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Format wars: The tech that should have won

Digital Living Our fantasy outcomeIn a fit of 80s Material Girl pique, Captain Tech would banish pre-recorded VHS tapes and ensure that every home records on Betamax and watches movies from Laserdisc. While pre-recorded VHS tapes were as cheap as chips...

Tags: cd rom, next generation, tape, steve

23 July 2007, 10:49

Can camcorders take great stills?

Digital Living Video is recorded at a lower resolution than still images, for reasons of speed and memory. I'm new to the world of hard disk camcorders and I want to get one that can also take a good photo. Most camcorders in the under-£350 price bracket don't...

Tags: megapixel, colour, noise, frame

21 November 2007, 14:15

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living Then, after the songs are recorded as WAVs, they'll need to be recompressed to MP3 or something else to make the file sizes manageable again. By now, you probably know that someone figured out how to record songs from Napster's groundbreaking...

9 May 2005, 15:48

What is Dolby TrueHD?

Digital Living Because the sound is recorded on the disc uncompressed, it should automatically sound a lot better on the same hardware as before. I've heard a lot about Dolby TrueHD recently. What is it, and is it worth a costly upgrade to my AV system to get the...

11 July 2007, 15:15

Gates keynote: move along, folks, nothing to see

Digital Living The evening ended with a Xbox boxing match between Gates and his professionally belligerent sidekick Steve Ballmer, in which Gates couldn't even be bothered to make half-convincing hand gestures that might allow the audience to believe they were...

6 January 2006, 9:57