Wednesday November 08, 2006 Plasmas and health and safety
According to a recent statistic, 379,000 plasmas were sold in the UK during 2006, compared to only 239,000 in 2005. That's a whopping £609 million in sales. While this is very encouraging news for manufacturers of PDPs (plasma display panels), there is now an...
Wednesday November 01, 2006 Government Confusion
Some twenty-five years ago, the British Government successfully outlawed a random selection of pre-recorded videotapes nicknamed ‘video nasties’ by the media. In truth, the list comprised of mostly cheaply made cannibal movies and B-feature slasher films. The...
Thursday October 12, 2006 projectiondesign
What Home Cinema recently visited the Norway HQ of Projection Design. The company makes some great projectors but don’t have a clue when it comes to branding, spelling its name projectiondesign, and giving its products names like Action! Model Two (or should...
Friday September 29, 2006 Philips Ambilight Up Berlin
As the new football
season kicks off and hopefully sanity returns, we reflect for a moment on the technological triumph that was the 2006 World Cup, the first
one to be broadcast in HDTV
in the UK. As a lucky few thousand early...
Thursday August 17, 2006 Plasmas cause flooding!
Forget the hosepipe ban; if you want to water your garden buy a plasma. According to recent scientific evidence, plasma screens are serious energy guzzlers (power stations may have to go nuclear if we keep on buying them). Just leaving one on standby (never a...
Thursday August 10, 2006 Do we really need HD DVD and Blu-ray?
In reference to one of my earlier blogs, regarding the media's total confusion over the HD revolution, there was yet another laughable example on Wednesday evening's BBC New 24 programme. The poor studio presenter (bless her) struggled to get her head around...
Friday August 04, 2006 It's not rocket science...
According to the Wall Street Journal, of the 40% of the population considering a flatscreen TV, 15% are opting for an LCD over plasma. Curious really, since the word plasma is probably more of a household name than its three letter rival. Certainly, the word...
Tuesday August 01, 2006 Pirate problems
Like our esteemed colleagues at Home Cinema Choice, we were shocked to discover that a number of DVD companies are curtailing their check disc distribution in order, they claim, to counter DVD piracy. This a bit of a cheek really, especially when the majority...
Friday July 28, 2006 Understanding HD
text-autospace:none"> Have
you noticed how really topical stuff like advances in science, natural history
and the future effects of global warming etc., are usually relegated to the end
of TV news programmes. Worse still, the newscasters opening...
Wednesday July 26, 2006 TV ON TAP
Let's be clear about this right from the start, Reality TV shows are rubbish! From jungles and love islands to neighbours from hell and dodgy housemates, their subject matter appeals to the lowest common denominator. Nothing of any consequence ever happens in...
Monday July 24, 2006 Who needs CRT?
I do for one!
Shock! horror! Has What Home Cinema's Deputy Editor lost his mind? How can an obsolete technology like CRT have any place in our bright new century of plasmas and LCD screens?. Well, very easily, thanks to the continued need to view older video...
