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Verizon BlackBerry Tour review {Engadget Mobile}
Jul 8th 2009 1:44AM Every Verizon smartphone sold MUST have a dataplan. You have to get it. I don't know how many more times it needs to be mentioned. Even if you buy the phone for full retail price, you cannot activate it on Verizon without a data plan.
Verizon doesn't lose a lead cent if wifi is included on a device because you have to subscribe to the dataplan regardless.
There's YOUR explanation.
Cable companies miss tru2way deadline, insist it's no big deal {Engadget HD}
Jul 2nd 2009 9:59AM What a shocker, cable companies not living up to their promises.
I suspect that we shall soon find out that water is wet.
BBC Worldwide content coming to U.S. Xbox Live, Zune Marketplace {Engadget HD}
Jun 2nd 2009 8:47AM This actually isn't bad compared to how expensive BBC video usually is. You can snag the first season of Torchwood for $39 over Xbox Live in HD compared to $55.99 Amazon on blu-ray ($99.98 MSRP!).
If you are only interested in SD video (and most of the content is only available in SD anyways) it becomes even cheaper. 1st season of Torchwood is only $26 in SD whereas the DVDs are as expensive as the blu-rays, 54.99 on Amazon.
Also, so far, only Top Gear Season 10 is available for purchase in the US on DVD where you can get up to the most recent season on Xbox Live.
MSI intros new motherboard with True Blu-ray audio support {Engadget HD}
May 3rd 2009 4:25PM "All things considered, that it's a bad way to go (or wihout precedent)"
Even if we were to ignore the misspelling of the word 'without', that sentence doesn't really make much sense.
I think you meant to say, "All things considered, that's not a bad way to go (or without precedent)"
Nintendo ships 50 million Wii consoles, which still isn't enough {Engadget}
Mar 25th 2009 6:38PM @bifkus
Actually, Pittsburgh is below the national average for unemployment and has been throughout this entire economic downturn. It's a pretty recession resistant city. That tends to happen when your main industries are education and medicine.
Nintendo ships 50 million Wii consoles, which still isn't enough {Engadget}
Mar 25th 2009 5:33PM Where are Wiis in short supply anymore? Around the Pittsburgh area, all stores have had a constant stock since about Thanksgiving. You can walk in whenever and buy one.
USB extension cable arrives with inline card reader {Engadget}
Mar 18th 2009 1:31PM I think some are missing the point. I don't think this is aimed at desktop users. It's aimed at the mobile market. This basically condenses down two items that you may have to carry around to a single item. Not terrifically revolutionary, but it still could be useful for someone who wants to simplify their computer bag that doesn't have an on-board card reader.
HDMI-equipped ASUS Eee Box 206 eyes-on {Engadget}
Mar 5th 2009 6:20PM It DOES have hardware acceleration of h.264 and VC-1 since it's running a Radeon HD 3450 instead of the standard integrated chipset. This thing should be able to handle blu-ray without breaking a sweat with an external drive.
HDMI-equipped ASUS Eee Box 206 eyes-on {Engadget}
Mar 5th 2009 6:15PM So, which $300 netbook on the market are you going to purchase that runs XP and has a Radeon HD 3450 with HDMI output? Hardware acceleration of h264 is pretty much necessary when looking at computers with Atom processors.
The original DTV transition: what could've been {Engadget HD}
Feb 17th 2009 3:24PM Because most of them got marching orders from their networks to not do anything that can give any other station a competitive advantage. They all want to drop it, but unless everyone drops it right now (which the FCC won't allow a fully digital market until June 12th), the majority are going to stay lit out of the fear or losing any marketshare.
