Want Full HD content for your 1080p Full HD TV? Then get a Blu-ray disc player. And spend fortunes on Blu-ray discs, which are more expensive than nasty, standard def DVDs, naturally.
The best five smartphones out there, apparently. But will they still be flavour of the month next month?
Jonathon Savill suffers an acute case of iPad withdrawal.
The five best pairs of serious ‘cans’ – the like of which are worn by recording studio knob-twiddlers who sit, sagely behind mixing desks the size of an aircraft carrier. They are also cherished by audiophiles – older men with no friends who still live with their mums and listen to music with a devotion that verges on religious.
Strictly speaking the ear muffs sported by Geordie footie God and honorary Irishman, Jack Charlton, should be illustrating the over-ear, ‘circumaural’ style of headphone. But they’re not. These are the best five pairs of headphones that sit on your precious lugs.
For the lightweight jet-setter, commuter or runner-about earphones such as the five highlighted here are definitely the way to go. Small, unobtrusive, comfy for long-ish periods and, if you have the requisite dosh, often very high in the fidelity department.
Former editor of Professional Photographer magazine, Ian Farrell, on whether the new breed of ‘micro four-thirds’ ‘bridge’ cameras are sounding the death knell for the DSLR
The quality and performance of some of the latest compact digital cameras would boggle even the tiniest mind. The five featured here are nothing short of palm-sized miracles. Now we can all be David Bailey. Or just ‘Bailey’ as he insists on being called these days.
All laptop speakers are crap and don’t let anyone tell you different (Apple) or differently (everyone else). The great thing about these plug in boomers is they not only make your PC sound glorious, they can also do the same for your MP3 player or even an old Sony Walkman.
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There are so many styles of headphone and so many price-points buying the right pair could induce a migraine. Unless you read this.
As manufacturers pack ever more features into their TVs, those sets that don’t have the spangly new additions are flogged off on the cheap. So for even the slightly tardy adopter there are some serious bargains to be had.
If you’ve managed to persuade yourself that a sat-nav is a better navigator than your brain and a map, here are some things to consider before you buy. ‘Try before you buy’ is useful with sat-nav. Even if you end up buying on-line, it’s worth going to a shop and bothering the sales assistant with […]
What to buy There’s more to printers these days than you might imagine. This Fogey still uses an HP Laserjet 6P from the mid-Nineties for printing black and white documents. It’s quick and effective and the single toner cartridge seems to last for ever. But he also has an HP Photosmart all-in-one for photos and […]
Before you buy a digital radio make sure you can receive digital broadcasts at www.getdigitalradio.com Then stick with your FM radio and all this DAB nonsense will go away. Unless over 50 percent of the populace take the digital option by 2015, FM will continue. See the Category Overview for why this will be a […]
When/how will you use your music player? If portability is paramount go for something small and light such as an iPod Shuffle (see pic above). The sound reproduction might be pants-to-purists and it might not hold that many tunes but through earphones even the crappiest sound quality is okay and how many tunes are you […]
What will you use your camera for? Some compacts are more compact than others. The Sony Cybershot DSC-T99 and Samsung ST100 are very slim, making them easy to carry in a pocket and less obvious to thieving bastards. Does your camera need to be rugged and/or waterproof? The Canon Powershot D10 and Casio EX-G1 are […]
