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Lenovo Thinkpad Z60t review
Reviews In a bid to smooth the transition, Lenovo completed a canny, if confusing, deal to use IBM branding on its products until 2010. When IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, there was concern that the Thinkpad brand would lose its value and...
Editor's rating 
8.3
3 March 2006, 16:29
Jens of Sweden MP-500 (1GB) review
Reviews Jens' eccentric founder, Jens Nylander, once recorded a song in a bid to compete with Apple's iPod. The Elton John of the MP3 player world, Jens of Sweden is notorious for its flamboyant gold MP3 player designs.
Editor's rating 
5.3
Tags: jens of sweden, speakers, listening, appearance
12 April 2006, 14:48
Sony Bravia KDL-40V2000 review
Reviews Or you can knuckle down and stick at it in a bid to finally do it better than anyone else. If you're a global megacorp like Sony and you're struggling to make your customary critical and commercial impact in a particular area of technology, you can...
Editor's rating 8.9
Tags: sony, colours, natural, tech
6 June 2006, 16:17
Sony Bravia KDL-32D3000 review
Reviews Its latest LCD offering, the KDL-32D3000, at around £750 seems to have pulled out all the stops in an uncompromising bid to make it a truly stellar performer. After frankly playing catch up for a couple of generations with many of its rivals in the...
Editor's rating 
7.5
Tags: sony, colours, motion, high definition
16 October 2007, 16:03
Samsung PS50A556 review
Reviews This is aided and abetted by a Movie Plus mode, which adds in new, carefully calculated frames of image data between the real ones in a bid to improve motion handling. With Samsung's latest LCD TVs selling well and all manner of cutting-edge...
Editor's rating 5.9
Tags: samsung, edge, colour, handling
16 September 2008, 15:18
Philips 47PFL9632D review
Reviews Included in this new stuff is 100Hz processing, which doubles the PAL scanning rate in a further bid to make motion look clearer. LCD technology has two core problems that to some extent blight almost every LCD TV we see: poor black levels and a...
Editor's rating 
9
Tags: philips, motion, scanning, pixel
17 January 2008, 13:08
Toshiba Regza 32C3030D review
Reviews One more feature that we're very pleased to find on a £450, 32-inch set is a dynamic contrast system, whereby the TV's backlight automatically reduces its output when it detects a dark scene in a bid to improve black levels.
Editor's rating 5.7
Tags: toshiba, colours, contrast, ray
22 October 2007, 15:40
Panasonic TX-32LXD700 review
Reviews Among the many tricks up this engine's sleeves are 1080p processing, 3D colour management, automatic backlight adjustment, to help produce better black levels during dark scenes, and last but certainly not least, 100Hz processing to double the TV...
Editor's rating 8
Tags: panasonic, lcd, scenes, digital photos
1 November 2007, 14:27
Samsung LE37R87BD review
Reviews Plus there's a Wide Colour Enhancer which, as its name suggests, makes colours look more dynamic, and a Movie Plus mode that interpolates extra frames of image data in a bid to reduce LCD's problems with resolution loss over moving objects.
Editor's rating 7.5
Tags: samsung, motion, colours, natural
26 October 2007, 13:50
Apple iPod nano (4th gen) review
Reviews In a bid to increase the accessibility for people with impaired vision, Apple has included a font size setting on the fourth-generation nano that makes its menus more legible -- a cool feature even if you have 20/20 vision.
Editor's rating 8.5
Tags: apple, scroll, sensor, battery life
11 September 2008, 10:59
Panasonic Viera TX-37LZD800 review
Reviews Panasonic has thrown everything but the kitchen sink at improving the 37LZD800's pictures too, including 100Hz processing to make motion look cleaner; Panasonic's proprietary V-Real 3 Pro image processing to reduce video noise and improve colours...
Editor's rating 7.9
Tags: panasonic, screens, cleaner, colours
6 June 2008, 10:01
Samsung PS-63P76FD review
Reviews ConclusionThe 63P76FD represents Samsung's first bid to gain a foothold in the really large-screen plasma marketplace. And there can be no clearer statement of that mission than the brand's PS-63P76FD, which at 63 inches across and costing around...
Editor's rating 8.5
Tags: samsung, mission, hd, cinema
1 November 2007, 13:46
Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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