Hey engadget, your 32-bit download link is bunk

Everyone knows and loves KIRF

Interesting it's running in Sun xVM VirtualBox, an x86 virtualiser. So WebOS must be compiled for x86 in the SDK.

WebOS Netbook time!

I think that's a little unfair. My N95 received an update recently even though it's a few years old now.

Thank god they're one off pairs is all I can say.

Is it really that big a deal? I know all my (non Apple) devices can play AAC files perfectly.

Are Windows 7 and/or Snow Leopard going to have resolution independence? Cause some of these monitors strain my eyes with their tiny writing as it is, let alone with HD crammed into 22" - I hope the new OSs make it easy to resize everything.

Actually they did consider whether to make it terrestrial only. But they found that it would be sub-optimal - the shorter wavelength UHF signal required for digital does not propagate as far as the VHF signals. There will always be areas of NZ that just can't be viably covered by terrestrial signals due to its hilliness. Satellite always works as long as you can see the right area of the sky. Believe me they wouldn't have spent all the money having two different broadcast systems if they didn't think it necessary.

It was decided also that they couldn't do just satellite as this would require everyone to get a satellite dish where as an aerial -> aerial upgrade path makes more sense and it is more likely that manufacturers would integrated DVB-T into their televisions.

And they didn't go MPEG-4 from the beginning for satellite because people had already bought DVB-S boxes because TVNZ had been broadcasting one and 2 for some time over MPEG-2.

@Mark is right.

It's Vodafone with an f, not Vodaphone with a ph. (Heh even my Firefox spell check knows it's wrong.)

Yeah it's only a trademark but the misspelling always annoys me.

The way the first guy in the yellow chair's sitting almost makes it looks like someone's photoshopped out his lower torso.