The B&W XT4's are amongst the most beautiful to see and hear

Advantages: Stunning looks, stunning looks, stunning looks & superb sound
Disadvantages: Difficult to find, some manufacture flaws, small base without the feet

...I found out about these speakers after they stopped making them and had only ever heard rumours or seen pictures of the silver versions. I was thinking about the replacement XT8's but you cannot see the lovely aluminium from the front of the new ones and they are £1,200 more. The silver versions are amongst the best speakers I have ever experienced. The clean retro lines and curves, the bold yellow paper-kevlar mid cone and unlike many others they are quite discrete yet powerful, these are some of the most beautiful speakers I have ever seen. The foot print and look were some of the most important factors in my decision to purchase followed by the quality and reputation B&W manage to maintain. Without the metal feet the base seems smaller and could be knocked over, watch out for parties. Although slim there are 2 bass cones which...

banker1 18.03.2009 · Read review
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Samsung PS50B451

Advantages: Brillaint TV
Disadvantages: Hard to get used to

...? Contrast Ratio - 40,000:1 ? Wide Colour Enhancer - WCE 2 ? Film Mode (Cinema Progressive) - Yes ? Digital Comb Filter - 3D ? Digital Noise Reduction - Yes ? Sound Effect System - SRS TruSurround HD ? Dolby - Dolby Digital Plus ? Speaker Type - Down Firing ? Sound Output(RMS) - 20W (10Wx2) ? Sleep Timer - Yes ? Auto Channel Search: Yes ? Auto Power Off - Yes ? Power Saving - Yes Dimension ? Set Size without Stand - 1220.8x748.8x74 ? Set weight without stand - 31.3 Set up The setting up of this TV was not a complicated nor special event, we simply got home, followed a few simple instructions to show us what to plug into where, then we was ready to go. I was watching the TV around 20 minutes after I had brought it home. The only thing that we did find complicated was working with the new remote control to get all...

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Toshiba 28W33B

Advantages: Range of viewing screen sizes, Fantastic picture quality, price
Disadvantages: none

...I have just bought the Toshiba 28W33B 28in widescreen television and am so amazed at how brillant it is, We didn't pay a fortune for it either, (£279) which makes the very high standard of it even harder to believe. The manual is quite easy to understand bit to much explanation on some things but overall was easy for me to understand Fantastic picture quality one of the best i have seen in a while, shows programs and films in perfect quality, When first switched on you may have to adjust the brightness and colour settings to your own comfortable viewing standard. Menu selections (colour, screen adjustments etc) that come up on the television screen using the remote are easy to understand. Just remember to click on store after altering things! Menu screen consists of picture, sound and feature, Feature includes sleep...

christina1012 15.03.2005 (06.07.2006) · Read review
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Samsung B3310 - but its pink!!

Advantages: Cheap, performs core functions well
Disadvantages: No data cable, location of memory card slot

...Introduction Whilst out shopping my wife suddenly decided that she needed a new phone as she wasn?t happy with her LG Cookie that she had only had for six months. As she is on a sim only contract, it meant that we would have to pay for a new phone for her. Previously she has always liked Samsung phones so when she saw the newly released B3310, she decided it was the one for her. Purchasing the phone We bought the phone in-store from the Carphone Warehouse for £49.95 but we also had to buy £10 airtime on top of this. If we had chosen not to buy the airtime then the phone would have cost £99.95 instead which seemed a bit strange but evidently all phone manufacturers do this. We had the choice of 2 colours, light blue or pink. Unsurprisingly my wife went for the pink phone which will pretty much ensure that I...

craggybuk 29.09.2009 · Read review
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Sony Walkman NWZ-B133B 1GB mp3 player Review.

Advantages: Solid buttons, small and good looking, quick USB charge, recording feature.
Disadvantages: Easy to damage front glass, USB charge makes it hard to use without access to PC.

...Today I'm going to write you about my experience with Sony Walkman NWZ-B133B (1GB) mp3 player. First the look, it?s black with matt silver colour on the sides. The LCD screen makes the information look nice and easy to read. On front you can find 4 buttons, the famous Sony home button, play/pause, next track, previous track, on the sides you can find outstanding good quality hold switch, volume, bass and record button. There are no problems with these buttons, they are solid and long lasting. On front of mp3 there is some kind of glass or plastic that makes it looks good, and shiny, but in the same moment it's not solid and it breaks close to the edges, but taking good care of it will help to prevent that damage. The battery is a Lithium ion it holds for long, the specs says it's 16 hours, but once I get about 20 hours of non...

