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Observation Review

A tense, stunning sci-fi thriller that's a little too taut for its own good.

May 23, 2019 | 10:00

Intel Core i3-9350KF Review

The successor to the popular Core i3-8350K has landed without integrated graphics, but is it a match for AMD?

May 21, 2019 | 19:00

Intel's latest 9th Gen CPUs have compatibility issues with older motherboards

Intel finally outed more affordable 9th Gen CPUs, but motherboard compatibility is sketchy to say the least.

May 20, 2019 | 17:10

Radeon HD 5450 Review: HTPC Heaven?

A £40 graphics card? Surely that's as useful as a chocolate teapot? We take a look at AMD's latest and cheapest Radeon from the HD 5000 series, the HD5450, see how it stacks up against integrated graphics and find out in what situations it might be a great buy.

February 9, 2010 | 08:09

Modding the Acer Revo

At a recent press briefing we grabbed some internal shots of the upcoming Nvidia Ion based Acer Revo!

April 27, 2009 | 10:02

Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi mobo

Could this mini-ITX GeForce 9300 Zotac board with integrated HDMI and WiFi possibly be the greatest home theatre board ever created? We drop in an inexpensive Intel E5200 CPU, bolt on a Blu-ray drive and check out this £120 mini marvel.

March 18, 2009 | 09:57

New graphics firm promises real-time ray tracing

Caustic Graphics claims that its new ray tracing accelerators could speed up ray tracing by up to 200x.

March 12, 2009 | 13:56

Nvidia: Ray tracing is too intensive for Hollywood

NVISION 2008: The ray tracing and rasterisation debate came up during a chat I had earlier... Nvidia says that ray tracing is too much for Hollywood.

August 26, 2008 | 01:00

Pioneer BDC-SO2BK Blu-ray Drive

Blu ray drives on the cheap? Pioneer tells us "Hell Yea!" But is it cheap and cheerful or a genuine bargain, that's an excellent choice for all our home theatre enthusiasts? We found out.

June 30, 2008 | 13:29

Cyberlink, Realtek, Gigabyte fix HD audio problems

Cyberlink and Realtek have now fixed the audio downsampling problem that means you'll finally get full HD quality sound from Blu-ray discs.

June 12, 2008 | 11:49

J&W 780G mini-ITX has niche HTPC features

COMPUTEX 08: Relatively unknown motherboard manufacturer, J&W, has its 780G mini-ITX board with breakout box and other cool features.

June 6, 2008 | 10:49

Nvidia's David Kirk on CUDA, CPUs and GPUs

It's almost three years since we last interviewed David Kirk, Nvidia's Chief Scientist. And with everything going on in the industry right now, it was a great time to catch up with him to find out where he sees the industry going and how Nvidia will be part of that.

April 30, 2008 | 13:00

G45 is great at HD video playback

Intel's last integrated graphics chipset, G45, is shaping up to be pretty good according to sources inside Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers.

April 9, 2008 | 10:12

Intel’s vision for ray tracing exposed

IDF SPRING 08: Director of Intel Research, Andrew Chien, talked with bit-tech about the future of ray tracing and its chances of making it to the big time.

April 3, 2008 | 10:33

John Carmack talks ray-tracing, PC gaming

John Carmack has spoken about a number of topics surrounding games development, and given some insight on the future.

March 14, 2008 | 13:33

Cyberlink's new products for CES and 2008

CES 2008: Cyberlink is due to expand its online services and launch new features in 2008. We've got the details inside...

January 5, 2008 | 13:25

Paramount is now HD DVD exclusive

Viacom, the parent company for both Paramount and Dreamworks, has announced that it will be HD DVD exclusive.

August 21, 2007 | 12:44

DTS Demonstrates Master HD Audio

COMPUTEX 2007: We sat down (on a towel) and DTS showed us a demonstration of Master HD: the new lossless codec used on HD media.

June 12, 2007 | 15:03

Ubisoft announces new Beowulf game

As Ubidays 2007 draws to a close, Ubisoft announces it will be making a new game to tie-in to the upcoming Beowulf movie.

May 24, 2007 | 09:56

Wal-Mart chooses HD DVD

Over the past couple of days, Wal-Mart's plan for a massive shipment of very affordable HD DVD players from China leaked onto the web.

April 26, 2007 | 07:17

First pirated HD DVD movie now on torrent

So, you can now download a rip of HD DVD movie Serenity. Not only that but it's been confirmed that porn will be available on Blu-ray as well as HD DVD. There's still no clear winner in the wars of the disc.

January 17, 2007 | 10:30

Is the PS3 backwards compatible?

It looks like Sony is having a few problems with their new Playstation 3. Not only does the console struggle to play old titles but they've also sold fewer games than consoles.

November 14, 2006 | 15:07

Blu-ray player released today

The Blu-ray player has been released today in the UK. We tucked into some high-def movie goodness and here are our reactions.

October 17, 2006 | 17:23

Microsoft to flummox Sony with HD DVD release date?

In an attempt to get an early lead in the next generation disc war Toshiba has announced that it's HD DVD player will launch two days before the Playstation 3.

September 5, 2006 | 11:41

HD DVD versus Blu-Ray could end up a draw

Research analysts are predicting that neither HD DVD or Blu-Ray will prevail in the upcoming industry battle.

August 11, 2006 | 16:40

Sony will release Blu-Ray PC in March

The first Blu-Ray drives are coming into the UK - but only in PCs. Sony have plans to start adoption early - but will they get the rest of the machine appropriately decked out?

January 20, 2006 | 10:52