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Engadget HD Holiday Giveaway (part I): Sling Media's Slingbox PRO-HD {Engadget HD}
Jan 1st 2009 8:28PM comment!
Engadget HD Holiday Giveaway (part II): VUDU's movie set-top-box {Engadget HD}
Jan 1st 2009 8:25PM comment!
Win an LCD HDTV, Xbox 360, and plenty of Old Spice {Engadget HD}
Feb 4th 2008 2:16AM My comment!
Blu-ray Disc Association declares victory over HD DVD {Engadget HD}
Jan 9th 2007 4:18PM Yes, HD-DVD discs are outselling Blu-Ray, but I don't think that's currently a good indication of the relative health of the formats. Remember that there has been a reasonably priced (~$500) and excellent-looking (video performance-wise) HD-DVD player on the market for several months (the HD-A1), while that hasn't been true for Blu-Ray until now (the PS3). Let's wait about six months; then the relative disc sales will mean something, and we'll be able to draw a more informed conclusion from them.
Also, let me offer a radical idea: that the format war (if it is resolved, which it certainly will be -- by dual-format players or discs, if nothing else) will turn out to be a good thing in the long run, for the simple reason that it provided competition. And competition improves quality and price. The presence of HD-DVD has forced Blu-Ray to significantly improve the video quality of its discs and the price of its players. And the presence of Blu-Ray is probably what motivated HD-DVD to ensure that its discs were of high video quality and that its players were reasonably priced to start with.
DirecTV to carry 100 National HD Channels in 2007 {Engadget HD}
Jan 9th 2007 3:38PM So does the extra bandwidth needed for these additional HD channels mean that DirectTV's HD is going to get even more compressed -- or are they going to make more extensive use of MPEG4 to avoid this problem?
Samsung to debut first second-gen Blu-ray player at CES {Engadget HD}
Jan 4th 2007 8:37PM Richard: In this post you say that "As far as joining LG with a hybrid player like the one it had announced and then denied last year, the company currently has "no plans" to do so" yet, in the post you made 13 hours before this one ("Surprise! LG to debut dual format Blu-ray & HD DVD player at CES.) you say they've announced that they do have such plans. Which information is correct?
Silicon Optix Reon-VX powers 1080p in Toshiba's HD-XA2 HD DVD player {Engadget HD}
Jan 3rd 2007 5:55PM Jay: Thanks for the info. But what about when you are just watching the movie, without the extra features. In this case, the players that output 1080p/24 should be doing it "straight," right? And likewise, hopefully the new players that output 1080p/60 will not go through the unncessary interlacing/deinterlacing step.
Engadget HD giveaways: win a Samsung HL-S5679W DLP with LED backlight {Engadget HD}
Nov 25th 2006 5:09PM PS-3
Engadget HD giveaways: win a Samsung HL-S5679W DLP with LED backlight {Engadget HD}
Nov 4th 2006 1:42AM time-warner (I hope I didn't enter this contest earlier
Philips' BDP9000 Blu-ray player now on sale {Engadget HD}
Oct 26th 2006 12:21AM ...and my local Magnolia now has, on display, demo versions of both the Panasonic and Pioneer Blu-ray players. Supposedly they perform about the same, and are both noticeably better than the Samsung player.
