LOVEFiLM to Stream Optimum Releasing Titles Online

LoveFilm & Optimum Logos

Good news UK consumers! Two of our favourite companies have forged a partnership and it’s one we like a lot! We’ve just received a press release detailing the news that the UK’s largest DVD rental service has joined forces with Optimum Releasing in a partnership which will allow you to stream Optimum titles directly to [...]

iPad 2 Coming Early 2011

iPad 2 Mock-Up

While the iPad’s success was far from a failure (3 million sold in its 80 days), there were numerous quibbling niggles that meant a lot of iPhone-rs would hold off until Apple released a second incarnation. Well it appears the second generation iPad will be hitting shops pretty soon – and it could just be [...]

Avatar Collector’s Edition BD-Live Extras Breathe New Life into Your Original Avatar Blu-ray

Avatar Packshot

This is a new one on me*, in fact it is probably the best use of the internet enabled Blu-ray players so far, and it’ll go some way to appeasing the thousands of rabid Avatarians who shelled out for the bare bones Blu when it came out a few months ago. Above and beyond the [...]

We Spend a Morning Playing with Panasonic’s Latest 3D Kit!

Panasonic TX-P50VT20

Hardware isn’t something that we’ve focused on too much here at HeyUGuys but it’s something that interests me greatly and you may well see more coming in the near future. Before working on HeyUGuys, I  had helped to spec around £250 000′s worth of audio visual equipment for a very large UK investment house in [...]

3D TV’s At a Home Near You NOW!

Philips 3d TV

3d TVs started shipping this week in the UK. Could this be the biggest shakein the world of TVs for a while? Progress is always great when it comes to technology and I love thinking about the fact that the television really is still quite a new invention. We’ve had still images change to moving [...]

Could Avatar be a Cutting-Edge White Elephant?

Avatar-001

I bought my ticket for Avatar at the IMAX last week. I got an E-mail from BFI announcing they were on sale. I rushed to my computer, and inevitably the website was struggling to cope with the sheer volumes of people trying to buy tickets. After fifteen minutes of refresh, refresh, refresh (not bad) I managed [...]

Discussion: Which is Best Plasma, LCD or CRT?

Retro TV

In the past 3 years the evolution of the television has significantly changed the way we watch films. Manufacturers no longer make the CRT sets, video players and cassette are only found in charity shops and for a true cinema experience, no home is complete without a surround system. The future is HD, flat screen, [...]