Advantages: Compact, Stylish
Disadvantages: Slightly slow software

...Technika television all though not a very common or well known brand is a exptional product of very high quality. I own and am very pleased with my Technika television that we purchased from our local Tesco store. It was easy to install with auto setu so it's basically plug it in and it's all ready to use. The quality of picture is very good and does not have any reflections from the sun shining on it that i have found very irritating when you are trying to watch something on other brand of televisions. The picture is sharp and well contrasted with brilliant colour. The sound is also very high quality never fuzzy and never any varied volumes. The television itself is in a subtle silver colour fitting in well with any bedroom colour a credit to the room itself. It is none bulky and doesn't take up much space making it easy to be wall... Read review

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Advantages: fantastic price, 2x HDMI, 1080p Full HD, PiP as well as 50/50 split
Disadvantages: for this price I can't call anything a disadvantage

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Advantages: Price, Simple to use, Quality
Disadvantages: Minimal features

...I have been debating whether to splash out on an mp3 player for quite some time now but always seemed to have something else to spend the money on so had not purchased one until now. While picking up some essentials I spotted the Technika MP-906 mp3 player which Tesco are currently retailing for £4.97 and so decided that at under £5 what the hell. I have to say it is probably the best £5 I have ever spent. For this price you don't expect much and so I was expecting a lightweight flimsy feeling piece of kit, but I couldn't have been more wrong. The first thing you notice when you remove the player from the packaging is the quality feel of the player. Not the flimsy plastic I was expecting but a solid plastic with a soft rubbery texture that is incredibly comfortable to hold. The styling of the player is very smooth and sleek... Read review

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Advantages: small, low power, excellent reception, sharp picture
Disadvantages: Colour of Electronic Programme Guide

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Advantages: Program Guide really clear and simple, quite good features
Disadvantages: No series link, not the most energy efficient box.

...I have been using Freeview for a while now with a single set top box and as with many other people I was getting fed up that I couldn't record two digital channels or even record one and watch another. My solution to this problem was to look into the growing range of personal video recorders PVR's that are coming onto the market. The guidelines for my purchase were that I wanted to have a twin tuner which would allow recording of 2 digital channels and I also wanted to keep to a budget of £120 max. Be careful here as not all twin tuner recorders will let you record 2 programs at the same time. The Technika one does but many record one channel whilst you watch another. Unfortunately my budget ruled out Humax and Topfield which most people seem to think are the best as they are about £160+. I bought the Technika about a week ago... Read review

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Advantages: Light, stylish and long battery life
Disadvantages: Headphones, poor file management program

...Sony's Network Walkman E407 is this companies latest addition to the flash media MP3 player market. It boasts some decent statistics with a small size, light weight and long battery life, but does it work and is it any good? In answering this lets look at the E407 in detail and see how it all stacks up. The Sony E407 has the same memory as the market leader from a fruit named company at 1GB, but when I bought it in April 2006 it was £30 dearer than it's rival's white coloured equivalent memory sized player at £129.99. I bought this for the size, style and quality that I associate with the Sony brand and in this I was not disappointed. The E407 is very small at around 85mm high, 30mm wide and 14mm thick (3/3/8" x 1/1/8" x 5/16" in old money). Its weight is something to boast about as well because it didn't even register 50 grams (1 1... Read review

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Advantages: Has remote return facility
Disadvantages: Doesn't like other wireless devices

...I have seen video senders (used to send video and audio wirelessly between devices) from years ago and they were expensive and not very reliable, with picture break up being common. Also most were unable to control the sending device using a remote. Whilst browsing round my local Tesco I happened across the Technika AV104 video senders at just under £20 a pair. What comes in the box One AV transmitter base One AV receiver base Two AC Power adapters (Plugin block type) Two Scart to 2 RCA phono cables (1 for transmit and 1 for receive) One Infra Red extender cable - capable of supporting 3 different devices. User Manual Specification - taken from the supplied manual Operating Frequency - 2.4GHz to 2.4835GHz (4 selectable channels) Modulation - FM Video Level (in and out) - 1 V p-p @ 75ohm Audio Level (in and out) - 1 V p-p @ 600ohm... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap with anti-tangle device
Disadvantages: Not strong enough for strangling bus lunatics.

...Why does the lunatic always sit next to me on the bus, and why do they always speak to me? This is where the MP3 player and, in particular these headphones, come into their own. I know everyone says that but in my case it's true, honest! It is especially pertinent to me because I don't drive and have to get the Trawscambria bus from South Wales to Aberystwyth on a regular basis. It's a three and a half hour journey the latter half of which is serious lunatic country. You really need to be able to point to your headphones and shout "I can't hear you Mr. Lunatic-with-a-dog-on-a-string!" I recently bought an MP3 player from Tescos to this purpose for £12.97. Yes I am a cheapskate. I promptly loaded it with a mixture of AC/DC and Charles Trenet and just as promptly lost the earphones. The player was Technika so I thought I'd better get... Read review

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Advantages: 7 day built in TV Guide
Disadvantages: NONE

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Advantages: Cheap annd Reliable
Disadvantages: Spindle casing the DVDs are packaged in not suitable for storing DVDs once opened

...This 'write once' pack of DVD +R is great value. At the moment Tesco are retailing these at £14.97 which works out to be about 30p each The pack comes in as a spindle pack with no covers. They are write once only at max speed of x8 and have a storage capacity of 4.7GB each. The +R format can be used in the following DVD machines: Technika Bush Alba Daewoo Goodmans Matsui Philips The following machines are also compatible with +R as well as -R Sony LG Liteon Sharp The hardware that only caters for -R and therefore cannot use the +R format are: Hitachi JVC Panasonic Pioneer Samsung Toshiba The spindle pack the DVDs come in is very flimsy cheap plastic so once opened the original casing is not very good to store the blank DVDs. However, this is a minor quibble considering the price they retail at. The DVDs are not suitable for inkjet... Read review

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