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Roll-up video displays are right up there with hoverboots and Moonbase Alpha in our vision of the future, and the boffins at Sony are fast forwarding into a tech brave …
Sony show off remarkable rollable OLED display Read MoreDeclaring that it will “change the future of television,” Google has announced Google TV, a new Android powered application which lets users search for content from their television, DVR and …
Google announces Google TV: “TV meets web. Web meets TV” Read MoreLike many of our readers, we’ve been fuming over the problems our Humax PVR players have been suffering, with the machines suffering a frustrating mixture of unbearable slow downs, freezes …
Humax Freeview PVR issues – beta fix offered Read MoreHumax has announced details of its new HDR-Fox T2 Freeview HD recorder, with the launch date set rather foolishly after the World Cup. Doh! The HDR-FOX T2 offers just a …
Humax HDR-Fox T2 Freeview HD recorder – caveat emptor! Read MoreInbetween all the mutual high fiving and backslapping over the site’s remarkable achievement of reaching two billion downloads a day, the bods at Google has managed to put together a …
YouTube – monster, fact-bloated infographic unleashed Read MoreThe celebrations keep on happening at YouTube, with the company announcing that it has exceeded the astonishing figure of 2 billion video views per day, just a month after the …
YouTube hits 2 billion views per day [video] Read MoreSome Humax PVR users have been an unhappy lot recently, suffering fairly major performance issues with their units. We’ve got two PVR-9200T units, both of which have been blighted by …
Update on the Humax PVR fix – still coming “soon.” Maybe. Read MoreLike a load of Humax users, we’ve been miffed off to the max with the increasingly patchy performance from our Humax PVR units. As we reported recently, our PVRs have …
Humax promises fix for PVR-9150T, PVR-9300T and PVR-9200T PVR issues Read MoreWe’ve been using two Humax PVT 9200T freeview digital set-top boxes around the office for nearly two years, and in recent months we’ve been suffering increasing problems with the units. …
Humax PVT 9200T PVR – problems, slow performance and freezes Read MoreWhen it comes to the relatively simple task of watching a video file or getting an earful of an audio file, most people are happy to stick with whatever’s already …
VLC Player victorious in media player comparison shoot out Read MoreSo you’ve hammered your bank account and kitted out your front room with a lush, cinema-threatening flat-screen LCD TV. Keen to keep things truly hi-fi and state-of-the-art, you’ve bagged yourself …
The Great HDMI Cable Ripoff. Save your cash, any old cable will do. Read MoreJust in time for the World Cup – and the inevitable English disappointment – Philips will be wheeling out two new Freeview HD set-top boxes, snappily named the Philips HDT8520 …
Philips launches HDT8520 Freeview HD PVR and DTR5520 HD receiver Read MoreCanon has announced that it will be unleashing the much-anticipated (and rather overdue) firmware update for its EOS 5D Mark II from mid-March, adding professional video capabilities to the fine …
Canon upgrades EOS 5D Mark II video with firmware update Read MoreIf your poor piddling netbook is flapping, floundering and becoming formidably flummoxed and foxed when it’s asked to play back YouTube videos, help is at hand in the shape of …
YouTube introduce stripped-down Feather service for weedy netbooks Read MoreWe figured it wouldn’t be long before video recording was hacked on the Palm Pre, and sure enough, an app has appeared courtesy of the busy Homebrew community. The app …
Precorder brings video recording to the Palm Pre; dev program opens to public Read More