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Photo story: Behind the scenes at Napster UK

Crave Crave recently took a peek behind the scenes of music subscription site Napster. The brand is famous for being one of the biggest early file-sharing services and for being forced to shut down. Then a few years ago it was relaunched as a legal...

Tags: napster, story, sharing, industry

6 September 2006, 10:27

Harry Potter and the Order of the HD DVD interactive features

Crave The Harry Potter HD DVD allows them to chat as the film is playing, and they can also share their favourite scenes with each other. The person who sets up the screening is control of the playback, so they can pause and skip scenes.

Tags: scenes, playing, hd, film

23 November 2007, 11:15

HD DVD: The format of choice for geek TV

Crave The BSG discs will feature audio commentaries on selected episodes as well as the usual behind-the-scenes documentaries and featurettes. There's also a picture-in-picture behind-the-scenes commentary, which promises to make the most of the HD DVD...

Tags: high definition, fi, fans, scenes

16 August 2007, 12:22

JVC Everio GZ-HD40, GZ-HD30 and GZ-HD10: Dual-shootin' HD

Crave Interesting new features include intelligent grouping, which sorts and groups together similar-themed scenes for easier access, and digest playback, which reportedly creates a trailer of your footage out of a montage of scenes.

17 June 2008, 13:10

LG Chocolate TV, DVD Recorder and home theatre spotted!

Crave We spotted them during our behind the scenes tour of LG's Corporate Design Centre in South Korea, and though we weren't allowed to take pictures (the TV pic is a CNET.co.uk mockup, so handle with care.we can bring you a few tasty details.

Tags: lg electronics, buttons, label, televisions

21 November 2006, 10:47

Hi-def format war: Warner Bros. plays both sides

Crave While the format war will continue behind the scenes for some time to come, at least this system could protect the rest of us from it and enable us to pick up the odd movie without having to own two different, incredibly expensive players.

Tags: lg electronics, disc, players, hd

4 January 2007, 13:45

Sony Giga Juke NAS-SC55PKE: Streaming made Japaneasy

Crave But there's much more Japanese jiggery-pokery going on behind the scenes. Sony has just launched two new additions to the Giga Juke family: the NAS-SC55PKE and the NAS-E35HD. Both systems will rip your CD collections to their internal hard drives...

Tags: sony, radio, fi, streaming

11 March 2008, 10:11

How to: Take your camcorder skills to the next level

Crave Remember the suspenseful scenes in The Shining where little Danny peddles around the corridors of the hotel? Want to put some Hollywood style into your home movies? Want to make your mark as an amateur filmmaker?

Tags: movies, film, hollywood, steven spielberg

30 June 2006, 12:51

Mvisto: pocket multiplex?

Crave We used the Mvisto to watch some chase scenes from Star Wars and it blew us into a million little pieces -- each fleshy fragment sizzling with the THX logo freshly branded on it. We’ve all taken our iPods around to parties to share our music with a...

Tags: movies, star wars, tech, scenes

11 April 2005, 13:21

ATI X1900 XTX graphics card delivers teraflop performance

Crave It has a graphics processing unit (GPU) clocked at 650MHz, an effective memory speed of 1.55GHz, and 48 shader units (three times that of its predecessor) for delivering ultra-realistic scenes. Today ATI lifted the lid on its flagship graphics card...

Tags: power, computing, graphics, ati

24 January 2006, 13:00

Men in Black on Blu-ray: Woohoo! Haha!

Crave You also get audio commentaries, extended scenes, original MiB trailers and featurettes. Crave officially loves Will Smith. Our MP3 man Nate Lanxon loves him so much he actually claims to have previously been him.

Tags: disc, ray, blu, blu ray

13 June 2008, 12:12

CES 2007: Microsoft and the wrong trousers

Crave These scenes had the realism, credibility and conviction of gonzo porn (where do they find these people? The Gates soft-shoe shuffle at CES kicks off the gadget show each year with the same forlorn regularity as a Windows blue screen of death.

Tags: microsoft, connected, xbox, act

8 January 2007, 11:18

HD DVD and Blu-ray: Blade Runner The Final Cut

Crave New special effects have been added, deleted scenes reinstated and the soundtrack has been remastered in 5.1-channel Dolby TrueHD. Sci-fi movie fans will know all about the history of Blade Runner and how there have been several releases of the...

Tags: production, disc, director, hd

29 November 2007, 11:07

Photos from IFA 2006: Toshiba demos its HD DVD players

Crave Toshiba claimed to be the only company showing high-definition video from a player, rather than simulating playback using a computer behind the scenes. The centrepiece of Toshiba's stand at IFA 2006 was the area promoting HD DVD.

4 September 2006, 10:07

Hasselblad H3DII-50: Hassi five-oh

Crave This tilts and shifts standard lenses, which creates the rather cool effect of real-life scenes appearing to be models. The megapixel madness marches on. Get a load of the Hasselblad H3DII-50, a newly announced professional digital studio camera...

Tags: hasselblad, studio, sensor, load

11 July 2008, 11:44