Articles by Steve May

Home entertainment AV specialist

Steve has been writing about AV and home cinema since the dawn of time, or more accurately, since the glory days of VHS and Betamax. He has strong opinions on the latest TV technology, Hi-Fi and Blu-ray/media players, and likes nothing better than to crank up his ludicrously powerful home theatre system to binge-watch TV shows.

Articles by: Steve May

Onkyo THX Ultra2 System review

By Steve May published 26 April 10

Imposing and unapologetic, Onkyo's THX-blessed trio is a cinephiles dream system

LG N2B1 DD2 NAS review

By Steve May published 1 April 10

LG's N2B1 offers the ultimate in content security with a built in Blu-ray burner

XiVA musicm8 review

By Steve May published 9 March 10

Imerge's elegant XiVA musicm8 rips and streams audio around your home

Popcorn Hour C-200 review

By Steve May published 19 January 10

Enter a media jukebox with grand ambitions

HD Digitech HDX-1000 review

By Steve May published 7 November 09

HD Digitech has taken the humble media player and given it a high-end makeover

So what do £50,000 speakers sound like?

By Adam Rayner, Steve May published 6 November 09

We hear one of the world's rarest, largest and most acclaimed loudspeakers

Sony NWZ-X1060 Walkman review

By Steve May published 22 August 09

Sony's Walkman series gets serious, but still has a way to go

Cisco Linksys NMH410 Media hub review

By Steve May published 25 July 09

Is Linksys' NMH410 the new poster boy for NAS devices?

Panasonic DMR-BS850 review

By Steve May published 9 June 09

Blu-ray recorders are big news in Japan, and now they're in the UK. So what do we make of the Freesat-enabled DMR-BS850?

Panasonic DMP-BD35 review

By Steve May published 7 November 08

You'll probably do a double take when you first see Panasonic's DMP-BD35. It's unfeasibly thin. Sat atop my regular Blu-ray player, Pioneer's hulking great LX-70a, it seems insignificant.