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Photos: Asus G71V quad-core laptop

Crave It ships with up to 4GB of DDR2 800MHz RAM, 1TB of storage across two 500GB Hitachi hard disk drives, and has the option of a 2x Blu-ray rewriter drive, so you can author your own Full HD discs (with the appropriate software).

4 December 2008, 12:08

Internet: The Movie!

Crave Jason Statham is HD, locked in a bitter feud with Blue Ray (Jet Li)! Oh hello there. Here at Crave Towers, we've been inspired by the news that West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is to script a movie based on the story of Facebook.

3 December 2008, 15:58

Sony BDP-S350: Sony strikes Blu gold

Crave We've never been slow to criticise stand-alone Blu-ray players, and particularly Sony hardware. For those interested in Blu-ray load speeds, the S350 manages to load our benchmark movie, Vantage Point, in 1 minute 9 seconds.

Tags: sony, profile, load, blu

2 December 2008, 11:20

Hancock Blu-ray comes with bonus digital copy

Crave Blu-ray is great for home viewing on a large screen, but when you're on the move with a laptop it's neither practical or necessary to watch a 1080p copy of a movie. With that in mind, on the Hancock Blu-ray Sony provides a digital copy of the movie...

Tags: ray, disc, laptop, blu

1 December 2008, 11:37

The CNET UK Blu-ray player speed challenge

Crave One cold and wet British summer, a Home Cinema reviewer was growing old waiting for a Blu-ray player to play his copy of Zombie Strippers -- for review purposes only, of course -- when an idea came to him.

Tags: pioneer, tray, blu, disc

27 November 2008, 11:51

Klipsch 5.1 speaker system: Worth every penny

Crave Our Blu-ray copy of Live from Abbey Road was an instant hit. If you've just spent £1,000 or more on a new TV, we doubt you're going to thank us for telling you to spend even more. Sound always accounts for half the experience, though, whether you...

Tags: klipsch, speakers, stereo, pair

25 November 2008, 11:26

Crave predicts the future: Flip Mino goes HD

Crave We were the first to speak to Flip's European head honcho Ray Sangster at the Mino's UK launch in October, when he laid out the timescale for future products. As we predicted just last month, Flip Video has taken the high-definition plunge.

Tags: flip video, high definition, definition, hd

12 November 2008, 10:43

Great Christmas gadgets under £100

Crave Ray Gun Channel Changer, from Firebox The Ray Gun channel changer puts the zap back into zapper. Christmas isn't just about family arguments, bad Cliff Richard records and improbable plot twists on EastEnders, it's also about last-minute panic buying.

11 November 2008, 16:50

Toshiba XD-E500: Now with free Lovefilm subscription

Crave If we cast our eyes across the Atlantic, we notice that Americans get Netflix movies streaming over the Internet to a whole load of devices, such as Blu-ray players and the Xbox 360. Although we applaud Toshiba's efforts to improve the quality of...

Tags: toshiba, dvds, movies, post office

10 November 2008, 11:22

Microsoft hails choice in Windows 7 as advantage over rival

Crave Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, told TechFlash last week that touch could be mainstream but Tablet PC was "truly niche". Microsoft touted its new Windows 7 as having more choice than its rival Apple's offerings at the Windows...

Tags: machines, handle, beta, enable

6 November 2008, 10:00

Alienware M17: First laptop with ATI CrossFireX graphics

Crave The M17 supports up to 4GB of DDR3 1,066MHz memory, 1TB of hard disk space courtesy of twin 500GB hard drives, and an optional Blu-ray drive. Alienware has just announced a new addition to its fleet of outrageously quick gaming laptops.

Tags: gaming, pixel, core, hd

4 November 2008, 11:54

Denon DVD-3800BD: Wallet-busting Blu-ray

Crave Let's find out what you get for your titanic wodge of moolah.Spending that much more on a Blu-ray player means you get more features, better connectivity and (hopefully) a much higher-quality picture.

Tags: silver, eye, blu, ray

3 November 2008, 11:12

Microsoft unveils Windows Azure

Crave It's a transformation of our software and a transformation of our strategy," said Ray Ozzie, a computing industry pioneer who now serves as Microsoft's chief software architect. Microsoft yesterday announced a version of Windows that runs over the...

Tags: developers, servers, windows vista, preview

28 October 2008, 13:33

WHDi: Wireless HD video demoed

Crave Here, Geri shows off a Blu-ray Disc of Lost displaying wirelessly on a Samsung monitor at a speed of 1.5Gbps. After two years of telling us, makers of wireless HD video systems are now showing us how this works in actual products.

Tags: wireless, market, products, standards

24 October 2008, 9:59

80s movies Blu-ray bonanza: HD cheese

Crave Yep, Beetlejuice, Risky Business and The Goonies have gone all Blu-ray. The Blu-ray features what the cover notes generously describe as "three hilarious episodes of the Beetlejuice animated series". The Risky Business Blu-ray has a video...

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16 October 2008, 11:27