There has been a lot of development of late surrounding Internet-connected TV’s, with more and more services such as Google TV tipped as the next big thing in home entertainment.
Unfortunately, most of the progress being made in the industry, including Google TV, is US-only for now, so it’s about time someone on this humble island nation of ours grasped the opportunity and provided consumers with some serious functionality on our IPTV’s.
Enter Sony, who has long been a pioneer in the television industry and once again have come to our rescue with the introduction of BBC’s iPlayer to their range of Internet-connected Sony BRAVIA TV’s. Clearly, they felt that the World Cup streaming to Sony BRAVIA TVs and Blu-Ray players went well during the summer – perhaps that helped them develop this service implementation.
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Head down to your local electronics store and you will no doubt find the shelves of budget headphones are more densely populated than an ant-hill, so it really does take a special pair to stand out from the crowd. It is an industry in which it is difficult to innovate products, and perhaps even more challenging to change the customer’s perception of a good product, but when we first heard about these 
If there is one part of the software development industry that never fails to frustrate me with its lack of innovation, it is speech recognition and sufficient artificial intelligence to truly understand what I’m saying. I remember being really excited at the speech recognition system in Windows Vista, only to be disappointed by a lack of true functionality. My attention, therefore, naturally turns to third parties.
As gadgets start to get more expensive, more abundant and more conspicuous the probability of something going wrong likewise increases, and in fact I expect the vast majority of you have at some point broken or lost your digital camera/mobile phone/MP3 player or in fact, had it stolen, and unsurprisingly this has become a bigger problem in recent years.
Archos: a company who have long been in the tablet industry with their range of popular MIDs, has it leapfrogged the major manufacturers, such as Samsung and LG, in the queue of tablets due to join the Apple iPad on store shelves.
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There was a lot of chatter when Dell released the Streak, their new Android device a few months back. Now, some of that chatter is starting up again, no doubt because the device has just been released over in the States (isn’t it lovely when us Brits get a product first?).
Here at Zath, we have looked at quite a few gaming headsets in the past such as the impressive Zowie Hammer and SteelSeries Siberia v2 but now one of the biggest names in the consumer electronics world have come up with their own two offerings for the gaming world: the Sony DR-GA500 and DR-GA200 Gaming Headsets.
Back in March we brought you the announcement of two new headphone releases from Sony: the Sony DR-350USB and DR-320DPV headsets and now after having had the chance to put them through their paces here is a more in depth look at the DR-350USB, and seeing as we had a look at the Sony MDR-570LP headphones not that long ago we’ll have a quick comparison with the two.
There has been talk of Apple preparing a 7″ model “iPad Mini” for release before the end of 2010, in time for Christmas sales at the end of the year. Doing so, however, would be a mistake in my opinion, and here’s why…