835601 rite of passage collectors editioLets Play Hide & Seek

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 17 Sep 2014
At some time in your life you will have played a game of hide and seek. I can remember one instance of playing the game in my grandparent’s pub. Unfortunately nobody realised I was playing the game and panic set in as they thought I had gone missing. Eventually I was discovered and everything returned to normal. Neither my version of the game or any that you have played would bear any resemblance to the Big Fish Hidden Object Adventure title of Rite of P

835770 Humax DTR T2000 500GB YouView Receiver with HHumax YouView

Published in Entertainment by paul_smart on 17 Sep 2014
All PVRs work in slightly different ways to achieve the same goal. This is not important providing you know how your machine works. Here however is a machine that works differently in that you can watch items from up to a week before which you forgot to record.

835516 focus fear of sale sunnyvalA Double Package

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 10 Sep 2014
Focus Multimedia has bundled together two titles from the Big Fish Games Fear for Sale series of Hidden Object Adventure offerings. The games forming this bundle are Sunnyvale Story and Nightmare Cinema with both titles being based on mysterious disappearances.

835762 Soul Transform Superior Active Performance On Ear HeadphoneSoul Transform

Published in Entertainment by paul_smart on 10 Sep 2014
A rather nice set of on ear headphones. Nothing fussy just a good quality sound without doing any more than removing from the box and plugging the lead into whatever you normally use to output your sound files from and relax.

A Humax Soundbar

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 9 Sep 2014
While entertainment devices generally have their own built-in audio output, it is not always of the highest quality. This next product offers to improve the audio output.

835360 focus azada hidden mysteries collectioDouble Azada Adventure

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 3 Sep 2014
This next Focus Multimedia offering bundles together two Big Fish titles that feature a magical world.

835498 Samsung Electronic SHAPE M7 Wireless Audio SpeakeSamsung M7 Speaker

Published in Entertainment by paul_smart on 29 Aug 2014
This can work as a single triangular speaker or via a hub form a multi room offering. It can work wired, wireless, Bluetooth or even via an Auxiliary cable. If this is not enough with the right sort of TV you can improve the TV sound with the M7.
Redemption Cemetery is a series of Hidden Object Adventure games, currently standing at five, published originally by Big Fish Games. Focus Multimedia has taken two of these titles and bundled then together in a single package which is priced at the company’s usual £10.20 level.

834969 HMDX HX P230RDA EU Jam Bluetooth Wireless Portable SpeakeA Bigger Jar of Jam

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 23 Aug 2014
This is not a case of “Jam tomorrow” as offered in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Did Next”. Instead it is, in fact, Jam today as HMDX adds another device to its series of Jam portable speakers. This is the Jam Plus which, as you might suppose from its title, is the slightly larger sibling of the company’s original Jam device that I reviewed last year.

835132 avanquest hidden files echos of JFHidden Files: Echoes of JFK

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 20 Aug 2014
With the various conspiracy theories, the assassination of J F Kennedy is an obvious target (no pun intended) on which the developers of games can base their work. One example of this is Hidden Files Echoes of JFK. Available from Avanquest GSP label, this game sets you the task of investigating more modern day events that are meant to have a connection with the assassination of JFK on the 22nd of November 1963.

835110 Samson MediaOne BT3 Active Studio MonitorMediaOne BT

Published in Entertainment by paul_smart on 20 Aug 2014
This pair of speakers are described as ‘Monitors’ which for those who do not know is a term used by musicians to have speakers facing themselves so they can hear what they are playing. Here there is a twist in that they can accept Bluetooth input.

834967 avanquest enigmatis mists ravenwooThe Mist of Ravenwood

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 16 Aug 2014
Enigmatis: The Mists of Ravenwood is the sequel to Enigmatis: The Ghost of Maple Creek, a game that I seemed to have missed for some reason.
Like the previous Avanquest 4 Play Collection I reviewed recently, this next collection brings together four titles under the banner of Mystery Places.
The central problem with projectors has always been the lamp. Power hungry and hot, a typical projector lamp will need a busy fan to keep it cool, further adding to the power consumption, and bringing distracting noise to the party. And lamps can be costly to replace – typically between £150 and £250. Low powered and cool running, LED illumination promises to put a stop to all that. And here's the Optoma ML1500 to show how it's done.

