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

Crave But we'll overlook that, because you can always put some masking tape over it. We have to admit, we haven't been massive fans of Sagem PVRs in the past: a high price tag and tacky styling really didn't endear them to us.

Tags: sagem, eye, channels, watching

17 November 2008, 11:53

Breaking open the Apple iPhone 3G

Crave There are three screws on the other edge of the cover (hidden by black tape) and one screw on the back of the display. Apple's iPhone 3G arrived on Friday with a bevy of new enterprise-ready features, including Exchange support, business-grade...

15 July 2008, 12:00

Top ten spacecraft

Crave It had some solar cells to test, and a tape player, which played 730 times before giving up the ghost. Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, wrote "Space is big -- really big -- you just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind...

19 June 2008, 16:36

Photos: The touchscreen Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500

Crave You'll need a tripod for that, mind, even if you do follow the Crave photography masterclass and improvise one out of a wine glass, some gaffer tape and a 1983 Blue Peter annual. We would walk 500 miles for the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500, and...

16 June 2008, 11:12

LG Flatron W2242S: Budget 22-inch monitor

Crave The monitor itself isn't hyper-sexy, though -- it's sort of.monitor-shaped, has a reasonably thin silver bezel, and a blue LED that's so bright you might want to cover it with masking tape if you use it at night.

Tags: contrast ratio, sort, budget, night

19 May 2008, 9:00

Top ten obsolete ports

Crave There was a time when printers, scanners and even tape-backup devices used to hang off this port. Who chooses which ports make it, and which are shuffled off to the retirement home for the permanently disconnected?

25 March 2008, 11:02

Crave Talk: 32GB SDHC to kill CompactFlash?

Crave That isn't as much as you get on a hard drive-based camcorder, such as the 100GB Toshiba Gigashot A100 or the forthcoming 120GB Sony HDR-SR12, but it beats disc and tape-based shooters. Memories are made of.what?

Tags: panasonic, disc, shots, compactflash

29 February 2008, 13:44

Panasonic DMR-EX98V: VHS lives on

Crave So we'll let Panasonic off its crazy VHS upscaling claims, as they seem to have created a box with a genuine use, even if we threw our tape collections out years ago. There's got to be someone left with some VHS tapes.

Tags: panasonic, hard drive, footage, tapes

15 February 2008, 11:02

Crave in Love: Valentine's Day gifts for geeks

Crave A painstakingly-selected mix tape says 'I love you' better than any amount of expensive jewellery -- at least we think that's how it works. Anyway, the equivalent in the MP3 age is the USB memory stick, which isn't very sexy, but you can still...

8 February 2008, 16:23

Bombproof gadgets: Our most trusty technology

Crave I've needed on this old timer has been some gaffer tape around the sides. Crave has often mused on the pathetic, inexcusable flimsiness of modern gadgetry. But in a world where waterproof means splashproof and ruggedised means you'd better not drop...

4 February 2008, 9:44

Photos: Hands-on with the Canon HV20

Crave The HV20 records to MiniDV tape, in a handy top-loading slot.megapixel photos can be taken while a video is being recorded, and stored on miniSD card. The Canon HV20 arrived at Crave recently. It's an HD camcorder with a wealth of features that had...

17 December 2007, 9:25

Hands-on with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18 superzoom

Crave We could fit into 28-inch jeans, listen to Blur on cassette tape, and didn't even have an email address. Crave looks back on being 18 with fondness. Actually it was rubbish, not least because we didn't have cameras like the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18...

Tags: panasonic, raw, zoom, modes

12 November 2007, 11:04

Top ten Internet memes

Crave In what was supposed to be a 'live' TV performance of one of her songs, someone backstage pressed play on the wrong tape, proving the audience and everyone watching on live TV that the show was a fake -- the whole thing was a lip-sync nightmare.

9 November 2007, 8:00

Photos: The history of the digital camera

Crave Black-and-white images were captured on a digital cassette tape, and viewing them required Sasson and his colleagues to develop a special screen. Although compacts were appearing in strange shapes, such as the Pentax EI-C90, which split into two...

2 November 2007, 8:00

Canon autumn product launch: The compacts

Crave The 960 IS also harks back to the days of bunging in a tape to record late-night films with a long play mode that offers VGA movie capture at 30fps. Canon showed off 30 photography, video and printing products at a white-draped warehouse on London...

22 August 2007, 11:06