Outdoor home theatre is becoming the new must have ‘room’ in a modern house, yet permanently committing backyard space for a cinema may not compete well with the other summer demands on a suburban backyard.  HandiTheatre is an inflatable projection system, allowing us to grab some beanbags and enjoy the big screen under a big sky.

Samsung's CES announcements include a raft of new products heading for Australia this year. Heading the list are TVs with voice and motion control plus face recognition, somewhat reminiscent of Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, but there's a lot more in the company's latest home entertainment ranges.

Australia's love affair with digital technology isn't fading, despite our reportedly reduced appetite for spending.

It seems Australians' home networks are underutilised. Many Internet-enabled devices are not being connected, and therefore do not deliver to their full potential.

The Samsung Music Hub streams music from all four major record labels and some independents to a variety of devices including PCs. Music videos are also available.

Panasonic has announced a marketing campaign for its new Blu-ray recorders.  They will prank an 'unwitting' Sydney man every day for a month.Ah huh...

Lite-On’s latest Blu-ray burner gets an ultra-fast 12x rating for data writing, resulting in what’s claimed to be “the shortest possible time to easily burn high-capacity, high definition content”.

Record holiday downloads at Telstra’s BigPond Movies: despite piracy, people really are willing to pay to legally and conveniently download video content, with record numbers great evidence of that!

It's been a long time coming, but there's finally a program that will play Blu-ray movies on a Mac. It's unimaginatively - though aptly - named Mac Blu-ray Player.

There have been many attempts by a variety of manufacturers to hit the all-in-one media computer sweet-spot, but none have come close, until now.