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Anton van Beek  |  Jun 22, 2014  |  0 comments

When the White House is overrun by terrorists, it falls on the shoulders of one man to keep the president safe from harm… Hold on a minute. Doesn't this all sound rather familiar?

Danny Phillips  |  Jun 22, 2014  |  0 comments

Insane high-end speakers carved from pure unicorn horn by Apollo himself are all well and good if you can afford them, but what about mere mortals with only a meagre budget to play with? Don’t they deserve spectacular sound quality, too?

Anton van Beek  |  Jun 21, 2014  |  0 comments

Brazilian director José Padilha had a thankless task ahead of him when it came to remaking RoboCop. Mixing together shocking violence and worryingly prescient satire, Paul Verhoeven's peerless 1987 original is regarded as a classic by the majority of film fans, making the very notion of a remake even more redundant than usual. But despite having all of the odds stacked against it, this film more than justifies its existence with some big ideas of its own.

Steve May  |  Jun 20, 2014  |  0 comments

Is the ultra short-throw projector finally about to storm the home entertainment market? A staple of corporates and education, their ability to cast a huge image when placed close to a wall, rather than rely on a long throw and screen, would seem to make them ideal for domestic applications. Other brands have hinted as much – LG has touted its prohibitively expensive Hecto laser projector Stateside, while Sony recently presented 4K short-throw projection as a home-of-tomorrow concept. At £1,500, the Philips LED DLP-powered Screeneo is a rather more real-world proposition.

Anton van Beek  |  Jun 20, 2014  |  0 comments

Based on the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama container ship by Somali pirates, director Paul Greengrass' movie stars Tom Hanks as the commanding officer who was taken hostage.

Anton van Beek  |  Jun 19, 2014  |  0 comments

When truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) agrees to help rescue a kidnapped girl from a street gang in San Francisco's Chinatown, he thinks he's simply helping out a friend. But wherever Burton goes trouble is never far behind, and before long he's caught up in a plot involving a trio of supernaturally-powered killers and an ancient Chinese sorcerer with a thing for green-eyed girls.

Steve May  |  Jun 18, 2014  |  0 comments

Danish loudspeaker brand DALI has launched a full-range on-wall speaker that it says offers enthusiasts a no-comprise high-fidelity alternative to typical TV-centric speaker solutions. The relatively compact Rubicon LCR is part of a new line of monitor (Rubicon 2) and floorstanding (Rubicon 5, 6 and 8) enclosures, and significantly doesn’t require a subwoofer to fill in the low notes.

Team HCC  |  Jun 17, 2014  |  0 comments

Remember the look on your face when you realised Raheem Sterling hadn't actually scored a wonder-goal against Italy during England's opening World Cup game? Well, if you'd snapped a pic of it, the image of sheer agony could possibly have helped you win an LG 4K or curved OLED TV... 

Anton van Beek  |  Jun 14, 2014  |  0 comments

When Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) is infected by an ancient weapon known as the Aether and awakens the Dark Elf Malekith (Christopher Eccleston), the fate of all Nine Realms hangs in  the balance. The only person who can help Thor (Chris Hemsworth) save the universe is his brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) – but could he be an even bigger threat to Asgard than Malekith's army?

Martin Pipe  |  Jun 13, 2014  |  0 comments

Synology's DS214play offers all of the standard NAS functionality (including mobile device access and RAID configuration), plus the company's powerful DSM operating system and the ability to download apps that expand the unit's versatility. But the icing on the cake is audio/video transcoding, which is made possible by a dual-core processor and hardware-acceleration. Typically, trying to play something that your playback device can't handle will reward you with stubborn rejection or even a crash. The DS214play sidesteps this by converting, on-the-fly, the selected file into something that your player can cope with.

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