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Virgin Media has announced that it has updated the iPlayer functionality offered through its V+ service to offer HD content.
Although the BBC announced last week it has started offering some of its shows on the iPlayer in HD, there was no word on when the service would come to Virgin.
The press release states: "Virgin Media’s [...]

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Windows 7 is definitely faster than Windows Vista on the same hardware (or Windows XP), but don’t expect dramatic improvements over the beta version. The release candidate certainly hasn’t slowed down (it still boots quickly), and as long as you have a WDDM 1.1 driver you can still have large numbers of windows open without [...]

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Windows 7 is definitely faster than Windows Vista on the same hardware (or Windows XP), but don’t expect dramatic improvements over the beta version. The release candidate certainly hasn’t slowed down (it still boots quickly), and as long as you have a WDDM 1.1 driver you can still have large numbers of windows open without [...]

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Windows 7 is definitely faster than Windows Vista on the same hardware (or Windows XP), but don’t expect dramatic improvements over the beta version. The release candidate certainly hasn’t slowed down (it still boots quickly), and as long as you have a WDDM 1.1 driver you can still have large numbers of windows open without [...]

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Naim Label – the record label division of audiophiles’ favourite Naim Audio – is launching a new online shop for fans of the highest possible quality sounding music next month.
Naim’s new online high def music shop is set to open on 18 May offering access to thousands of fully uncompressed, DRM-free, 24bit WAV files and [...]

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Digital readers commercially available in the U.S. today all use black and white screens in their e-paper displays. So far there has not been a color screen reader released in the States which can display pages with the color spectrum of a printed magazine (though there has been in Japan). Some researchers believe that colors [...]

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Windows 7 is definitely faster than Windows Vista on the same hardware (or Windows XP), but don’t expect dramatic improvements over the beta version. The release candidate certainly hasn’t slowed down (it still boots quickly), and as long as you have a WDDM 1.1 driver you can still have large numbers of windows open without [...]

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There are many universal remote controls said to be compatible with every imaginable AV device, so it’s hard to think what might make a new model more attractive. One For All is determined to try, though – the result is the Xsight range.
The idea is to replicate the original control codes for TVs, VCRs, [...]

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Windows 7 is definitely faster than Windows Vista on the same hardware (or Windows XP), but don’t expect dramatic improvements over the beta version. The release candidate certainly hasn’t slowed down (it still boots quickly), and as long as you have a WDDM 1.1 driver you can still have large numbers of windows open without [...]

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Thanks to Sky+, iPlayer, Media Center and other multimedia marvels, we can watch TV whenever we want.
Is the IT Crowd on when you’re in the pub? No problem: you can watch it when you get back. Would you like to binge on an entire series of The Bill on a Sunday afternoon? Just record the [...]

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