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Oppo DV-980H review

Reviews It's an archaic and restrictive system that does nothing but cause consumers pain and we're pleased to see the Oppo ignores it completely. If you were to ask someone if £155 was a reasonable sum of money for a DVD player, they would probably say no.

Editor's rating   8.5

Tags: oppo, cable, dvds, cd dvd

6 October 2008, 16:22 > More matches in Reviews

Unlocked iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong

Crave Apple has made an unlocked version of the iPhone 3G available in Hong Kong, letting consumers pick whichever carrier they so choose. This is in sharp contrast to Apple's policy for the almost everywhere else on the planet.

Tags: iphone, carrier, hong kong, itunes

29 September 2008, 9:53 > More matches in Crave

TalkTalk slammed over 'free' broadband ad

Crave While TalkTalk broadband is available to consumers in non-LLU areas via a resold BT product, the service isn't free. The Advertising Standards Authority has rapped Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk unit over a recent TV advert that promised free...

Tags: broadband, ads, customers, ad

26 September 2008, 10:18 > More matches in Crave

Vodafone thwarts Ofcom scheme to speed up number porting

Crave Ofcom is trying to achieve fast, hassle-free, mobile-number porting to give UK consumers flexibility and choice, but the incumbents have consistently put up roadblocks," Russell said. Ofcom will "reconsider its decision on 'Telephone number...

Tags: cat, switch, technical, consumers

22 September 2008, 9:00 > More matches in Crave

UK goes DRM-free: 7digital gets MP3s from all major labels

Crave Consumers will also be able to use snippets of HTML to add 7digital widgets to their blog or social network, allowing them to promote, sell and profit from music by their favourite artists. As we predicted earlier this month, UK music download...

Tags: 7digital, cent, label, itunes

16 September 2008, 11:20 > More matches in Crave

HTC Touch HD: An iPhone for the rest of us

Crave HTC has just announced the launch of HTC Touch HD -- a 5-megapixel quad-band multimedia handset, aimed at both consumers and business users.It's got a 3.8-inch touch-sensitive 480x800-pixel (not exactly HD) display, 512MB of internal memory, Wi-Fi...

Tags: htc, hd, sony ericsson, opera mini

15 September 2008, 17:15 > More matches in Crave

Flash Player

Downloads It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure new features function as expected, existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues.Code-named "Astro," Flash Player 10 includes...

13 September 2008, 3:57 > More matches in Downloads

Flash Player

Downloads It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure new features function as expected, existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues.Code-named "Astro," Flash Player 10 includes...

13 September 2008, 3:00 > More matches in Downloads

Micro Four Thirds vs Samsung: This means war! (eventually)

Crave We're about due a good format war. For better or worse, the dust has settled on the Blu-ray vs HD DVD scrap, and anyone looking for the next tech donnybrook will have to look elsewhere. Fortunately, fight fans, the camera market has seen competing...

Tags: olympus, micro, film, mirror

9 September 2008, 12:26 > More matches in Crave

Sony recalls 438,000 Vaio laptops

News Consumers are advised to contact Sony via telephone or visit the company's support Web page. Sony is recalling about 438,000 Vaio TZ-series notebooks worldwide that may overheat and cause burns, the company said yesterday.

Tags: consumer, vaio, vgn, hinge

5 September 2008, 10:47 > More matches in News

100Mbps for unconnected UK areas first

News Next generation broadband could bring speeds of up to 100Mbps, which Ofcom says should deliver new services that will bring "huge benefits" to UK consumers, including giving hard-to-rearch regions access to telemedicine and remote eduction.

Tags: consumer, broadband, statistics, panel

5 September 2008, 10:20 > More matches in News

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony S-series Walkman

Crave We hate it, consumers hate it, but here it is again. IFA was a little disappointing this year for audio enthusiasts, due to the general HDTV orgy that takes place inside what appears to be 99 per cent of the show's halls.

3 September 2008, 12:15 > More matches in Crave

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700 review

Reviews Now think about how miserable the experience is trying to find an image on that camera or phone, how frequently you don't have the photo you really want to show, and how pathetically small and visually underwhelming the display is for the task...

Editor's rating   8

Tags: sony, slide show, shots, bars

22 August 2008, 17:06 > More matches in Reviews

Crave Podcast 99: Game pirates must pay up

Crave Elsewhere, Yahoo is planning a push for Net-enabled TVs, Microsoft has launched the amazing Photosynth for consumers, US police are inadvertently killing trees with their radio equipment, and Jeremy Clarkson is causing a YouTube-style kerfuffle...

Tags: cent, kids, crave podcast lounge, forums

22 August 2008, 12:00 > More matches in Crave

News.blog: Photosynth goes public

News Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, is graduating from its "ooh, that's pretty" status to being a viable Web service for consumers. The technology, which takes a grouping of photographs and stitches them into a faux 3D...

Tags: managed, photographs, labs, collections

21 August 2008, 10:16 > More matches in News