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Apple updates $19 Remote, predictably coats it in aluminum {Engadget}
Oct 21st 2009 6:18AM Awesome, people uses FrontRow!!!!
(life has to be really boring these days)
Ask Engadget: Best wireless PMP for audio streaming? {Engadget}
Oct 2nd 2009 4:11AM Let's make it Sonos + iPod Touch + Rhapsody subscription (optional) + PC or NAS
Since the CR200 is just a controller, you could not consider it a PMP, and out of your home is useless. I don't really love the iPod, but it does the things the guy required...
RIAA says consumers shouldn't expect DRM servers to run forever {Engadget}
Jul 31st 2009 12:33PM u r right
RIAA says consumers shouldn't expect DRM servers to run forever {Engadget}
Jul 31st 2009 6:59AM Do we agree that music/films should NOT be free? because it shouldn't... Artists deserve to be paid for their creativity efforts and for being our entertainers, and publishers for letting it reach us. The truth is I don't care who gets how much, but that is their frackin' problem. What I don't see is why they need a institutional copyright holders association with the sole mission of taxing the extra dollars they didn’t deserve, advocate for restriction of usage laws/licensing models to ensure they get delivered those dollars, and finally prosecute people just to scare the rest of us that are circumventing unfair laws and or limits
What happens with these suckers is that the put stupid limitations to content use in order to fill their bag of greed. They helped grow piracy above a structural level (there always be people that don't like to pay for things). They failure to do the best for their own business is well beyond my comprehension
Sony's Stringer dismisses PS3 price-cutting threats by noisy Activision CEO {Engadget}
Jul 8th 2009 4:59AM It is kinda funny that you lately show this photo of Sir Howard with an open door behind him, it is like somebody's showing him the way out...
We should be able to rate pictures based in the our perceived connotation...
Regarding the issue here, yeah, it is time for a price cut, even if they are trying to make some extra money from customers for the money they've lost in the first million of units, internally speaking they hardware is a bit dated, they should have been able to improve manufacturing costs, with cheaper and better components (45nm or whatever), and pass part of that savings or potential profit to customers. At least they should drop the price in order to get some market share back, but that is up to them.
The truth here is that us, customers, have an alternative in the hardcore game space (the XBOX), and alternative for the casual kiddy demands (Wii), and many frackin alternatives for the VoD. If they don't want to sell their ecosystem to us, it is OK, we could very well live with their sustitutes (that some of us could argue that are even better)
Their old gaming market share at this pace will rest in peace soon (as their walkman share did), and of course I am perceiving the same pattern on the TV side. Once that last one is done, the old SONY will shut the door and be bought by a cheap taiwanese brand, quite an achievement for a japanese company
Sonos CR200 remote control has a touchscreen, at last {Engadget}
Jul 2nd 2009 5:32AM True... true
13-year-old trades iPod for Walkman, reports on mysterious ancient artifact {Engadget}
Jun 29th 2009 11:47AM Man, I had to say this...
AUTOREVERSE!
How to tether your iPhone running OS 3.0 without jailbreaking, for free {Engadget}
Jun 18th 2009 6:52AM Yeah, mate, for that type of usage, you will have to recgharge your iPhone batteries at least a million times... good luck.
Probably, future iPhone 5G Sxi++, will carry a mini nuclear reactor to give juice even to your laptop (wirelessly, of course), and you will be able to tether your whole commute to the Moon and back
Entelligence: Time for Microsoft to tell a better Zune tale {Engadget}
May 24th 2009 8:10AM I thought Apple had that in mind already... where have you been hiding?
Why you all keep talking about music subscription services as if Rhapsody or Napters didn't existed... I am amazed.
If you are talking innovative, 10 songs a month for free is not business innovative, it looks like a promo to me, ok, permanent, ok, really cheap/DRM free, but as you said it is a implicit price discount. What will be really innovative is to let user move the songs to devices for the price of the subscription as if the device were user's own "CDN", local cache, or whatever... who is to blame? I don't know, maybe content owners/distributors, maybe us for not telling them to frack off
In the future, when permanent mobile broadband becomes a reality, this will not be an issue anymore, subscription will be the only thing you need, without wanting to keep songs (unless you want to keep them for future generations)
Is the future of Windows Media Center with Windows Home Server? {Engadget HD}
May 23rd 2009 4:34AM First, Ben
Your setup seems a bit overkill for 2009. And this is a real understatement...
MSFT had an opportunity to control this market years ago, and it let it go because of it had to stick to its own monster architecture. You'll understand that.
Today, we nerds, know that under 200 bucks you'll have NAS hard drives filled with DLNA, uPnP, automated backups (via software), some of them even have torrent clients, and for the love of your TV, you could buy small renderers, that "like" to take DLNA, uPnP, support for ALL media codecs you'll imagine, and what's more important, dedicated (maybe not fancy) interfaces, that boot right on into its duty in seconds, and work to its sole purpose, enjoy media on your TV. Did I mention that this devices have access to online free services natively... man, some of them even browse internet thru webkits. Did I also mention that those devices cost also under 200?
Why do you need a whole operating system to boot next to your TV?, why don't MSFT allowed its customers boot directly to MCE? Your are telling me Extenders? LOL, you are killing me... thank God extender manufacturers learned that a 200-300$ device just to extend another machine would not sell
So, there are options today for MSFT, but it is a 90º perpendicular departure from what you state. They should have learned a lot from the whole XBMC movement with the original XBOX (enough time ago to do the strategic thinking), but hey!, nobody is perfect
You talk backups and DVR... ok with backups (available also with the alternative setup), and DVR... I'll give you a few year window, then BROADCAST will be dead
For the others that think like you, take a LACIE NAS, and AppleTV, hack it (otherwise useless Apple crap), install the XBMC or Boxee, of if you prefer buy a cheap multimedia hard drive and you are ready to go. If you like a PC hw because you are that monster truck lover, do it, but you can buy for example an ASUS EEE Box (the one with dedicated GPU), and you can do the trick with both XBMC/Boxee and MCE. After a few months, get back to us and tell us what do you prefer
I still buy into this MSFT things because I really like them, but there is no question they are still not getting it right around the TV
