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Putting the Samsung P400b aside, the InFocus X9 constitutes my first real projector review. Due to a complete lack of any reference point, or anything to compare the InFocus X9 to, I am forced to produce an article which focusses on its own strengths and weaknesses. This is not an entirely bad thing, however, as my experience with the InFocus X9 has been a pleasant one during which I have been thoroughly converted to the camp of home-cinema projection and what I have learnt about the InFocus X9, and consequently projection in general, I can pass on to you.

First and foremost, the experience of first turning on a projector in your darkened living room, watching your first film, or playing your first game will be an absolutely unforgettable one. Your first projector, as long as you’re not an avid videophile, will always offer an immediate out-of-the-box satisfaction which will easily dispel any feeling of buyer’s remorse and really make those conveniently dark Christmas evenings quite exciting and special. Yes, projection works better the darker your room is which, when combined with the short daylight hours of winter, make it a projector a truly fantastic buy over the Christmas season.

You’ve also, no doubt, already bought an LCD TV by now, that ship has sailed, so with projectors getting cheaper, smaller and better they are clearly the next big thing to sweep ordinary, non-enthusiast consumers living rooms before ultra-thin LED and OLED TVs take over and, after that, consumers’ pockets!

So, if you want to impress your friends, make for some cracking entertainment over Christmas and jump on the bandwagon before everyone’s running to catch up with the next one, read on.

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Borrowing heavily from the design of Sennheisers award winning PXC350 “cloak of silence” noise canceling headphones the PC350 Gaming Headset removes the noise canceling, adds a microphone and positions itself as a high-end gaming product designed to help you keep your in-game noise to yourself.

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It’s only fitting that I should type the entirety of this review upon the Sandberg Wireless TouchPad Keyboard which it concerns. So that’s exactly what I’ll do. It took me only seconds to get used to the slightly bizarre “ergonomic” key layout which was one of my staggering total of two initial gripes with this board so it shouldn’t be too painful.

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At last I’m back in touch with my old friends Saitek, albeit through yet another new point of contact who have made available the Saitek 3D 210 speakers for my perusal.

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Getting excited over and producing editorial content for products that are so incredibly mundane and simple may seem a little insane but there is method to my madness. Simply put the OneClean screen and keyboard cleaners are excellent products.

Not only that but they are incredibly well presented and packaged to such an extent that they are easily confused with aftershave at a first glance.

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It’s a very rare occasion that I am so impressed with a product I have purchased that I decide it deserves a review. The SlingBox SOLO is one such product and the SlingBox PRO is it’s bigger brother.

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Note: This article, whilst brutally truthful at the time of launch, related to a product which is firmware upgradable and additionally tied to an online content delivery service which is potentially constantly changing. As such the following review may no longer paint an accurate picture of the Archos TV+. Because the Archos TV+ currently has no successor that I have heard of, I will endeavor to produce an update of this review.

Archos have brought their portable media players to the home cinema in the form of the TV Plus, an underwhelming cluster of missed opportunities and wallet draining add-ons.

It’s very difficult to know where to start with the Archos TV+, I’ll readily admit to glancing over reviews and coverage of the device at other outlets and haven’t really found anything that scratches the surface of just how poor the TV+ actually is, and certainly not anything that makes a concerted effort to ensure consumers don’t waste their hard earned £300 on a fully loaded 250gb model. I am going to attempt to rectify this by detailing my experiences with the TV+.

I would apologize to Archos in advance for writing such a scathing, sometimes slightly exaggerated article but as they had the nerve to construct this piece of crap in the first place and somehow thought I might have something good to say about it I don’t think they deserve any such pleasantries.

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Meet the NOXON2 Audio from Terratec. It’s a Wifi and Ethernet enabled beauty of a streaming audio solution. It may not look much but under the diminutive mac-mini-esque hood is a smart bit of hardware that can stream your favorite internet radio, podcasts, and mp3s to anywhere in your house from USB storage, networked computers and the internet of course.
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