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Review: Toshiba 37RL853B

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The Toshiba 37RL853B offers a little bit of everything - it's a contemporary looking LCD TV with an LED edge-lit Full HD panel, decent connectivity, Freeview HD, plenty of user-adjustable tweaks and smattering of multi-media features including access to iPlayer and YouTube. Not bad really for what is after all, a budget TV.</div>
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The 37RL853 sits slap bang in the middle of Toshiba's RL series, with the 32-inch 32RL853 and 42-inch 42RL853 offering the same specification for around £50 less and £100 more respectively.</div>
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The RL series itself is more or less in the middle of Toshiba's 2011 range of flatscreens, adding a terrestrial HD tuner to the basic standard definition Freeview tuner found on the HL series (which only comes in 32-inch and 42-inch sizes).</div>
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Above the RL series is the step-up SL series, comprising the 32SL853, 37SL853 and 42SL853. These add Toshiba's ActiveVision image processing engine and an eco-friendly panel to the mix, plus Toshiba Places, which is a platform designed for people who like to conduct social relationships through online means.</div>
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Want more? Looking for USB recording? Head for the UL series. 3D you say? That will be the VL and WL designer models (but neither of the latter two come in 37-inch size. At this end of the scale were talking big bucks of course.</div>
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As for rivals, consider Panasonic's TX-L37E30B with excellent networking or the Samsung UE37D5000, which lacks a Freeview HD tuner but if you're a Sky HD or Virgin Media customer could be considered an irrelevance.</div>
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As previously mentioned the Toshiba 37RL853B has a Full HD panel with a Freeview HD tuner. It also has a generous four HDMI inputs (including one with an audio return channel), which should satisfy most users' HD habits (say for a games console, PVR and Blu-ray deck or home cinema system) and Resolution+, which upscales standard definition sources to 1920 x 1080 resolution.</div>
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There are also a broad set of tools that give you every chance possible of optimising the picture. You get the regular picture modes – Standard, Autoview, Dynamic, Game, PC and a brace of movie modes, which are called Hollywood 1 and Hollywood 2. It's quite likely that none of these will suit your tastes, even Autoview, which automatically adjusts the picture depending on ambient light conditions.</div>
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Naturally, it's a simple process to tinker with the contrast, brightness, colour, sharpness and backlight for each mode and any changes you make are saved for each mode. Further than that though is a surprisingly diverse range of adjustments.</div>
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But delving in to the Advanced Picture Settings menu to find such options as Colour Master, Base Colour, Colour Temperature, Backlight Adjustment Pro, White Balance, Black/White Level and Static Gamma, to name but seven, can all seem rather daunting.</div>
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And when you get down to the nitty gritty of tweaking the hue, saturation and brightness of red, green, blue, yellow, magenta and cyan you start to wonder if it's ever possible to find the right combination of settings that are just right for your preference. Even more so, when you consider that different sources need different settings, as do different times of day when the ambient light changes.</div>
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And just to complicate matters even further there's an 'Expert' sub-menu that has an RGB filter for adjusting each colour in isolation, plus a white balance tool and a test pattern to aid image adjustment. There's also a Control Visualisation graph which puts a brightness histogram and control curve up on screen and makes you feel as if you're wearing a white lab coat doing GCSE physics experiments.</div>
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And with no way of saving settings to different presets it makes you wonder how often any of these parameters will be used by the vast majority of owners. It's not as if Toshiba offers a cheaper model of the same size that includes a Freeview HD tuner and some multimedia capability but excludes the calibration toolset.</div>
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Talking of multimedia, Toshiba has not exactly blazed the trail when it comes to internet-based TV entertainment and the 37RL853 doesn't do a lot to change that perception. Other brands, such as Sony and Samsung, are offering a much broader selection of IPTV portals on their budget TVs than just YouTube, BBC iPlayer and Flickr, which you get here once you've hooked up to a router using Ethernet (or an optional extra wi-fi dongle). On the plus side though, at least iPlayer allows access to HD shows (and is a cinch to use).</div>
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If you're not using the USB socket for a Wi-Fi dongle you can enjoy multi-media playback from a flash drive. The ethernet socket can also be used for hooking up to a Windows 7 computer for the purposes of DLNA networking.</div>
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Other socketry includes a Scart, component video and composite video for any legacy analogue kit, plus a 15-pin PC input and a digital optical audio output. Finally, a CI slot will accept a CAM module if you want access to ESPN using TopUp TV's subscription service.</div>
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The 37RL853 can also act as a giant photo frame. Choose one of your favourite snaps from a USB drive or networked computer and copy it to the TV's own flash memory. It can be displayed with or without the date and time.</div>
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Some of last year's Toshiba screens suffered badly from excessive MPEG noise but the 37RL853B is significantly better in this respect.</div>
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Hitchcock's <span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="em" mce_style="font-style: italic;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">To Catch A Thief</span> stored on our Sky+ HD box in standard definition features a scene where Cary Grant chases a thief across some rooftops at night. The pitch black skies are a great test of a how solid a picture a panel can muster. The results are not perfect, as part of the picture can clearly be seen to break up, but it's not the overwhelmingly disastrous distraction we've seen before. And the same scene in HD is completely solid.</div>
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The same HD recording also shows the 37RL853's talent for serving up finely detailed static images. A shot of the watching crowd in their fancy dress features some interesting characters and you can clearly see every detail and nuance of their sun-withered faces. Their costumes also show how well the screen renders a diverse colour palette with accurate well-contained hues.</div>
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When watching a movie it pays to experiment with the various modes. In a bright room it's better to stick with the Standard mode than either of the Hollywood modes, which reduce the backlight and contrast such that the picture seems limp and dull.</div>
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The Autoview mode is worth trying but can't be relied upon, for example when watching cricket the green grass is far too bright.</div>