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Buffalo Linkstation Pro Duo LS-W2.0TGL/R1

Advantages: Very fast, high capacity.
Disadvantages: Pricey, may be outlived by long-life Blu-ray discs.

...As our latest project comes to a close and we face losing any unused capital we again raise the idea of network storage with the boss. It's something we have mentioned repeatedly and suddenly find ourselves with an offer of whatever we can get for £1000. Taking our initiative from the US government we decide why buy one device when we could buy two of these? Thus we have one for our network project and finally a decent sized device for our own backups. I have to say I'm quite impressed so far. The unit is surprisingly compact and although it may look like a midi-sized PC case in the picture it is actually a lot smaller measuring a little over 6 inches high and only 4 inches wide. The back of the case has 2 USB sockets (one to connect to a PC, the other to network a printer). There's also a standard auto-sensing LAN port (10...

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B&Q Oil Filled Radiator

Advantages: Small, heats the fulll room, bargain price
Disadvantages: takes a whle to heat up

...B&Q Oil Filled Radiator Bought one of these around 6months ago our heating wasn't going to be working for a couple of weeks so bought this for the bedroom. Went to B&Q as knew they had quite a selection didn't want a huge one as we don't really have much room in the bedroom. We bought it as a replacement for the halogen that we had been using which the dogs kept walking past and singing their tails in. It takes quite a while to heat up even when it is on full power but once it is warm it is more than enough to warm our bedroom up. It has various settings of heat so once the room is warm you can turn it down which is a really useful feature, the dial for doing this how ever does not have numbers on it and I do think it would benefit it if it did so you could turn it down a set amount and know which setting you usually use...

Hsaxo 10.04.2008 · Read review
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I'm Alan Partridge - Series 1

Advantages: Endless hours of humour!
Disadvantages: None what so ever!

...Firstly, before I begin, may I point out - only one review of this DVD before this one, bizarre! Surely more people out there love Alan Partridge?!? People thought it was all over for Alan since he shot dead a guest on 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', but no, he came 'bouncing back'. Despite living in the Linton travel tavern halfway between Norwich and London and hosting 'Up With The Partridge' on Radio Norwich (the 4am - 7am shift), he does his best to get his face back on TV, no matter what... Episode 1: A Room With Alan Alan's meal at the BBC with Tony Hayers trying to get a second series goes from bad to worse - from suggesting 'monkey tennis' and 'arm wrestling with Chaz & Dave' to asking Hayers to; 'Smell my cheese you mother!', having just splashed out on a new £324,000 house, with 'enough room to swing a tiger, but you...

CarlMcQ 08.04.2005 · Read review
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E.M.E.T.I.B (Reverse It)

Advantages: Great show/Great cast
Disadvantages: A few bad seasons/episodes

...was expecting brilliance and wasn't disappointed. The first half of the season was brilliant, as Jennifer Garner's pregnancy was written into the show, however it went down hill. The ending was awful, I think J.J Abrams and the writers went through all of the characters, put them into a hat and just said, I'm gonna kill this one and this one, and this one. It should have ended differently. Fun Stuff The show has also been great for some brilliant one liners. One of the many being in the first season when Sydney is tortured, she pretends to finally give in and tells the man to write down what she's about to say. "Write this down. E.M.E.T.I.B, got it, now reverse it" I think this became one of my favourite msn names as well that I used. Some of the best outtakes of any series I've ever watched were on the season 1 & 2 box set...

DixieChick10 01.08.2008 · Read review
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Style, Specification, it's a SONY! (Vaio VGC-M1)

Advantages: Total integration, high specification, stylish and innovative.
Disadvantages: Costly 'Sony' brand name, possible upgrade troubles.

...than bother about spending hundreds on upgrading. Overall, this stylish machine is unbeatable for the specification together with the reliability of the Sony brand name. I spent my time looking, and still can't find anything significantly better. Save the time I took looking, go out and buy the Sony Vaio VGC-M1 now! Any questions on this review, feel free to email me at roverturboandy200@hotmail.com or leave comments below....

sneakyweasel 05.08.2005 · Read review
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