Philips is targeting the young with their new Flavors LCD TVs line. First to get them are the Italians who were also first at the grand presentation where these little things were announced. There will be 22-, 32- and 42-inch models, all packing a really interesting feature; each has two interchangeable frames that stick to the big thing because of the “magnetism”.

The 42-inch LCD sports a 1080p panel, 30,000:1 contrast ratio, 5-millisecond response time, 500 cd/m2 brightness and a pair of HDMI ports. Just how cool is this. It mixes good taste with great performances to make everyone happy.

If you think you’ll change furniture in the next couple of years and you want to keep the TV, then you may want to order a few more frames with the desired colors that match the couch or the carpet. I’m sure your geek girlfriends will like them … so if you plan on buying here’s how much you’ll have to spend : €549 ($803) for the 22-inch, €799 ($1,168) for the 32-inch and €1,199 ($1,754) for the 42-inch.

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Just the other day I was out in the city, trying to see new things in town and I realized I’d love some music on my new iPod Nano. I decided it’s time to get one “capable” headset for a test drive and see if they’re better than what Apple provides and see if I’m missing something, because headsets technology has developed a lot these days. First impression: MUCH better!

So I took the most recent entry into the earbud market, Philips SHE9850, and decided it’s worth my time to review it for you guys. The first thing that fascinated me is that the rubber and foam tips “intelligently adjust” to your ear, based on “detailed research into the anatomy of ears”. Of course you’ll have to try it yourself but believe me, they offer a high comfort level because they’re angled the right way.

However, thought they look perfect, they’re not really. Apparently built to cancel background noise (that’s why it has rubber tips) they are not very good at it, just the average.

Another great point is the sound quality (they actually deliver bass levels), which is actually much better than a solid equivalent headphone you put in your ear.

Last thing I enjoyed is that you’ll have to pay from $70 to $90 for a set of Philips’ SHE9850 headsets and that really doesn’t sound that much when you get such quality.

If you tested them, too, just shoot us a comment with your thoughts. If not, would you buy your pair?

Thanks to our friends who’s been delivering us DVD players for review, this week we have Philips DVP5980 to see if it’s good of anything. What I knew about it was that it produces high quality outputs for the analog and digital audios and that it plays DivX, JPEG photos, MP3 and WMA files. Everything turned out to be true and considering that DVD players prices are dropping really fast, we’re very happy with it. But let’s get a little deeper and review it.

If one year ago we only dreamed of features such 1080p upscaling on high end products, Philips DVP5980 will cost less than $100 if you find the right place to buy it.

Philips DVP5980 PROs

• USB port that lets you play music, photos and videos from flash memory devices
• HDMI output – you can also use the HD JPEG feature, which lets you view digital photos in their original resolution
• Scart and a electrical digital audio output for Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks
• DiVX playback is smooth and stable
• no weaknesses in the bitstream transfer

Philips DVP5980 CONs

• decent sound quality (no the best)
• doesn’t play DVD-RAM
• we’ve seen better 1080p pictures from pricier players

Overall it’s a great product because the quality you buy for that cheap price, is GREAT.