We provide the commentary on a bruising eight-round battle between Vista and Tiger.

High definition video is the next big thing for Australia. We explain the essential technologies for your TV or living room PC, and what to expect from our broadcasters.

Even though the Voodoo3 3500 TV is an older card than most on test in this Labs, we have included it since it, along with the ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro,fills a niche in the graphics card market that caters to people looking for a low-cost TV and video capture card alongside reasonable 3D gaming performance.

Turn on and tune in with cards that give your PC a whole new lease of AV life.

The Australian Government is looking at new measures which could see pay TV signal theft become a criminal offence.

Are you ready for the next generation of televisions? Talk the talk with PC Authority's jargon guide.

Toshiba this week unveiled a new line of laptops optimised for video and audio playback that include a "quick-start" feature which gets the notebook ready for television viewing or CD playing in just seconds.

Weighing in as more of a budget 18in option, the Cornea 1810MF costs less than some of the 17in models, but is by no means budget in configuration, with some excellent features up its sleeves.

It turns out that Microsoft [I]is[/I] bringing out Windows XP Media Center Edition in Australia, but until such time as it materialises -- and Microsoft Australia is being very sketchy on the dates -- those of us looking to integrate our PC media files with our televisions and hi-fi systems have to turn to bridging solutions.

The DAV310 from A-MAX Technology circumvents this limitation by being able to play MP3 tracks straight off a CD - just like your PC can.

Is there still good money to be made in digital media? Read on to discover insights from Mark Pesce, Accenture, Brainwaave, and Allen & Buckeridge.

Atec is a new face on the Australian LCD scene but a big name in Korea, and this is the first display weve looked at from this manufacturer.

We've searched every corner of the web for the most useful (and useless) sites you've never seen. Download free movies and music, find the cheapest shopping sites, get a degree, make money, walk on Mars and much more.

Senator Helen Coonan plans to ask the ABA to clarify public concerns about footage from the reality television program Big Brother.

Korea's LG Electronics this week unveiled what it claims is the first mobile phone that can receive and play terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) television signals.

HITACHI PD32-A2100

Auriga’s 17MLV-1 is not the best looking TFT we’ve ever seen, with a pretty big bezel and a chunky neck, but it has a wide degree of swivel and tilt flexibility. Plus there’s a feature unique to this monitor in the comprehensive roundup -- the 17MLV-1 came with a D-Sub RGB connection, plus Composite and S-Video. But furthermore, the TFT featured PiP (Picture in Picture) which meant you could have your PC as the main display, with the TV running in a corner, or vice versa. Via the OSD you could set where you wanted the PiP to appear, plus toggle the sources.

At the dizzying heights of performance that the Ti 500 version of the GeForce3 is able to achieve, there is not much headroom to distinguish between the competing models of the major players.