A Brill AV device that records & plays everything.

Advantages: Lightweight, Cheap and exceedingly versatile.
Disadvantages: Not the highest quality product on the market.

...well a videos Has a built in microphone you can record to View pictures, both Jpeg and Jpeg header in Raw files. As you can see, it covers all the AV basics. You can even us it as a home PVR. It also comes with all the cables you could ever need, including USB, Audio IN/OUT, Video IN/OUT, Scart adapter and a Compact Flash adapter so that you can download most major formats of memory card using the Compact Flash Slot. What you get is fantastic for the price (~£150 if you look hard). However, as with all amazing bargains, it has some downsides. It is a little quirky, as the user interface is not exactly poished. It is not always obvious how something is done, and sometimes, the backlight to the LCD screen doesn't come back on when it's meant to. But all these tiny niggles can be forgiven considering it's price. You have to...

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Combination boilers

Advantages: Good where there is a lack of space.
Disadvantages: Not always the best option.

...Combination boilers (also known as combi boilers) are the most popular boilers in the UK. With a combination boiler you have one unit which supplies both your heating and hot water, there are no separate tanks. Advantages of a combi boiler: Hot water supplied on demand. No hot water cylinder required thus saving space which is why a lot of people choose to have a combi. Hot water supplied at mains pressure. Disadvantages: Most combi boilers can only supply one tap at any one time. You will be left with no hot water if the boiler was to break down. Not the best option for larger homes. Cannot supply hot water and heating simultaneously. With a combi boiler, the water is supplied on demand, which means when you open a hot water tap the boiler will fire up to heat the cold water entering the boiler, the water is heated by what...

economy 29.03.2009 (05.04.2009) · Read review
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Panasonic Lumix TZ6, Versatile compact with great image quality

Advantages: Fantastic little camera with 12 x zoom & 10.1MP (better than TZ5), but cheaper than TZ7
Disadvantages: No HD movie mode, not very cheap

...The Panasonic Lumix TZ6 is a great little camera that I have used to compliment my large DSLR (a Nikon D90 I have also reviewed), which is too big and expensive to be taken everywhere. Specification The TZ6 is compact camera with 10.1 MP, which is plenty of pixels for all but the larger prints and harshest crops. This means that in normal conditions there will never be pixelation, in fact too many megapixels squashed onto a sensor can actually reduce the image quality. The most important feature of this camera is the 12x zoom, 25mm wide angle, Leica lens. Leica is a quality brand, and this lens is no exception, it produces quality images and the lens slides out of the camera quickly and smoothly. There is no lens cap, but slide across covers, as in most other digital compacts. Design For such a versatile camera, it is...

potoroo99 19.09.2009 · Read review
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Panasonic Lumix FS7

Advantages: Perfect picture
Disadvantages: None

...I have just replaced my Fuji fine pix with another camera, and whilst buying my boyfriend bought himself a Lumix FS7 which I am now regretting not getting for myself. Always the way, but whenever I go shopping for something electrical, some guy in a suit always sways me towards something different. Which I should really learn from and just buy online, its usually cheaper anyway. The Panasonic Lumix FS7 Digital camera comes in a range of different colours; it cost £130 which for a 10.1 Megapixel camera was pretty good and the deal we got meant that a free case came with it as well as an additional memory card. So there were no qualms on the price. 10.1 Megapixels Right away we was impressed with the quality of the images this camera was taking, I also test the pictures out on phones and cameras by taking one scenic photo, a photo...

amyloop 04.07.2009 (13.07.2009) · Read review
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Lego Technic Combine Harvester

Advantages: Looks so cool! Fun to assemble
Disadvantages: Don't misplace any pieces!

...find it so rewarding putting the pieces together and following the instructions to make something that looks really impressive. It looks really good on display and is a great conversation piece! It is currently looking very swish on a table in the corner of our sitting room. The total length of the combine harvester is a massive 17 inches! It really is impressive. The age on the box is 10 - 16 years, but personally I thought this was quite tricky to make, especially since there are so many pieces and the actual combine harvester is so big. I'm not sure I would have managed it when I was 10! There are 1025 pieces in the model. I would take care not to loose any pieces whilst making this, we had to stall our assembling for a little while while we searched for one tiny piece that we could not continue without! I would advise...

ivytoad 14.02.2008 (26.07.2008) · Read review
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Panasonic Lumix TZ6 - metal-bodied compact zoom

