Terrific value and a high-quality set – it’s not Full HD, but at this price, you won’t miss it

New plant to upgrade existing capacity, analysts suggest.

Slightly older model, but the best 42in TV you can buy, full stop. Not cheap, but the quality is all up there on the screen

It may be early days for the technology, but it's still interesting to look at Sony's Blu-Ray drive under the microscope.

If you're shopping for a new LCD or plasma TV you'll soon start noticing those familiar energy star stickers on flat screens.

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

If you must have the biggest, it’s great – but lose a couple of inches and you’ll get an even better performance

Sharp are finalising plans to commercially produce quad and triple layer Blu-ray discs capable of 100GB and 8x read speeds using new disc materials and improved laser technologies

If you're buying a flat screen TV, some marketing tactics when it comes to 1080p and 720p can be deceptive. Here's what you need to know

As this Labs’ sole available proponent of the –RW format, Pioneer has a struggle on its hands getting the public to accept the standard over the faster and more widely used +RW format.

An older model, and not the best 50in Pioneer, but still better than every other 50in on the planet in its day. If you can’t manage the top-end Pioneer, this is the set to go for

Like the Panasonic LF-D521U, this DVD-RW drive is a generation behind the newest ones on the market. As such it lacks a lot in burning speed – in fact most of the newer models on the market are twice as fast.

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