Recent Comments:
Poll: Did you purchase an HD DVD player post-format war? {Engadget HD}
Aug 9th 2008 2:09PM my xa1 still upconverts beautifully and CDs sound damn good on the thing. Doesn't completely sound like a losing format to me, just scarce ;)
Joyswag: Win Guitar Hero III on your platform of choice {Joystiq}
Feb 11th 2008 11:44PM I wanna rock out with my.....mullet out!
Discs of Tron hits XBLA in time for Valentine's {Joystiq Xbox}
Feb 9th 2008 1:22PM the other Tron release was a lame-o lazy ass port (no way to turn up the speed on the thumbstick? c'mon!) like many of the XBLA ones. I will be passing. For $5-10 you'd think they could actually make these ports a little more customized for the console.
HD movie downloads to trump Blu-ray / HD DVD? Not so fast. {Engadget HD}
Feb 3rd 2008 1:00AM HD discs ARE marginally better than upscaled DVDs, face it!
While the picture is definitely better, there are plenty of drawbacks that keep them from truly being a "superior" format: bugs, glitches, slow boot-up times, incompatibilities, constant firmware updates, audio codec confusion, picture quality inconsistencies, poor mastering, sh!tty mastering, lack of next-gen features...do I need to keep going? HD DVD and BD have been out for over a year, they aren't going to be much better this year...they shot and missed. Let's move on...
Last chance to download free Undertow {Joystiq Xbox}
Jan 27th 2008 12:59PM I hope they have another game ready to giveaway because XBL has been shite all weekend.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending January 13th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Jan 19th 2008 2:03AM ok, Ben is pretty much a BD poster boy [have fun with your obsolete BD 1.0], but this is piss poor even for Engadget.
The first line is, "We must say we didn't see this coming" yet only a few posts earlier is the headline by Steven Kim, "In face of release announcements, last week's HD DVD sales sink to 15%." The same Nielsen line you show. Wow, crack team of bloggers there. Teamwork isn't your forte, eh?
Samsung's BD-UP5000 is failing to deliver {Engadget HD}
Jan 12th 2008 8:59PM "it's a shame to see engadget issue a "report" based purely on comments posted on forums."
This is a blog site, not Reuters. Do you prefer to get all your HD news from Sony, Toshiba, and the BDA?
Samsung's BD-UP5000 is failing to deliver {Engadget HD}
Jan 12th 2008 5:54PM yet another hardware problem in a sea of High Def Movie problems. Spazzoid Blu fanboys may spout off about winning the war, but so far ALL of HDM is a loser. Disc problems, HDMI problems, codec problems, mastering problems, hardware problems, profile problems, disc pressing problems, I mean c'mon, HD movies have been out for over a year! Get your sh!t together or HD DVD AND Blu are gonna wind up like UMD, SACD, and DVD Audio.
COME ON!!!!!
Hey FCC, force big cable to clear our QAM! {Engadget HD}
Dec 14th 2007 9:24PM ummm maybe I am misunderstanding the hubbub, but in San Diego the cable co.s have to carry any basic tier channel (HD) as unencrypted. So if Jimbo gets a new HDTV and has regular cable, he plugs in the TV and can get ABC-HD. Keep in mind the basic tier is all of 15 or so channels and costs all of $15 or so.
Second, the cable companies can't charge extra money for any HD channel that is already on the regular analog lineup (they used to be able to). So they can't charge extra for ESPN-HD but can charge extra for HDNet.
Seems reasonable. If I pay $60 or so for my digital cable why should someone paying $15 get all of that for no extra charge?
Let's focus on getting the bastards to add HD channels, and in unstretched mode.
Toshiba HD-A3 with 12 free movies available at Wal-Mart "secret" sale {Engadget HD}
Dec 6th 2007 6:15PM i agree with most of you. Give me a cheap player and keep your crappy movies. Let me get the ones I want when I want.
