Mid-range digital cameras (Canon, Casio, HP, Kyocera, Olympus, Panasonic)

A digital camera is one of those rare products that successfully bridges the two worlds of IT (Information Technology) and AV (Audio Visual). That’s a bold claim to make, but we can justify it fully.
Moving from film to digital means that you never have to pay for a roll of film again, and neither do [...]

MP3 players (Archos, BenQ, Creative, Panasonic, Philips)

MP3 players are absolutely everywhere, and that’s despite the fact that it is illegal to rip a CD to MP3 in this country, even if you paid full retail price for the thing. Naturally, people tend to ignore that quirk of the law and many have got huge music libraries stashed away on 100GB+ hard [...]

DVD writers (AOpen, Panasonic, Pioneer, Plextor, Ricoh, Sony)

Although still expensive, DVD writers are slowly coming down in price and are finding their way into high-end PCs. But the battle still rages over which format (DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW or DVD-RAM) is the best. And, for that matter, which one will become the industry standard, which is a different question altogether.
The battle between DVD recording [...]

DVD-RAM drives (Creative, Hitachi, LaCie, Panasonic, Toshiba)

Get ready; the year 2000 is going to be the year of DVD. While the movie giants have been arguing over disc formats and various schemes to protect their distribution and source material on DVD-ROM, another format has been gaining ground, so here we’re taking a look at five DVD-RAM drives that are available now [...]