The most recent articles from Computeract!ve

Review: Electrobox Mishake portable media player

Paul Lester — 2008-08-13T10:15:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 13 August 2008 at 10:15:00

A media player, and more

Electrobox’s Mishake player is an interesting attempt to literally shake up the media player market with a new way to control your music and video....

Review: Disgo Mediabank media player

Paul Lester — 2008-07-11T13:48:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Computeract!ve, Friday 11 July 2008 at 13:48:00

Store and play music and video

The Mediabank player from Disgo offers not only storage solution for your entire collection of music and video, it also allows those files to be played back directly....

Review: Revo Blik Wi-Fi Internet Radio media streaming

Simon Williams — 2008-04-07T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Williams, Computeract!ve, Monday 7 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Get ten thousand radio stations with no aerial

Internet radio has finally come of age now that there are dedicated receivers that work without a computer. Revo’s Blik Wi-Fi Internet Radio is a strangely shaped black or white...

Philips LRPC7500 home entertainment computer hardware review

Anthony Dhanendran — 2008-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 2 April 2008 at 00:00:00

A small computer to go with your TV

We looked at Philips' last small home entertainment computer, the LX1000, at the end of 2006 and it's fair to say that things have changed a fair bit since then....

Logitech Squeezebox Duet media streaming device hardware review

Paul Lester — 2008-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 2 April 2008 at 00:00:00

The popular music player gets a significant upgrade

Modern home audio streamers – which take music from your computer, stream it over a home network and play it through a hi-fi or TV – have been getting smaller...

Review: Jays Bluestreamer 2 peripheral

Paul Lester — 2008-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Computeract!ve, Thursday 27 March 2008 at 00:00:00

Mobile music and calls in a tiny package

The Bluestreamer 2 calls itself a Bluetooth stereo headset, but it's not designed for your head. Instead it clips to a shirt pocket and you can use the built-in microphone to...

Review: Koss KEB79 earphones

Anthony Dhanendran — 2008-03-23T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Sunday 23 March 2008 at 00:00:00

In-ear, in style

Koss's KEB79 earphones are not cheap, but they provide impressive quality for the price. They're well built, not quite as weighty as the iSkin earphones we looked at a while ago,...

Review: Baylis Eco Media Player EMP-MX71 portable media player

Simon Williams — 2007-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Williams, Computeract!ve, Thursday 20 December 2007 at 00:00:00

A media player that never needs batteries

Trevor Baylis created the first wind-up radio 16 years ago for use in areas where mains electricity was intermittent or non-existent....

Review: Creative Zen 4GB portable media player

Andrea-Marie Vassou — 2007-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

Andrea-Marie Vassou, Computeract!ve, Thursday 20 December 2007 at 00:00:00

Music and film at your fingertips

What with the iPod's domination of video and music players it’s sometimes hard to remember that there are other brands, but the Zen 4GB from Creative is well worth considering....

Review: Sony NWZ-A815 portable media player

Paul Lester — 2007-11-30T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Computeract!ve, Friday 30 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Sony wises up to making useable music players

Sony's portable music players have not been particularly popular - certainly not when compared with the company's ubiquitous cassette Walkman....

Review: Archos 605 Wifi portable video player

Andrew Zarkesh — 2007-11-06T00:00:00.000Z

Andrew Zarkesh, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 6 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Video on the move, on the cheap

Portable video players have evolved from early, clunky models into much more attractive devices for those who want to be entertained on the move....

Review: Apple iPod Touch portable video player

Cliff Joseph — 2007-09-25T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 25 September 2007 at 00:00:00

Touch-screen, wireless networking: what can't the new iPod do?

is iFrom the moment Apple unveiled its iPhone a few months ago, it was clear that the phone’s innovative touch-screen control system was going to appear in the iPod as...

Review: Reddmango Angora VX435 portable video player

Anthony Dhanendran — 2007-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 12 September 2007 at 00:00:00

Widescreen video player

Behind this product's fairly silly name lurks a capable media player. The Angora VX435 can play music (MP3 and WMA) and video (AVI, Divx, Mpeg and others) files, and includes...

Review: Linksys Kiss 1600 media streaming device

Emil Larsen — 2007-07-25T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 25 July 2007 at 00:00:00

Stream your music and video files around the house in high definition

Media streamers have been around for a while, and Kiss-branded players have been around longer than most. The Kiss 1600 is a Wifi media streamer with a DVD player bolted...

Review: Cowon D2 portable video player

Simon Williams — 2007-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Williams, Computeract!ve, Friday 6 July 2007 at 00:00:00

A tiny but clever media player

How small can a media player with a 2.5in screen get? Add in an iPod-style control wheel and it would probably around need to be around 10cm long on one...