Engadget HD Podcast 152 - 08.26.2009
By Trent Wolbe 
posted August 26th 2009 2:24PM
posted August 26th 2009 2:24PM
Another week gone by and we're that much closer to CEDIA 2009, but the big news this week is the PS3 Slim and its tweaked HDMI capabilities. Up next is more Media Center rumors and speculation plus the future of Pioneer in the post-KURO era. Finally we wrap up with some interesting weekly poll results and Ask EHD responses, plus plenty of football discussion with Jerry Jones' massive HDTV problems plus the college and NFL regular season just around the corner.Get the podcast
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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh, Steven Kim, Richard Lawler
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Program
00:01:00 - Comments from Engadget HD Podcast 151 - 08.19.2009
00:07:49 - PS3 Slim bitstreams Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA audio, at last
00:16:00 - Microsoft's CEDIA event September 9th to reveal what's new in Media Center
00:23:20 - Media Center DISH Network tuner is on hold indefinitely
00:35:51 - Pioneer plots a Kuro-less future in the home theater market
00:39:25 - Poll: Which HDTV feature are you least concerned about?
00:45:42 - Dallas Cowboys HD scoreboard hanging too low?
00:52:46 - Ask Engadget HD: Who has the best HD video on-demand?
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last couple weeks the zune link has not worked.
Ben,
You're killing me with the pronunciation of Hauppauge. Hauppauge is a town in Long Island, New York. It is an Indian name. I've heard it pronounced different ways growing up but yours is way off.
I've heard it pronounced "hop-hog" or "hop-ogg" or "ha-pawg" or "haw-pawg"
not ha-paj
From the Happauge.com website:
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/faqusb.htm#HOPHOG
How do you pronounce Hauppauge?
Hauppauge is a town in NY on Long Island. Hauppauge is pronounced HOP-HOG. The American Indians dubbed the area around the headwaters of the Nissequogue (NISS-I-QUOG) River Hauppauge; it means, “overflowed land” in the Algonquian language. Hauppauge boasts a large industrial park, home of many well-known companies.
There is no excuse for not knowing who James Cameron is. None.
Ben:
First give up on Managed Copy. While its great and can give us some of the solutions to the B.S. of DRM, it'll never happen. I don't want to spend another year of listening to saying "WHEN MANAGED COPY COMES OUT, ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED", like you did with the idea of Tru2Way. You said the following numerous times! "WHEN TRUE 2 WAY COMES OUT, ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED".
PS: Tampa Sucks. Go Giants!
re: PS3 Slim-
250W?!? The new model pulls around 70W playing Blu-rays and is much quieter than the ‘phat’.. and still doesn’t have an external power supply like that other console.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/playstation-3-slim-review/#continued
Also- Isn’t it time manuf. made joint Bluetooth and IR remotes to help in a transition to BT?
As Steven said, the only thing left for remotes is a standard protocol, which would be easy to define, as its just a bunch of keycodes over BT-HID, do you guys wanna work on it? :)
While I agree that the HD-PVR & Sage solution isn't the equivalent of a dedicated DirecTV or Dish tuner, I think some other reasons people are switching are:
VMC has flagged OTA or ClearQAM recordings as DRM encumbered, MS has abandoned its v2 extenders, TV Pack was a joke/nightmare, you need to come up with workaround after workaround to do things, because MS has to keep the content providers happy, and now there is all this tuner delay/cancellation news, etc... I don't use VMC, so I'm sure the faithful could come up with a few more. A former MCE/VMC developer or two have switched as well in the recent past.
OTOH, Sage has pretty much delivered on every rumor that has come down the pike. It's v1 extenders still work fine (and will continue to), and the HD200 is one of the best extender/media players made (Blu-ray from a folder anyone?). About the only thing you can complain about is the UI (and that's only about 50% for the Sage community).
Sage/Serial Changing of an STB/HDPVR...while *slightly* more complicated, it's a perfect solution (and lets face it, VMC isn't plug & play either...you've got to configure CableCard or the phantom satellite tuners as well)...and at the risk of being called a blasphemer, DirecTV HD channels recorded by a PVR500 S-Video connection look better than you would think they would...if you have more HD STB's than HD-PVR's.
PF