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Popcorn Hour C-200 hit with more shipping delays {Engadget HD}
Oct 1st 2009 12:19PM Interesting... by the time the PCH is available again, the new WDTV should be out, the one with DTS audio & network capability, etc... Sure it won't have a SATA bay for a HD / BluRay player but at $299 vs. $129 (or whatever), I'll take the WDTV (assuming it looks like a decent product).
Popcorn Hour C-200 hands-on {Engadget HD}
Sep 26th 2009 11:37AM Any idea when the WDTV2 is scheduled to drop? Even though they're not 100% identical products, there is enough overlap that I'd love to see a shootout on the areas where the 2 products overlap.
GeeXboX 1.2.2 LiveCD media player adds multi-core video decoding, now 1080p is possible {Engadget HD}
Jun 30th 2009 3:33AM I've always liked Geexbox....
Moxi HD DVR Review {Engadget HD}
Jun 23rd 2009 9:09AM The price is so high, and I don't see a justification for it.
As far as the direct / retail channel, I just don't see this thing making a dent from what I've read. Either people have their TiVos, their cable company DVRs, or their Media Center PCs.
Maybe if it was $299-$399. I guess $399 considering the hardware cost, this isn't a toy.
It seems like the company is attempting to recover its NRE (development) costs way too quickly. In an economy like this (esp. the next 18-24 months), a premium DVR is a tough sell.
Unfortunately the company will probably be swirling the drain in 24 months, assuming their quality & customer service are good enough to last even that long.
Just my 2 cents, I don't have a dog in this hunt, it just sounds like poor execution and that's a shame since we do need a good, feature-rich, affordable HD DVR product, and I would have liked to have seen this be a viable alternative.
Moxi HD DVR initial impressions {Engadget HD}
Apr 21st 2009 3:05PM Great list. Love the concise format, "just sum it all up for me" kind of presentation.
For $800, I'd expect this mudder-hucker to have 2TB and to have breakfast waiting for me in the morning when I wake up.
This think will be $499 by the end of the year.... or Moxi'll be "tits up" by that time.
For that money, I can buy a powerful, small form factor PC plus Windows Media Center, and roll my own.
Sorry Moxi, you picked the wrong time to roll out a boutique appliance, the public is shopping at Wal Mart these days, not Tiffany.
Time Warner Cable scraps broadband capping plan in Rochester, NY {Engadget HD}
Apr 18th 2009 5:34PM Too little too late, dickheads (Time Warner.)
Just switched to FiOS & couldn't be happier.
I always knew FiOS would be an improvement, but inertia won out until recently... easier to just stay the course. But then recent outages, also what seemed like caps/throttling, and rumors like the pay-as-you-go experiment made me decide to switch.
If they can't manage their network and build-out properly, that's their own damn problem.
If they want to offer me 20M/5M for $29/month, lifetime, fine I'll come back, otherwise, HIT THE BRICKS, PAL!!!!
90 percent of consumers think they should be allowed to back up DVDs {Engadget HD}
Apr 9th 2009 9:33PM And the other 10% are brain-dead.
Do they ask for permission before going to the bathroom, too?
At $1 a day Redbox is perfect for consumers, not so much for Hollywood {Engadget HD}
Apr 3rd 2009 1:15PM Redbox rocks. Hollywood (OK, Universal) better stop crying & be glad places like RedBox at least generates some revenue for them!
With so many alternatives, the day of plonking down $19.95 for a DVD you'll watch 2x, maybe 3x, is long past..... not to mention the economy.
If studios were wise, they'd release DVDs for $9.95 the same day as the theatrical release. Word is at least one major studio is studying the idea (they already do it in China because the Chinese will pirate it the same day anyway.)
Forever Plus finally takes a pico projector to 720p {Engadget HD}
Mar 26th 2009 9:44AM Off by a factor of 10 in each dimension.... so you presented this device as *literally* 1000 times smaller than it really is.
It's still small, but let's get the decimal point in the right place!
Poll: Are you still buying DVDs? {Engadget HD}
Mar 21st 2009 8:06PM Netflix....RedBox.... nein. No DVDs bought since 2006.
Price everything at $4.99 in a cheap cardboard sleeve, or make DVDs available for $9.99 the day of a theatrical release, you'll get me to open my wallet.
But it's just too easy to get good entertainment cheaply these days. Who's tossing around $20 bills to buy DVDs that they'll watch 2x a year for maybe the first 2 years?
