To Wii or Not To Wii!

Advantages: Wireless controller, innovative, great fun, allows more interaction with friends and family.
Disadvantages: You need some room space to play

...wireless! I then found myself looking at a strange rectangular contraption which I had been told to put on top of my TV in the centre. Why? Well this is the sensor for the wireless Wii remote. Clever eh? The Wii remote is a white rectangular box with the option of having 3 other remotes linked up to it and given that each Wii can recognise up to 4 remotes that?s potentially 16 players playing on the Wii at the same time. A big room would be needed of course with lots of space or hospital visits may be a regular occurrence! The instructions advise that you attach your Wii remote to your wrist using the wrist strap, which I highly recommend. There have been several stories since the release of the Wii with people breaking TV?s, hitting people in the face with the controllers etc all because they have not attached the controller to...

Paula_23_uk 25.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Nintendo Wii

My black box.

Advantages: Great picture and sound quality and easy to use.
Disadvantages: None really.

...personally I never use these buttons and only ever drop the fascia to insert a USB memory stick to view either photos or video that I have put on there rather than using discs all. On the rear there is a wide selection of connections including the now very important HDMI connection to transmit your HD and as it has a built in upscaler it can send video to your TV in 1080p, 1080i or 720p, therefore covering both HD ready TV`s and full HD TV`s. Then there is the typical RGB Scart and S-video outputs, while on the audio side you'll find analogue stereo output and a choice of optical and coaxial digital outputs, which supply Dolby Digital, DTS and PCM signals to your AV amp. Now it has to be said I am no expert when it comes to the setting up of TV`s and DVD recorders and the HD connections and all that goes along with modern TV`s but I found...

thebigc1690 24.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of LG RHT497H

A wonderful vision in black

Advantages: Ease to use and wonderful to view
Disadvantages: none found yet

...TV?s and a wall bracket, which was over £25, on its own. ~~~ So are LG a reputable company? ~~~ I had never purchased an LG product before ? but was assured by the sales assistant, my partner and my 14yr (going on 30) gadget boy/son, that they were an excellent manufacturer. After looking into their company I have found they were founded in 1958 and now have head quarters in Korea as well as bases in 17 European countries, 7 companies in Central & South America, 7 companies in the Middle East & Africa, companies in Canada, Mexico, USA, Australia, India, Japan, Malaysia? the list just goes on. They have joint ventures with Hitachi over Data-storage / DVD ROM Drives. So they certainly seemed to have their finger on the pulse where modern technology is concerned. ~~~ Appearance ~~~ The wide screen is bordered by a shiny...

pixie65 11.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of LG 32LH2000

pretty average dvd player for a pretty average guy

Advantages: good matt black colour and good remote response
Disadvantages: just a run of the mill player

...ranging from VCD (video CD) to CD-R and CD-RW which have mp3?s stored on them. Nothing really different here to any average DVD player then. The DVD player has the usual 1 SCART socket to connect the player to the TV nothing exciting with that then. When switched on and no DVD is in the machine a screensaver is display as so to prevent any static image ?burning? into the TV screen, not really such a big issue, only really an issue with rear projection TV?s which are gradually being phased out with more modern LCD and plasma TV?s. And the DVD player comes with a remote as standard. So basically my opinion is that this DVD player is average. There is no features on this machine that makes it stand out from the crowd or and features that make it fail miserably. This player is quite silent when running in my experience and it is...

garyt84 29.05.2009 (01.06.2009) · Read review
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Review of Proline DVD1270

I'VE REDONE helpful assistants with Ross at ASDA

Advantages: a lot
Disadvantages: can get quite busy

...Jim and I went to Asda Cumbernauld on Tuesday night with Ross. We live in Stirling but don't mind travelling the odd twenty miles or so. There are plenty of disabled places (I think most of you know by now) Ross is our youngest son and he has Cerebral Palsy. Asda has a great selection of groceries. Their fruit and vegetables are always good and the meat products are always lovely and fresh. They have a brilliant selection of frozen food especially pizza Ross's favourite food. They also have a good size fashion dept. with adult and children’s clothing. I have had some really good buys there. One brilliant thing is their warranties on electric goods they give three years on TV s videos and DVD's, two on all other electrical items and one year on all computer equipment and mobile phones. Their own good value range...

weemam 27.02.2003 (28.02.2003) · Read review
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Review of Asda (Shop)

tissues ready

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...This has to be the sweetest drama ever. Whenever I watch this one I often feel like crying ? it just seems to really touch my heart unlike so many shows which you sit and laugh at the stupid actions of the characters. This one is really good ? in the aspect it deals with so many issues which concern a small country community. In many aspects you would never imagine so many incidents can happen in one small community ? they seemed to have covered ever possible aspect of life ? this drama has to the most heart touching one on our tv?s currently....

