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Ask Engadget HD: Should the FCC kill DTV for better technology? {Engadget HD}
Nov 15th 2009 1:31PM Sure free wireless internet may sound great on paper, but I doubt it would work well in practice. 20mbps might sound like a lot until everybody and their brother is tieing it up to watch TV over the internet. Also you have to take into consideration that television broadcast right now is only one way. Even if they could make it a two way broadcast, how do you propose that your little wireless device will get a signal back to a broadcast tower that could be as far as 20-30 miles away? That and if you are that far away from a broadcast tower and can even communicate with it, I suspect the latency (just like satellite internet) will kill you.
Netflix hitting internet-capable Sony BRAVIA sets today {Engadget HD}
Nov 14th 2009 5:25PM It seems as though Netflix is finding it's way on all internet connected devices. I just hope the day will come that it his the iPhone OS. Apple probably wouldn't allow it in the app store, but stranger things have happened.
Gigaware adapter brings HD Radio to iPod touch and iPhone for $80 {Engadget}
Nov 9th 2009 1:34PM I'd be more excited about this if there were more than 2 stations that actually broadcast HD Radio in my area. One of them is an NPR station and the other is a classic rock station.. No subs on either channel, and the classic rock station doesn't even display the song information right most of the time. With the economy in the toilet, most of the local stations aren't even considering the new format, especially when they have to pay a $5,000 (somewhere in that range) royalty to iBiquity per year. With that said, who wants to pay $80 for an HD Radio attachment for a format that is having a hard time getting off the ground.. If you live in an area where only a couple of stations are broadcasting HD Radio, then it's really not worth it.
Off to see the Wizard? Netflix streaming the classic in HD today only {Engadget HD}
Oct 3rd 2009 9:16PM I almost forgot to mention that the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz was a technicolor flick from the get go. They even changed the color of Dorothy's slippers to ruby just to exploit this new fangled color process back in those days.
Off to see the Wizard? Netflix streaming the classic in HD today only {Engadget HD}
Oct 3rd 2009 9:09PM Even black & white in this movie aren't actually black & white. Technically they were, but they were colored to a sepia tone. For some odd reason for TV broadcast they reverted back to black & white.
Video: Drug raid turns into 9 hour Wii bowl-a-thon {Engadget}
Sep 23rd 2009 1:26PM Our American taxpayer dollars hard at Wii!
Google adds support for push Gmail via Exchange ActiveSync {Engadget}
Sep 23rd 2009 12:56PM When I set this up yesterday it was slower than death on crutches. To me this isn't a huge surprise as everybody and their brother were probably ravaging Google's Active Sync server all at once.. Well now things are much more speedy and I'm receiving emails with in a few seconds of being sent.
Now as for G-Push, I'd like to point out that this app and apps like it still have a place on the app store despite Google finally adding Gmail to Active Sync. This probably won't apply to most people, but you can't set up more than one Active Sync server on your iPhone / Touch. With that said if you are already using Active Sync outside of Google, you won't be able to set up Google's Active Sync. With that said G-Push just became a niche product for those people that can't make use of Google Active Sync.
TV calibration -- good for picture quality and the environment, says THX {Engadget HD}
Sep 2nd 2009 1:19PM I never thought about the greener aspect of adjusting my tv to THX standards. However when I got my Vizeo LCD home a couple of years back, I immediately popped in Planet of the Apes DVD to get to the THX optimizer. I've only bumped up the brightness just a bit more since. I guess I'll never know how environmentally unfriendly my TV was out of the box. LOL
VUDU's 1080p movie streaming goes live on LG Netcast HDTVs {Engadget HD}
Sep 2nd 2009 12:29PM Netcast? I wonder what Leo Laporte has to say about the branding of this tv since he calls his podcasts "netcasts".
Fox breaks the first rule, talks about Fight Club on Blu-ray {Engadget HD}
Sep 2nd 2009 12:27PM I wonder if they snuck in any unintended porn clips between frames. :-P~
