The LG 42LV450U is a classy-looking, slender set that is equipped with edge LED lighting. It’s nice to find, too, that there’s a USB port available for playing back photo, music and video (including DivX HD) files from USB storage devices. But this is basically where the interesting specs end. There’s no Freeview HD tuner, something LG has always been quick to introduce further down its TV range. There’s no sign of any of LG’s Smart TV online services, either. Indeed, there isn’t even a LAN port to access the internet or files stored on DLNA PCs. Unfortunately [...]

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The Xbox 360 could soon support USB mass storage devices for game storage – allowing users to benefit from the proliferation of cheap and readily available memory sticks. Joystiq has uncovered discussions from Microsoft that point to the new functionality, which will help users ease their reliance on the device’s hard drive. Devices from 512MB to 16GB of storage will be supported, meaning that Xbox users can utilise increasingly cheap and available memory sticks for game and data storage. Previously infeasible “USB storage devices may, however, have far greater memory capacity [...]

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