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Best Buy partnering with CinemaNow to stream first-run DVDs to 'all web-connected devices sold' {Engadget HD}
Nov 3rd 2009 10:58AM Bandwidth caps and throttling will take care of this threat to Cable VOD revenues.
Pixel Qi e-ink / LCD hybrid display to debut on tablet next month? {Engadget}
Oct 29th 2009 3:23PM @tacitus
I don't know what you're smoking, but Apple is throwing in new technologies before they are readily adapted by others all the time.
Way back in the NeXT days, Steve Jobs got them to drop floppy discs (1980s) and go with a brand new Canon optical disc nobody was using. They went with Wifi on every laptop they made a year before Dell did the same thing (who did it before any other PC maker - and Michael Dell bragged about being an innovator in the process). Same for gigabit ethernet. They went with 802.11n before it was even a finalized specification - and a few other similar moves before that.
They pushed USB and dropped serial ports and the floppy as well - cold turkey - before anyone else did it - across the board. Many printer, keyboard and mouse makers had to go to USB long before they wanted to, simply to sell to people with Macs. PC makers held on to the PS2 connectors for years and years.
The list goes on and on
USB 3.0 held back by lack of Intel chipset support? {Engadget}
Oct 22nd 2009 10:39AM Light Peek is the future. One single port going out of the computer can do it all. Why bother with old nonsense like this? One external USB box can connect to all the legacy USB/Firewire/SATA hardware while new hardware takes optical input directly. That would really go a long way to cleaning up the cable messes we live with. That, and wireless of course.
Disney Keychest to make buy-once view-anywhere movies a reality with Apple's help? {Engadget HD}
Oct 22nd 2009 10:35AM This would explain why there's been little word from Apple on TV, and the dropping of the low end model and a lowering of the price of the high-end TV.
Microsoft store opening October 22nd, insides revealed? {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2009 11:24AM Is that Ballmer in drag on the right?
Acer: we'll overtake Dell as world's number two PC maker... soon {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2009 11:30AM We sell more crappy PCs than Dell. And we don't make much money while doing that. But that kind of number is really what's important, right?
Not that we make the world a better place. Or that we make a good profit margin for our stockholders and long-term future. We make more computers that end up in landfills much faster than better-built computers.
What an accomplishment. /sarcasm
Nikon's D3S officially announced, previewed extensively {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2009 11:26AM YOU don't need ISO 102,400. That doesn't mean nobody needs it. And from the photo I saw, it's pretty noisy. But that also means ISO 12,800 will be like the D3 at 6400 I'm betting. And 12,800 will get you barely usable shutter speeds at many high school football or basketball games.
There are lots of places I could have used that kind of speed in my career. So speak for yourself. I'll take every bit of light-gathering mojo it has.
Nikon's D3S officially announced, previewed extensively {Engadget}
Oct 14th 2009 11:21AM This camera is perfect for its target customers. News and sports shooters. The D3 has been making massive inroads into the sports shooter world. The last Olympics shows a big migration away from Canon in part because of their inability to make a sports camera that can actually follow focus properly (1D Mark III). Nikon's always had Canon beat in that area. The ergonomics of this camera are going to outclass Canon. Sony's pitiful high ISO performance in comparison makes it an amateur camera. Not to mention their system is years away from being competitive to Nikon and Canon. And Sony is happy to say so. (Not the high ISO pitiful part.)
The price of this camera is covered in the ruggedness of the body. It's tough as nails and will last as long as you want. The 720p video is perfect for sports and news shooters. It uploads way faster than 1280p. When speed is critical, this camera has no peer.
I shoot with a 1Ds Mark II and 5D Mark II at work. The former doesn't do video, so I use the 5D Mark II for that. One minute thirteen second clip is 135 megabytes. Imagine shooting a whole football game with some video here and there and it very quickly adds up. When you're sending video to the office, 720 will do the job just fine, and a lot faster. Because the video is likely on TV or going online. And that kind of resolution is just fine for those applications.
You want to shoot feature films? Get a Red Epic.
I do documentary/journalism around the world. I could be 1900 meters underground in emerald mines in Colombia where the humidity is 99 percent and the temperature is 125º F. This is the perfect camera for me. No flash, no protective cover, tough as nails, and extremely reliable. And it makes gorgeous photos. I shoot 16 gigs of photos a day when I'm on the road. I'd be more than happy with a 12 megapixel camera that can make prints way bigger than I need.
Physicist wants to test Hyperdrive Propulsion in Large Hadron Collider {Engadget}
Oct 12th 2009 11:09AM @Luggage
Remember the bit about an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters with an infinite amount of time will come up with the complete works of Shakespeare?
Well, hello! It would happen instantly. Your definition of infinite is too small.
Giorgio Armani and Samsung unveil Windows Mobile smartphone... with a little help from Steve Ballmer {Engadget}
Oct 9th 2009 11:01AM Windows Mobile favorite label of whom? There must be at least 23 people out there that must feel that way. 24 if you count Ballmer.
