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Currently have a Loewe Individual 32", now 4 years old, HD ready, courtesy of an insurance claim.I am toying with the idea of a Sony KDL40-HX803, 200hz motionflow, looks good reduced to £800. It would go with the Sony blu-ray BDP-S760 and Sony...

This question is for the wider audience - not especially for our friends in USA. Should we be worried about political violence & polarisation trends as bought to light in the Tucson tragedy? We have political extremes in UK & Europe. We (some) have strong political views, but they get expressed with a degree of respect for the other side - as per the debates on this forum. Yes a few are died in the wool left or die, others equally entrenched in the other side. Most I guess take the middle...

Well it made me laugh.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI CheersFlettster

Watching the Ashes ... in came some late breaking news - Roy has gone

The graphs below are on Wikipedia and show the evidence gained from ice core tests. The x axis is thousands of years. So, every 125,000 years or thereabouts, car usage needs to be reduced?Tony

After Sunday's X-rated showing on the BBC - surely Mr K should live up to his words Keane told BBC Radio Suffolk: "I do feel I can turn things around. But you need that time and support and sometimes you don't get that - I live in the real world."...

I thought I would get a thread going for what promises to be an very interesting series in Australia over the next few months.Great to see Monty Panasar in the England side against Australia A in the last of the warm up matches, taking a one handed...

I've just had the HD replaced in this MacBook as the last one went t*ts-up.However, the heads on the old one are damaged and the repairers were not able to recover the data on it. ( Don't say back-ups or Time Machine as I hadn't backed-up and the old...

For me, Autocourse, slippers and a Track pad.Rush DVD and Danny Thompson and Jon Thorne CD.Have a great day everyone.

We caught a preview showing of this yesterday and really enjoyed a thoughtful, funny and very human story; not quite the starchy costume drama I'd rather feared.Firth is brilliant as the reluctant stuttering King but Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham...

Quality Street. This year, and seeing as nobody would think to buy me my favourite sweets, I bought large 997 gram tin of Quality Street for myself, and now have two neatly arranged piles of blue and purple uneaten sweets! Who else is [and or was] so picky as to avoid the unknown [blue] or disliked [purple, and with large nuts under the chocolate] till the end? Mind you they have filleted the selection since the old days! ATB from George PS: The blue are coconut. Can't stand coconut!

Worth the effort if you are into computers!

I have made the move from PC to Apple with very few problems to date, & I have to say I am very happy with the decision I made. The only thing I need from my old 'pc' days is Microsoft office - easy - Office for MAC, which is installed and running, no problem. What I would love to do is get all (or as much as possible) data from PC office -> Apple office, which is causing me great confusion. I like keeping all of my emails available to search (thousands in the last 4 yrs or so) and would...

Hi all,I might ask this question tongue-in-cheek, but it is one hell of a bugbear of mine. (The current frustration I have is that I have lost the allen key for my nSATs and read on the forum that 'tightening up the nuts' reaps great reward. My nuts...

Just read on a Dutch blog that Mick Karn died. Started Japan with the Batt brothers (Sylvian and Jansen), worked with Kate Bush en Joan Armatrading and lots more. Only 52 year's old.

Hi all,This is a genuine question as I have just bought the Apple Airport Express to feed my CD material on my 1 TB hard drive to my nDAC + 282 + 250.2For a remote control to access the correct tracks, I will need an iPod touch or an iPhone and I have...

There are a number of forum members I know outside these pages and I never know whether to call them their real name or their user name when replying on the forum. i.e. Bill or Westlock11.By having a user name there is a little privacy, and using a...

Before the world began human children survived being born to mothers who smoked and drankThey lived in houses made of asbestosFew adults had cars and those that did had no seat belts, child seats or air bags. They ate blue cheese, raw egg products,...

A much underrated actor once described by Steven Spielberg as "the best actor alive today".Maybe now he'll get the recognition his performances deserved.Rest in peace man.Regards,Steve.

hi,very sad to hear gerry rafferty has died(sky breaking news).i have several of his albums and allways rated his music in high regard.scott

Hi all,I don't know if any of you experience this, but when you have a playlist on Windows Media player of tracks that are supposed to blend into each other, there is always a brief pause between each track.Is there any way of turning this off???Many...

We were thinking of getting an Apple TV2 but found out that BBC iPlayer can't be re-streamed to the main TV.Lontano informs me that a PS3 can do this. Main question though is how good Blue ray player is it? Also apart from game playing can it do more?...

Dunno how, but some sound clips I want have been removed from my Nok 5800. I'd really like to get them back, but have no idea if this can be done - any tips?V. puzzled...

Just watched this on BBC, based on the Michael Dibdin books. Very good it was too. Catch it if you missed it.

I see there is a version for ATV. Will this allow iPlayer, 4OD etc to stream via ATV?Does this break the ATV warranty ?