http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/ Engadget Comments for Engadget Podcast 130 - 01.23.2009: Angry rant edition http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/Jan 23rd 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/if they would get to pushing cupcake...instead of baking brownies ]]>Jan 23rd 2009 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/
The other thing that's absolutely horrible about Best Buy's business practices has to do with Dell products. If you buy a Dell computer from Best Buy, you are exempt from Dell's warranty because an agreement that Geek Squad will handle all Dell support. So, if you don't buy their aftermarket warranty, then you have absolutely no coverage on the computer. The problem is, you're usually not informed this at the time of purchase. My parents' Dell started dying after two months, and they naturally called Dell about it, only to be informed by a sympathetic person at customer service that if they'd bought it anywhere else, they'd be fine, but since its from Best Buy, Dell can't help. Upon bringing it to Best Buy, they were quoted something ridiculous like $175 or something like that to have it fixed.

Besides that, after seeing how inventory is actually treated when its being unloaded off the truck, I'd never buy anything that's a large purchase from them. (TV boxes being dropped, but then put right out in the store, stacks of things falling over, again still sold with no issue, etc.)]]>Jan 23rd 2009 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/Jan 24th 2009 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/Jan 24th 2009 3:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/Jan 24th 2009 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/If you like it, listen to it, if you dont, then don't listen, simple as that.
Its a great show, take it for what it is, sheesh]]>Jan 24th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/Jan 24th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/engadget-podcast-130-01-23-2009-angry-rant-edition/
I wanted to ask one question, and make one comment.

Do you guys all have multiple mobile phone accounts? Just curious as you all seem to have multiple phones and change phones pretty often. I do too, which is why I stick with ATT as it's more flexible to swap SIM's in and out and I've had decent luck w/ global unlocked phones until recently when I started to rely on 3G more (and need the 850 band). If the Pre turns out to be as cool as it looks so far, I might end up getting a second number with Sprint.

Also, to Nilay, I have had the same crappy experience with Netflix on my XBox360. When it first came out I was ecstatic and it worked on HD almost all the time. But after about two weeks and ever since, I can never get an HD lock any more, and when it spits me back out, it goes in at such a horrible compressed junk stream that I have to restart the feed a bunch of times to get a happy medium.

But what I've learned to do (usually its worst at peak times like prime time) is just use my laptop and use the VGA output, and I almost always get HD that way. It's more of a pain by far but if I actually care about the quality then I take the time, and it looks great.
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The "move networks" player works really well and seems to scale the HD with network traffic. Hulu and fox.com use it for their HD stuff too. Netflix is great, but the picture I get isn't even full SD much less HD. They need to develop a "stream catcher" plugin or something.]]>Jan 27th 2009 8:37PM