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Roku reaffirms desire to work with other content providers {Engadget HD}
Sep 25th 2008 12:00PM Roku is not to be trusted:
Their HD media player never lived up to the claims they made for it on the thing's own packaging. It's a wonder no one's slapped them with a class action suit.
(For example: They actually sold the thing with iTunes visualizer-like graphics shown on the side of the box--in actuality, it was a bit more like an old (malfunctioning) arcade game, Qix.)
Their customer service also has a disturbing tendency to disconnect tech support callers with troublesome questions.
Roku--words like shady, sleazy, and unethical come to mind.
Buyers, beware.
How would you change Apple's Time Capsule? {Engadget}
Mar 30th 2008 1:15PM 1) It's hogging my bandwidth terribly. It's been crunching away on a 150 gig backup of my MacBook Pro for 2 days now, wrestling for bandwidth with the AppleTV, the MacBookPro. It'll probably work much better after the initial backup is done, but it's klunky right now.
2) Set-up for me became infuriating because (I found out from the Apple phone support tech 2 hours later) the TC doesn't like sharing the network with an AiportExtreme unless the TC is the dominant station and the Extreme is only used as a repeater, or extender, whatever you call it. Caused all kinds of crazy problems, the utilities started hanging, etc. Now it works fine, but their set-up protocol needs to be more aware of all the different possible network environments the thing is being introduced to. (I mean, it's probably not much of a stretch to figure a TC might be bought by someone who also happens to have an AirportEtreme, no?)
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 3) {Engadget}
Mar 25th 2008 9:25PM fly me
Happy birthday: take a trip in America's largest flying gadget (part 1) {Engadget}
Mar 24th 2008 1:03PM You look great for your age!
Poll: Are you satisfied with your HD service? {Engadget HD}
Feb 10th 2008 12:19AM As an apartment dweller, I'm compelled to use DirecTV... and I loathe them. They have been super slow to upgrade my building to the new dish necessary for MPEG4 HD channels, they've been jacking around with channel selection and now I don't even get all the channels I had a year ago and last but not least: THE COMPRESSION!!! Who cares if it's HD when all you see are compression artifacts dancing on your screen--annoying unsightly little cubes are unsightly at ANY resolution, thanks.
Win an LCD HDTV, Xbox 360, and plenty of Old Spice {Engadget HD}
Feb 5th 2008 5:41PM yes, please!
Win a Philips 42PFL5603D 42-inch 1080p HDTV! {Engadget HD}
Feb 5th 2008 5:23PM Pretty please! Gimme, gimme, gimme!
Macessity's LowKey Stand for Apple neat-freaks {Engadget}
Jan 31st 2008 2:16PM Kinda sexy--but the USB bank should be on the side--if I'm going all neat and fussy, I'm going all the way!
Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 HD DVD arriving sans quality? {Engadget HD}
Dec 16th 2007 1:13AM Battlestar Galactica joke I just thought of:
When the ragtag fleet finds Earth, Starbuck takes her viper down to Earth to make contact, landing in Berlin...
Q: What's the first thing she says to the onlooking crowd of Germans as she climbs out of her ship?
A: Frakkin' zie Deutsch?
Ask Engadget: Which mouse is the best mouse? {Engadget}
Nov 10th 2007 10:38AM Any mouse suggestions for 3d on a Mac?
ANy good TRUE 3-button mice? (I don't like using a scroll wheel as a 'Y-axis' button, never have.)
Ages ago when I learned Alias and Maya on SGI I used a mouse that had just three simple buttons on the top--all other bells and whistles were accomplished w/ modifier keys. Even the Wacom pad I had back then came with a mouse of three simple topside buttons neatly corresponding to X,Y,Z.
