Recent Comments:
Poll: Are your new James Bond Blu-ray Discs acting up? {Engadget HD}
Nov 3rd 2008 11:12PM Woking well in a PS3 with the lastest firmware.
Blu-ray releases on October 7th 2008 {Engadget HD}
Oct 6th 2008 3:42PM With the rate at which the studios are relieasing "A" catalog titles (especially in Q4), they are doing a good job of killing confidence in Blu-Ray.
Netflix to do away with Profiles {Engadget HD}
Jun 20th 2008 2:28PM I suspect they assume that some family's will buy another account, therefore Netflix will get more revenue each month.
Poll: Have you been affected by over-compressed HD feeds? {Engadget HD}
Apr 7th 2008 12:46AM That's easy I recorded the same program twice using two HD TiVo's. The first time before Comcast started further compressing streams. The second TiVo happened to record the same program on the same network Discovery Theater, after they started ruining the streams. The difference was quite noticeable especially on motion shots (this was a HD special on the ISS and the space program originally filmed using IMAX cameras). I never expected all of the noise (compression artifacts) added, it reminded me of the old days of VCD (just with a lot more resolution).
Poll: Have you been affected by over-compressed HD feeds? {Engadget HD}
Apr 7th 2008 12:44AM That's easy I recorded the same program twice using two HD TiVo's. The first time before Comcast started further compressing streams. The second TiVo happened to record the same program on the same network Discovery Theater, after they started ruining the streams. The difference was quite noticeable especially on motion shots (this was a HD special on the ISS and the space program originally filmed using IMAX cameras). I never expected all of the noise (compression artifacts) added, it reminded me of the old days of VCD (just with a lot more resolution).
WiFi trial comes to San Francisco's BART trains {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 9:20PM Yes, BART stand for Bay Area Rapped Transit:
However if you try to commute to form almost any end-point on the BART system, to any other end-point (OTHER then SF) and you have to change trains two or three times and experience a minimum of 20-30 minutes of transfer delay. effectively BART is the SF commuter rail.
Oakland is one of the few exceptions where all the lines cross and its convenient in any direction, and even the Dublin-Pleasanton line only hits West Oakland. If you ever use the train systems in other first world countries you would find BART a joke (UK, Singapore, Japan, etc.)
Official: HD DVD dead and buried, format war is over {Engadget HD}
Feb 19th 2008 3:21AM HD-DVD the look and sound of ... obsolete. At least now those of us who want to purchase a packaged HD media can now do so! Next up, an announcement from Paramount and Universal.
Sportvision breaks backboards during NBA 2008 All-Star Game {Engadget HD}
Feb 18th 2008 2:30PM Can you say more advertising dollars!
Volvo, Mercedes and Honda get tested for collision prevention, everybody's a winner {Engadget}
Feb 18th 2008 1:55PM We should pay more attention to the road, our speed and spacing (AKA situational awareness). While this new technology will be useful in cretin potential accidents, it will not be too useful until the car BEHIND you has it also.
I also am concerned that drivers may start to rely on the auto-braking system, instead of paying attention.
Camera-equipped buses could automatically ticket San Franciscans {Engadget}
Sep 12th 2007 8:15PM For which SF Muni does regularly, but something tells me the camera will "miss" that moment.
