Sanyo LCD-32HR100(S) and LCD-27HR100(S) with built-in 160GB recorder

These TV's are not Full HD but thay are HD Ready with their 1366x768 resolution, and they also offer a digital TV tuner, an HDMI port and a USB 2.0 port. Prices will range from 2000 to 2500 EUR. Via...

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Posted by Staff on 2 May 2006

More info on Sky HD

More details have appeared on the Sky HD website about the forthcoming Sky HD service.Pre-ordering of Sky HD ended on 5th April, but if customers have already registered, they will be contacted within the next fortnight to arrange an installation...

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Posted by Staff on 15 April 2006

Hitachi DV-DH-1000D 1TB HDD/DVD recorder - Wooo

The cool kids are all hangin' with Hitachi’s new 1TB, DV-DH1000D HDD/DVD video recorder. Yeah, that's 1,000GB of freakin' storage to fix that high-def recording jones. The rest of the details are sketchy. The best we can make out from...

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Posted by Staff on 5 April 2006

DirecTV D-HR20P HD DVR revealed

As much as we'd like to find out more information about DirecTV's D-HR20P HD DVR, pretty much everything we know, we've already said. The box, which the satellite broadcaster showed off at EHX last week, apparently has 750GB capacity, an...

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Posted by Staff on 3 April 2006

Sky HD 300GB box arriving in May 06 for £299

But the Internet abhors a vacuum, so rumours circulating about Sky's biggest project since its launch in 1989 mean that there was little surprise when the company announced a £299 price point for the box, a £10-a-month subscription fee and...

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Posted by Staff on 27 March 2006

Telewest TVDrive now on sale at Dixons

If you have popped into Dixons recently you might have spotted a promotion for Telewest's HD-compatible Sky+ rival the TVDrive. Apparently the system launched, very quietly I might add, on March 1st and Telewest is now taking orders for the...

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Posted by Staff on 10 March 2006

Telewest HD service review

Of the pair the HD obviously works best on Pride. The resolution of the images is superb and yes you can see so much more on the close ups of the faces of the animals than you can in SD....

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Posted by Staff on 20 February 2006

TiVo Series 3 HD DVR - private beta testing

If you're a TiVo fan looking for more info about the HD-capable Series 3 DVR the company showed off at CES, we've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that it's apparently undergoing a private...

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Posted by Staff on 20 February 2006

Elonex's Lumina 2 HD Media Center PC

The Media Center PCs from Elonex's "the computer is the display" Lumina series aren't for the faint of wallet -- hovering around the $4-6 thousand range -- and they aren't for the USofA, but we can always wish from afar....

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Posted by Staff on 1 February 2006

MatrixStream IMX 1020HD digital video recorder

MatrixStream appears to be one of the first (if not the first) to bring a 1080p set-top box to market. They're definitely ahead of the curve because so few HDTVs can currently accept a 1080p signal and even fewer, as...

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Posted by Staff on 29 January 2006

Panasonic DMR-EH80V: 3-in-1 Recorder

In this age of high-definition, flat-screen TVs, it doesn't seem quite right, but if you've got some old programmes that you just can't bear to lose, you can back them up to either hard disk or DVD with a one-touch,...

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Posted by Staff on 22 January 2006

Godzilla PVR - record 4 HD channels simultaneously

Actually, this home theater PC PVR doesn’t just record 4 HDTV channels at once, it can record an additional 7 SD channels at the same time. So if you can find 11 shows on the television at the same time...

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Posted by Staff on 22 January 2006

Remote recording from Acogito

Acogito claims to have developed the world's first remote recording agent service (called "ACO Service"), which will be incorporated with its own HD PVR.The ACO PVR will feature dual HD tuners and the company's proprietary, patent-pending RCXML (Remote Control eXtensible...

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Posted by Staff on 14 January 2006

Entertainment PC - 2000GB media center

Now you can with an Entertainment PC media PC system. Using the very latest PC technology the EPC system combines a high quality DVD player, CD player, HD playback and a digital TV tuner with hard disc recording to give...

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Posted by Staff on 13 January 2006

Sexy Vaio Media Center debuts

Dubbed the VGX-XL100 and styled in a cooler-than-my-living-room black and brushed aluminium, it is a jack of all trades functioning as a TV tuner and recorder, DVD player and burner, music jukebox, gaming machine and office work station.The old-school horizontal...

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Posted by Staff on 13 January 2006

The MT40 is dead, long live the MT50 by Samsung

Remember the MT40? No? A little effort please! It's a Korean product! Still nothing? Well, the MT40 is Samsung's Media Center PC, and in my humble opinion the prettiest Media Center on the market. It came with IDE and a...

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Posted by Staff on 11 January 2006

HD TiVo Series 3 @ CES

MegaZone has news and pictures of the new TiVo Series 3 at CES! From his post it sounds like what a lot of people have been waiting for TiVo to deliver. The biggest features are that Series 3 will have...

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Posted by Staff on 8 January 2006

CES 2006: Have we found Telewest's next HDTV decoder?

At the CES Innovations bash this evening we had a very interesting chat with the folks from Scientific Atlanta - the company that makes cable boxes like this for Telewest. It has just unveiled a new box which features...

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Posted by Staff on 4 January 2006

CES 2006: LG's TV with hard disk

Just hotfooted it back from the LG press conference where the company paraded a host of new high-end tellies and some rather cool mobiles. TVs first (we’ll go live with the phones tomorrow). It looks like the 50inch LCD...

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Posted by Staff on 4 January 2006

All-Channel Recording Ready for Digital TV

All-channel recorders for terrestrial digital broadcasting are bringing about a new revolution in the way we watch television. All-channel recorders eliminate the need for programming; just by turning on the power, they record and store programs. All of sudden,...

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Posted by Staff on 4 January 2006

CES 2006: Is this Telewest's next box

At the CES Innovations bash this evening we had a very interesting chat with the folks from Scientific Atlanta - the company that makes cable boxes like this for Telewest. It has just unveiled a new box which features...

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Posted by Staff on 4 January 2006

Best of 2005: Telewest TVDrive

Until we get to see the new HD-friendly Sky+ the Telewest TVDrive is our favourite hard disk video recorder. It has all you'd expect including a 160 Gigabyte hard drive and trick play facilities, plus a few bonuses such...

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Posted by Staff on 29 December 2005

NEC All-in-One Box

Here's a great gadget that stuffs a HD TV, DVR and PC into just one box. The NEC HD TV-PC will run you about $2800, but it's basically a Windows Media Center Edition 2005-equipped PC with a start-up time...

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Posted by Staff on 19 December 2005

LG LRM-519 Digital Media Recorder First Look

Designtechnica take a first look at the new LF LRM-519 Digital Media Recorder, a DVR and DVD recorder in one unit. The main job of this piece is to record TV shows on it’s 160 GB hard drive from...

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Posted by Staff on 9 December 2005

Telewest TVDrive Vs Sky+ 160 review

As much as we love to compare and contrast it is a bit unfair to carry out a head to head between the Sky+ 160 box and Telewest's new TVDrive system. Very few people are going to make their...

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Posted by Staff on 9 December 2005

HDTV UK has a report on Telewest's "TV Driver" system

The first HDTV broadcasts available in the UK hit yesterday and HDTV UK was there to take a look at it. Oddly though, it seems that Telewest isn't currently broadcasting HDTV in a usual channel format, but rather automatically...

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Posted by Staff on 3 December 2005

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