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Verizon promises increased interactivity for FiOS TV customers {Engadget}
Sep 20th 2008 9:31AM Comcast has interactive coming very soon. Order things on HSN from your TV, caller ID, interactive ads on TV. Lots of cool things.
UT3 on Xbox 360, "coming along really nicely" {Joystiq Xbox}
Apr 6th 2008 3:37PM UT3 has basicly been done for the 360 for 6 months. Mark Rein is a spoiled BRAT that when he Didn't get his way about "Mods" has on purpose tried to "teach" ms a lesson by holding back the release.
I'm boycotting UT3 on the Xbox. If GOW where published by anyone but MS, I'd boycott GOW 2 because EPIC is playing these games.
Just release the stupid game already. Stop screwing around with us.
HD compression goes under the microscope {Engadget HD}
Apr 5th 2008 11:21AM re-compress, re-compress, re-compress. That's what it's all about.
Take any MPEG stream (which is already compressed) which has a little bit of action, and a little bit of macro blocking from that compress it and re-compress it. Then put it through a device to insert comercials (which will re-re-compress it) and those macro blocks suck even more.
This is almost the same as what happened(s) when you copy a copy of a copy of a videotape. Won't turn out to well. This is why the Broadcasters get a VERY high bitrate feed from the network then to thier things to it before they compress it down.
Unfortunatly, the providers give the cable and satellite guys what they give them, and it isn't high bitrate. You want better product? Call your programers (hb0 etc) and complaing.
Why Blu-ray will be the next DVD {Engadget HD}
Mar 7th 2008 6:23PM $8 DVD
$24 Blu Ray
you do the math
Onkyo pulling the plug on future HD DVD development {Engadget}
Feb 20th 2008 7:20AM Okay OKAY OKAY! We GET IT ALREADY!!! Enough with the HD-DVD is DEAD stories!!!
Man I'm so SICK of sites posting EVERY SINGLE TINY DETAIL. What are you going to report on next? Headlines about every single person that now SELLS thier HD-DVD STUFF!
"This Just In, Joe Shmoe puts his HD-DVD collection on sale at E-bay!" "This News just in, crazed person seen walking into Best Buy and BUYING a HD-DVD disk!" "Man spied through window WATCHING DEFUNCT HD-DVD Movie Player!"
Give it a rest already.