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Blu-rays serve to reiterate the panel's strengths and weaknesses.<span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="em" mce_style="font-style: italic;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5;">No Country For Old Men</span> has some vast desert skies that are served up with a high level of noise and DNR seems to have little effect. There are also plenty of dark scenes that show that shadow detail is not the best but at least the detail in well-lit scenes is very good.</div>
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The Freeview picture is generally very good, especially the three HD channels. The standard definition picture is about par for the course and engaging Resolution+ certainly sharpens things up. Finally, viewing angles are very good.</div>
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Don't expect to get calls from angry neighbours complaining about the sound coming from the 37RL853's speakers. They're ok for regular daytime telly but are seriously underpowered for watching more involving material such as TV dramas and movies.</div>
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The presence of Surround settings in the menu should be taken with a rock of salt; according to the manual "Stereo Extension and Voice Enhancement help to create an enhanced surround sound experience. Your TV's audio will sound fuller, richer, and wider." Voice Enhancement does give dialogue a small lift but it's bordering on egregious to claim the 37RL853 can generate a surround soundfield.</div>
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Value</h4>
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Priced at only £50 more than its 32-inch 32RL853 stablemate the 37-inch 37RL853 looks like something of a bargain.</div>
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It may lack a few niceties such as USB recording, 100Hz processing and a broader Smart TV selection but it gives other 37-inch screens a good run for their money. Samsung's UE37D5000 for example doesn't have a Freeview HD tuner.</div>
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Ease of use</h4>
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Setting up the screen is no more taxing than making tea and toast. The operating system is substance over style, the latter of which it really doesn't have a lot of. But it is easy and uncomplicated to navigate the menus and the remote control has the right number of important command buttons on it.</div>
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The Quick button is especially useful for accessing features such as Picture mode, Picture size, connected TV and channel options (adding to favourites, locking, etc). Some of the buttons on the remote are fiddly, which seems odd when there's a fair bit of unused real estate that would have allowed for a more user-friendly layout. But overall it's a decent effort.</div>
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It's annoying that the full instruction manual is only available as a PDF that you have to download, and a bit cheeky of Toshiba to shift the printing cost to its customers. And surprising as it may seem, not everyone has access to a computer.</div>
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The Freeview EPG is one of the best around in that it displays 13 channels over 2.5 or 1.25 hours and uses black text on a white background. It also has a handy genre guide and search facility but it can be slow to load sometimes.</div>
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The networking and online features are mercifully simple to set-up but the file handling is clunky and laboured. Loading photos and videos on a Toshiba netbook took ages and the folders are displayed in a boring grid structure with no visual information. Unsurprisingly, file compatibility is far from comprehensive and certainly not consistent.</div>
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The 37RL853 is a solid middle-of-the-range Freeview HD screen with few frills and not many thrills either. What it lacks in built-in picture enhancements it makes up for with a surprising degree of user adjustment features. It dabbles its toes in the Smart TV waters with a trio of online services and is prepared to have a go at home networking, albeit with mixed results.</div>
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We liked</h4>
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Greater than average panel noise can't hide the fact that the 37RL853's pictures are generally very good, especially with HD sources.</div>
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The pre-set picture modes are easily tweakable to find the optimum setting and Resolution+ is one of the finest built-in upscalers around. Access to iPlayer is certainly welcome as is the ability to show multimedia files from a flash drive or computer.</div>
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We disliked</h4>
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The 37RL853's sound is just about acceptable for daytime TV watching but is seriously underpowered for more involving soundtracks.</div>
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The graphics and font used for the onscreen menus are rather uninspiring, the Smart TV offering is teasingly small and the networking is rather hit and miss.</div>
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Final verdict</h4>
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The remote control, user interface, networking features and even the ability to make so many picture adjustments give you the feeling that the 37RL853 feels more like an engineering sample rather than the polished article.</div>
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Overall though, such versatility should be welcomed in a TV that is capable of delivering good-quality pictures, and for the money looks like a fairly solid proposition.</div>
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Virgin Media's TiVo hard disk recorder and on-demand set top box has changed the way people find and view TV programmes, according to the fibre-optic entertainment supremo.</div>
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A quarter of its users forgo the electronic programme guide (EPG) favoured by other set top boxes, instead preferring TiVo's intelligent search feature.</div>
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Half of these searches are for programmes that aren't in audience research company BARB's top fifty for the UK - which means more people are seeking out programmes, rather being spoon-fed the top result on the EPG.</div>
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According to Virgin Media's second 'Entertainment Index', the top ten customer searches were:</div>
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Dexter and Fringe aren't broadcast on conventional 'terrestrial' channels, instead being shown on FX and Sky1 respectively which, Virgin Media reckons, reinforces the prominence of "word of mouth social recommendations or marketing campaigns".</div>
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What Virgin Media hasn't revealed is the number of people who prefer watching on-demand to recording on the TiVo's hard drive, so it's not clear if the Tivo's 1TB of storage is proving increasingly redundant.</div>
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At 484 million views in the first half of 2011, Virgin Media's on-demand service is still dwarfed by the BBC iPlayer - which achieved 175 million views in December 2010 alone.</div>
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The company believes it's on track to achieve one billion views this year, but this could be a drop in the ocean compared to the (free) iPlayer's results.</div>
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We doubt Virgin is too worried though. It's already delivered Britain's fastest fibre-optic broadband to many homes, and many will take out a TV package at the same time.</div>
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Virgin Media's TiVo is 'changing telly habits'

