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For that, it's (as always) hard to beat the Ars Technica review: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/

You did your experiment the wrong way around! You need to record the output of your cassette deck with a computer and burn that to a CD and compare the two, making sure not to clip during the recording process and then ensuring equal playback levels when comparing how "cassette" and then...

Macs can do this because they're better than horrid Windows PCs ;) There's just some invisible "clever" going on that presents the contents of audio CDs as .aiff files even though they aren't really .aiff files. It wouldn't surprise me if Windows Vista/7/8 does something similar; XP is very...

Hi Paul, thanks for the reply. Yes, I know; I just hadn't realised that the only way of getting 24p out of the blu-ray player is in 1080/24p (I'm not sure but I think my TV might handle a 720/24p signal) so I hadn't expected to experience this problem. If there are no players that will do the...

I have recently purchased a Sony S380 Blu-Ray player and I'm a bit disappointed. My TV is a Samsung PS50Q96HD plasma which doesn't support 1080/24p so the Sony is converting Blu-Rays to 720/60p and introducing really horrible judder on slow horizontal pans. I can't afford to get a new TV so...

There shouldn't be any drawbacks of fitting the core. You may or may not notice a difference when you attach it. The core is used to try and stop RFI (radio frequency interference) from getting-into or radiating-out-of the mains cable (more the latter). Stick it on and as long as it doesn't make...

This is not correct. In fact, the "F" has a Freeview tuner that actually works properly, unlike the "M" version which has "juddering" issues with its Freeview tuner. (originally in response to a post by Andy Clough stating that the "F" doesn't have Freeview; I had quoted Andy's message but he's...

Well Andy, you try finding any commercial software from any of Apple's competitors that will do this, and you will fail. Why? Because the folks who license DVD technology refuse to allow companies such as Apple to make DVD-ripping software (because the movie studios aren't so keen on the idea)...

Good question! 50 and 60 Hz are clearly hang-overs from the days of CRT. When it comes to an LCD display, the panel itself is capable of running at any frame rate (up to a maximum limit imposed by the response time of the pixels). You could run them at 0.5 Hz if you really wanted to. The...

You have brought up a good point - it is always important to check if a display that "accepts" 24 fps will actually go on to display it at 24 fps. Some older Toshiba models for example, accepted 24 fps, but used internal "pull down" processing to display 25 fps instead. However, the people you...

The advantage of ripping to a lossless format, when your source is a CD, is that no information stored on the CD is lost in the ripping process. The files on CD contain 1,411,200 "bits" for each second of audio, and this information is unaltered in the ripping process when using a lossless...

But here, you are comparing an iPod analogue output stage to that of a CD player. The CD player's will be much better. Also, did you use a sound-pressure meter to ensure that the volume from the CD player and the iPod were matched? And did you do the test double-blind, where neither of you knew...

No need to spend any money. Just get yourself Handbrake, an open-source DVD to MPEG-4 converter.

I agree that these look nice - they sound great too! I was thinking of getting some until I found out how expensive the brackets are - ouch! You might like to consider the Acoustic Energy Aego-T 5.1 system, available online for £599 including wall brackets. I've not heard them - but What HiFi...

Blind tests mean nothing. Only properly analysed double-blind tests have any validity. There are many subtle signals that you can accidentally give away to the reviewer, however well intentioned you are. You will know from the "wma lossless to iPod" thread that my views on Lossless are the same...