Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.

Blu-ray takes another tentative step towards the mass market, but is now the time to buy?

Blu-ray takes another tentative step towards the mass market, but is now the time to buy?

David Moss resolves an iTunes problem, looks into secret folders and Windows file sharing without a central server.

Latest tool will lower development costs, says software giant.

What's the best Blu-Ray player on the market? Our quick shopping guide to features to look for, compatiblity issues, connectivity, and our top pick.

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

Apple’s ads may be funny, but they’re woefully inaccurate. Here we reveal dozens of reasons why the PC outclasses the Mac.

Microsoft has confirmed it has cut a "small percentage", thought to be around 600,000 gamers, off from Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games

Skeptics be dammed - BluRay is kicking along just nicely thanks, in fact better than DVD did in its early years.

Read David Field's primer on Full HD before buying a new flat screen.

Industries keeping a sweet outlook during these sour times.

If you'd like to stream video to your big screen TV, you need to know about DLNA. The number of DLNA-certified televisions has more than doubled in the last three months. Here's what you need to know.

The Qosmio is the absolute pinnacle in multimedia notebooks. It brings everything you need for a good Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) system and squeezes it into a notebook form-factor. Albeit a large notebook form-factor. Yes the Qosmio is a huge and heavy notebook, but it's not nearly as heavy as it would have been if it was packed with desktop internals as many desknotes of this size usually are.

Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

What will you be buying, using and drooling over this year? Tim Dean looks at the astounding products and technologies due to hit in the next 12 months.

Epic Games vice president says console enthusiasts forget waiting for next-gen hardware anytime soon. Also: Asus's media streaming box, the dark spot on Jupiter, and Moore's Law revisited

Blu-rayers heavily into 'Crank'.