Virgin Media's TiVo hard disk recorder and on-demand set top box has changed the way people find and view TV programmes, according ...

Sony Ericsson Announces Qriocity Video Service for Xperia Devices

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The nine markets of which Sony Ericsson speaks for the initial launch are the following: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, Japan*, Canada and the United States. *Japan being the only market to have the service becoming available at the end of August instead of the start. This video service will be made available to a series of 2011 Sony Ericsson devices in the Xperia line, those being the mini and the mini pro first, the Xperia arc, Xperia neo, Xperia PLAY, Xperia pro, and Xperia acro through a software upgrade later this year. Furthermore, the service will be available instantly on Xperia active and Xperia ray when they launch as well.</div>
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This service will be what Sony Ericsson notes as an intuitive and user friendly way to both buy and rent TV shows and movies from a whole batch of their partners in the project. NBC, Universal International Television Distribution, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution amongst other local studies will be joining in soon. Latest releases from each of these studios will be available as well as an extensive back catalog for classic pictures.</div>
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Access the app as soon as it launches at http://www.qriocity.com/ and let us know how you like it. That said – are you the sort of person who rents or purchases video on a regular basis for your mobile device? Let us know!</div>
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Sony Ericsson Announces Qriocity Video Service for Xperia Devices

Today the good folks at Sony Ericsson have let the world know that a brand new video service for Xperia phones will be launching starting...

Sony in the red due to quake-hit production

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Sony has reported that it made a net loss of 15.5 billion yen (£122 million) for the three months from April to June 2011, with sales declining by 18 per cent year on year.</div>
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It blames the chasm in its finances on the earthquake that hit Japan earlier this year, which caused production delays and squeezed component supplies.</div>
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It also reckons "unfavourable exchange rates" and "the deterioration of the electronics business environment" have had a negative impact.</div>
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The worst hit department was Sony's TV unit, which has also revised its sales forecast for the rest of the year downwards.</div>
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Sony's computer entertainment division had some interesting news; PlayStation 3 sales are down, possibly due to the PSN hack that took the gaming network down for over a month earlier this year.</div>
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However, the outdated PS2 has seen sales remain pretty steady, down by only a couple of hundred thousand compared to the same period last year.</div>
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Also weirdly, the PSP handheld console has had a bit of a boom with a 600,000 sales increase to 1.8 million, no doubt due to attractive price cuts and new bundles in advance of the launch of the PS Vita next year.</div>
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With regards to the cyber attacks on the PSN, Sony notes, "Most recently, user logins to PlayStation Network in North America have returned to a similar level as before the cyber attacks."</div>
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Sony in the red due to quake-hit production

Sony has reported that it made a net loss of 15.5 billion yen (£122 million) for the three months from April to June 2011, with sales d...

