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Dark Knight Blu-ray set to break shipping records, sales records next? {Engadget HD}
Nov 12th 2008 3:41PM I've got a Blu-ray drive in my computer and have been getting Netflix Blu-rays. I have yet to actually buy a disc, but I've said The Dark Knight will be the first one I buy, so sure enough, it will be.
Psystar slaps Apple around, releases Mac clones with Blu-ray / GeForce 9800GT {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2008 5:15PM @rock99rock
You've successfully done this on a Mac? That doesn't work in Windows because of encryption on the discs. Besides the fact that this technically isn't "playback" of the disc itself, but a work-around that locks out other aspects of "playback." Sometimes you end up with the French audio track with no way of switching to the English.
But on that note, I've unsuccessfully attempted .m2ts playback with VLC on Mac OS from a de-encrypted Blu-ray. Maybe my VLC is too old...but I don't think so.
Psystar slaps Apple around, releases Mac clones with Blu-ray / GeForce 9800GT {Engadget}
Oct 28th 2008 4:56PM Yeah, how's it gonna perform the operation of "playback" without any software? Also, the drivers for the video card would have to allow for HDCP. Does this stuff exist yet?
AT&T's U-verse TV notches high ranks in J.D. Power study {Engadget HD}
Oct 2nd 2008 4:58PM Nope. When compared to standard 2:1 HD compression on cable (basically equal to OTA HD bitrates), U-verse looks bad. They take 15-20mb/s MPEG2 and COMPRESS IT to 8mb/s MPEG4. Not only does it look bad, but the facts back it up. I realize you may not need the full 15mb/s when at MPEG4, but the fact that AT&T is transcoding a signal degrades the quality. If they were getting an uncompressed or even "lightly" compressed 30mb/s MPEG4 (Blu-ray quality) signal, fine...but they aren't.
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Q.E.D.
AT&T's U-verse TV notches high ranks in J.D. Power study {Engadget HD}
Oct 2nd 2008 1:57PM Disagree. I tried it and the HD picture quality was worse than cable. Over-compression = Failure. Stop comressing a signal which is already compressed and bump the bitrate back up. If all you have is analog TV, you'll be fine. But the HD looks horrible on a 56" screen.
AMD debuts dirt cheap ATI Radeon HD 4550, HD 4350 graphics cards {Engadget}
Sep 30th 2008 2:45PM I picked up a 2600xt in April as an HTPC card for around $55-$60. It was basically the cheapest card that did AVC and VC-1 on the card. I'd always gone with nVidia, but I can say this was the perfect card for me. No slack at all playing HD content.
60 Minutes pulls out the HDTV cams for Obama & McCain Sunday {Engadget HD}
Sep 22nd 2008 2:42PM It's a stopwatch. It goes, "tick tick tick..." Not "tick-tock".
AT&T will increase HD compression on U-verse {Engadget HD}
Sep 22nd 2008 2:18PM Um, of course the picture quality will suffer. U-verse already looks bad. Added compression does not improve picture quality. I'll stick with my 15mb/s MPEG2 source material from the cable company.
Bright House snags Big Ten Network, ESPNU HD and CNN HD {Engadget HD}
Sep 12th 2008 2:18PM Sci-Fi HD? No, I want USA HD. FX HD would be nice also. But I don't understand why USA HD hasn't landed yet. Also, can Michigan please get MyNetwork TV and CW in HD? I'd really like Pistons games to be HD here!!
Big Ten Networks lands on Bright House Michigan {Engadget HD}
Sep 8th 2008 3:10PM "Once again, something that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDA"Y!!
On that note, this showed up over a week ago in time for the first week of games. Not exactly on the ball this time, engadget.
