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Pixar talks about what it took to upgrade Toy Story to 3D {Engadget HD}
Oct 6th 2009 9:53PM While in general I dislike 3D movies, the statement that the distance between the cameras makes a difference in the 3D effect is interesting to me.
I get headaches when I try to watch 3D movies. I've always wondered if it has anythign to do with the size of my head vs the "average size" and the resulting distance between my pupils. I don't have an enormous head, but I'm also not a small person. If the images are at the wrong focal length for a particular viewer, it could make the eye muscles constantly fight to adjust for it. Or at least that's my thinking.
Wim.
Poll: Would you rather see live 1080p or high quality 3D from your cable / satellite provider? {Engadget HD}
Oct 5th 2009 2:44AM I generally avoid the 3d stuff in theaters because I've found that watching it for more than about 10 minutes gives me headaches.
Am I the only one who actively avoids the 3D movies?
If there are shows on TV that are 3D, and unwatchable in 2D without glasses, I will just avoid watching. (I seem to remember an episode of "Chuck" last season that was broadcast in 3d. I remember not really watching it.) Will 3D improve ratings, or just further fragment the market?
Poll: Would you rather see live 1080p or high quality 3D from your cable / satellite provider? {Engadget HD}
Oct 4th 2009 6:09PM When you talk 1080p are you talking 1080p60 or 1080p30?
I believe that the ATSC standard only supports 1080i and 720p (at the high end) and the 1080i can be converted as a display format of 1080p30. (30 full frames a second)
I don't know what the cable formats support (QAM?) but how does the cable signal get converted to your TV picture anyway? Do most HD customers pay for a cable box from their cable company for each TV they have hooked up? This would effectively turn the TV into a monitor, and totally ignores the built in tuner.
I get my TV over the air for free. I watch most of my TV in HD, except for the late night stuff that I watch on an old TV in my bedroom.
Blockbuster DVD kiosks creeping into New England supermarkets {Engadget HD}
Aug 28th 2009 8:18PM I've got MovieCube.net kiosks in my local (Bellevue WA) QFC and Fred Meyer stores. They use machines that look very similar to the one pictured above, with the horizontal slot below the screen.
I've seen the redbox units in Boise when visiting my parents, but not around here.
Engadget's recession antidote: win a 16GB iPhone 3G from Rapid Repair! {Engadget}
Aug 2nd 2009 1:11AM Improve my economy please.
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Jul 31st 2009 1:14PM Stickies!
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Jul 25th 2009 9:23PM Yes Please.
Ask Engadget HD: Best media streaming set-top box? {Engadget HD}
Jul 17th 2009 3:44PM I use the TiVo HD. I like it for what it does. (Records HD off the air, or digital cable, Streams Netflix and Amazon)
I'd say that it doesn't stream so well in the home. I run the TiVo Desktop software on my quad core desktop, and it streams most files nicely from that. It even works with MKV files that are 720p and brings them over in HD. The thing is that, at least for now, it transcodes the videos and TRANSFERS them to the Tivo. That means that you can't jump easily 25 minutes into an hour show that's sitting on your PC.
I've also used the WHS tivo server addon, which I recommend, but it dosn't keep up because of the processing required to do the transcoding. http://durfee.net/software/2008/09/tivo-publisher-version-131.html
The last item I've got problems with is that many files that seem to play fine on the dekstop simply will not transfer to the tivo. They seem to be transferring, but after some amount of time, the transfer stops, and there's no remnant left over in my TiVo now Playing list.
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Jun 30th 2009 4:42PM fix my economy.
HTC Ozone comes to Verizon June 29 for under $50 {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2009 10:26AM I'm interested in knowing what networks it can work on worldwide? I thought Verizon doesn't run GSM, and GSM was what most of the rest of the world runs.
