Category: Competitions & Promotions
£300 for answering a survey: Tell us the video future, win the video present thanks to Cisco
Here at Tech Digest we really love our surveys. Yep, we love nothing better than coming up with questions, wading through your responses, chuckling at your witty replies (well, sometimes) and generally finding out what you really think.
Up close with the Sony BRAVIA range: Part 2: Display technology
Last time, we looked at how Sony’s BRAVIA range of TVs produce the optimum picture from any video source.
It doesn’t end there, though. There’s plenty more technology built in to these TVs to ensure that programmes and films look their best.
LCD Technology
Most of the BRAVIA TVs feature a state-of-the-art high performance LCD panel. These feature Advanced Contrast Enhancement, which monitors the brightness of the backlight and automatically adjusts contrast to ensure good detail levels, an ultra wide viewing angle of 178 degrees, and a non-reflective frame which helps to reduce reflections caused by artificial light sources in a room…
Win a One For All Zapper remote control from Universal Electronics
It’s competition day here at Tech Digest, with this week’s give-away being the One For All Zapper remote control.
They’re little remote controls for your TV which let you do your usual thang when watching telly – switching channels, turning on and off, muting and adjusting the volume. As the name suggests, they’re compatible with most TVs.
We have three to give away, so look under the jump for more details….
All across Europe, the CityClickers are snapping the sights…
This week our crafty CityClickers have been taking in some culture, with a few snaps taken at a play at Sadler’s Wells in London, our Irish moblogger has been learning about perspective in Belfast, and the grimiest bar/club in Berlin gets a look-in too….
Reminder: win a pair of VX-3000 LifeCam webcams from Microsoft!
Just popping up a message to remind you all about our competition to win a pair of VX-3000 LifeCam webcams from Microsoft. The competition is running until this Friday, 6PM GTM, so get your entries in, fast!
See under the jump for more details…
Win a pair of LifeCam VX-3000 webcams with Microsoft and Tech Digest
With V-day behind us and all these new couples swarming the streets of Britain, exchanging saliva like it actually tastes of nice things like Laughing Cow triangles, it’s understandable you want to get on with finding a partner for yourself. Last week Tracey Cox and Microsoft gave us some tips on successful online dating, whilst using a webcam, so to help you get started, we’ve collaborated with the big ‘Soft to give one lucky Tech Digest reader a pair of LifeCam VX-3000 webcams.
That’s one for you, and one for your favourite online buddy, allowing you ample screen time together, with 640×480 video calls and 1.3-megapixel photos, face-tracking, video effects, and a built-in microphone with noise cancellation.
See under the jump for more details…
Win a DVD boxset of Planet Earth, with thanks to Tech Digest and Love Earth
Quick reminder about our competition from the other day, where you can win a DVD boxset of the BBC documentary Planet Earth.
Tech Digest has teamed up with Love Earth to give the prize to ten different people, to promote their website www.loveearth.com , which allows visitors to submit their own photos, or ‘postcards’ to the interactive map, and…
Our LG CityClickers mobloggers are still snapping away at European sights
It’s Friday, which means it’s time to show you a brief look at what’s been going on over at our CityClickers moblog, created in collaboration with LG.
Those European mobloggers of ours have been busy with their LG Viewty handsets, sending in snaps of graffiti in the Netherlands, a French rainbow and our Spanish moblogger has even posted some pics of him dressed as a hippy, Superman and a Viking. Glad someone’s got some time on his hands…!
Win a DVD boxset of Planet Earth, with thanks to Tech Digest and Love Earth
Who’s with me when I say that Planet Earth is one of the best BBC documentaries ever made? I enjoyed watching it so much on TV I actually – shock! – paid money for the DVD when it was released. It was that good.
Together with Love Earth, Tech Digest is giving away ten DVD box sets of the documentary (worth £45 each), to promote their new website, www.loveearth.com, created for the BBC Film ‘Earth’, which showed many celebrities such as Will Young, Patrick Stewart and Graham Norton sharing their favourite places to visit…
LG Video Media Talent Award: extended until January 1st!
Just as we closed our competition, we suddenly got a huge influx of entries and requests from readers, asking whether they could enter! Lazy sods.
So, if you’re a lazy sod too, who’s been too busy feasting on mince pies and egg nog instead of filming us a brilliant video, showing off your TV presenter or video-editing skills, then you’ll be tickled pink to hear we’ve extended…
