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IXOS XHE228: Extra HDMI socket, no need for messy surgery

Crave Designed to carry all types of HD signal to your TV without any interruption, the XHE228 will cope with video right up to our current maximum of 1080p. Not the IXOS -- it'll automatically select the input that's currently sending in a signal.

Tags: switch, input, signal, hdmi

19 November 2008, 10:47

Sagem DTR 64160: Pretty cheap, but not all that pretty

Crave We'd also like to see an HDMI output -- with most TVs being HD Ready, it makes sense to get the best picture into the TV, rather than relying on converting the digital signal to analogue first. We have to admit, we haven't been massive fans of...

Tags: sagem, eye, channels, watching

17 November 2008, 11:53

3 INQ1: Mobile social networking for everyone

Crave When you're on the Tube or in the middle of nowhere and don't have a signal, you can still compose a Facebook message, and it will automatically be sent when you reconnect. Today Crave went along to see 3's latest offering, the INQ1.

13 November 2008, 14:51

Photos: Hands-on with the Motorola International 7500

Crave There's a battery meter and signal strength reading. It wasn't so very long ago that mobile phones were the size and shape of a fridge. Luckily we're now living in a world where you can get a phone in your pocket with minimal fuss.

6 November 2008, 11:24

Olympus FL-50R Flash: Get the light right

Crave To avoid signal interference, there's a choice of four channels, with the option to tweak signal strength for a range of up to about 10m. Flash photo­graphy is a tricky thing to get right. Counter-intuitively, it's often better in bright light to...

Tags: olympus, signal, adaptor, shadows

27 October 2008, 12:01

Opinion: Why Freeview is better than freesat

Crave In TV broadcasting, the specific problem is that sending a signal over the air either via a terrestrial network or from a satellite orbiting the Earth costs quite a hefty wedge. While watching some freesat recently, we noticed that the quality was...

Tags: air, rate, channels, frame

17 October 2008, 11:30

Sony Vaio CS series laptops: Beautifully ill-conceived

Crave Oddly, Sony hasn't even bothered fitting them with a digital video output port, so you can't pipe the video signal to a 'full HD' TV -- all you get is bog-standard D-Sub.isn't much to ask for Blu-ray functionality, but the fact you can't make the...

8 October 2008, 12:34

Photos: Canon Digital IXUS 980 IS and 870 IS hands on

Crave And so, clutching a cheap day return and checking our mobile phone signal every two minutes, off we went into England's green and pleasant land. Today your intrepid Craver left the gilded environs of CNET Towers and -- gasp!

17 September 2008, 16:41

Expert audio quality test: 5th gen iPod vs. iPod classic

Crave Lossless, a total harmonic distortion (plus noise) of -69.26dB, and an signal-to-noise ratio of -84.42dB (CNET ATS-2 Audio Analyzer results). The debate has been raging among audiophilles for months now -- which has the better sound, the 5th gen...

Tags: apple, edge, listening, models

17 September 2008, 12:25

Freeview HD: BBC completes DVB-T2 trial on R&D's birthday

Crave The signal was then sent via the Guildford transmitter -- often used for trials because of its proximity to R&I's headquarters at Kingswood Warren. After being transmitted, the receiving hardware demodulates the signal and produces a transport...

Tags: broadcast, research, hd, analogue

2 September 2008, 10:32

Profigold PROV1015: Long-distance 1080p with 15m HDMI cable

Crave We're pleased to report 100 per cent success, with a clean, noise-free signal received by the TV and a sense of achievement in our hearts -- you'd have thought we made the cable speak to us. Yesterday a package arrived here at Crave that weighed as...

Tags: cable, hd, hdmi, puppy

15 August 2008, 11:41

Exclusive hands-on with the Fatman iTube 452: Valve chubster

Crave This retro VU meter gives you a visual representation of audio signal level at any given moment. Not just iPods, but all portable music players. The very name 'MP3 player' is, to the audio elitist, synonymous with poor audio quality, lossy encoding...

28 July 2008, 11:37

Panasonic DMR-EX88 DVD PVR: Don't let TV boss you around

Crave It can output a 1080p signal to your HD television and while that doesn't mean Freeview will look high defintion, but it does mean you'll get the very best out of your DVD collection. In Crave's ideal world, we'd be able to project TV out of our...

Tags: panasonic, television, recorder, disc

23 July 2008, 10:54

Pioneer creates 400GB optical disc: Like 16 layers of Blu-ray

Crave In order to read data through 16 layers you have to minimise the amount of 'crosstalk' between each layer, as well as have sophisticated electronics that can differentiate between signal and noise. Barely half a year after Blu-ray won the format...

Tags: disc, discs, ray, storage

10 July 2008, 10:47

BT Broadband Accelerator: Half a meg faster or your cash back

Crave He also changed the channel it was broadcasting on to make it less likely to clash with that of a neighbour, which often results in our Wi-Fi annoyingly dropping its signal. Happily, it offers a bunch of home IT support services to keep you...

Tags: handy, windows xp, broadband, ancient

9 July 2008, 10:58