Avforums Podcast

Neil Davidson from T+W Marketing and Mark Cheffins from Onkyo UK join Phil to discuss the latest AV News and Trends. Details on flat screens from Sharp, HDTV take up in the US and new amps from Onkyo UK. Plus we talk to Sky TV about their Anytime TV and High Definition services.

Movie, DVD and HD news, reviews of The Frighteners, Ghost Rider and Blood Diamond; plus our discussion of HD DVD vs Blu-ray from the reviewers' perspective.

AV News, discussion of our ISF training experience and Jason's diary.

AV News, we report from Rome where Pioneer launch their 8th gen Plasmas.

AV News, High Def playback discussion and Jason tells us about World War 2 Online.

DVD and HD news, reviews of Smokin' Aces, Happy Feet, Payback Straight up and Robin Hood on HD DVD and we discuss directs cuts.

Gaming News, reviews of Virtua Tennis 3 (360) and the World of Warcraft Expansion Pack (PC); plus we look at retro gaming from the 8-bit era.

AV News, Jason chats about his N95 mobile and we discuss sound quality, calibration and room acoustics problems.

AV News and a discussion about screen calibration.

DVD and HD News, reviews of March of the Penguins on HD DVD and Hellboy on Blu-ray; and we discuss the video nasties from the early '80s.

AV News and a discussion about scalers and video processing.

DVD and HD movie news, reviews of Planet of the Apes on Blu-ray and The Last Samurai on HD DVD; plus we discuss movie memorabilia.

Gaming news, review of GRAW2 for the 360 and we discuss the UK PS3 launch.

AV News plus our panel talk a little about how they got into home cinema.

Gaming news plus a pre-release review of the UK PS3

As well as the uual AV News, we discuss the death of CRT, the good and bad points of Plasma and LCD TVs and the importance of screen calibration.

Reviews of Spygame and Beerfest HD DVDs plus we discuss TV Series making it to the big screen and vice versa.

Gaming News, Crackdown (360) Review and we discuss PCs vs Consoles. Which is best for gaming?

We discuss 3 topics : The Bristol Sound and Vision Show 2007, Freeview HD in the UK, and Virgin Media vs Sky.

Report from Bristol Show 25th Feb 2007.