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HD DVD's Managed Copy was never necessarily free, was always Mandatory {Engadget HD}
Nov 10th 2009 12:30PM "Must of"? Eh - correcting other authors is fine, but get your grammar right - it's "must have"...
Wal-mart rolls back cheap Blu-ray player price to $98 {Engadget HD}
Jul 10th 2009 8:14PM I am proud to say that the first store I go to every time I visit the US is Wal-Mart. It's my favorite store, period - in any country. For all you Wal-Mart haters out there, move to another country for a while and start paying 5 times as much for everything, due to lack of competition. America is wasted on the Americans.
Samsung launches its own movie download service for Europe {Engadget HD}
Mar 20th 2009 7:31AM Well I live in Europe, and Samsung isn't launching this service here as of now. Why write "Europe", when it's actually only in the UK and Germany? If Samsung launched this in CA and NY, you wouldn't just write "US", you'd write "CA and NY", right?
RedMere introduces industry's thinnest "smart" active HDMI cables {Engadget HD}
Mar 17th 2009 11:59AM From what I can gather, there's a tiny chip on each end that converts the HDMI signal from the 10 pairs (or however many pairs HDMI has) into something that can be sent over a 1 copper pair. So it's a bit like the HDMI-Optical converters, except that it's built into the cable, it doesn't require any external power, and it costs 40,000 times as much. Just kidding with the last bit - no idea how much these cables cost - we'll see. I actually have a need for a long, thin HDMI cable, so I'm quite interested, depending on cost, whether these cables can go 15 meters or not, and whether the cable can be manually terminated. I'm sceptical about the last bit, but if I could get an HDMI plug through the pipe I have, then I wouldn't need a thin cable, so it's pretty much imperative if these cables are going to be of any use.
RedMere introduces industry's thinnest "smart" active HDMI cables {Engadget HD}
Mar 17th 2009 11:55AM But you're gonna upgrade anyway, just in case, right :-)?
RedMere introduces industry's thinnest "smart" active HDMI cables {Engadget HD}
Mar 17th 2009 11:42AM "outside diameter of only 2.3mm", according to RedMere
Sony Style Comcast Labs opens to show off future of high-speed internet {Engadget HD}
Mar 17th 2009 6:33AM 160Mbps - let's see, what would really impress a typical customer if you wanted to show off what that sort of bandwidth can do? I know - show how fast it is to download an HD torrent! Ehhh - on the other hand...
Ask Engadget HD: HTPC or HD media streamer? {Engadget HD}
Mar 12th 2009 11:24AM Of course any MKV can be transcoded to an M2TS. The problem is that the PS3 can't play any M2TS. It can only play a small subset of all the formats out there. So transcoding an MKV directly over to an M2TS isn't going to help you very much if the PS3 can't play it. I ran MKV2VOB (which claims to know exactly which formats the PS3 can and can't play) on about 30 MKVs, and of those, only 1 could be transcoded with no changes. With 4-5 of them, the video could be transcoded, but the audio had to be re-encoded (took a couple of hours). For the rest of them, the video had to be re-encoded, hurting image quality and taking an entire day of 100% CPU.
Ask Engadget HD: HTPC or HD media streamer? {Engadget HD}
Mar 11th 2009 4:51PM Everyone I know who has had an HTPC for less than a month loves it. Everyone I know who has had one for over a year hates it ;-). The problem is that the things stop working - Microsoft releases a patch, the motherboard clock battery dies, whatever - there's always something to fix. For some people that's just part of the fun. For other's life's too short.
Ask Engadget HD: HTPC or HD media streamer? {Engadget HD}
Mar 11th 2009 4:45PM While some MKVs can be transcoded to MPEGs with no loss of quality, most can't. And you can't tell me that a process involving 100% CPU for 10+ hours, with no cancel button, is "easy". Since most HD rips are in MKV format, this was the reason I stopped using my PS3 as a media hub. If Sony ever adds full MKV support to the PS3, I'll be back there in a second.
