Engadget HD Podcast 117 - 01.09.2009: CES Edition
by Trent Wolbe 
posted Jan 9th 2009 at 11:30AM
CES opened up on Thursday, and we gathered the team to recap the developments in the HD-sphere so far. Yahoo has vaulted itself right onto the living room screen with the widespread take-up of its Internet@TV widget platform across several manufacturers. The EchoStar/DISH/Sling gang also has some pretty interesting developments, with Sling placeshifting tech getting sprinkled throughout the product lineup. There's oodles more HD-related gear, but we also talk large themes, most notably 3D and Blu-ray getting into the mainstream. We'll be here all week, so expect more updates in the next podcast, after we get a chance to see what's on the show floor.Get the podcast
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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh and Steve Kim
Producer: Trent Wolbe
00:49 - Yahoo! recaps a day of setting the Internet-on-TV movement on fire with Widgets
05:09 - DISH Network's ViP 922 and SlingGuide unveiled: first "SlingLoaded" HD DVR
09:13 - Sling Monitor in-home placeshifter hands-up
12:18 - SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone, SlingPlayer for Mac HD make debuts
15:01 - TiVo has a new Search
19:05 - A first hand look at Panasonic's 3D demo
22:48 - Panasonic makes it official: Profile 2.0 DMP-B15 portable Blu-ray player
24:24 - Panasonic intros DMR-BR360V Blu-ray / VHS combo player
26:00 - Live from the 2009 Blu-ray Disc Association press conference
28:38 - Panasonic officially premieres Z1 wireless HDTV
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andy @ Jan 9th 2009 3:49PM
Why all the Palm Pre coverage? A bit overkill. I know its exciting and all but its getting a bit much.
IMBigWillie @ Jan 9th 2009 6:03PM
The first mp3 link is directing to the wrong mp3.
Guy Incognito @ Jan 9th 2009 8:27PM
Gentlemen,
Any word on DLP HDTVs? Are they officially dead yet?
Vance @ Jan 14th 2009 1:27PM
OK, this is the part I don't get about this whole "connected" TV thing, including connected Blu-Rays, etc. Do that many people really have ethernet running into their living room? I suppose that most people with a house have their modem in an office or room other than their main TV viewing area, like a den or family room. I don't ever see people's computers in the same room as their TV's unless they are living in an apartment or a dorm. People with houses would have to run ethernet from one room to another and I never knew this was something folks did in great enough numbers to make all of this "connectedness" viable. (that "in great enough numbers* being the operative point here).
This seems even more odd since most people who have networks in their house have wireless networks. Are they running both a wireless router AND running ethernet around their house? What am I missing?
What is frustrating, of course, is that I have I have cable internet, so all that internet goodness is right there in the cable going into the TV system, so all it would take is a modem there to have instant connection, rather than hooking up through a network (wireless or ethernet) from a router in another room.