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Good point on the HD DVD/Blu Ray, agree totally with the both great sucessors bit (I myself got a HD DVD player... what can I say? I'm a poor student, £100 was all I had).

Thanks =], interesting discussion.]]>Jan 30th 2008 11:55AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Jan 30th 2008 2:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Jan 30th 2008 11:57PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Jan 30th 2008 12:22PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge%2C_New_York

"At the headwaters of the Nissequogue River it derives its name from the Native American term for 'overflowed land'."

I used to live in Hauppauge, NY and there was another translation. It was thought that it was Native American for "sweet waters", so much so that there is a restaurant there with Sweet Waters as its name.

There you have it.]]>Jan 30th 2008 1:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/
Anyway, I'd offer myself as that "red balance" that you talked about, but I don't see where that would matter. I think that the most that Toshiba can do at this point is to go into maintenance mode to support HD DVD as a legacy format. Unless Toshiba does something completely unexpected and innovative to spur sales (by something other than a Super Bowl ad), I don't see how it can recover. So be it.

As for reviews, how about reviewing one of those new dual-format drives for PCs, like the LG model GGC-H20LI? People who are looking to building a high-def HTPC might be interested to see what you think about that, especially now that they're less than $300.]]>Jan 30th 2008 1:49PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/
http://www.jakeludington.com/hddvd/2...omparison.html
http://www.xyhd.tv/2006/12/reviews/w...y-with-hd-dvd/1

I know its a still picture vs motion but the quality is pretty close (and much closer than it should be imo). to me the quality is good enough if they can get the user interface right (netflix subscription model) the quality is good enough that it could take over for my netflix with hd-dvd and bluray (which has been god awful as of late).

I look forward to seeing a massive "roundup" where you compare vudu, appletv, xbox live and screenshots of all of them (compared to hd-dvd or bluray).]]>Jan 30th 2008 5:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Jan 30th 2008 8:27PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Jan 30th 2008 10:16PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/
Funny you should mention about the pictures of you guys... I couldn't find any images either when I looked about a year ago... was gonna suggest at CES that you take a group shot... I guess I'll check the Flickr page.

This might not be an Engadget HD-worthy review, but I keep looking at my lame HTIB setup and Ben's mention of the Onkyo 605 has me looking at my tax return. But I would like to hear Ben's take on the Samsung HT-AS720 as compared to other audio systems... (if no review, just a few words on the 'cast would suffice?).]]>Jan 30th 2008 10:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/
you say you want a guest hd-dvd supporter, but i think at this point, you'll end up with someone who's either stubborn, a blind zealot, or maybe not playing with a full deck.

Hell, even i prefered hd dvd a couple months ago, but you gotta be reasonable.]]>Jan 31st 2008 11:20AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Jan 31st 2008 11:33AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/
Right on. I have one and love it. Has played every movie so far (It really just streams the data to PowerDVD Ultra). PDVD 3516 has given me no trouble (Some have had problems with it: AVS). From closing the tray to video is about 10-15 seconds. I integrated it into SageTV pretty seamlessly, remote codes included.

The podcast is great, guys. I thought the "regular" Engadget podcast was excruciating to listen to...gee you say there's 10 new cell phones out this week? It was like a CTIAcast.

PaulF]]>Jan 31st 2008 12:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Feb 1st 2008 8:24AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/
Firstly I already had an Xbox 360 so HD-DVD was the most affordable format with the extremely reasonable HD-DVD add-on. I use DVD Profiler to catalogue all my DVD's which allows you graph your collection. This showed me that around half my collection were from Warner (who at the time, although neutral were favoring HD-DVD with better content and exclusive titles), next was Universal (Red - around 25%) followed by Fox (Blu) and Paramount (Red) in joint 3rd. The other studios were way down with only a handful of titles owned from each. So based on my personal buying trend over the last 10 years, as well as cost to buy into a format, HD-DVD was the obvious choice. My intention was to then buy a dual player when they became more affordable and stable.

I can't help wondering that people get so wrapped up in internet chatter and fanboy talk, as well as twisted facts from both camps, that they fail to sit back and work out which format is truely (or was since the warner switch) better for them, whether it be Blu-ray or HD-DVD.]]>Feb 1st 2008 10:22AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Feb 4th 2008 12:56PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/
My question/request: I use a PSP to listen to my podcasts, and I noticed that I was not able to use the RSS feed to get the podcasts. I can do this with other weblogs inc. podcasts, but not yours. Would it be possible to make the changes to your XML schema that would allow this.

Thanks]]>Feb 4th 2008 8:13PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/Feb 4th 2008 10:09PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/30/engadget-hd-podcast-070-01-30-2008/10 things (you must try) not to say whilst watching someone else’s HD setup

1 I didn’t know this was available on VHS
2 I’ve seen this one at home; only it was slightly clearer and it had ‘you tube’ in the corner of the screen
3 i didn’t know that there was a lego version of this film
4 i never knew that DVD players could downscale
5 I've got the urge to watch a movie on my phone
6 I see you’ve used the ‘S.Wonder Calibration Company’
7 on my copy the credits are in Helvetica not Wingdings
8 if we’re going to have the Klingon audio track, I'm going to need subtitles
9 I see your amp goes up to 11
10 (on leaving) thanks, from now on HD will only ever mean ‘horse dump’
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