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Can we please stop calling this anaglyph crap "3D", now that there are actual full color alternatives? This is some "ColorCode" Amber/Blue stuff, wich is just as bad as Red/Green or Red/Turquoise. Anything that does not use polarized filter glasses or LCD shutter glasses should not be allowed to call itself 3D.
I know it's confusing, but there's still a typo: "We do wish Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD ***HR***..." (Not MA. MA is already included)

Dolby at least came up with a different name for their lossy and lossless high-def codecs, but DTS grouped them together under the DTS-HD moniker. So it's:

Dolby AC3 DTS: standard codec

Dolby Digital Plus (DD+) DTS-HD High Resolution (HR): high-definition lossy

Dolby TrueHD DTS-HD Master Audio (MA): high-definition lossless
Awful.

10 minutes in, I was longing to watch "Mars Attacks" again.

20 minutes in, I was longing for "They Live".

After that, I was just annoyed by this miserable failure.
What about people who transitioned by getting a new TV, with a DTV tuner? Are those included in the blue section?
Actually, the Blu-ray content will go from one 1080p24 stream to two 1080p24 streams, with the second one being differentially encoded from the first one.

The HDMI link will go from 1920x1080p24 (pixel clock 74.25 MHz) to 1920x2205p24 (pixel clock 148.5 MHz), so the bandwidth requirement will not be more than 1920x1080p60 (also 148.5 MHz pixel clock)
I'd like one. By the way, do we know if this will be the Red/Turquoise, Red/Green or Amber/Blue kind of anaglyph?
It's actually a DVD and BluRay *recorder*, not a player. And 1366x768 is plenty for a 20", how close do you need to sit?
The screen has a native resolution of 2560x1080, which means you can watch your 16:9 and 1.85:1 1080p content without scaling. For 2.35:1 content at 1080p, it currently needs to upscale from about 1920x810 to 2560x1080.

Hopefully there will some day be a 64:27 aspect ratio extension to encode movies anamorphically on 1080p, then it would only have to be horizontally upscaled from 1920x1080 to 2560x1080.
No, the movie on a blu-ray is stored in a 16:9 1080p frame, with the black bars.

And, yes, it would be a great idea to allow 1080p frames in anamorphic 4:3 and 64:27 aspect ratios as well. This would allow to store 1.33:1 and 2.40:1 movies in more pixels than with the current 16:9 frame.
I think it's a decent size for a normal living room. With it's 56" diagonal at 64:27(erm, "21:9"), it shows a 44" picture at 16:9 and 36" picture at 4:3, when set to pillarbox (as it should be).

Anything larger, and you get into home theater room territory, where most people would install an constant height projector system.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm looking for a pair of quality headphones that aren't seemingly made of glass. I'm an avid BMXer which causes me to frequently bash on any type of technology that joins me for my daily riding. I've been through the higher quality headsets in the Skullcandy line as these are supposed to be built for "abuse," which is laughable. I cant wear earbuds or canal buds, as my large ears seem to have a repelling property upon anything that sits in them. Wired or Bluetooth doesn't really matter, but I need something that can hold up to taking a few hits every now and again. I'm trying to keep 'em under $150. Thanks!"

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