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Vonage Mobile iPhone and BlackBerry apps available for download {Engadget}
Oct 5th 2009 11:25AM Vonage long distance rates are pretty terrible for India. I use startec and get 1.9cents a minute to India and 2.9 cents a minute to Canada. I don't need any apps for that either - just dial from my cell phone.
Harman Kardon resets its AV receiver line with AVR 1600, 2600 and 3600 models {Engadget HD}
Sep 9th 2009 4:50PM Check out the HK AVR 7550HD. It will do everything you throw at it and do it better than the Denon. Checkout the threads on avsforum about people's feedback.
Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray officially pushed back to 2010 {Engadget HD}
Sep 9th 2009 4:43PM Oops. You uttered the R word. R is the new N.
Harman Kardon resets its AV receiver line with AVR 1600, 2600 and 3600 models {Engadget HD}
Sep 9th 2009 3:20PM I have auditioned both Onkyo and HK in my theater room. The HK blew the Onkyos away especially in music. Anyone that says they are comparable is not really listening. I have the HK AVR 745 right now and I am still impressed almost 2.5 years later. I hope I can upgrade to the HK AVR 7550HD one day!
MPAA still trying to close the analog hole: Now with new, more inane arguments {Engadget HD}
Sep 5th 2009 5:12PM Let's say that their fear is warranted about people pirating. I am honestly wondering how many people pirate using the analog loop hole!! People rip their DVDs and Blurays they don't take it out of the 1080i/p component out and redigitize it using high bandwidth encoders. Am I missing something? Are they spending money and time on the wrong fix that only inconveniences legitimate uses.
Onkyo TX-NR807 and TX-SR707 receivers keep the updates rolling {Engadget HD}
Aug 10th 2009 9:44PM Exactly! And people just fall for it especially in big box stores. I love my lowly 85WPC all channels driven HK AVR 745 ;)
Audioholics overviews entry level receiver choices {Engadget HD}
Jul 24th 2009 6:24PM Peter - by connecting your bluray player directly to the TV and then connecting optical from TV to the receiver, you are not getting true surround sound nor are you getting the new lossless codecs from bluray disks.
You will have to connect the HDMI cable from bluray player directly to a compatible receiver to get true surround sound and lossless sound.
Audioholics overviews entry level receiver choices {Engadget HD}
Jul 24th 2009 2:00PM Use receiver for managing multiple sources not TV. Main reason is audio. TV does not pass audio unmodified. With hdmi you won't lose video quality because it is not analog
Ex-Intel employee busted for trying to take secrets to AMD {Engadget}
Sep 13th 2008 12:12AM You are a xenophobe. While I don't agree with his ethics (if he did the things he is accused of), his resume on Linked In shows that he went to Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay India and University of Mass at Amherst. IIT, India is very hard to get into (something like 10 times harder than MIT). This guy is at a different level intellectually. However, ethically, I guess he is deficient.
Also, people who immigrate to the US legally and are willing to play by the rules are not the ones bringing down the wages. It is the damn corporations and outsourcing for just cost savings.
HDTV shows arrive on iTunes 8 {Engadget HD}
Sep 9th 2008 10:41PM I don't think that is the HD version. I downloaded the Monk HD and it says 1.5GB.