Advantages: Sturdiness, Ease of use, Autofocus Tracking
Disadvantages: Overshadowed by the TZ7, Tries to do everything for you

...I always find it a little strange when a company releases two similar models at the same time, especially when the price difference is only around £40. The Panasonic Lumix TZ6 and TZ7 are similar stable-mates, with the TZ7 being the superior of the two. Having said that, the extra features of the TZ7 are things I can quite comfortably live without, such as the superior video capability with stereo sound, an HDMI output, and the ability of the camera to recognise up to 15 of your friends when they appear in a picture. Why would I want that? I don't have 15 friends - and even if I did, I'm sure I could remember them myself! The TZ6 is aimed at people who want to take nice pictures but don't really want to know how those pictures are achieved. Almost everything is designed to be automatic and intuitive, and there is some pretty...

rabidbadger 01.09.2009 · Read review
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I Admit It, I'm A Panasonic Loaf Lover!

Advantages: Gorgeous bread, easy to make, easy to use, cheap bread, healthier
Disadvantages: Initial outlay but worth the investment.

...We were bought a Delonghi bread maker for Christmas but found that when we opened it, it felt like a piece of cheap tat? certainly not something I'd have thought would be the case with a Delonghi product. I had a look on the Argos website and spotted that the Panasonic SD255 machine had a brilliant 5/5 star rating and was selling at £97.89 - only approximately £5 more than the cost of the Delonghi one, so we exchanged the Delonghi machine for the Panasonic one and are so glad we did; I shall proceed to tell you why. Firstly, it's so easy to operate? I was very apprehensive that I'd end up choosing the wrong settings thus making brick loaves that tasted awful or were completely inedible; it's for this reason that my first couple of loaves were made from shop bought bread mixes so that I'd have less chance of messing them up. Those...

Claire_DC 19.01.2009 · Read review
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Panasonic does it again

Advantages: Range of features, quality
Disadvantages: Single tuner

...and detailed. Everything about the look of this DVD Recorder says Panasonic. It looks much more expensive than other players around the same money which is another thing that sets it apart. DIGA DMR-EX79 As I like to record a lot of programs on my Hard Disk Freeview recorder I wanted to get something that would record certain programs onto DVD when the hard disk was getting full of I wanted a hard copy. This is a fantastic combination of DVD Player and recorder which has great performance in both options. Since DVD recorders were introduced Panasonic have been at the top of the game at every price point so it's not so surprising that this has such a great reputation. Recording This has a massive 250GB Hard Drive and features a Freeview tuner for easy recording onto either the hard drive or onto the DVD. Recording is simple, you can either set it...

jcneil 11.10.2009 · Read review
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Pocket-sized Panasonic produces perfect pictures.

Advantages: Too many to list, please read review.
Disadvantages: Poorly situated controls.

...one is fully water proofed and also shock proof, making it an ideal camera for someone that shoots outdoors and especially someone into things like hill climbing or even skiing or snowboarding. With all that explained it should therefore be obvious that the unit is robust and well made but it actually does not feel any sturdier or more reassuring than most other compacts but I can vouch for its ability to shoot in and around water without problems because I tried it and the Panasonic rep urged me to knock it about a bit and so I gladly did, I dropped it three feet onto a hard wooden desk and also thumped it quite hard against a stone wall and not even a paint chip to speak of, I am still not sure I would expect this camera to take a lot of this treatment but I have to say that other compacts would have stopped working straight away, so...

thebigc1690 18.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1

Another great offering from Panasonic

Advantages: Great black levels, terrific contrast and detail, freesat tuner
Disadvantages: The sound is somewhat average

...Since last year I have truly discarded CRT's which despite their qualities truly lack in comparison to plasma tv's in the "wow factor". This becomes evident the moment you witness one of the better ones for yourself, and led to me purchasing a Panasonic of my own which was the Panasonic 37 PX80. However not to be outdone, a friend of mine recently purchased this television and I eagerly visited to see for myself this latest offering from Panasonic. Now as is standard with both LCD and Plasma we either of the choice of full HD or HD Ready. The former allows you to enjoy the resolution in sharper detail at 1920*1080p. This is something of a gimmick for the upscaling of typical television channels but really comes into it's own with hi definition signals which of course blu ray allows for. The latter can also be very impressive, but...

grandchamp 02.09.2009 · Read review
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