Sky Plus Sky Plus, or Sky+ is a subscription service which offers a personal video recorder fully integrated with a Sky Digital decoder. The system uses an internal hard drive. Once marketed as Create your...
Digital TV A View to a thrill. If you fancy up to 30 TV channels and interactive programmes at the touch of a button, go digital Freeview. How many times have you sat down, switched on the box and...
BEWARE of the latest scam around, you will receive an email asking one of several things, ie do you take postal orders, do you take PayPal etc etc. It is a human reaction to respond to a prospective buyer with...
Update 05/Jul/2007 - pabsdirect Named and Shamed (at end)Update 01/Dec/2007 - Have They Finally Been Kicked Off eBay ? (at end)A Cautionary Tale A friend wanted to buy one of those new fangled Hard Disk...
HDTV Is Here We've been waiting over a decade for HDTV, and now that it's finally available, there's as much confusion in the marketing as there is clarity in the images. If you're won over by the promise that...
Sky are pioneering HD in the UK. With the launch of Sky HD they will offer the widest range of HD programmes available in the UK What is Sky HD? Sky HD is television as you have never seen it before,...
30/11/2007 Update (at end)The Big Digital TV Switch Over Rip Off! With Digital TV storming ahead and Analogue Shutdown getting closer and closer the pressure to upgrade your television equipment increases...
Upscaling - Getting More Out Of Standard DVD What is HDMI upscaling? To maximize the quality of DVD for display on today's HDTVs, many manufacturers have introduced upscaling capabilities through DVI...
Soundware Beginners Guide to......Microphones A couple of good quality microphones are a useful addition to any home studio setup. If you’re trying to improve the sound of your recordings, a better microphone...
What is digital switchover?Starting in 2008 and ending in 2012, television services in the UK will go completely digital, TV region by TV region. The old ‘analogue’ television signal will be switched off and...