Sling's the thing

In five, maybe ten years' time, all TV will be delivered over the internet to your home. And if it's all digital all the time, you'll be able to view your TV shows away from home too. But back in 2006, part of the dream has become real thanks to the Slingbox.

A small box of electronics that sits beside your telly, it takes the TV signal (or DVD, video, radio, etc) and makes it available over the net - inside or outside your house - for viewing on a desktop or laptop. Naturally, it doesn't compare well to the big-screen experience but the power to watch all your shows in the study, in Skibbereen or Sacramento is addictive.

Read the full Slingbox review in today's paper.

In games, Just Cause (360, PS2) would like to be GTA set on a Central American island but the result is one-dimensional, albeit rather lovely-looking. Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PS2) is a director's cut repackaging of the stealth meisterwork: lots of added value, some new online modes (as if anyone has got their PS2 online) ... and still an excellent original game. Finally, Doom has been given the Xbox Live Arcade treatment for the 360: immensely playable and atmospheric, in spite of the vintage blocky graphics.