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Ask Engadget HD: Can a projector really serve as my main HDTV? {Engadget HD}
Feb 4th 2009 9:36PM +1 on sean's suggestion for the Black Diamond from Screen Innovations. Even with a fair amount of ambient light, it looks like a flat panel.
+1 on jamaal's suggestion that, for 5" extra, why bother? Go to 90" or 100" or more, and you have a workable and useful upgrade. For 70", it's like trading in a perfectly good 25 cubic foot refrigerator for a 26 cubic foot one.
The only reason I could see going for a projector when the image is that little is because the picture looks more, well, real.
Oppo teases BDP-83 Blu-ray player, offers no vital information {Engadget HD}
Nov 12th 2008 9:56PM Tell me it has serial control, or at least an IR input in back...
Amex Digital does what Steve wouldn't, intros portable Blu-ray burner for Macs {Engadget HD}
Oct 16th 2008 7:44PM hmmm... the title on the webpage says $269. Price cut already?
Amex Digital does what Steve wouldn't, intros portable Blu-ray burner for Macs {Engadget HD}
Oct 16th 2008 7:30PM Why is this labeled just for the Mac? The web site says, in its requirements, "Operating System: Windows XP & Vista and Mac OSX"
FCC fines TWC and Cox for deploying Switched Digital Video {Engadget HD}
Oct 16th 2008 7:18PM $40K? That's it? That's like, what? 2 households' cable bill for a month?!
AT&T will increase HD compression on U-verse {Engadget HD}
Sep 23rd 2008 12:59PM TrentD,
Actually, I'd bet ugly HD DOES equal increased adoption, as long as there is more of it, so that they can put in their marketing "We have more HD than competitor XXX". The masses look at the number of HD channels, not whether they're HD or HD-lite. Only a few of us can actually discern, and even fewer care about, the relatively minor PQ differences.
AT&T will increase HD compression on U-verse {Engadget HD}
Sep 23rd 2008 12:50PM Since when does "more efficient MPEG-4 compression" necessarily equate to "worse PQ"? I realize that this is SOMETIMES, and perhaps USUALLY, the case, but it's not NECESSARILY so.
For instance, 10 years ago, when there was no lossless codec for audio, the idea of compressing the audio meant that the sound quality would suffer. Now you can compress the audio substantially without any degradation whatsoever in sound quality.
Perhaps the technologies they're looking at "in the labs" is further compression without resultant loss in PQ.
I'm not saying that this is the case one way or the other (and quite frankly, if I were a betting man, I would say that the next round of compression WILL degrade PQ slightly), but I AM saying that just the fact that they will compress the signal further does not GUARANTEE a poorer picture.
JVC's DLA-RS2 gets a Cinemascope update {Engadget HD}
Sep 10th 2008 10:01AM This post seems to suggest that the anamorphic lens and processor are thrown in for free. Reading the press release, nothing could be further from the truth http://pro.jvc.com/pro/pr/2008/cedia/JVC_anamorphic.html
Open Media Library beta available, easy access to DVD rips via extenders for all {Engadget HD}
Jul 31st 2008 10:33PM Richard, please place the correct Read link for the release announcement (both links are for the Features)
SI Screens ships Black Diamond projector screen {Engadget HD}
Jul 13th 2008 12:38PM I agree. I've seen it in a number of settings, with a number of lighting conditions, and it ALWAYS looks incredible.
Lots of light? No problem: it's almost as though it was a giant, paper-thin flat panel - you can't believe it's not backlit.
Totally light controlled? Still looks WAY better than other screens.
Light-colored walls? This thing makes them disappear. So the WAF is high, since the walls can still be "stylish", but when the movie comes on, it's a total man-cave.
I've lately become a Black Diamond fanboy :-)
