A few weeks ago we looked at an intriguing new concept from projector manufacturer Optoma aimed at the gaming community. The GameTime GT-3000 bundle consists of a DLP projector, a separate colour-matched 2.1 speaker system and a specially designed carrying case to carry it all around – all for the incredible price of £349. While …
Best known for its extensive line of RAID controllers, Promise Technology is now entering the home and small business NAS appliance market with a modest range of devices. It also brings another acronym to the storage industry, although BYOD (bring-your-own-disks) simply allows you to buy an unpopulated unit and add your own SATA hard drives. …
TV tuners are the unsung heroes of media center PCs. While Blu-ray drives, graphics cards and low-power CPUs make all the headlines, if you’re looking for a true all-in-one multimedia PC, the heart of your system is the TV card. After all, playing downloaded videos, flipping through your photos and listening to your music collection …
Brand loyalty seems to be de rigueur at the moment and Ferrari must be one of the main culprits. Ferrari recently started handing out brand associations like Mentos at a Foo Fighters concert. You can now get Ferrari phones, Ferrari notebooks and even Ferrari Lego! If you’re not careful, the Ferrari brand will soon be …
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Lexmark recently facelifted its line of all-in-one inkjet printers for home and school, and the X5650 sits firmly in the middle of that market. At a relatively low cost, the device is designed for printing, scanning, copying, photo printing and faxing. Even with the new look, the printing press has hardly changed compared to its …
The only problem with most sat navs is that you need to keep them up to date all the time. Roads close and new ones open, layouts change, and speed cameras shoot out of the ground like the spores of a particularly nasty fungus. If you don’t upload map updates to your device, you’ll likely …
Until the iPod came along and “ripping” from something related to fishing threads to something you could do with a CD, digital music was the computer enthusiast’s premise. Obviously a lot has changed since Apple’s first portable players hit the market in 2001, but it seems the influence of Apple’s player has yet to have …
With a couple of quality Blu-ray players due out later this year and a new range of cutting-edge plasma TVs hitting stores soon, nobody would blame Pioneer if the humble DVD player was on their priority list would slide down. But a DVD player market without Pioneer is like Man United without Alex Ferguson – …
You would hope that Polyphony Digital’s Kazanori Yamauchi would know that Gran Turismo 5 has to struggle. When GT4 came out, GT3 was still the state of the art for serious racing games. Forza Motorsport has yet to make its mark, Project Gotham Racing has yet to find the right balance between sim and arcade …
In terms of features and versatility, Samsung’s DVD recorders have always played second fiddle to competing decks like Panasonic and Sony, but the Korean brand makes up for it in one key area – price. No matter what the quality of the competition, you can rest assured that Samsung will come out with something that …
