19in widescreen LCD TV which shows much promise and is Dell’s first consumer offering in Australia. Spec-wise it looks quite good on paper, with 450cd/m2 brightness, 600:1 contrast ratio and 1280 x 768 widescreen resolution, and it doesn’t disappoint when fired up.

Dan Chiappini delves into multimedia jargon in our monthly tech term glossary.

Toshiba’s new REGZA XV500 LCD television series, while boasting full HD tuner quality and a couple of clever specs, still makes us wonder whatever happened to SED?

A flexible and powerful livingroom PC that ticks almost all the right boxes, as well as being great value.

The technology is there, but the business model is lacking.

Stack your system full of software without paying a penny, with our guide to essential downloads

Patented technology to create smaller and lighter notebook adapters.

Sony has announced new VAIO CR and NR series notebooks, as well as a new VAIO “Panel PC".

Chipmaker launches Microsoft Home Server reference design and AMD Livelaptops.

More from the biggest Microsoft launch in ten years. Kodak, BigPond Movies and Sanity Music partnerships announced and explored in detail.

Why LCD is catching up, new “glass-only” flat screens, and the new must-have notebook feature.

In order to control distribution of movies and prevent piracy, many most DVDs are region protected to ensure that they cannot be played outside of their region of issue. In short, this means you can't play American DVDs on an Australian player and vice versa. To further complicate the matter, PC and notebook DVD drives are locked to the least region set with DVD drives correspondingly locked after five changes of region code by the user.

Wireless, audio/video codecs and ATI graphics cards on the list.

Check out our brand new reviews area for TVs, phones, digital cameras, GPS, MP3 players, toys, games consoles and more.

Apple’s 17-inch PowerBook G4 is a thing of beauty, shaming the other 17- inch notebooks with its size, weight and design – perhaps with the exception of the ASUS.

We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill.

HDMI and DisplayPort to displace Digital Visual Interface in 2008.

A bargain route to getting HD DVD playback for your PC or Xbox, but there are limitations.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.