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New Windows 7 hack purports to be "unfixable" {Engadget}
Apr 23rd 2009 10:34PM This is not really a W7 problem at all, if you can subvert the boot process, then you can takeover any operating system. This particular version maybe Windows specific, but in principle it could be written to subvert any operating system.
Oppo coughs up BDP-83 universal Blu-ray player details {Engadget HD}
Dec 11th 2008 11:18AM Anybody know if it will also offer multi-region DVD support like the Opp DVD players?
Netflix acquires its 500,000th Blu-ray subscriber, is quite pleased {Engadget HD}
Dec 9th 2008 5:21PM They are real close to losing a subscriber because of the time it takes to get popular BluRay titles. I've had some recent releases in my queue for weeks and no sign of them every shipping them to me. Clearly they took the extra money for BluRay rentals and pocketed rather than getting enough copies of popular titles to come anywhere near meeting demand
Verizon rolls out price increase with Extreme HD rollout {Engadget HD}
Oct 6th 2008 3:56PM No points for creativeness, DirecTV already beat them to that punch. When they first launched HD, channels like HDnet were part of the basic HD package. As part of the MPEG4 rollout they took some of those basic HD channels out and them in a new/extra package that included Smithsonian HD.
16GB Hynix DDR3 RAM modules demonstrated at IDF {Engadget}
Aug 22nd 2008 10:45AM It's a small world, I was working for Intergraph at that time and knew those systems very well ;-)
16GB Hynix DDR3 RAM modules demonstrated at IDF {Engadget}
Aug 22nd 2008 10:43AM This technology isn't designed for desktops at all, existing DRAM densities are just fine there. It's for large servers that need 100s of GB, if not TBs of memory, we are a long way from needing that on the desktop
D-Link busts out "Green Ethernet" energy-saving firmware for existing routers {Engadget}
Aug 8th 2008 5:36PM Are you sure they've included the DIR-655, there isn't any new firmware to download on their website.
Apple shows off iPhone 3G guided tour {Engadget}
Jul 1st 2008 11:29AM But it insists on using QuickTime if you want to view it, and I value my PC's stability too much to load QuickTime, oh well.
PCI Express 3.0 details surface {Engadget}
Jun 12th 2008 12:43PM The 3.0 spec will double the bandwidth compared to 2.0. PCIe 1 & 2.0 specs us 8b/10b encoding, so 20% of the bandwidth is eaten up by the encoding scheme. For example a single lane PCIe 1.0 has a nominal bandiwdth of 5Gb/s, but is really only capable of 4Gb/s data transfer. Similarly a 1x PCIe 2.0 slot has a nominal bandwidth of 10Gb/s but is actually limited to 8Gb/s of data. PCIe 3.0 does away with 8b/10b encoding, so the nominal and real bandwidth are th same, i.e. a 16Gb/s 1x PCIe 3.0 link can transmit 16Gb/s
Samsung BD-UP5000 finally fixed? {Engadget HD}
Feb 9th 2008 4:19PM I tried the update and it made no difference with Sunrise and Unforgiven, both would lock the player up so that it had to be unplugged. With the 30 day return date bearing down on me, I decide not to wait for Samsung to get it's ass in gear and returned the unit. Swapped it for a top of the line Sony BD player, still had problems with 3:10 to Yuma and Invasion, but a firmware update fixed that. ave to say I'm very disappointed so far in the compatibility issues with BD, you'd think that Sony at least would be able to deliver a player just works.
