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The best HD sports on TV this week {Engadget HD}
Sep 11th 2009 2:11AM Dude What are you talking about Futball season started on July 28th!!!
Engadget HD's recession antidote: win a Dish Network DTVPal DVR {Engadget HD}
Jul 22nd 2009 11:22PM me want!!!
Engadget HD's recession antidote: win an Moxi HD DVR! {Engadget HD}
Jul 9th 2009 4:39AM Me want!
NBC replaces Weather Plus with Universal Sports {Engadget HD}
Oct 15th 2008 4:20AM This is totally screwed up. How much bandwidth is this subchannel going to use 4-5 Megabits. (Sarcasm Begins)Yeah, real wise NBC use a subchannel to show the thing that screws up digital TV the Most, SPORTS bunch of IDIOTS!!!(Sarcasm ends)
Right now the NBC Weather Plus SubChannel in my area uses between 1-2.5 Mbps and it looks good. If it were to be replaced with the fast motion of sports, at that bit rate, the encoder would not be able to keep up, the subchannel would macrobock like crazy. Everything would look like it's made of Legos.
Poll: Are $200 Blu-ray players cheap enough for you? {Engadget HD}
Sep 27th 2008 6:03PM Cheap enough YES, worth buying NO!!! I'm still waiting for Stand-Alone Blu-Ray Recorders to come out before I buy Blu-Ray. I Still don't understand why Japan, and possibly other countries have Blu-Ray Recorders, while the USA doesn't. I do however suspect who Is responsible for us not having these (Cough) FEEEEVO, (Cough)Hollywood, (Cough) TV Networks Maybe, Etc....
World to end Wednesday {Engadget}
Sep 10th 2008 1:31AM Wait a minute isn't that how Half-Life Started!!!! Oh No!!! I Better play the damn game again!!!! Oh No!! I Can't find it!!!! NOOOOO!!! NOW I WON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN THE MONSTERS COME OUT OF THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE!!!!! I HAVE TO FIND THAT GAME!!!
Comcast cool with FCC ruling, will just slow all of your traffic now {Engadget HD}
Aug 25th 2008 3:15AM No Genaldar, I'm not kidding, You were talking to me right! I don't know maybe you're really young, or you're lucky enough to have never had Dial-up!! Some people like you think that when a Cable company says unlimited in their commercials, they Mean Unlimited Bandwidth. That's not what unlimited means, that what they want you to think unlimited means.
I'm going to tell you what unlimited really means. Waaaaay back when, when dial up was the only economically feasible option for most people,like 1992 or so, Internet companies used to charge people per hour of internet usage. That's right they used to charge per hour!!! I still remember getting the AOL CDs that said, "40 Hours for only $30 per month" or something similar to that. Eventually Broadband companies, yes they existed back them, decided to use this against dial up companies like AOL. This was way before AOL And Time Warner merged. Broadband companies like Time Warner cable and others knew that the could sell what was then a luxury product with Unlimited Usage. Meaning they didn't charge people per hour. That's about the time that the Unlimited commercials came out, they May have sounded something like this, "Hey, did you know that here at Time warner Cable We don't charge per Hour like Dial-up companies!! That's right, you get Unlimited usage, Plus lightning fast speeds up to 1 Megabit, All of this for only X dollars per month, so call now and get Time Warner Cable Broadband internet access!!!" Where X Is a number higher than 50 Dollars. This was when the internet, was mostly still text based, the wasn't a youtube, there were actually few internet videos to begin with and most of the videos were adult in nature, hmmm, wait that's still true. Most porno sites were mostly pictures, and the ones that had videos, had few user, mostly people with Broadband. There wasn't even a Google, or a Yahoo yet, or Ebay, or Amazon, or Myspace, or Facebook, you get the picture!!!
Eventually the Cable Companies kept saying unlimited, and stopped saying Usage, knowing some people would Eventually, think that Unlimited means Unlimited Bandwidth.
Also I forgot to say some other things, Sometimes when I download, My speeds range from About 100 to 400 KB/s. I mean that's not Fair, The Theoretical maximum of Roadrunner here in El Paso is about 8 Megabits that's about 800 KB/s or more, and I rarely get that. I would leave time Warner and get DSL If I could, but AT & T has been saying for Years that they are going to get DSL to my area of the City and They still haven't done it. Pretty much only the rich Areas of town, which here in El Paso Means anyone making more that 40 Thousand Dollars a Year, and Downtown have internet Access. OK I'm exaggerating a little there about the Coverage, but It Wouldn't surprise me if only a Maximum of 40 % of the City was covered by DSL. I know El Paso, Texas is still stuck in the Stone Age of broadband internet access!!! This may make some of you think El Paso is small, but it's not it has about 600,000 people. The real problem here is Poverty, many of the People here are first generation Mexicans, both legal an illegal, who work for a while and go back to Mexico, or stay and have children who study mostly at UTEP and leave this Boring City. Few Second generation Mexicans, like me, stay to live here.
Comcast cool with FCC ruling, will just slow all of your traffic now {Engadget HD}
Aug 23rd 2008 6:56PM I actually agree with this, and think they don't go far Enough!! I would limit these inconsiderate, arrogant think they built the network bastards to 56 Kbps that's right dial up, For at least one freaking month. Seriously I don't pay $50 a month for a Cable Connection, that's shared, just for a couple of bastards who download like this is 2030, to ruin the internet for me. I have time Warner Cable Internet in El Paso, TX and barely use bandwidth, but I've noticed that now pages that used to load in 10 seconds are now loading in 30 to 45 Seconds. I wonder why, could some idiot who thinks unlimited really means unlimited, have moved to my area, or just recently gotten Cable internet. How I wish Time Warner started doing something like this in My Area.
Another research firm asserts that BDs will overtake DVDs in 2012 {Engadget HD}
Aug 20th 2008 5:58PM This is just too optomistic!!! This isn't going to happen until HDTVS break the 50% mark, and I don't mean sales, I mean Total ownership. I mean 50% of the TV's in the World are HDTVs. This isn't going to happen for a long time, possibly in the 2015-2020 time frame.
Even if players did cost $100 like someone said, it still won't sell more Blu-Ray disc, Blu-ray adoption depends on HDTV Adoption, it' that simple. Normal People, unless they're RICH aren't just going to replace their Analog TV, because they want an HDTV. They are going to wait for it to break, and then because people will have no other choice, since stores only sell HDTVs in most countries, they will have to buy an HDTV. Also Just because they buy an HDTV, doesn't mean they're going to buy a Blu-Ray player. They may still have a DVD Player.
So Here is what I Predict will happen, They are going to make cheap DVD Players that will break soon, before they stop making them that is. Also Eventually they are going to have promotions like, get X dollars off a Blu-Ray Player when you bring in a DVD player. This will be as if the company is buying people's DVD players. Then, if this is possible, the Blu-Ray companies will disassemble the DVD Players, and use any parts they can to make Blu-Ray player.
South Africa to host 2010 FIFA World Cup, not see it in HD {Engadget HD}
Aug 20th 2008 5:23PM This is totally screwed up!!! I understand that poverty is a major problem in South Africa, but this is just Beyond Wrong!!! I mean there have to be rich and middle class people in South Africa who are beyond ticked about this. Also I didn't read the Article, so if this is in The Article, put RTFA, but I have to ask this! Are there still going to be HDTVs in Pubic Places like there have been in Other countries that have hosted the World Cup before.