Review: Toshiba 42HL833

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="150" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Toshiba%2042HL833/ToshHL833straighton_2-200-200.jpg" width="200" /></p><br/>There's something refreshingly straightforward about the Toshiba 42HL833. The £700 set might be devoid of online features or streaming services and its Freeview tuner is strictly standard-def, but you won't find a cheaper full HD, edge LED set of its size in Toshiba's current lineup.<br/><br/>Affordable TVs that eschew fancy features in favour of decent pictures should find an audience in these economically straitened times and the 42HL833 sits just above the HD ready EL833 series in the manufacturer's expansive, budged-conscious new range.<br/><br/>If the 42HL833's 42-inch screen size doesn't suit you, the 32-inch 32HL833 is also available, while anyone after a Freeview HD tuner will have to step up to the RL833 series, which also add a few online features to the mix.<br/><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Toshiba 42hl833" class="aligncenter" height="315" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Toshiba%2042HL833/ToshHL833straighton_1-420-90.jpg" width="420" /></p><br/>The 42HL833 is all about value: there's no 3D, no online connectivity or DLNA PC compatibility and the build quality is rather plasticky. You won't find much in the way of video processing, either and the panel is only 50Hz with a conventional (non-scanning) backlight.<br/><br/>The 42HL833 is not entirely devoid of useful features, however: its USB port can handle music, photo and video files and the container formats the set can parse include MPEG, MPEG2-TS, H.264, MPEG2-PS, AVI (XviD), MP4 and MKV (H.264, MPEG1, 2, 4).<br/><br/>A D-Sub PC port enhances multimedia options further, while other connections include an acceptable two HDMIs, a digital audio output and a single Scart.<br/><br/>If you are thinking of hanging a 42HL833 on a wall, be aware that many of its connections – including one of the HDMIs, the component video input and the tuner jack – face straight out of the TV's rear, rather than being positioned for side access.<br/><br/>Trawling the 42HL833's menus for features uncovers more adjustments than you might expect to find on such an affordable TV. There's a separate backlight control alongside the usual contrast and brightness adjustments, a trio of settings for black/white level balance and an adjustable static gamma level, as well as separate DNR and MPEG NR processing options.<br/><br/>Most startlingly, a 3D Colour Management system enables you to adjust – via a superbly simple interface – the hue, saturation and brightness of the red, green, blue, yellow, magenta and cyan colour components.<br/><br/>The only other things of interest are a bass boost function and a pseudo-surround audio processing option, both of which need to be treated with extreme care, as they can make the set sound worse, rather than better.<br/><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Toshiba 42hl833" class="aligncenter" height="315" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Toshiba%2042HL833/ToshibaHL833angle1_1-420-90.jpg" width="420" /></p><br/>The 42HL833 performs best with bright HD feeds. Hi-def coverage of the Wimbledon tennis tournament was amazingly detailed and sharp, with individual blades of grass or beads of perspiration clearly discernible.<br/><br/>Even better, the clarity remains more or less unchecked during play, with balls and players moving around with little interference from motion trailing or resolution loss. This is surprising for a 50Hz TV and suggests an impressive native panel response for a budget set.<br/><br/>The colour performance, meanwhile, is dynamic and engaging but also subtle when required; skin tones and the green of the courts are totally convincing, with smoothly blended tones and no striping or blotching to speak of and black level response is solid.<br/><br/>Shifting down the gears to standard-definition feeds from the digital tuner, the 42HL833 still exceeds expectations - albeit by not quite as much. Most pleasing is the way the set retains its natural palette during the upscaling process, avoiding the unnatural sheen that tends to mar standard-def material on screens at the more affordable end of the market. Motion also remains decently smooth, though a little resolution loss is evident.<br/><br/>Standard-def images are upscaled with respectable sharpness, though the 42HL833 doesn't entirely get a handle on source noise. The MPEG NR system can help tame some of the blockiness and shimmering that troubles standard-definition pictures, but it also creates a slightly processed, laggy look.<br/><br/>The 42HL833 struggles with black levels when pushed hard by a high-contrast Blu-ray film.<br/><br/>It is perfectly capable of combining bright image elements with dark ones within a single frame during normal footage, but frequently fails to extract enough light from really dark scenes, leaving them looking milky and short of shadow detail.<br/><br/>A second problem concerns that classic edge LED woe of inconsistent backlight brightness. During dark scenes a slender ring of anomalous brightness runs around the edge of the screen, bulging sufficiently in places to become distracting.<br/><br/>This problem is only problematic during the darkest scenes and its impact can be reduced by reining in the backlight and brightness settings, but it doesn't seem possible to remove the inconsistencies entirely and the issue increases dramatically at viewing angles wider than 30°.<br/><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img alt="Toshiba 42hl833" class="aligncenter" height="315" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Toshiba%2042HL833/ToshibaHL833angle1_2-420-90.jpg" width="420" /><br/></strong></p><br/><strong>Sound</strong><br/><br/>The 42HL833's speakers go a bit louder than those of most budget LCD TVs and can produce a soundstage on a scale appropriate to the 42-inch pictures. However, there's precious little audio finesse, with bass in short supply, a thin and echoey mid-range and harsh, poorly defined trebles.<br/><br/><strong>Value</strong><br/><br/>The 42HL833 is good value for a 42-inch LCD TV with edge LED lighting and will make a solid everyday set.<br/><br/>However, its lack of any sort of online features or 3D options together with its backlight issues compromise its overall value.<br/><br/><strong>Ease of use</strong><br/><br/>The 42HL833's onscreen menus are logically  organised and very cleanly presented and kick off with an attractive  icon-based opening screen that provides a much more inviting starting  point than Toshiba's usual boring, text-heavy system. The menu  navigation system is intuitive and requires minimal brain engagement.<br/><br/>The  remote control is small, plasticky, and plain, but turns out to be a  handy companion to the clear, uncomplicated menus, with responsive  buttons and most of the main navigation buttons falling within easy  reach.<br/><br/>For the electronic programme guide, Toshiba has sensibly  shifted away from its previous system that would change channel whenever  you moved the cursor to a different station, slowing navigation down  horrendously.<br/><br/>The information presented in the EPG is also clearly legible displaying programme names in full.<br/><br/>The  42HL833 does takes an age to switch display modes when you move from a  standard-def to an HD channel (or vice versa), though and the automatic  aspect ratio system doesn't always seem to work properly with some Sky  broadcasts.<br/><br/><img alt="Toshiba 42hl833" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Toshiba%2042HL833/ToshHL833straighton_2-420-90.jpg" width="420" /><br/><br/>The 42HL833 is Toshiba's cheapest 42-inch full HD TV with an edge LED backlight. Neither the lack of online services nor the absence of 3D should stop the TV appealing to anyone after a decent, low-cost TV, while the flimsy build and average connectivity are about par for the price. It even has a few unexpected features, including playback of photo, music and video files from USB and a surprisingly comprehensive colour management facility.<br/><br/>In many ways the 42HL833's picture performance is a winner. With HD sources in particular its combination of natural, warm colours, good detailing and surprisingly little motion noise make it a very enjoyable TV to watch with predominantly bright footage.<br/><br/>It's a well above-average standard-definition performer, too, but does suffer from uninspiring black levels and obvious backlight consistency issues with more demanding material.<br/><br/><strong>We liked</strong><br/><br/>It's affordably priced for a 42-inch TV with edge LED lighting and its performance with bright pictures is enjoyable, thanks to natural colours, good sharpness and surprisingly little motion blur or resolution loss. The set's USB-driven multimedia abilities are a pleasing bonus, too.<br/><br/><strong>We disliked</strong><br/><br/>It's a pity, if hardly a surprise, that the 42HL833 doesn't offer 3D, online capability or a Freeview HD tuner and its mostly good picture quality breaks down during dark scenes, thanks to a lack of deep black colours, missing shadow details and a conspicuously inconsistent backlight.<br/><br/><strong>Final Verdict</strong><br/><br/>Casual viewers after a TV predominantly for watching standard-def broadcasts will be more than happy with the 42HL833.<br/><br/>The 42HL833's backlight and black level issues probably rule it out as a serious movie machine, though.

Review: Toshiba 42HL833

There's something refreshingly straightforward about the Toshiba 42HL833. The £700 set might be devoid of online features or streaming s...

