Home Entertainment Articles

Nokia takes a stab at home automation

The Nokia Home Control Centre is a technology gateway due for release late next year that will allow remote viewing and control of any device linked to a home automation system .

A bet each way

Sometimes the best home entertainment system is the one you build yourself. Adam Turner reports.

Digital radio comes late to the party

It was meant to be the Christmas present on everyone's list this year but we will now have to wait until Mother's Day to experience free-to-air digital radio.

Shape up, bit by bit

There is no shortage of fitness gadgets for sale to help you stretch, strain, push yourself and then map, graph and critique your progress.

HDMI cables: buyer beware

Australian shoppers are being duped into spending hundreds of dollars on so-called "high performance" HDMI cables.

Surrounded by wireless sound

One man's house is wired for sound - without the wires. Adam Turner reports.

Video stores setting up for digital delivery

Video Ezy and Blockbuster press ahead with plans to deliver movies to customers electronically using in-store kiosks.

One system, many uses

Building a flexible audio needs some forethought, writes Adam Turner.

Pizza, shopping and movies

Australian TiVo users will soon be able to buy groceries, order pizza and access an array of on-demand movies using little more than their TV remote.

The future of TV is online

More TV shows are sidestepping the idiot box in favour of launching on the internet.

The power within

Rod Easdown looks at some speakers designed to stay out of sight.

LCD v Plasma: turf war heats up

A new front has opened up in the battle of the big screens.

Toshiba's new gizmo is a DVD player

Almost a year after the death of HD DVD, Toshiba now says it can win the high definition format war with a standard DVD player.

Blu-ray struggles to break through

Blu-ray is in danger of being skipped over by consumers, but the format's proponents believe this year's Christmas shopping rush will be a major tipping point.

TiVo TV recording now available on a PC

US digital video recording pioneer TiVo and Germany's Nero unveiled a product that allows the popular TiVo capturing of television shows on a personal computer.

Thin is beautiful - for TV sets anyway

Sony says it will sell a 40-inch LCD TV that's as thin as a CD case and another that's only marginally thicker than a business card in Australia early next year.