Recent Comments:
Mythic flings wide the gates of the Warhammer Online open beta {Joystiq}
Sep 7th 2008 1:59PM Thats where I am right now, I've had the patcher running for an hour and I'm at 47% complete. I really wish they had let us patch the game last night.
Age of Conan developer's stock drops by half {Joystiq}
Jul 28th 2008 8:39PM Meh, if you look at funcoms stock over time, their average is sitting at $25, so they're no worse off then they were before.
Turn your iPhone into a remote for $250 {Engadget HD}
Jun 15th 2008 2:55AM I just came back from WWDC and one of the interesting things I found out was that Bluetooth access is severely limited through the SDK. A third party PS3 bluetooth remote would be really fun to make but right now it doesn't seem to be feasible with the curren trestricitons.
WoW achieves a million concurrent connections in China {Joystiq}
Apr 15th 2008 1:14AM Its certainly reasonable given that players are paying a monthly fee and would want to make sure they get their moneys worth.
Win a Philips 42PFL5603D 42-inch 1080p HDTV! {Engadget HD}
Feb 23rd 2008 3:35PM hope I'm in before the deadline
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending January 20th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Jan 25th 2008 8:43PM dual format can't be the end goal, the studios understand this because it sends mixed marketing messages. in a single format world, everyones marketing helps everyone else by strengthening the product family.
buyers don't think about the differences in the platform and judge them on their individual merits, they expect standardization on the platform, and value diversity on the fringe. this is the reason broadcast tv follows standards, but tvs diversify in features.
Poll: So, are you buying an Apple TV now? {Engadget HD}
Jan 19th 2008 1:15PM We need some standards in bitrate before we start calling things high-def, they may be encoding in 720p, but the bitrate is only 5Mbps. The term 720p doesn't really convey much here, and they could've just as easily encoded everything as 1080p at teh same bitrate, but its not going to make anything look better. Blu-ray runs at 54Mbps, that is a huge difference in PQ.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending January 13th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Jan 18th 2008 8:02PM "A simple Profile change can render your current players, as you now know it, less desirable. "
There, fixed that for you.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending January 13th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Jan 18th 2008 5:23PM kcmurphy - From what I've read, both blu ray and hd-dvd use different physical lenses for focusing the laser, so you need s changer in there or possibly a re-focusable lense, in either case I don't think its just a software problem.
33 megapixel Super Hi-Vision (Ultra HDTV) could be on the air in 2015 {Engadget HD}
Jan 14th 2008 7:22PM You could arguably increase the pixel count and pixel density of the screen itself to increase the perceived definition without having to increase the video bandwidth. You then process the hell out of the video frame to make it look better on a higher pixel density display, especially when talking about 70" to 100" displays.
What you end up with is a picture that gets *fuzzier* as you get closer, as opposed to a picture that gets blockier.
