Home Entertainment Articles
Shape up, bit by bit
There is no shortage of fitness gadgets for sale to help you
stretch, strain, push yourself and then map, graph and critique
your progress.
HDMI cables: buyer beware
Australian shoppers are being duped into spending hundreds of
dollars on so-called "high performance" HDMI cables.
Surrounded by wireless sound
One man's house is wired for sound - without the wires. Adam Turner
reports.
Video stores setting up for digital delivery
Video Ezy and Blockbuster press ahead with plans to deliver movies
to customers electronically using in-store kiosks.
One system, many uses
Building a flexible audio needs some forethought, writes Adam
Turner.
Pizza, shopping and movies
Australian TiVo users will soon be able to buy groceries, order
pizza and access an array of on-demand movies using little more
than their TV remote.
The future of TV is online
More TV shows are sidestepping the idiot box in favour of launching
on the internet.
The power within
Rod Easdown looks at some speakers designed to stay out of sight.
LCD v Plasma: turf war heats up
A new front has opened up in the battle of the big screens.
Toshiba's new gizmo is a DVD player
Almost a year after the death of HD DVD, Toshiba now says it can
win the high definition format war with a standard DVD player.
Blu-ray struggles to break through
Blu-ray is in danger of being skipped over by consumers, but the
format's proponents believe this year's Christmas shopping rush
will be a major tipping point.
TiVo TV recording now available on a PC
US digital video recording pioneer TiVo and Germany's Nero unveiled
a product that allows the popular TiVo capturing of television
shows on a personal computer.
Thin is beautiful - for TV sets anyway
Sony says it will sell a 40-inch LCD TV that's as thin as a CD case
and another that's only marginally thicker than a business card in
Australia early next year.
Internet-enabled TVs to hit lounges soon
TVs capable of directly accessing news, weather details, stock
quotes and, eventually, on-demand video to hit Australia as early
as this year.
Incentives for digital TV takeup
Federal Government considers offering financial and other
incentives to convince people to upgrade from analog to digital
television.
Aunty puts five new channels online
ABC viewers can now watch television online, with the launch of an
internet platform that streams five new ABC channels onto computer
screens.
Sucked in: TiVo's ad similar to iPod's
Seven has dismissed claims it stole the idea for its TiVo
advertisements from Apple, saying "there's no copyright in an
idea".
ABC adds its voice to TiVo spat
The ABC's head of television has weighed in to the commercial
networks' war of words with Foxtel, predicting waning demand for
pay TV.
Seven unveils hobbled TiVo
Many key features of TiVo, the much anticipated digital television
recorder, will be disabled when it is launched at the end of the
month.
Tangled up in Blu
When it comes to a Blu-ray player, it pays to bide your time,
writes Troy Wolverton.
