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Popcorn Hour C-200 launch nearly upon us, preorders start tomorrow {Engadget HD}
Aug 27th 2009 1:05PM Profile 5.1 is used for mastering Blu-Rays and is a sign that the video was ripped by someone who doesn't know what they are doing. There is a very good chance that this will not properly play profile 5.1 videos.
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/MKV_Troubleshooting#MKV_RE-ENCODING
HD 101: Why there are black bars on HDTVs {Engadget HD}
Feb 19th 2009 11:39AM Blame closed captioning. With analog video, closed captioning is sent as data at the very top of the picture. This appears as white blocks moving around the top. With analog TVs, the over scan was enough to hide this data, but with digital TVs you have the ability to actually display the entire picture including this annoying noise at the top. Most viewers don't like seeing moving noise at the top of the screen, so manufactures naturally set the TV to crop it out. This is becoming less of an issue with more video sources being digital and never having the analog CC data added to the picture in the first place.
BBC won't air Formula 1 in HD this season {Engadget HD}
Jan 16th 2009 8:39AM Unless something has changed in the last couple of months, no one in the world broadcasts F1 in HD. Sure, there is the occasional Japan race broadcast locally in HD, but no consistent HD.
DirecTV puts away the checkbook, plans to raise rates in 2009 {Engadget HD}
Dec 10th 2008 9:04PM Sorry, the ability to get east and west coast network feeds is controlled by the FCC. Not much (other then lobbying for a law change) that DirecTV can do to change this.
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/shva/
DirecTV & NBC queue up Olympics HD video on-demand {Engadget HD}
Jul 18th 2008 9:52AM Free seems about right.... no one would pay to watch mens gymnastics.
Latest NPD report shows Blu-ray sales were no trend {Engadget HD}
Jan 29th 2008 9:23AM I'm not too surprised. It is easy to move product when it is sold at fire-sale prices. Just the other day my dad said he was going to buy an HD DVD player. He was not buying it for HD DVDs though, he was buying it because he needed a new DVD player and the HD DVD barely cost more then a regular DVD player and came with 3 free HD DVDs.
