Cheapest high-def player now $299, but the question remains - will you be left with a lemon?

Despite the expense, TV vendors seem hell bent on pushing the Blu-Ray format here in Las Vegas – and now Sharp has even built it into the TV itself.

I once heard my local Blockbuster manager cruely toying with a hapless punter by describing Blu-Ray as a "government conspiracy". Not any more.

You'd think playback of copied Blu-Ray and DVD files would be a no-no for commercial PVR boxes. Not these new TViX players, which play ripped Blu-Ray and DVD "backups", with VOB, ISO and H.264 compatibility.

It's something of a contradiction in terms, having Blu-Ray in a tiny 11.1in screen notebook, but it's certainly a brilliant feat of engineering. See the specs and launch pics here.

Intel promises you'll be able to watch a full Blu-Ray movie on a single battery charge, once again highlighting the woeful battery problems facing laptop users.

It's a PC, it's a PVR, and it's a Blu-Ray player - could the new TP2 be the answer to all your HD dreams?

The PC maker will launch its first desktop in Australia capable of playing both formats.

Picking a winner in the high-def wars is easy with this bargain PC, and you’ll never guess where we found it . . .

No more HD DVD players, recorders, PC drives from March, but no mention of Blu-Ray option by Toshiba.

Hot on the heels of the Eee PC 1000 comes the "N Series", which ASUS calls the netbook's "next of kin".

We like notebooks crammed with features, and Acer have certainly obliged. The 8920G includes Blu-Ray, full HD, large screen and six speakers, and you should see the price.

The gadget man says he wants to make a netbook - here's why we hope he does, and 5 features that could make us want one.

The 240Hz TV isn’t the only thing coming to home cinema in 2009. Onboard Internet looks set to be the next big trend in flat screens with Toshiba and Samsung jumping onboard.

Apple's Macbook Pro may be getting all the hype, but Sony's Vaio remains perhaps one of the classiest non-Apple competitors on the market.

Up till now Intel has hogged all the glory in the super light space with cheap and cheerful Atom notebooks. No more.

And we’re gearing up for more HD TVs, laptops, cameras, wireless devices that Las Vegas and CES 2009 can throw at us. Yes, we’re going to Vegas.

Buying a mid-range Dell notebook now means a choice between Dell's Inspiron, Studio and XPS notebooks. We examine the value.

They glow, then disappear, leaving a smooth chrome-look on the new DV entertainment notebook range. Check out the pics here.

It looks the Asus Eee Box isn’t the only interesting mini-desktop around. Amid the swathes of Centrino 2 and small form factor notebooks at IDF this week, we spotted this – a mini Centrino 2 desktop.