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Sony's big plans for OLED HDTVs may slip to next year {Engadget HD}
Aug 18th 2009 10:30AM Didn't you know Sony stands for:
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Sony's 400-disc BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray Mega Changer reportedly coming soon {Engadget}
May 21st 2009 7:48PM @hexydes: Virtually every Blu-ray is already H.264 or VC-1 so any transcoding will only yield space savings by lowering the video bitrate and degrading image quality. Sure the extras take up some space, but many people actually like to use the extras.
24 Samsung SSDs get strung together for supercomputer fun {Engadget}
Mar 9th 2009 4:39PM @Daniel & r3loaded
2GB/s is the limit of the PCIe x8 link that the RAID controller uses. I suspect those speeds could have been achieved with fewer drives.
The original DTV transition: what could've been {Engadget HD}
Feb 17th 2009 12:07PM Medical care is not a human right either.
The Bill Day giveaway (part 2) - Office Ultimate 2007 {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 7:00PM OS/2 ftw!!!
The Bill Day giveaway (part 4) - Windows Vista Ultimate {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 7:00PM OS/2 ftw!!!
Telnet "hack" allows for network remote control of TiVo {Engadget}
May 1st 2008 6:01PM Great South Park reference!
PS3 firmware engineers interviewed, DTS-HD MA support on the way {Engadget HD}
Apr 9th 2008 8:54PM The HDMI transmitter used in the PS3 cannot bitstream TrueHD or DTS HD. That doesn't matter though because as all discs are authored in advanced mode, the decoding must be done in the player. So the PS3 will decode the DTS HD stream to 8ch LPCM. This is no big deal though because there is no loss of fidelity doing it this way since TrueHD and DTS HD are lossless compression of LPCM to begin with. (Think Zipping of Raring a wav file.) This is how the PS3 currently supports TrueHD.
Windows 7 to arrive next year, says Bill Gates {Engadget}
Apr 5th 2008 3:15PM 2000 = NT5
XP = NT5.1
Server 2k3 = NT5.2
Vista/Server 2k8 = NT6
Windows7 = NT6.1
Windows is too big for them to ditch the codebase and start from scratch. So you are stuck with OSes that evolved from NT from MS for a long time.
PS3 firmware 2.20 bringing BD-Live interactive Blu-ray this month {Engadget}
Mar 20th 2008 12:54PM @Jet
Decoding TrueHD to LPCM is like decoding a Zip file. It is lossless compression. Discs authored in advanced mode require the decoding be done in the player so bitstream output will be absolutely useless going forward. Look at every HD-DVD. Every one of them is authored in advanced mode and required the decoding of the HD audio formats be done in the player. If the TrueHD decoded to PCM over HDMI sounds worse than a 640k DD stream, there is something wrong with your setup.
