Apropos of nothing... before the big Engadget redesign, I was subscribing to an RSS feed of the Daily Roundup. That was hugely helpful, since I don't have the time to follow everything. Could you guys please start using a tag for your Daily Roundups? Love the site, been here since about day 5.

I like the Pentax K20D. You can find it under $800, and since the IS is built in, nice lenses tend to be cheaper. Plus it's weather sealed. Paired with the 18-50 & 50-135 f/2.8 DA* lenses & for under $2k you have a nice set of do anything gear for much less than the equivalent Nikon/Canon.

But start out with the kit lens or the 50mm.

Facebook has been doing this for almost a year. See this, for example, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakerome/2900659771/

@Chris you're actually wrong. It's wrong to "circumvent" the encryption, but you can make legal backups in many ways that do not involve either circumventing it. Here are 2 ways:

1) Project the image to a wall or display on TV and record using a video camera. The MPAA has actually cited this as a legal means of making copies of DVDs.

2) Make a bit-for-bit copy with the encryption intact. If you didn't decrypt it, you didn't violate the law.

There are no doubt many other ways. Don't fall for the FUD folks-- making backup copies & making copies of any media, DRM encrypted or not, is perfectly legal.

**This has been a public service announcement**

If you buy the disk, you can make a copy legally for backup purposes or for format shifting.

Really quite pointless. No one is going to pay to make copies that they are legally entitled to make. The studios are wasting billions introducing a feature that no one wants.

Here's my advice: go ahead and find some software to make the backup copies and do the format shifting that you are legally entitled to do. I'll never pay one penny for a copy, and this whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I will probably never buy a BluRay player, at least not for more than $50. It's customer-hostile policy like this that will kill the format before it's ever had a chance.

If I owned stock in companies, I would do what I could to fire the CEOs. They've squandered billions in shareholder equity with their backwards-looking approach. I honestly hope all these media companies end up in bankruptcy court.

Video looks like nice, but otherwise not much of an improvement over the K20D, so I'll be sticking with that at least until Pentax goes full frame.

That thing is overpriced. Let's see... if I already have broadband, I can get Vonage for half the price w/o paying $150+ up front. This thing is about 5 years too late to the market, and the monthly fee is about double where it needs to make it worthwhile, even if they gave away the phone. Further idiocy to restrict this to Verizon Wireless customers....

They'll be lucky to sell a 100. My guess is that these will be stocking stuffers for employees' kids. I almost pity Verizon for bringing this to market.

Garmin 405.

I meant, this is Thomas Hawk.
http://flickr.com/photos/jakerome/2761314315/