TVs, digital radios, cookers, portable air conditioners and juicers...they're all hot this week...
Fancy watching high-definition TV channels without subscribing to either Sky or Virgin Media? Well – now you can.
The BBC and ITV this week launched Freesat, a free-to-view broadcast service that delivers 80 TV and radio channels, and HDTV programmes.
We got our hands on the very first Freesat box – the Humax Foxsat-HD - and submitted it to a quick lab test to look at both the Freesat service and how these next-generation set-top boxes could perform.
It boasts a seven-day electronic programme guide, interactive services, parental controls and – most interestingly – HDTV without the subscription fee. Read the first ever hands-on test of a Freesat set-top box right here.
Both Sony and JVC have updated their high-definition TVs with new picture-processing engines – and we’ve got our first impressions of their latest offerings.
Sony’s E4000 series of HDTVs features its Bravia Engine 2, which Sony says will boost picture quality. It has also debuted a picture frame mode, which can showcase your photos and enhance them to mimic the look of a real painting.
JVC is thinking thin with its DynaPix range. It claims one model is the world’s slimmest LCD TV with integrated tuner.
It too sports a new picture processing engine – though JVC hasn’t performed too well with its previous models. Read our first impressions in the full TVs report.
Just five years on from the last Accord, Honda has launched its successor.
Much like the last car - a Which? Best Buy - the new model is aiming squarely for Audi and BMW buyers, by attempting to boost appeal and quality.
But while the previous Accord didn’t quite manage to hit the right spot, the new one might. Find out our full first impressions in this week's first drive.
Fancy some Beethoven in the bedroom? Or Portishead on the patio? Our new Best Buyspeaker docksmay not have the thumping sound of a hi-fi, but what they do best is let you fill any room of the house with your iPod music.
This time round we add the stylish Logic3 JiveBox MIP100 and seventies-retro Creative Playdock i500 among others, but only one had sound good enough to get us really moving.
The scanners we test are really put through their paces. We check for speed, depth of field and ease of use, plus we assess quality by scanning a range of different media including magazine pages and mounted slides.
We also test Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, which most scanners now come with.
This automatically detects the text in your scanned document and converts it into a text file so you can edit it.
We tested the supplied software to see how it would cope with a magazine page including a mixture of words and pictures.
See the full report to find out which scanners scored highly enough to be named Best Buys.
The Good Food Guide has revealed the top contenders for its Restaurant of the Year award.
People have been voting for their favourite independently owned restaurant since 3 March, and over 6,000 votes have been received already.
You can vote online, by text or by sending in a postcard available from restaurants. Nominations close on Friday 23 May 2008.
The ten regional finalists for the Restaurant of the Year will be announced at the end of May and will feature in the 2009 edition of The Good Food Guide. The Good Food Guide Restaurant of the Year award will be presented at the Which? Awards ceremony on 17 June 2008 at the British Museum.
