Decide what to buy: the Reevoo.com blog

Guys, we’ve found a way to keep your girlfriends happy. No, we haven’t invented magic stretching machines or free Viagra, we’ve stumbled upon a way to stop those late-night toilet breaks from causing arguments and accidents in the morning.

The lav nav is a great  product that will guide even the sleepiest members to the intended target. Fitted to the underside of your toilet lid, small LED lights sense someone approaching and act as a landing strip to ensure the successful meeting of pee and porcelain.

Think that’s clever? There’s more! Not only does the lav nav sense approaching mischief makers, it will also glow red when the toilet seat’s down, indicating that release suspension should occur until the lid is lifted up and then the green light indicates go. Fab! Who would have thought a gadget could be so physically and socially useful? Even if it’s not your birthday, buy yourselves a present lads.

Don’t say we don’t help you out here at Decide What to
Buy. I feel it’s my duty to warn you about the most slated mobile handset in
Reevoo’s history – the Motorola Motofone F3.

Marketed as having great battery life and
sound quality, it certainly does not deliver on its promises, according to the
poor souls who bought it.

It received a score of 4.7/10 from the 93 people who
reviewed it. Never before have more people left such negative comments on a
handset.

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Today sees the launch of freesat – a joint venture
by the BBC and ITV. freesat clearly has the word ‘free’ in it so what does it
all mean and will we all be getting free TVs? Sadly not. However, if you
already have an HD-ready TV (that’s high definition for all those people who’ve
been living under a rock for the past few months), you can get over 80 different
television channels and a mega bundle of radio channels, without having to pay a
monthly subscription charge…So if you don’t count the £150ish set-top box that
you need to get started and an extra £80 for a satellite dish and installation,
it’s a cheaper way to get your hands on a load of exciting content. If you’re one of
the fortunate who already have a satellite dish, you could get out of that
extra £80. Even if you don’t have an HD-ready TV, you can still benefit from
freesat, you just won’t get any of the HD programmes…although with this summer
packed full of exciting sporting events, you’d be silly not to want to watch it
all through an HD TV.

HD TV will improve your viewing experience so much
that the people at freesat claim you can “watch the
BBC’s Planet Earth in HD TV
and you’ll feel like you can nuzzle up to a polar bear” – well if that doesn’t
make you want to rush out and buy an HD TV, I don’t know what will. If that did
actually tempt you, make sure you read all the HD TV reviews on Reevoo before
you part with a large chunk of your hard-earned cash.

freesat also boast that the service has “a huge
choice of entertainment including movies, music, sport, lifestyle, children’s,
shopping, news and more. And we’ve organised them into easy-to-use categories
with our freesat electronic programme guide - so you can find what you want at
the touch of a button”. So there you go. Will you be freesatting soon?

Find out more about freesat here. Those of you in the market for a new TV but who haven’t decided what type you fancy, can have a read of all the TV reviews here.

Some funnies to get you through your friday…hope you all have great weekends!

"My wife banged her head twice on the lid before
learning that it has to be ‘parked’ in the fully vertical position. Brain damage to wife not too serious"
Proline PLC218W

"The TV signal has been [on]
since I plugged it in, but then I’ve never had any wire that didn’t do that
(except a scart lead I bought down the market for 49p once - that didn’t work
at all)" Logik HDWTH

"Being a short person, i need a stool to reach the top shelf"  Hotpoint FF200E

"I just cant put it down, its
taking over my life as I attempt to photograph anything that moves and many
things that dont" Olympus E400 DSLR

"It is going to grow old, just
like me, but it can be recycled" Hotpoint FDW60G

It’s surveys galore this week! In a bid to
plug their new plasma TVs, LG have commissioned a survey that reveals we Brits
are the most sports-obsessed nation in Europe…watching sport on TV, that is.

Although we seem to be football obsessed at
the moment – v exciting stuff last night – apparently we’re more interested in
watching the Olympics later this year, than Euro 2008. 50 per cent of people
surveyed said they’d be tuning into the Olympics compared to 36 per cent for
Euro 2008, 22 per cent for the Tour de France and 19 per cent for the various tennis championships.

And here’s a stat for the nutritionists,
according to LG, nearly a quarter of us can spend between nine and 30 hours a
week watching sport on TV. That’s more sport-related couch potatoness than any
other nation! Well even if we are rubbish at football, at least we’re winning
at something. Good work! Let’s not let the side down, check out TV reviews on
Reevoo to make sure you get the right one. Bring on the crisps!

Oh, and just to satisfy the folks at LG, here’s all the LG TV reviews.