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Samsung's BD-UP5000 leaking into stores? {Engadget HD}
Jan 3rd 2008 9:03AM That standing cardboard is on all the players, it is on many players sold today. I got a DVD player 5+ years ago. I got my 5000 with it as well. There isn't anything special about it, don't worry.
Amazon offers up Buy 1 Get 1 on Blu-ray flicks {Engadget HD}
Jan 2nd 2008 8:55AM I would say it made a shift in the top sellers. As of 8:55 AM EST Blu-Ray holds 17 of the top 25 DVD slots. That is crazy. I guess Amazon really moves some product with these BOGO.
Amazon offers up Buy 1 Get 1 on Blu-ray flicks {Engadget HD}
Jan 2nd 2008 8:51AM Can't beat 7x27.95 + 23.95 for less than $90. 8 Movies for about $11 a piece. These BOGO's can build a collection fast, I am spending less on these movies than I did originally on DVD at this point.
NFL Network allows Patriots vs. Giants Simulcast on NBC & CBS {Engadget HD}
Dec 27th 2007 10:37AM I have two questions regarding this simulcast. Will it truly be one feed on multiple channels? Meaning one set of announcers and one set of cameras/truck? It will be interesting to see if their are any quality differences across the channels since they should all be 1080i MPEG-2.
Samsung's DB-UP5000 HD DVD / Blu-ray player: $799, shipping mid-to-late December {Engadget HD}
Dec 6th 2007 5:43AM The number one reason for me to get this is it is a single player that plays DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Cuts down on confusion greatly for users. Also this is a high-end player regarding its SD DVD upconversion, having a Reon chip in it like the Toshiba XA2 and some more expensive Blu-Ray. It isn't really fair to compare what are often lower end players with this combo player. A XA2 and a Panasonic BD30, which is what you would need for similar features at least, is the same or higher cost.
Xbox 360's DivX/XviD support doesn't include Media Center {Engadget HD}
Dec 1st 2007 9:31PM According to question 32 at http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx you can stream the other formats via Media Player 11, which can run on media center. I realize this isn't direct Media Extender but you can still stream from PC to 360.
Oversold H3 Legendary edition? Confirm your pre-order {Xbox 360 Fanboy}
Sep 21st 2007 5:48PM Well I got my shipment notice and tracking number last night from Best Buy for my pre-order so I am pretty sure I am getting one. As a bonus I am getting it for $99.99 since I pre-ordered it when that was the price.
Rumor: Xbox 360 at $349 in advertisement {Joystiq}
Jul 28th 2007 4:06PM meant 360 fanboy not Joystiq.
Rumor: Xbox 360 at $349 in advertisement {Joystiq}
Jul 28th 2007 4:05PM As someone pointed out on Joystiq the only price that doesn't have cents is 360 one, to go along with the above about it being the only one with $.
HBO to use MPEG-4 and mandate a minimum bit-rate {Engadget HD}
Jun 22nd 2007 5:43PM MPEG-4 is much more efficient than MPEG-2, so at a given bit rate MPEG-4 should look better than MPEG-2. That said the more bits the better the quality, until you get to lossless rate that is. MPEG-4 encodes on HD-DVD / Blu-Ray I think average about 15 MB/s so what HBO is doing is still only going to 50% of the quality of those discs. The optical formats can go much higher though.
