television

HANNspree HANNSvibe.white.32: A 'well rounded' television

Crave Let's get this out of the way now: the name of this television is stupid. The front of the television is dominated by the enormous, removable speakers. It's a pain to write, a pain to read and a total pain to search for online.

Tags: hannspree, television, speakers, spell

16 January 2007, 11:28

Lenticular television: What's your angle?

Crave The problem with plasma TVs is that by the time you can afford one, your children are so much stronger than you they can beat your haggard body into submission and prise the controller from your bloodied, palsied hands.

Tags: watch, timmy, hand, hands

14 June 2005, 11:05

LG 47LB2RF: A television from the dark side

Crave The single most exciting thing about this television is its support of what has become known as 'Full HD' -- if you are lucky enough to have either an HD DVD or Blu-ray player that supports 1080p, this is almost certainly going to interest you.

Tags: lg electronics, hd, force, lg

12 February 2007, 11:16

Thomson DTI 6300-16: Top Up your television

Crave We miss loads of stuff on TV. It's not our fault, there's a lot on our plate and we go out all the time. So for us to enjoy our hectic social lives, we really need something to record TV for those nights when we just fancy putting our feet up and...

Tags: thomson, channels, box, sky

22 January 2007, 11:20

Onkyo TX-SR576: Put your television's speakers out of work

Crave It seems like every TV review we write, we end up saying the same thing: "The sound on flat-panel TVs just isn't good enough. People don't usually see the investment in sound as anywhere near as important as that of the picture.

Tags: speakers, ray, high quality, blu

8 July 2008, 11:30

Taming television in four tense weeks

Crave The problem with doing quick product tests is that the experience of living with a piece of kit is completely different from just playing with it - for a few days or even a few weeks. We’ve been lucky enough to live with a Humax personal video...

Tags: programme, programmes, living room, restored

1 February 2005, 4:56

Toshiba WLT68 LCD TVs: Three is the magic number

Crave Toshiba has added more flesh to the bones of its Regza LCD television range, which we first got a sniff of back in April. New to this range is Active Vision M100 technology, which Toshiba claims doubles the rate at which the signal is scanned by...

Tags: toshiba, hd, television, range

17 August 2006, 11:55

FreeBe TV: Not just bad. Hella rubbish

Crave We all know the future of television lies in the Internet. Hoping to take a slice of the IPTV pie is Rok, with a new service known as FreeBe TV -- a system that lets you watch a selection of 'television' stations over the Internet on your PC or via...

Tags: watch, stream, television, mobile phone

19 October 2006, 12:00

Freesat: High definition via satellite, for free

Crave While high-definition television isn't an option over Freeview just yet, here's some exciting news from the BBC and ITV that will give us a new way to access hi-def material for free via satellite. Called Freesat, the scheme will provide digital TV...

Tags: humax, television, box, definition

30 April 2007, 12:27

Sony LocationFree: the ultimate PSP accessory

Crave You wait 80 years for a device that'll stream television from the living room to wherever you happen to be, and then two come along at once. Both these products squirt television signals around your house, or around the world using a broadband...

Tags: sony, broadband, stream, psp

31 May 2006, 9:25

Humax LP40-TDR1: The TV that swallowed a PVR

Crave What's under your television? Humax has a helpful suggestion: pop a Freeview PVR into the same case as a television. The PVR has a 160GB hard drive, allowing you to store nearly 100 hours of television.

Tags: humax, inch, television, boxes

15 February 2007, 10:46

BT Vision: Future of TV or a cheapo PVR?

Crave It's going to be a revolution in television -- in BT's words it will be 'the next generation of television'. BT has a Vision. You can tell it's important because of the capital V. Crave tootled along to the launch this morning.

Tags: bt, installation, broadband, self

4 December 2006, 14:20

Pinnacle PCTV To Go: Slingbox challenger

Crave The PCTV To Go, for anyone who's unfamiliar with the aforementioned devices, lets you watch your home television on any Internet-connected PC anywhere in the world. Unlike the Slingbox it does not have an in-built TV tuner, but it will let you...

Tags: pinnacle systems, devices, television, slingbox

1 March 2007, 11:07

Photos from CES 2007: World's largest LCD TV

Crave Journalists jockey for a chance to get photographs of Sharp's new LCD television. Sharp calls this the world's largest LCD television. On the day before the Consumer Electronics Show, large manufacturers such as Sharp pack the international press...

8 January 2007, 14:27

SideLink remote control brings SideShow to the desktop

Crave Ingeniously dubbed the SideLink, the device has an integrated full-colour display that lets you access and manipulate media with or without turning on your PC monitor or television. The SideLink lets you view the TV programme guide on the remote's...

Tags: microsoft, television, vista, media center

9 January 2007, 23:33