Coming off CES it’s fair to say that we’ve had a look at what the year will bring and for gaming it’s looking quite good.  Another area that made an impact was the expected Ultra HD televisions.  With the likes of the LG 84LM960V and the Sony KD-84X9005 we were introduced to the huge screen 4K resolution televisions that come at a cost but show just how beautiful televisions can be now.

To continue the invasion of the 4K Ultra HD televisions companies are now reducing the size of the…

Technology is moving forward, especially in the visual world.  In both homes and in the cinema we are seeing new technologies being used to try to improve the way we see things, like for example The Hobbit being played in some cinemas in 3D HFR which runs at 48 frames per second.  Whether this was an improvement is up for debate, especially by critics, but this is not the only improvement being made.  Lawrence of Arabia was recent digitally re-mastered and what made this special was it…

Every time I look at new televisions now buzzwords are flying all over the place.  4K resolution is the “new” thing, all televisions now have 3D almost as standard and internet streaming is expected.  We have televisions that add Kinect like interactions, Skype is built in, and we have everything we want all in a television.  The Toshiba 55ZL2 is not one of the hugely sized 4K screens, but it still offers the resolution but it’s main feature that will be noticeable is glasses-free 3D.

Slingbox has been a piece of technology that in ways revolutionised the way people could watch TV, especially on the move.  It allowed people to travel but at the same time take their digital television service with them on the move, wherever they were and on laptops and smartphones.

Now Slingbox looks to have competition in the form of the Belkin @TV Plus.  This is a media streaming device that will give you all the power of the Slingbox but not also allow you to record live TV from…

As technology moves ahead into the future we look to companies like Sony to provide us with a glimpse of what we one day may be able to afford.  Screens get flatter, they get bigger and we are given 3D in different formats.  Using Blu-ray players and other HD sources we are given better quality images but yet we still want better, and it’s coming in the form of televisions like the Sony KD-84X9005 84-inch 4K TV.

I’ve looked at a 4K projector before and even looked at a Blu-ray player…

As Blu-ray becomes more popular and more people start to use the technology to watch their films in glorious HD and even 3D manufacturers will start to look at the budget area of the market to try and entice the more stubborn buyer to finally make that move.  Samsung are one of the companies doing this with their new BD-E6100 offering both wireless internet and 3D at a nice cheap price of around £101.86/$210.

With a price like this of course corners are going to be cut and the more h…

As technology progresses and our televisions get thinner and out laptops and tablet devices follow suit it’s no surprise that the other tech we use every day will follow the lead.  Echostar have released what they are calling the worlds thinnest PVR named the EchoStar HDT-610R and one thing for sure it is thin.

With a chassis that’s around 14mm thick the PVR looks insanely thin and very snazzy but of course looks aren’t everything.  There are plenty of PVR systems on the market all s…

Once upon a time there was a planned TV service in the United Kingdom known as Project Canvas.  It was a venture that was to be made by a partnership of companies that included broadcasters the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Channel 5 and three other companies Arqiva, BT and TalkTalk.  The plan was to provide a PVR system with on-demand services that connected to the internet and Freeview to offer content.  The project itself ran into troubles and was much delayed; these delays included a name …

Televisions are moving with technology, giving more and more usability and adding more functionality all the time.  With this functionality comes the need for processing speed, as logically the computer components in the background are having more things to do.  Taking this into consideration Panasonic have now released the TX-P50VT50 that brings dual core processing to their television range.

When you compare this to other televisions thing should see an increase in speed and qualit…

As technology races into the future and we strive to push our home entertainment systems to the extremes of what we can actually do in our homes the next push is arguably “4K output”.  We don’t have many televisions that can handle this yet of course, but it’s the next big buzzword.

HD is popular now, most people love the quality that Blu-ray provides us with and love their HD enabled televisions but most don’t even realise that 4K is coming.  For those that do though there are proje…