Engadget HD Podcast 130 - 04.02.2009

Another day of waiting never killed everyone and a good thing too as we had a few technical difficulties that prevented us from delivering the show on time. Never the less, the big news this week was from Netflix and the fact that evidently Blu-ray has finally grown popular enough that the cost of renting them is impacting the bottom line and thus it gets passed on to the consumer — surprised, we're not. Of course this spun off a much larger debate of the event's impact on the internet TV ecosystem and where are we headed? Eventually we move on from talking up downloads and talk a little Blu-ray. Like the new Samsung player, another interesting poll and Microsoft's tight ties with HD DVD. Speaking of Microsoft, we talk a little codec mess, but eventually move on to some miscellaneous stories like TBS-HD stretching, DirecTV's iPhone app and a HDTV's energy consumption.

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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh, Steven Kim

Producer: Trent Wolbe

Program
00:00:38 – Comments from Engadget HD Podcast 129 – 03.25.2009
00:19:32 – Netflix raising rates for Blu-ray subscribers by around 20 percent
00:26:11 – Is internet TV the key to à la carte?
00:39:14 – ZillionTV adds The Weinstein Company films to its streaming library
00:42:04 – Blockbuster OnDemand coming to TiVo
00:46:35 – Is Netflix PS3-bound, too?
00:50:32 – Samsung's 2009 Blu-ray player lineup officially priced
00:52:10 – Samsung BD-P1600 hands-on
00:53:33 – Poll: Have you talked anyone into going Blu?
00:54:43 – Microsoft to Toshiba: with HD DVD, we go down together
00:56:50 – Will Windows 7's integrated codec support cut off third party solutions?
01:03:35 – TBS-HD gives the stretching a little break
01:04:28 – DirecTV iPhone app now available
01:08:30 – California TV energy efficiency proposal details revealed

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