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WD TV-2 spruces up Western Digital's already attractive media player offering {Engadget}
Aug 16th 2009 1:32PM @ matt & strick, thanks for the feedback. sounds like you are using it mainly for ripped physical video media. i guess my htpc is still my best option, although the roku box is on my radar too .....
WD TV-2 spruces up Western Digital's already attractive media player offering {Engadget}
Aug 16th 2009 11:29AM Before I start, let me say: I am not trying to denigrate this product. I am truly trying to understand it. I think I'm missing something.
So, when I see these types of things, they always look really cool and then I think "What would I do with it if I had it?" I have lots of mp3s. I have a Win 7 box hooked up to a 42" 720p tv. I use it to watch clear qam cable, mlb.tv, and hulu occasionally, and I listen to xm through it also. I don't have a lot of DVDs but when I want one I just pick it up from the local rental store. So, my question is, where does the content for this WD gadget or the Popcorn Hour come from? Are most of you buying and ripping DVDs & Blu Rays? Why is it better to use this device then just playing them through the drive? Seems like its more work just for the coolness factor. Or can you use Netlfix online or a similar service? Or is there some major stash of online HD content (aside from the legally questionable P2P stuff) that I'm just missing? Or is it just that one of these boxes does most of what an HTPC would do but at a fraction of the cost? Any help appreciated. Thanks. And like I said, I'm *not* backhandedly smacking this product. Just trying to understand if it has a place in my living room.
Engadget's recession antidote: win an HP TouchSmart IQ527! {Engadget}
Jul 30th 2009 12:38PM I promise I won't leave it out in the yard....
Engadget's recession antidote: win our custom-built HTPC! {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2009 1:30PM save the economy? why? we'll just screw it up again.
Boxee updates: Windows alpha gone public, MLB.tv HD streams and more {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2009 3:40PM Actually, mlb.tv expects to get rid of blackouts soon.
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2009/05/mlbtv-expects-to-do-away-with-blackout-restrictions-sooner-than-you-think.html
As a mets fan in NC, the blackout was only a minimal problem anyway, so we dumped cable as soon as hockey season ended. I'm pretty excited about the boxee announcement. Unfortunately, unless the NHL can push a decent feed online, I'll have to crawl back to TWC this winter. :(
Engadget's recession antidote: win a Klipsch HD Theater 500 sound system! {Engadget}
Apr 9th 2009 2:35PM Fix the economy? Let em eat cake... oh, wait, that didn't work so well the first time around...
TWC moves consumption-based internet billing to more markets {Engadget}
Apr 1st 2009 3:23PM The problem with this is that it has nothing to do with preserving their bandwidth. Its a Cable TV company manipulating pricing to favor their content over web content. More and more people are dumping $70/month cable packages in favor of $45/month internet packages and getting all of their video from the web. That's what this is about.
TWC gets official with HD expansion in the Carolinas {Engadget HD}
Oct 28th 2008 11:26AM Does anyone know what the asterisk next to Fox Sports Carolinas HD means? I got the email from TWC and of course there is no explanation at all of what the asterisk means.
Time Warner Cable starts rolling out new Navigator, more HD soon? {Engadget HD}
Apr 25th 2008 5:33PM Yeah, I live in Raleigh-Durham too. This looks like the same navigator I've had for probably over a year now. Can't wait to get rid of it actually. Not sure if its the hardware or the software but I can't stand it. U-verse, please help!
Redesign giveaway: HTC's new Shift UMPC {Engadget}
Apr 14th 2008 8:04PM HP Shift ... hmmm ... cross marketing opportunities with Nissan maybe?