Review: Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 4-85

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="150" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Bang%20and%20Olufsen%20BeoVision%204-85/B%20and%20O%20BeoVision%201-200-200.jpg" width="200" /></p><br/>It's no surprise that Bang & Olufsen's first 3D TV also happens to be one of the most expensive sets ever produced.<br/><br/>More likely to be found on a yacht or luxury custom installation than the average living room, the BeoVision 4-85 boasts an 85-inch plasma screen, a host of features and a price that would make Croesus himself blush.<br/><br/>The display is the same as that behind Panasonic's TH-85VX200, so its pedigree isn't in doubt. Amazingly, though, the 4-85 is about to become the smallest TV in the BeoVision range, with the non-3D 65-inch version being phased out and a whopping 103-inch version (BeoVision 4-103) waiting in the wings.<br/><br/>The latter, with its motorised stand, will cost you – deep breath – close to £100,000. If you decide to wall-mount it, the price comes down to a trifling £82,000.<br/><br/>For now, this 85-incher is the only plasma sold by Bang & Olufsen, the rest of its range being mostly LED-backlit LCD TVs that are as delectably designed as they are expensive. At the entry level – if such a thing exists within B&O's money-no-object ethos – is the BeoVision 8-40.<br/><br/>A snip at £4,500, this 40-inch TV has a full HD resolution, 200Hz and a surround sound decoder, plus a soundbar-style speaker system.<br/><br/>Next up is the BeoVision 10 range, all of which have a curiously square aspect, thanks to the three-way speakers slung under the displays.<br/><br/>The variations comprise the 32-inch BeoVision 10-32 (£4,500), 40-inch BeoVision 10-40 (£7,000) and 46-inch BeoVision 10-46 (£8,500), with only the smaller version unable to cope with surround sound. All have 200Hz, full HD and an anti-glare screen covering that's also seen on this 85-incher (it works, too; switch-off the TV and reflections are only faint).<br/><br/>Finally, aside from this 3D monster, is the BeoVision 7 range, which comprises the BeoVision 7-40 (£11,000) and BeoVision 10-55 (£16,000). The smaller is LCD, the larger LED-lit, yet both have perhaps the greatest feature of all; built-in Blu-ray. It's not 3D, sadly (it soon will be), but is designed quite brilliantly. Press Eject and a Blu-ray disc (or DVD) silently slips out, supported by a slim column.<br/><br/>All Bang & Olufsen TVs – and especially the BeoVision 4-85 – are programmable. An engineer asks you exactly what other products you have – say, a Sky+HD box and a Sony Blu-ray player – and the controls for those are integrated into the remote control.<br/><br/>However, if you change your components around, an engineer does have to pay another visit to reconfigure the remote.<br/><br/>It's the kind of personal service you'd expect if paying this much cash, though the charges keep on coming. You can't just barge into a Bang & Olufsen store and purchase the BeoVision 4-85, though. A site survey must be carried out first, largely to make sure the TV will fit through your doorway, and be supported by your walls or floor.<br/><br/>The site visit costs £300, though it's refundable if you decide to buy a BeoVision 4-85. The final charge is for delivery, which, as you can imagine, requires some pretty specialist lifting equipment; say goodbye to between £4,000 and £10,000. The main reason for that is the BeoVision 4-85's clever floor stand that weighs a whopping 500kg.<br/><br/>Whereas most TV stands rotate and wriggle, this one elevates. It's largely a show-off feature and not aimed specifically at improving the viewing angle or picture, but it's still addictive; switch the TV on from the remote and it rises to attention, revealing the BeoLab 10 speaker (also part of that 500kg bulk) as it does so.<br/><br/>This feature can be customised to exact proportions, with the TV leaning back or turning slightly. Does a TV need to have one position when switched-off, and another when turned on? No, not really – though arguably that's more important with an 85-inch TV, which is likely to become the focal point of any room, however large.<br/><br/>When it's switched-off, the BeoVision 4 retracts down to the floor – just an inch or two above, in fact – and from down there it doesn't dominate quite so much.<br/><br/>No sooner has the TV lifted into position than the TV comes to life – no coincidence – in typical B&O style; a pair of digital curtains part on the screen to reveal a live TV channel.<br/><br/><img alt="BeoVision 4-85" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Bang%20and%20Olufsen%20BeoVision%204-85/B%20and%20O%20BeoVision%202-420-90.jpg" width="420" /><br/><br/>At this price the BeoVision 4-85 isn't going to sell in the thousands, which is great news if you're in the market for it, since you can pretty much have it completely customised. Your first choice is between six colours (black, silver, red, blue, golden or gunmetal); the sample we reviewed was finished in snazzy brushed silver.<br/><br/>There's no Freeview HD tuner on board the BeoVision 4-85. If you balk and splutter at that, you're very probably not in Bang & Olufsen's universe. Any situation where the BeoVision 4-85 could be used is also one where a Sky or Virgin box is going to be in place – if only for the plethora of high-definition TV channels – so we're not unduly worried about the lack of DVB-T2. Despite that, we're told it will soon be in place.<br/><br/>In some ways the BeoVision 4-85 is all about cutting out features considered pointless, picture settings being first on the list. It's a strange stance in some ways, because high-end punters should be the fussiest, but Bang & Olufsen has removed virtually all opportunities to tweak the image. Yes, there are some very basic drop-down menus to change contrast, brightness and colour alongside a Game mode, but that is it; everything else is performed automatically by the BeoVision 4-85's ... wait for it … robotic pop-out camera.<br/><br/>Has Bang & Olufsen gone cuckoo? The set arrives perfectly calibrated for its surroundings – B&O is very confident about that, and doesn't want it jeopardised by the customer (heaven forbid) – so the job of the robot arm is to keep things that way.<br/><br/>Partly because plasmas are dynamic, colours can take on a slight yellowing hue the more they're used, so every 90-100 hours of use a five-inch camera pops-up from the top of the display, drops down in front of the screen, and measures the saturations and contrast (from a colour spectrum and a greyscale shown onscreen). It then resets to its original parameters, and adjusts the colour temperature to steer away from yellow and the camera dives back in, cuckoo-clock style.<br/><br/>The whole process (called Automatic Colour management, which can be done manually at any point) takes about 20 seconds, during which time the IR receiver is also measuring the ambient light in the room, and adjusting the brightness accordingly.<br/><br/>It's all a very subtle and silent process, and as we'll see, does a great job, though home cinema aficionados might take umbrage at the apparently dismissive stance towards users making their own tweaks. We presume this stance is largely to stop customers requesting call-outs every time someone messes with the settings.<br/><br/>Aside from magical moving mechanisms, the BeoVision 4-85 is also a 3DTV. It employs the Active 3D system used by (for now) the majority of manufacturers and brands, though that's absolutely no surprise; this is a high-end, and huge, plasma that is ideal for Active 3D.<br/><br/>In and outputs are, again, up to each buyer; on the back of the sample we saw was strapped a BeoSystem 3 surround sound processor that built-in DVI, four HDMI, component video, three electrical digital audio and, remarkably, three Scarts. Also back there were some line ins and outs, analogue and digital RF and an RF modulator.