Engadget HD Podcast 067 - 01.08.2008
Back by popular demand is the entire gang, but instead of four people we actually have everyone from the EHD team. The First day of the show was too crazy and we just didn't have time to record, so on this episode we covered the highlights from both days. Even if you don't normally listen to the show, you may want to listen to this one, or at least look at the links below, because much of this coverage was on old school Engadget, rather than here at Engadget HD.Get the podcast
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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh and Steve Kim
Producer: Trent Wolbe
02:08 - Live from Panasonic's CES keynote (with Gary Shapiro)
05:22 - Live from DISH Network's press conference
07:54 - DirecTV's PC tuner (HDPC-20) is real!
08:25 - Live from the Blu-ray interactivity demo
14:16 - Live from Hitachi's CES press conference
15:51 - Live from the Blu-ray press conference
19:19 - Mitsubishi laser TV unveiled
22:11 - Live from the Comcast keynote at CES
23:39 - Hands flailing wildly with JVC's Snap and Gesture HDTV
26:35 - XStreamHD unveiled press conference, live
30:16 - Sling Media's CES 2008 booth tour
32:43 - Hands-free with Panasonic's Wireless HD
36:11 - Paramount: "Current plan is to support the HD DVD format." Currently.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bry2an @ Jan 9th 2008 1:54PM
Thanks guys for getting this one out. You guys are talking about what I want to hear from CES and that is HD.
Brian Bock @ Jan 10th 2008 8:38AM
You talked about the folly of Wireless HD. And you mentioned that it's pointless as long as you still have to have a power cable. I agree. And someone mentioned the rats nest behind his TV.
Here's my suggestion to the CE industry. Create a new, open source connector for home AV. It would combine multiple HD video streams, multiple audio streams, and a few common DC voltages that compliant devices can use to power their inner workings. True that you couldn't power a TV or a receiver on this. They would have to have their own power. But you could power PVRs, cable boxes (if they are still required), video switches, game consoles, digital movie players, home automation, and HD disc players from it since they all contain transformers that step down the voltage and convert it to DC anyway, or they use wall warts.
You could accomplish long cable runs and prevent hum and interference by transmitting the video and audio data optically.
They'd need to do it in one plug that is easy to get right, impossible to get wrong, and a hell of lot sturdier than HDMI.
The cable would be able to transmit multiple audio and video signals and devices could be daisy chained together or plugged into hubs like firewire. The upside is that you wouldn't have to worry about what plugs into what. One device would be given (or would take) control of the others.
Downside I suppose is that you'd increase the cost of devices by requiring optical to electronic conversion, but you'd save space, expense, and cooling required a power subsystem.
I don't know. Is this possible? Hairbrained? Dunno. I'm just sick of all the complication of hooking this stuff up and finding the right wire when I want to change something. And I'm running out of plugs.
Moo @ Jan 10th 2008 12:15PM
Mr. Wolbe,
Love the podcast. One problem though. There is one field of the podcast file that is being left out and it is preventing my podcast aggregator from identifying the latest episode. That field is the "Release Date". I'm not using iTunes. I use ZENcast made by Creative. I don't know if you've heard this problem from anyone else.
I've run into this issue with another podcast. Then all of a sudden their podcasts included the release date and everything was fine. I would love to continue listening to your podcast, however I'm apparently too lazy to download and transfer the file to my player manually.
Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Murat
Ben @ Jan 10th 2008 12:17PM
Thanks for listening.
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We appreciate you listening, but completely understand if you don't listen because of the feed issue.
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Ben