11:01

Win a Digital Christmas worth over £4,000!

Crave You could go in the draw to win over £4,000 worth of kit -- a 37-inch Panasonic plasma TV, a 15-inch Asus laptop, a state-of-the-art digital SLR camera from Olympus, a Samsung E900 slider phone, a Denon DVD player, a pair of Sennheiser headphones...

Tags: christmas, icons, icon, inch

1 November 2006, 16:11

BBC DVB-T2 trial: Bringing HD to Freeview

Crave It may not seem like that long, but we've had digital TV in the UK now for ten years, with the ill-fated OnDigital starting up in 1998, around the same time Sky launched its own digital service. That means existing aerials will be fine, and only...

Tags: switch, rate, channels, hd

30 June 2008, 12:26

Freeview HD TV: Telly hacking alert

Crave Got a PC and a digital TV card? The TV card must support the Broadcast Digital Adaptor (BDA) interface, which most of the new ones do, and you'll have to hunt around for the right version of decoding software to handle it all - a mammoth thread on...

Tags: hd, crystal, adaptor, broadcasts

16 June 2006, 11:41

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, 12:44

TVonics MFR-300: Tiny Freeview receiver for old TVs

Crave In a few years the heady days of analogue will be over, and we'll all be forced to watch TV via digital. That's all well and good if you have a state-of-the-art flat panel TV with a built-in digital tuner.

Tags: tvonics, tvs, analogue, description

2 July 2008, 11:43

Crave Talk: Movio makes mockery of mobile TV

Crave Let's start with all the good things that digital TV can give us. It has to though, because the TV pictures are locked down with Windows Digital Rights Management. All the best bits of digital telly, all the best bits of mobile tech, all wrapped up...

Tags: bt, channels, rights, handsets

8 September 2006, 15:58

A vision in white: Miglia TVMini

Crave We've seen small digital TV boxes before, but this is obscene. Given the aerial's tiny size, it's pretty impressive, especially considering we tested it with a stock LCD screen -- no high response time here to mask the inadequacies of digital TV.

Tags: lcd, boxes, pvr, digital tv

10 October 2005, 12:57

Humax LGB-32TPVR: Dual-tuner PVR TV

Crave While the industry giants have only just got around to putting a Freeview tuner in their flat-screen TVs, the ever-nimble giant killer Humax has thrown dual digital tuners and a hard drive into its latest TV.

Tags: humax, hard drive, hd, recordings

28 March 2006, 12:04

Archos AV700 TV: tuners in your sky rocket

Crave The AV700 TV receives digital TV with dual tuners, which work in tandem so that the signal received is absolutely top-notch. The AV700 TV can receive digital TV in a car at speeds of up to 80mph. You can pack up to 35 hours of television programmes...

Tags: archos technology, car, archos, tuners

4 May 2006, 11:21

What's freesat and how will I get it?

Crave You'll need a satellite dish on your house, into which you can plug either a standalone freesat set-top box, a television with built-in support for digital satellite broadcasts or a TV tuner for your PC.

Tags: humax, upgrade, house, air

17 April 2008, 12:38

Sharp TU-R160H: Christmas cracker?

Crave The company's first hard-drive recorder is fitted with dual digital TV tuners, which means you can watch one Freeview channel while you record another. Sharp's new TU-R160H digital recorder could offer a solution.

Tags: sharp, hard drive, christmas, recorder

4 October 2006, 11:08

Sharp LC-32P50E: Keeping it old-school

Crave Well, if you've got a DVD collection that would put Quentin Tarantino to shame, Sharp has you covered -- its new P50 range is optimised not for high definition, but for the movies and digital TV we're watching here and now.

Tags: sharp, hd, resolution, high definition

4 October 2005, 12:06

Idaptor: The Freeview box that isn't there

Crave This means it can stay tucked away out of sight, making any TV look like it's a fancy new integrated digital model. The picture quality is great, as it's RGB Scart, it has the same 7-day electronic programme guide as all the latest wonderboxes, and...

Tags: bush, box, cables, evolution

28 November 2005, 10:29