<br/><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="BeoVision 4-85" class="aligncenter" height="142" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Bang%20and%20Olufsen%20BeoVision%204-85/B%20and%20O%20BeoVision%203-420-90.jpg" width="252" /></p><br/>Paired with a reference-level Oppo BDP-95EU Blu-ray player, the BeoVision 4-85 pumps out some seriously great 3D pictures.<br/><br/>Perhaps it's just the size of the screen that creates such enveloping intensity (not that we sat directly underneath it), but a run-through of <em>Avatar</em> delivered some of the most convincing 3D pictures we've seen.<br/><br/>Heavy on contrast and with a searing brightness (at least, for a 3D screen), the BeoVision 4-85 deciphered with intrinsic depth and startling detail the scene where the floating flowers settle on Jake. The way the screen picks out pricks of bright light in otherwise inky black areas of the image is brilliant. In the dog attack scene, it all moves a touch too fast for the BeoVision 4-85; there's a suggestion of crosstalk, though it's mostly a problem with judder.<br/><br/>Colour is sublime, as it is in 2D mode. There's a huge drop in contrast with those 3D specs dumped, though it's still enough to impress when compared to mainstream plasmas. On 2D mode there simply isn't any motion blur at all, which is why plasma is best for monster screens (though the 3D specs do introduce some).<br/><br/>Sky channels look better than Freeview, which is blighted by softness and fizzing around moving objects. That's no surprise on a screen this big, and the good work done in contrast and colour is retained. Overall, the BeoVision 4-85 is a top-drawer screen for 3D and 2D, while for standard definition it does a decent job at cleaning it up, considering its size.<br/><br/>It would be remiss not to point out that 3D material is best viewed on Active 3D screens in as near to blackout as possible – and the BeoVision4-85 is no different.<br/><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img alt="BeoVision 4-85" class="aligncenter" height="142" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Bang%20and%20Olufsen%20BeoVision%204-85/B%20and%20O%20BeoVision%204-420-90.jpg" width="252" /><br/></strong></p><br/><strong>Sound</strong><br/><br/>If the picture relies largely on the Panasonic plasma panel it's hosted on, the sound is all Bang & Olufsen's work. The BeoLab 10 speaker that sits below the screen is a mono driver – but acts as a centre channel in a surround sound set-up, which is virtually the law if you're spending this much.<br/><br/>In our review the BeoVision 4-85 was paired with two BeoLab 5 speakers (£3,600 per pair) and two surround sound modules, the BeoLab 3 (£2,700 per pair). The sound is crystal clear and powerful, as it should be at this end of the market.<br/><br/>In fact, with the sharp and well-weighted vocals, pitch-perfect bass levels (no external subwoofer is needed) and overwhelmingly effective surround effects, we'd argue that the audio brings the movie to life just as much – if not more – than the 3D effects onscreen.<br/><br/><strong>Value</strong><br/><br/>If you want one of the best screens on the planet, it will cost you. There is the small matter of price to contented with though – Panasonic's TH-85VX200 costs a 'mere' £42,000, so where's the BeoVision 4-85's extra £24,000 going? On the robot arm, perhaps? The motorised stand?<br/><br/>The look of the BeoVision 4-85 is a lot more sculpted, and the way it integrates into a home automation system – and, more importantly, a speaker array – is impressive. Other than that, the money seems to get you a screen that delivers a consistent picture performance that refuses to bend to your will.<br/><br/>For those after a top-notch, fuss-free 85-inch screen with huge wow-factor, the BeoVision 4-85 is first class – but the only real reason for any TV to cost £66,000 is that a production line simply doesn't exist; it's custom-built, and that is what determines the price.<br/><br/><strong>Ease of use</strong><br/><br/>There are two remote controls to pick from. The  default option is a Beo4, a long, slender and pleasingly weighty  product that takes some getting used to. It's thoroughly effective,  though a tad slow at communicating with an IR receiver that protrudes  from the BeoVision 4-85's top right-hand corner. The Beo6, which has  been in the Bang & Olufsen arsenal for quite some time, costs £230.<br/><br/>Those  that want a more up-to-the-minute touchscreen remote are also catered  for by the Beo6. It's a strange looking thing, with a small colour OLED  screen sitting atop what looks like part of a model aircraft's fuselage.  It's nicely weighted and comfy to hold, but best of all channel logos  can be programmed to appear on the touchscreen.<br/><br/>At £600 it adds  further to the increasingly stratospheric bill (it comes free with the  BeoVision 4 and BeoVision 7 products, so why not this top-of-the-range  TV?).<br/><br/>The remote really comes into its own when controlling  external equipment; we managed to control the internal workings of a  Sky+HD box with no problem, perusing the EPG and setting-up recordings.<br/><br/>Both  remotes are capable of mastering a home automation system if paired  with a MasterLink Gateway so, for example, you can use it in conjunction  with a Lutron lighting system; press 'movie' on either Bang &  Olufsen remote and the Blu-ray kicks-in as the lights dim. It also works  with Crestron and AMX systems, so for the wealthy it can control  security systems, ventilation, curtains, a burglar alarm – even your  electronic pool cover.<br/><br/>The TV's user interface doesn't make such a  splash, though it is complete simplicity defined. While other brands  struggle to introduce polished graphics and colourful, responsive menus,  here a different attitude has been taken. There is a bare-bones (and  attractive, despite being just white text on a black background)  interface that cuts in menus and choices from the left-hand side, but  usually the remote can be used to directly choose the source.<br/><br/>Those  wanting to control TV, or even entire zones of their automated house,  with a smartphone can do so with the free – and highly polished – BeoLink app on iPhone or Android.<br/><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="BeoVision 4-85" class="aligncenter" height="142" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/Review%20images/TechRadar/Home%20Entertainment/Bang%20and%20Olufsen%20BeoVision%204-85/B%20and%20O%20BeoVision%202-420-90.jpg" width="252" /></p><br/>Although it's always been a pricey brand, the last four or five years has seen the Danish brand issue TVs that haven't been sufficiently different to mass-market propositions to get anyone very excited.<br/>That all changes with the BeoVision 4-85.<br/><br/><strong>We liked:</strong><br/><br/>Contrast, colour and sheer detail are the picture highlights, but this TV goes way beyond its great 3D and 2D work. The robotic camera, home automation options and speaker opportunities are excellent, as is the touchscreen remote and iPhone app, while the motorised stand does nothing to lower our expectations. The choice of plasma when LED-backlighting is so well marketed is a shrewd, if risky move – and absolutely pivotal to its success.<br/><br/><strong>We disliked:</strong><br/><br/>The constant piling-on of costs – for the remote, surround sound decoder, speakers, stand and even delivery charges – might begin to annoy even those with vast resources. We're also rather surprised there's no online dimension whatsoever, while the lack of a Beo6 touchscreen remote as a default, included option is a shame.<br/><br/><strong>Final verdict:</strong><br/><br/>Incredibly expensive and aimed at money-no-object types, the BeoVision 4-85 sees a return to form. Bang & Olufsen's engineers have sensibly built the swish user experience around a cutting-edge plasma panel that excels with all sources.

