A fine projector: well worth considering, especially if you hunt down a competitive price

Great video, tons of features, easy to use... if only there was a PAL-friendly version

A good price coupled with outstanding image quality – a good budget alternative to the Panasonic HDC-HS9

The PLV-Z5 has its benefits, but can’t quite match the all-round ability of the best in its class

The iDshot from Sanyo is the latest digital still-cum-digital video camera in a package that can capture still images between 640 x 480 and 1,360 x 1,024 pixels.

High resolution stills and laudable quality for the money, but image stabilisation isn’t the best

Sanyo’s PLC-SW30 is the only projector in this round-up to break the $2,000 barrier, and we’re happy to say it’s not a bad unit at all.

15IN Flat Screen

The smallest, cheapest camera on test, but unsurprisingly, it also has the poorest image quality

An above-average all-rounder that adds 720p recording to an already attractive mix

Sanyos line up of digital cameras falls at the budget end of the spectrum and the VPC-R1 is no exception.With a 1.3- megapixel CCD, the camera is large compared to the current crop of mini-cameras available.

Tiny earphone simultaneously picks up speech.

Rechargeable battery breakthrough good for your wallet and the environment.

Japanese electronics firm Sanyo has announced a new type of blue laser diode, which it said could double the capacity of existing Blu-ray discs to 100GB..

Sanyo takes a different tack with its cheap, pistol-grip video/still camera. A curious option if you're already spending a few hundred dollars on a compact camera.

Are you still confused about what sort of camera to purchase? We take a look at some of the differences between stand-alone video cameras and dual-use compacts that promise to do everything. Are video cameras still even necessary? We've got some answers.

Huge storage for the money, but quality can’t match the more expensive models in this group

Not only the best rechargable batteries ever made - but the most envirinmentally friendly, too. Win/win!

One of the most barren models feature-wise that we looked at (and only dubiously beating the Sony VPL-ES1 and the Sanyo PLC-SW30 which took the bottom honours), the Hitachi CPS210 certainly made up for it when it came time to undergo our strenuous testing regime.

Sounds like sc-fi, but wireless power is real and it's getting tantalisingly closer.