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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.]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/engadget-hd-podcast-152-08-26-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/engadget-hd-podcast-152-08-26-2009/Aug 27th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/engadget-hd-podcast-152-08-26-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/engadget-hd-podcast-152-08-26-2009/
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!]]>Aug 28th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/engadget-hd-podcast-152-08-26-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/engadget-hd-podcast-152-08-26-2009/250W?!? 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? :)]]>Aug 31st 2009 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/engadget-hd-podcast-152-08-26-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/engadget-hd-podcast-152-08-26-2009/
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
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