835106 roku 3500eu video streaminRoku Streaming Stick

Published in Entertainment by paul_smart on 8 Aug 2014
For those who have Wi-Fi but do not have a TV that accepts Wi-Fi input then assuming your TV has a spare HDMI port then this offering from Roku could be the answer. It is somewhat easier to install than the recent Chromecast was.
Nightmares from the Deep: The Siren’s Call is the sequel to Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart which was reviewed earlier on this site. Do not worry if you have not played the first title as, although your character is the same in both games, The Siren’s Call is a self-contained offering.

834714 Olympus LS 14 4GB Linear PCM RecordeOlympus LS-14

Published in Entertainment by paul_smart on 6 Aug 2014
Olympus is a name big in cameras and voice recorders. So here a slight deviation of the latter into music recording and indeed the microphones needed to impart full range audio recording required for such a complex task.

834531 game olympus griddlerAn Addictive Puzzle

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 30 Jul 2014
The next game is one of those that is easy to play but can be extremely addictive.
While I have seen TV’s with curved screens, in fact I seem to remember one vendor claiming it had the first one in the UK. Now around a year later I get one to review. This 48inch offering from Samsung has a great deal to offer.

834530 Samsung HW H550 A Samsung Soundbar

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 29 Jul 2014
When is a speaker not a speaker? The answer could well be when the particular audio output device is called a soundbar.

834759 BenQ W1500 DLP 3D ProjectoBenQ W1500 Projector

Published in Entertainment by bidmead on 28 Jul 2014
If you're looking for a projector (and why wouldn't you be - good ones are abundant and cheap these days, and deliver much more screen real estate for your money than TV sets), you don't necessarily have to seek out the top the range get yourself and your family into the home cinema game. True, what I'd call fully-fledged "home cinema" is costly to set up. But if you have a blank wall and an existing hi-fi system there are bargains out there just waiting round the whole thing off for you.

834415 parrot drone ar 2 flyinThe MiniDrones Are Coming

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 24 Jul 2014
They are small, they are fast and they perform tricks. Welcome to the MiniDrones.

834413 iBox Max aptX Bluetooth 30W HiFi Speaker with NFA Tank Shaped Speaker

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 22 Jul 2014
Speakers tend to come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Take for example the speaker currently providing the delivery of my music entertainment as I type this review.

834414 gspgames gamons metro tourVisiting Cities

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 16 Jul 2014
This next game is aimed at those who enjoy puzzle type game play.
Smart TV sets these days are Internet-connected, offer a bewildering variety of programme channels you've never heard of, and can also connect to your LAN to play your music tracks, show your holiday photos and run your home movies. But what if you're perfectly happy with your old, non-smart TV, but fancy getting your hands on these features? Here comes the Roku Streaming Stick to the rescue. For around £50 it promises to upgrade the IQ of your dumb TV and bring it into l

834434 Acoustiphase MC 1 bluetooth speakeMini Canon

Published in Entertainment by paul_smart on 14 Jul 2014
Not a weapon of war but a rather good small Bluetooth speaker that can vastly improve the sound of audio coming from your iOS or Android device. It is small enough to fit easily in a pocket or bag but it gives a very big sound.

834280 Humax HDR 1000S 1TB Freesat Freetime Receive2TB Storage for Freesat

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 12 Jul 2014
From the one-channel television on offer that some may remember, we now have subscription free offerings with over 200 channels for our entertainment.

834278 Quest For InfamStep Back in Time

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 9 Jul 2014
The Last Door is a point-and-click adventure game developed by The Game Kitchen, a small indie team based in Seville, Spain, and published by Phoenix Online Publishing where “Every game has a story”.
These are marketed as the loudest wireless headphones. This is a bold statement but while I cannot confirm or deny it, they are loud and not only that they have a very good range from the base station, and, for good measure they are comfortable.

834194 avanquest Building the Great Wall of ChinThe Great Wall of China

Published in Entertainment by mfereday on 1 Jul 2014
There are some jobs that never seem to come to an end. No sooner think the task is finished when new problems appear. Take, for instance, the task of painting the Forth Bridge. By the time the painters reach the end of the bridge than the other end is in need of a fresh coat of paint and so the process starts again. You could say that this particular task could be a job for life. Another example of this type of never-ending task would be the maintenance of the Great Wall of China which is t
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