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The Bill Day giveaway (part 2) - Office Ultimate 2007 {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 2:28PM This is a tough one, as I actually like a few Windows products, Xbox 360 is a big win for them, I like Live Search Mobile as well, as well as (dare I say it), Windows Mobile 6.1. I can just do so much with my 8525 that it always stuns people when I do a comparison to my other phones. Watching live TV or listening to streaming music seem to be very popular.
Microsoft issues response to 360 shortages {Joystiq}
Feb 16th 2008 1:14PM I wonder how much actually has to do with the death of HD-DVD as a format. There's many a rumor floating around here in Redmond that MS had been getting ready to change the BOM to include the HD-DVD drive. Could be that they started ramping up the factory, but then CES came and the format died. If you notice it's been mostly since CES that the consoles have been in limited demand.
Toshiba gearing up to drop HD DVD? {Engadget}
Feb 16th 2008 12:32AM My whole problem with this thing is the lack of common sense in the whole format war. It became more of who was the most savvy at marketing their format. While I can't really fault Sony for being more business savvy it doesn't really have anything to do with the consumer. Once again Sony is telling the consumer what is best for them instead of listening to the consumer in what they want. The HD-DVD format itself was instituted by the same group that brought us DVD, ensuring that that the format was backwards compatible. If looked at objectively from all aspects (price, features, etc.) it would seem that HD-DVD was the superior choice. I myself thought that Walmart offering a $199 player during the Christmas season was going to seal the deal for them (perfect purchase price for middle America "gadgety" Christmas gift). I fully expected Toshiba to sell loads of players. What I didn't account for was the consumer confusion over the formats and basically everyone decided to sit it out until some real progress was made as to who was going to be the winner. Personally I think it's Toshiba's lack of a decent marketing machine that lost them this war, they just didn't seem to put up much of a fight where as Sony went in slugging from the beginning.
Win an LCD HDTV, Xbox 360, and plenty of Old Spice {Engadget HD}
Feb 5th 2008 5:02PM Ahoy!
Win a Philips 42PFL5603D 42-inch 1080p HDTV! {Engadget HD}
Feb 5th 2008 5:00PM I just got me a 50 inch panasonic plasma, but I would be more than happy to take this off your hands as well!
CES 2008 ultimate swag bag giveaway: like a Xmas stocking in January {Engadget}
Jan 11th 2008 3:27PM My favorite device showcased at CES this year is probably the wireless HDMI stuff from Philips and Belkin. Pretty neat stuff.
Opera Mini 4 goes beta {Engadget Mobile}
Jun 19th 2007 5:44PM Deepfish looks almost exactly the same (played around with it today). Worked pretty good actually.
Xbox 360 fall update in a few pictures {Engadget}
Oct 31st 2006 2:48PM I was excited to see the media streaming. This means that now I can schedule my PC to go to my TiVo and download shows from it (we have our TiVo in the back bedroom since Comcast provides a DVR for our main tv) in the middle of the night and then use the Xbox360 to go and connect to the PC to stream those files. Very cool. If anyone is interested in how to do that you need to have DVRAnywhere installed on your computer. It's an Addon from Orb. It'll even convert the files from the TiVo format for you.
Engadget's relaunch giveaways: some Slingboxes {Engadget}
Sep 21st 2006 11:05AM Eureka
MyVu Personal Media Player: LCD goggles for the iPod {Engadget}
Jan 13th 2006 2:15PM I've been playing with one of these things the last couple of days. The pics is OK, kind of like watching a normal 13 inch television about 6 feet away or so. Not a whole lot spectacular going on here. What I find intersting is the form factor and the price. The form factor is nice, and actually feels like it will withstand some of the rigors of being a mobile tv junkie. All in all not bad, and for the price may be worth it. I'm sure just like the rest of the net, pr0n will push this even further.