Review: Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 4-85

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Sky Go isn't about the platform, it's about the content

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="90" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com///classifications/computing/mobile-computing/Tablets%20and%20touchscreens/ipad%20accessories/ipad%20EPG-sky-200-200.jpg" width="120" /></p><br/>Sky is readying itself for the launch of its new on-demand platform, Sky Go, which is set to offer up Sky content to those using an iOS device or a laptop.<br/><br/>Sky Go is a merging of Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV but it's not the platform that's important, according to Sky, but the content the platform delivers.<br/><br/>"Invariably, most of the headlines in our industry are reserved for sexy distribution stories like building fibre, new platforms like YouView, or this week's latest online darling, whether Hulu, Netflix or Amazon," said Mike Darcey, Chief Operating Officer, BSkyB at the IEA Future Of Broadcasting conference.<br/><br/>"That's a shame. And it's also a cause for concern. Because content is what consumers are really passionate about – and someone has to make it."<br/><br/><strong>All about revenue</strong><br/><br/>It seems that Sky is being pragmatic about its online venture, believing that it has to make new revenue out of it so that it can pipe this back into the programmes it makes.<br/><br/>"We've seen the rush to throw all your content online, in pursuit of 'uniques' and 'views', but little in the way of revenue.<br/><br/>"Now obviously it's fine for BBC to put everything online, as there are no revenue consequences. But is it right for commercial terrestrial broadcasters necessarily to follow suit?<br/><br/>"I guess that depends on whether they want to make online pay its way – you will have to ask them whether that is really working out."<br/><br/>Darcey continued: "For content owners, it's imperative that new distribution options support re-investment in content creation, rather than simply suck value from one part of the chain to another.<br/><br/>"In conclusion, the common thread that links many of these challenges is the need for a sensible balance to be struck between promoting investment in infrastructure and investment in content."<br/><br/>The Sky Go UK release date is 6 July.

Sky Go isn't about the platform, it's about the content

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First Picture: Virgin Media's TiVo iPad app

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="90" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//classifications/Mobile%20Phones/apps/TiVoiPadApp-200-200.jpg" width="120" /></p><br/>Virgin Media has sent us a sneak peek at its upcoming TiVo iPad app.<br/><br/>Sadly, the spoilsports won't tell us when the app will be released, exactly what it will do or any other handy hints about it at the moment.<br/><br/>We already know that the app will act as a massive remote control as well as a lap-based EPG.<br/><br/><strong>Wild stabs in the dark</strong><br/><br/>But looking at the first screen shot, it looks as though we can also look forward to multiroom DVR management, on-demand content on your iPad and some social features via the 'share' option.<br/><br/>We wouldn't be surprised to see some Facebook or Twitter integration here, and it'd be nice if it went a little bit deeper than simply tweeting what you're watching.<br/><br/>TiVo already has an iPad app out in the US, which, based on the picture Virgin Media sent us, doesn't look massively different to the upcoming UK one; but with Virgin on board, we're hoping for some nice little extras to sweeten the deal.

