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Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player: $100, this Friday, Wal-Mart {Engadget HD}
Nov 1st 2007 9:37AM 2.0 is only for the analogue. It outputs theese through the digital outputs (HDMI or optical)
Dolby Digital 5.1ch
Dolby Digital Plus 5.1ch
Dolby TrueHD 5.1ch
DTS 5.1ch
DTS HD (core only) 5.1ch
Toshibas specs http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model=HD-A2
Mercury Meltdown Revolution only $20 {Joystiq}
Aug 8th 2007 3:16PM In Sweden it's priced like every other wii game, the equivalent of about 65 U.S. dollars >(
Sony jumping into video downloads with PSP? {Engadget}
Dec 18th 2006 12:10PM But isn't it so that the psp can't adress more then 4GB?
Halo 3 info leaked: new weapons, vehicles, features & Collector's Edition detailed [update 1] {Joystiq}
Oct 27th 2006 1:53PM Translated from http://www.level7.nu/texter/read.php?id=115814 which is in Swedish, not Norwegian.
Three levels were tested
Their fan boy, Thomas Wiborgh, had time to test three different multi player levels and none of them will be limited by walls. If the player goes too far from the center of the map he will be attacked by some kind of automatic defense. The text doesn't specify what the real point of this freedom is supposed to be.
One of the levels is "snowbound". It's a battlefield in a winterlandscape with large covenantbases. On the map there are bunkers protected by energy shields. They can't be penetrated by bullets or grenades, but players will be able to go through them.
Another one is called "highground", which is made for teamwork and reminds of Halo 2:s "zanzibar". One team defends a base on the top of a slope. The other team begins on a beach below the base and their objective is to attack the base. Inside the base you can open a big door that will allow a warthog from the beach to drive inside the base.
The tird is called "valhalla" and has a forest and mountains on the horizon. It's a large map made for vehicles, and has two bases.
At leas two new vehicles
One new vehicle will be the "moongoose". It's smaller than a warthog and only has place for two persons. It's used mostly for transport. The other vehicle is "man cannon" but the don't explain any further.
Many new weapons
When it comes to weapons there has happened quite a lot. Bungie has listened on the critique from Halo 2, that mostly concerned that it was so important to use two weapons at the same time, aka dual wield. Now they have made the standard assault rifle a bit more powerful, but it is still inferior to a lot of the other weapons in the game.
All the weapong the players carry aroung will be vizualised in game. Ie you will see if an enemy carries around a shotgun on his back.
One new weapon will be the “Spartan Laser”. It's made for destroying vehicles, and even if it takes a long time to use and isn't hard to evade it deals out massive damage. You don't want to let your vehicle be hit by it's glowing red beam.
Another new weapon is brutes “spiker”. It's a one hand shotgun that shoots sharp nails.
Bungie has also thrown in a new grenade. It detonates it's payload of nails in one direction and can be placed on walls or the ground
New control
The controls are somewhat new: RB and LB will be used to reload weapons. RT and LT fires them. So if our have two weapons you will reload them using the corresponding buttons.
The x-button will be used to do something that will supposedly “change the entire game” but Bungie isn't ready to say more about that at this time.
Legendary edition
Bungie will release Halo 3 in a “ Legendary edition” that looks like the Master chiefs head. It will contain four dvds. One with the game, one with a documentary and a comments-track, one contains spin-off materials like “Red vs Blue” and “Spark of Life”, and the last one with movie sequences from the game series in a chronological order.
Like the E3 trailer
One game sequnce from the single player part was also shown. According to Wiborgh it is a lot like the Halo 2 movie that was shown at E3 and was hinting that the game would be taking place on earth. But this time around it is, according to Bungie, actual game play straight from the game
UK drivers change lanes to outsmart SPECS speeding cameras {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2006 10:57AM Beg? If that would work, then there wouldn't be a nedd for there in the first places, now would it?
Engadget HD giveaways: NeoDigits Helios X3000 {Engadget HD}
Oct 14th 2006 1:49PM Computer running windows media center, over cat 5, to xbox360
Core Xbox 360 loses ten pounds {Joystiq}
Aug 26th 2006 2:59AM So is that loss with or without gravity?
Can cable keep up without big infrastructure expenditures? {Engadget}
Aug 20th 2006 11:00AM "...a firm, albeit loosening, grip..."
That is like having the cake and eating it too! :)
NVIDIA releases Quad SLI for the masses {Engadget}
Aug 10th 2006 12:17PM I think the bigger issue is that no benchmark (that I have seen, and I have been looking around) shows any gain from the quad setup. Even worse is that in tom's latest benchies (http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/08/07/get_quad_sli_before_it_is_hatched/index.html) 2 7900GTX in SLI is better then quad SLI.
This could, hopefully for nvidia, only be a driver problem. But otherwise, paying more for less is just plain bad google-ing! ;)
Toshiba's survey: HD DVD will win - Blu-ray Association survey: Blu-ray will win {Engadget HD}
Jul 24th 2006 11:44AM HD DVD
