Henry: Good to see you back Alex. This is party week for you now! Next week is party week! This week is 'work tomorrow, and BBQ on sunday' week.

Lamb - Zero I'd forgotten how much I love this album...

Corvin: I appreciate the help, but power to the speaker is via a simple 2 core lead from the socket. not much can go wrong here, Can not see any reference to a fuse in the guide. Not very happy at the moment though. Still worth swapping the speakers round! As you say, very little can go wrong in a cable, which is why generally they are overlooked. It

There's a lot of people who would like to own a TV that big, but I wouldn't say it's 7/10. In a lot of English homes, a 32" is the biggest you would realistically want to go. I know in our house, we would only just get away with a 40" in the lounge...

tom: Welcome back, Alex! Must have been like a could turkey for you not to be on the net?! It's like being in rehab after a month without the net

Just as a side note, WMA isn't ALWAYS lossless, it can be a lossy format as well, depending on how it's encoded, unlike AAC which is ALWAYS lossy.

You're right there are no fuses in the sockets. Only thing I can think is try swapping the speakers round. May well be a fault in the cable itself, or even the socket. The BeoLab 5s can draw a massive amount of current, so the cables must be thick and very well wired.

If you are planning on getting the BeoLab 2 subwoofer, I'd go with BeoLab 3s. They seem to work better than 8000s when used with the sub. Also, bear in mind that the BeoLab 3s, while they won't play as loud as the 8000s, they are more robust. If you do plan on playing things loud, 8000s will be easier to blow/damage, while the 3s will take anything

I think people are missing the point with SD cards. They aren't meant to be like hard drives - large amounts of data stored. Think of them like a cassette tape, maybe five albums stored (possibly on a 2 gb card at very high quality). People were never looking to fit 20 albums on a single cassette tape...

WMA only :( Shame, otherwise I'd look at this seriously. If they offered the music as an AIFF in a disk image or something, it would be about the same file size, and work on all systems...