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Daniel_K speaks out about his modded (better) Creative drivers {Engadget}
Apr 2nd 2008 2:42AM Creative has a problem in that their old "bread and butter" business is sound cards. Everyone needed one because 10 years ago (or even 6 years ago), not every manufacturer put a decent soundcard on the motherboard.
Now, almost all motherboards have decent sound on-board, and it's usually 5.1 surround, and/or digital outputs to a stereo system. Creative finds themselves having scrambling for cash and alienating existing customers by making a "bare basics" driver for their previous cards for Vista, and making additional cash by charging for a driver that enables the extra features the card already supported in previous operating systems.
Poor business sense if you ask me...
33 megapixel Super Hi-Vision (Ultra HDTV) could be on the air in 2015 {Engadget}
Jan 15th 2008 12:27AM NHK demoed this system at NAB last year in Vegas. Granted, it was on a huge projection screen rather than a TV, but it was 8k resolution with 22.2 surround sound. And it looked absolutely amazing.
You can see a few pictures of the camera & ccu/hard disk setup here:
http://64.180.100.119/nhk/
It was a great technology demo, but I don't see it being practical for the masses any time soon.
Cue the next format war! HV-DVD vs UV-Ray!
HD DVD's CES 2008 booth tour {Engadget}
Jan 10th 2008 6:48PM It was probably taken today (Thurs), because I took much the same photo around 11am - the booth was deserted except for a couple of reps who were looking kind of lonely. I felt kinda bad for them...
RIAA suing citizen for copying legally purchased CDs to PC {Engadget}
Dec 29th 2007 9:12PM Better idea. Don't buy any of their products. Remember, if you are purchasing CDs, Music Videos, etc from a store (or on iTunes), you are SUPPORTING the RIAA.
If they don't get money, they go out of business. Good riddance. Spend your money on local bands, or on labels that aren't RIAA members.
DOT bans checked, loose lithium batteries on flights {Engadget}
Dec 29th 2007 1:39PM Well, except for the fact that 592 going down had nothing to do with lithium batteries (it was oxygen generators that caused the fire). There's also a substantial difference between a fire caused by a battery or two igniting inside someone's luggage, then a fire caused by several boxes of oxygen generators (which are specifically designed to produce oxygen with a very hot chemical reaction).
I think it more boils down to more government ass-covering by means of regulations, so if something does, someday take a plane down, they can say "we did everything we could!". Better to inconvenience billions of passengers instead...
As Corp. Hudson once said, "I feel safer already!"
XP Service Pack 3 release candidate ready to download {Engadget}
Dec 19th 2007 7:19AM Installed fine here, no problems. Seems a bit faster, can't complain.
Samsung's BD-P1400 Blu-ray player sinks below $300 {Engadget}
Dec 9th 2007 1:12PM Naw, Sony doesn't care - their stuff is always more expensive, but they count on the Sony name to sell it to consumers.
Besides, no matter which player someone buys, Sony still makes the licensing money off of the player technology, and off of the disc licensing.
Samsung's BD-P1400 Blu-ray player sinks below $300 {Engadget}
Dec 9th 2007 1:11PM But what were the 10 movies? Every "10 movie" pack I've seen has been 1 or 2 "a-list" movies, and a bunch of filler crap.
Toshiba HD-A3 with 12 free movies available at Wal-Mart "secret" sale {Engadget}
Dec 7th 2007 3:54AM When I checked a local store for their selection of HD DVD media which was available under one of the many similar "buy the player, get movies for free", the movies were almost all crap. There was 1 or 2 good movies, and the rest were "filler material".
So ya, on paper, 12 free movies sounds good - just realize that what you'll be getting, are largely "stock that wouldn't sell otherwise".
Vista pirated half as much as XP, Microsoft rejoices {Engadget}
Dec 5th 2007 3:36AM I got the full version of Vista for about $10 from the school I work at (campus license). Even at that price, I didn't bother installing it. It's worth having, "just in case", but XP still runs fine on all of my systems.
