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Engadget HD giveaway: win a 5x1 HDMI switch and long HDMI cables! {Engadget HD}
Apr 22nd 2009 2:38PM Thanks!
Toshiba showing off 56-inch Cell-based 4k x 2k HDTV, prototype MIDs {Engadget HD}
Jan 7th 2009 11:18AM "As we all said with Toshiba's upscaling DVD players...you can't recreate data that isn't there."
Correct it won't be as good as real 3,840 x 2,160 source material, BUT you can at least interpolate and make a calculated guess as to what the extra pixels should/coul be, and with extra processing power you can process a larger perhaps even the whole frame, previous and upcoming frames to make an even better calculated guess.
T-Mobile soft capping 3G data at 1GB per month {Engadget}
Sep 24th 2008 12:25PM First I had a Verizon EVDO card with unlimited bandwidth, then they terminated my account for excessive usage. Well for that a they later had to cough up $200 to me and everybody else they terminated after lawsuit threats.
Then I had Sprint until two months ago, where then then stopped unlimited bandwidth.
Now I have Alltel which as far as I can tell the last to offer unlimited and for "only" $59.99 a month. Unfortunately they are to merge with Verizon, but I was promised unlimited data at least as long as my current two year contract.
Sandberg intros wireless keyboard / touchpad combo for HTPCs {Engadget}
Jul 28th 2008 9:22AM Any dealers in US for the Nexos version?
Blu-ray player sales sink as 2008 begins... except for Sony's PlayStation 3 {Engadget HD}
May 1st 2008 9:04AM I only bought two discs after the HD-DVD camp threw in the towel, and after Amazon stopped selling Buy-One-Get-One-Free, one HD-DVD title on eBay and one new Blueray from Bestbuy on sale. Before I bought HD-DVD and/or Blueray movies almost weekly, but I'll wait until I can them for $15 or less.
I have a Toshiba XA2 and a Sony PS3. I still believe consumers lost when Blueray won after they had to pay off more than ½ a billion dollars in bribes. Now consumers only choice is an expensive player still in development and expensive region-coded titles.
NeoDigits announces the HELIOS H4000 HD Upscaling DVD player {Engadget}
Nov 7th 2006 4:02PM Received my Helios H4000 5 days ago and have a few comments.
A very small sleek player with as can be seen on the picture top, there are no buttons on the front, all buttons Power on/off, eject and the others are on the top which already annoys me. Another annoyance when you click the eject button with a disc inside and the power off, the disc loads first instead of ejecting the disc, and then after you have waited for it to load you can finally click eject again for it to eject - how stupid is that? When I click the eject, I want the player to do what I want, not play the disc. Also the players goes into screen saving mode 5 seconds after you paused a clip or movie!?! The morons at Helios need to come up with a firmware to fix that crap (eject and screen saving)!
One cool thing is that the player will automatically play a disc from the point in time where you last ejected it, in cases where you had to stop and insert another title. I don't now how long or big this memory is though.
I love being able to record several AVI (Divx) files onto one DVD disc and then choose which to play upon insertion in player.
I did a few A/B tests using component cables on my RCA F38315 CRT HDTV, using the Helios H4000 and my Denon DVD-2900 and have a hard time to distinguish a difference, or rather if the Helios H4000 output looks better. It does not look worse at least, but of course it does make it easy when the Helios H4000 invokes a screen saver within 5 seconds of pressing still!!!
