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Impressions: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (the trailer) {Joystiq}
Oct 29th 2009 12:57PM Kingsley is in a ton of movies period. He's one of the most prolific actors in the business. Because of that, yes he will end up in some bad films. He's still one of the greatest actors of his generation and turned in arguably the best lead acting performance in the history of cinema in Gandhi (and deservedly won an Oscar for it).
TiVo's Jim Denney responds to Engadget! {Engadget}
Apr 29th 2009 1:41PM Not sure if it's different in other places or what, but it costs more than $5 or $8 to rent an HD DVR from Comcast here. I believe it is $15.95 or $16.95 a month. I think Tivo is competitive with that, espeically considering the superior service.
Apple adds HD video purchases to the iTunes Store {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2009 7:24PM It's probably about the same honestly. The DVD may actually look better.
Apple adds HD video purchases to the iTunes Store {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2009 7:23PM Nobody is mentioning audio. The audio imrpovement of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD over DVD is arguably larger than the video improvement. It's also what takes up a very large chunk of that physical disk. Uncompressed and lossless audio tracks are very large, larger than the capacity of an entire DVD. Digital downloads will never replace media unless they can get the whole A/V package uncompressed and unmolested in a download, or if home theatres and surround sound systems disappear. I'm not gonna pay the a similar price as Blu-Ray for a blockbuster action movie in HD (albeit compressed and a lower bitrate), minus the booming hi-res audio track. It's half the experience.
Intel Core i7 review roundup {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2008 4:09PM http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Intel-Core-i7-Nehalem,2057.html
The best review is on Tom's. Note that the non-extreme Nehelem CPU's will have a power-cap (eg. 130 watts) to prevent what Intel would consider excessive overclocking. This is understandable from a business point of view considering that it isn't too hard to get a low-mid range quad core now and overclock it so it performs better than the top of the line extreme edition. The performance is definitely there though, with an average 25% gain over a 45nm Core 2 Quad CPU with the same clock speed.
Intel Core i7 review roundup {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2008 4:04PM The 6 series 65nm Core 2 Duos were already effectively replaced by the 45 nm 9 series (eg. Q9450, Q9550, etc...).
Analyst predicts "dramatic" drop in Blu-ray sales during Q4 {Engadget HD}
Oct 20th 2008 4:05PM I don't think sales will be hurt that much. The demographic that is buying Blu-Ray's in any quantity wasn't pressed for cash before and won't be in the near future either.
The digital download domination argument is silly though. I know it's been debated to hell, but there is still no download service anywhere for any price that can match the quality (for video AND audio) of a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. There won't be for quite a while either because of bandwidth limitations, and even when there is it will be priced comparable to the cost of owning an HD player and discs. Vudu comes close, and may be able to match in the video department, but lacks lossless audio of any kind (you get DVD quality Dolby 5.1). Some people may not care, but a large portion of the money-to-spare Blu-Ray market cares a great deal about the quality of the content and will not settle for lower quality downloads or cable VOD. Physical media is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Canon EOS 50D review roundup {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2008 7:34PM Sorry, but fredmiranda.com >>>> dpreview.com
Fredmiranda doesn't do staff pre/reviews per se, but they do have an excellent forum and review section with insight from numerous pro's and amateurs who shoot with the various products. The members generate the content, and as many of them are extraordinarily knowledgable and quite experienced, it's generally pretty solid and objective. It's also free from most of the immature e-peenery and flaming that is commonplace at sites like dpreview.
That said, the 50D is a solid body in the
TiVo quietly removes Series3 from its webstore {Engadget}
Jul 30th 2008 1:13PM Cablecards work with FIOS. There are plenty of FIOS customers using Series 3's or Tivo HD's. Check the Tivo Community Forums for more info.
SSDs save battery power, right? Wrong. {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 5:18PM Everyone who hasn't read the article just read this page instead:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955-13.html
Much better graph which shows actual mobilemark bettery runtime results. The graph engadget used is just the specs for power consumption for the drives tested, which is nearly meaningless if you read the article (it explains in detail why).
