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Onkyo TX-NR509 networked AV receiver
An AV receiver is the engine room of any decent home entertainment system, but until now products that offer the latest 3D and networking features in a home cinema have been dear indeed. That all changes with Onkyo’s 2011 line-up, which squeezes on some mouth-watering features for a relatively small spend. Take the TX-NR509, the…
Philips Fidelio AS851 – world’s first Android speaker dock
Anyone without an iPhone must have been gazing at the hundreds of docks dedicated to Apple’s smartphone with downright envy – and for some years, too. All that ends right here with the unveiling of the world’s first Android smartphone dock from Philips. The AS851 is a standard Fidelio design – almost. The 421x157x140mm device’s…
OnLive MicroConsole TV adapter
The games industry is shifting, moving gradually and inevitably towards online territory. Back in the day, you bought a boxed copy of a game, then played it on your machine at home, and that was that. Then in the nineties following the release of Quake online play became more popular, as competing against human opposition…
Pure Sirocco 550
Pure’s latest micro hi-fi seems to have it all. The Sirocco 550 offers digital DAB and analogue FM radio, a CD player, iPod dock, USB flash drive slot, alarm clock and Wi-Fi for access to internet radio via Pure’s Lounge. There’s an aux-in connector too, so you can plug in MP3 players and other inputs,…