First Picture: Virgin Media's TiVo iPad app

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Sky 3D to showcase 3D Nazis in May

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" src="http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4324/nazi3d200200.jpg" /></p><br/>Sky will show off what it claims to be the first 3D Nazi footage, with the satellite giant to show off rare film from World War II in May.<br/><br/>A co-production between Sky and History, by Flight 33, will showcase stereoscopic footage film found in the archives of the Imperial War Museum.<br/><br/>That footage apparently shows "Nazi soldiers" (or are they just German?) running, shouting and firing in 3D – showing off their anti-aircraft capabilities.<br/><br/><strong>Only known live action 3D footage?</strong><br/><br/>"It is the only known 3D footage showing Nazis in live action," states Sky. "Alongside the 3D haul, a 2D film produced by the Nazis, explaining how to project in 3D, was also unearthed."<br/><br/>We're not entirely clear if this is the same footage as the 3D Nazi propaganda which found in Berlin earlier in the year.<br/><br/>The hour-long programme will be shown off next month on Sky 3D, with the air date set at 26 May at 10pm.<br/><br/>"This is truly a remarkable find – seeing the 3D footage made by the Nazis and the accompanying films on how to use them is a compelling insight into how the medium was used during the war," said Sky 3D director John Cassy.<br/><br/>"3D is often seen as a modern innovation, but this incredible footage reminds us that it's been around for decades – we're completely thrilled to be working with IWM to remaster it for the 21st century."

Sky 3D to showcase 3D Nazis in May

Sky will show off what it claims to be the first 3D Nazi footage, with the satellite giant to show off rare film from World War II in May. A...

Google to Finance $100 Million Worth of Original Programs for YouTube

<div><br/><div></div><br/><div><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-582107" src="http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4650/youtube360.jpg" title="YouTube-360" width="225" /></div><br/></div><br/>Google plans to create 20 special channels on its YouTube site, and will spend $100 million to create original programming to populate them, according to sources who talked with the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>.<br/><br/>Like Netflix announced last month, Google wants to create its own streaming video programs, however, according to the WSJ sources, the company will create low-cost programming designed specifically for the web and YouTube, and support the shows with advertising. The sources said this will be a “major overhaul” to YouTube, which already has a lucrative advertising system in place.<br/><br/>It was unclear when Google would begin spending the money to create the new programs, but the source said that Google has visited top Hollywood talent agencies in search of ideas, and will probably end up making deals with production companies and directors to produce the content.<br/><br/>Good move, Google. The direction broadcast television is taking is beginning to look obvious, where web-connected screens are finding their way into the living room and home theater in ever-increasing numbers. In addition to a plethora of set top boxes, many new TV sets are equipped with Internet connections, and Google’s own Google TV hardware is starting to make sense in light of this latest initiative.<br/><br/>With original content produced specifically for the web inserted into the battle for viewers, it’s going to be more difficult for cable TV, broadcast and satellite TV to dominate television broadcasting as they still do. Now, instead of 500 channels and nothing on, there will be 5 million channels, and if Google has anything to do with it, there will be <em>something </em>on. It might be cats playing the piano — now dressed up in tuxedos because of their expanded budget — but it will be something. And that something is just the beginning.

Google to Finance $100 Million Worth of Original Programs for YouTube

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Unity box turns iPhone into an IR remote

<img align="right" alt="" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1214/unityiphone.jpg" vspace="4" />The <a href="http://us.gear4.com/product/_/93/unityremote/?cid=31">UnityRemote box</a> sits on your coffee table or some other centrally located place in your living room. Using Bluetooth wireless technology, Unity takes orders from your iPhone and transmits those commands through an IR beam to any other IR device in your living room. This includes your television, cable box, home theater system and just about everything that makes up your home viewing experience.<br />
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The Unity has an app you plunk on your iPhone to accomplish all this, but the app lets you do more than just send single commands to your home theater system. You can create macro commands, called "actions," that will follow a series of pre-programmable instructions to your system. For example, if you want an "action" to "turn on the TV, then flip to the Blu-ray player and play whatever disk is loaded," the Unity can do that.<br />
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The Unity seems like it's a lot of fun, and since it's priced at a mere US$100, it seems like something most of us could enjoy in our living room.<br />
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Unity box turns iPhone into an IR remote

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Why Is My Laptop Messing Up My Television Reception?

<P><a can="" computer="" interfere="" television="" title="#jsArticleIntroImageCredit rel=thinbox><IMG title=" with="" your=""></A></P><br /><P>Your computer can interfere with your television signal.Fotolia.com</A>"> All electrical equipment releases electrical frequency interference (EFI) or radio frequency interference (RFI). According to the FCC, many interference problems in household <a class="StrongLink"" href="http://www.ehow.com/electronics/">electronics</A> are caused by poor installation.</P><br /><P></P>Check EquipmentCheck all connectors and the video inputs on both the <a class="StrongLink" href="http://www.ehow.com/computers/">computer</A> and the TV. Also check the computer power supply's shielding and your outside aerial antenna or satellite dish (if applicable). Look for loose or frayed connections. Also check any splitters in use.Keep It ShortUsing short wires and connecting cables reduces the chance of interference.DistanceMove farther away from the TV antenna or satellite cables while using the laptop. The FCC recommends reorienting your antenna, satellite or computer cables to help relieve the problem.Aerial TV SignalsUse cable instead of aerial signals for a reduced chance of interference. If you believe that your antenna is the problem, having a professional install an RF filter on your antenna may help.WarningIf you believe the interference may be coming from your laptop power supply, take your computer for a checkup to rule out potentially dangerous electrical problems. References <a href="http://www.kyes.com/antenna/interference/tvibook.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FCC: Interference Handbook</A> <a href="http://www.techsupportforum.com/home-support/electronics/384768-interference-between-laptop-tv-bad-household-electrical.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tech Support Forums: Interference Between Laptop and TV</A> <a href="http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-95/computer-causing-tv-interference/167625.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Computing.Net: Computer Causing TV Interference</A>

Why Is My Laptop Messing Up My Television Reception?

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42-inch AOC LE42K0D7D television unveiled

42-inch AOC LE42K0D7D television unveiled

AOC has unveiled its latest television - the 42-inch LE42K0D7D offering LED backlighting and a Full HD 1080p display. AOC's latest offe...