LIZZIE241079 12.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Where the Heart Is

Supreme pop craftsmanship

Advantages: Amazing pop songs
Disadvantages: Maybe a bit bland

...During 1980 Squeeze saw the departure of pianist Jools Holland, who went sole and also forged a television career, firstly by fronting TV?s exciting rock showcase, The Tube. meanwhile, Squeeze hit more turmoil when they forsook Miles Copeland?s management in favour of Jake Riviera, who subsequently released them. The association did, however, lead to the recruitment of Ace keyboardist Paul Carrack, who had written that group?s only hit single, How Long? Under the production team of Elvis Costello and Roger Bechirian, they went into the studio to record East Side Story in late 1981, an album that was to proce the ultimate example of their supreme pop craftsmanship. From the standard Squeeze pop fare of In Quintessence and Is That Love, to the rockabilly of Messed Around, East Side Story used a wider than ever range of musical...

dave27 15.10.2000 · Read review
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Review of East Side Story [Remastered] - Squeeze

Game of the year 2007 need I say much else

Advantages: Great gameplay, make friends
Disadvantages: Otherhalf moans at you always being on it

...have Call of Duty World at War and I will be writing a review on it as well but this game is still amazing it has brought me closer to friends at work who we organise times to meet online and play as a team. Also I have made friends with people who I play online with. The game specifications are as follows: Offline Multiplayer 1-4 players Minimum Hard drive requirement 10MB Will support up to HD 720p, 1080i, 1080p Playstation Network compatible for 1-8 players PEGI Rating 16+ (PEGI is an advisory warning not a BBFC by law warning) For further information on Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare www.callofduty.com For further information on Infinity Ward www.infinityward.com The graphics and sound are superb offering 1080p for people who have TV?s with the capability and the fact that if you connect your PS3 via an optical cable to a 5...

lyndsayw 29.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3)

Emirates - A world class airline

Advantages: TV's in economy,
Disadvantages: Nothing that I can think of.

...Emirates are rated as an excellent airline in the form of its services and safety not to mention hospitality. It has won many ‘airline of the year awards? and the reasons for it winning these awards are true. The food on the flight is really delicious and the in-flight entertainment is great. There are TV?s even in economy. The good thing about the airline is that say you are travelling from London to Sri Lanka, you can have a stop-over in Dubai and go duty-free shopping. The amount of cheap things including gold is great at Dubai Duty Free. The airhostesses/airhosts are very helpful and very pleasant and the aircraft is kept clean and feels great. It isn?t cramped for me. Although the prices may be higher for flying on this airline, it is probably well worth it for all those long haul flights where you have nothing to do....

perera 27.11.2000 · Read review
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Review of Emirates Airlines - UAE

dont be tempted by price you WILL get what you pay for

Advantages: easy to use, cheap
Disadvantages: Dull picture,poor sound. limited viewing angle

...We go this given as a freebie from my mother in law as a replacement for the trusty old 17in toshiba TV. It`s quite easy to set up, just plug in the power pack and an antenna and set it to auto tune and away you go. the menus are easy to navigate and are presented quite well, The remote is quite small but cute and is also easy to use. However the picture is DIRE! been a really cheap panel the picture fades if you view it at any angle but head on! the picture is dull and lacks detail, Blacks? more like grey, I thought Id plug in a DVD player as i thought the picture would be better as the DVD is set up to send a good quality RGB signal but for reasons unknown RGB wouldn't work, I don't know if this is a fault in the TV`s design or that the Scart socket was damaged in some way but i was left with a picture that had green, blue but no...

prosumer 07.04.2009 · Read review
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