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Engadget HD Podcast 156 - 09.22.2009

Tue, Sep 22 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts It's been a really slow week in news, but we got together with the Ustream crowd to talk about some HD. Whether it's over an open data pipe, walled garden marketplace, networked Blu-ray player, or an all-consuming media tank, having choices for getting entertainment into your eyeballs and eardrums is a good thing. With that in mind, we talk about the FCC's first steps towards 'net neutrality, Zune Marketplace content playback on MCE, VUDU on LG's BD390, and Popcorn...

Engadget HD Podcast 149 - 08.05.2009

Wed, Aug 5 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsAs we edge up towards podcast 150, we're not planning any kind of celebratory special; but that doesn't mean we can't have fun along the way! Break out the Zima and Jolly Ranchers as we go over some follow-up to last week's MCE-rich podcast, and then get into topsy-turvy strangeness. Giving Moxi a hard time and taking a "we'll see" approach to Vudu are nothing new, but when was the last time we handed out kudos to TiVo and BD-Live? Listen in and find out for yourself...

Engadget HD Podcast 148 - 07.29.2009

Thu, Jul 30 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsThings are starting to get interesting again in the world of Windows Media Center now that Windows 7 is done, so we spent some time talking about what's new and what it will take to get people to use it. According to the HD Guru there is a new king in town and it's Panny's latest plasma, but who to believe? You'll have to have a listen to see where you land. Last up we talk a little Blu-ray and about the on going format war in China as well as the latest Michael Bay IMAX...

Engadget HD Podcast 147 - 07.22.2009

Wed, Jul 22 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsWe've got a very special treat for you on the podcast this week, joining the usual crew are Robert Heron and Patrick Norton of the show HDNation. After discussing the new show we dive right in, with plenty of discussion around Toshiba's Blu-ray plans, the problems of BD-Live and why Blu-ray has such a bad reputation in certain circles. There's also a few tidbits about the Media Center features spotted coming to Windows Home Server, what to expect from On Demand Online...

Engadget HD Podcast 146 - 07.15.2009

Wed, Jul 15 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsThere's a good spread of topics on the podcast this week, while staying light on the HTPC, Blu-ray and broadcast news. What does that leave? For starters, a bunch of news under the streaming, online and download headings. Continuing the theme of news from unexpected places, TiVo popped up twice in this week's show; unfortunately, no news about a revamped, mind-blowing new model or service. We saved our favorite stuff for the end of the show, as we trumpeted plasma over...

Engadget HD Podcast 145 - 07.08.2009

Wed, Jul 8 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsWait -- an Engadget HD podcast without any Media Center news? There, there now, MCE-folk -- we manage to fit in some good stuff that's at least HTPC related and Ben tips his hand about Microsoft's new DRM scheme. We also manage to get behind a couple of scenes this week -- Steve talks about his trip inside Dolby's lab and Ben talks about how to get a set-top box situated behind equipment closet doors. Join us on our hour-plus romp through the week's news and come clean...

Engadget HD Podcast 144 - 07.01.2009

Wed, Jul 1 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsGood times this week as we discuss the future fallout of The Pirate Bay and illegal downloads in general. But that isn't the only fun we had as we also continued our Harris Poll talk, which we finally cut short since we are just sick of it. That doesn't mean we didn't continue talking Blu-ray though, as we covered more polls, including our own, and the latest Blu-ray player from Oppo. Finally we were all over the map on topics such as Hulu and the PS3, touchscreen...

Engadget HD Podcast 143 - 06.25.2009

Thu, Jun 25 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsWe're back with a vengeance this week -- tune in as we plow through a dozen of topics, each more riveting than the previous one. Well... okay, maybe not "riveting," but we did find some highs and lows from entirely unexpected sources this week. And no, despite Harris Interactive's poll that ran through the interwebs this week, we're not putting Blu-ray on deathwatch just yet; so you'll just have to listen in and find the surprising bits for yourself.Get the...

Engadget HD Podcast 142 - 06.20.2009: Macrovision's Richard Bullwinkle

Sat, Jun 20 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsEveryone likes to predict the future right? So when Richard Bullwinkle of Macrovision wanted to share his vision of the future of TV once it has converged with the internet, we decided to record it for your listening pleasure. We actually think you'll be surprised to hear how much his, and Macrovision's, predictions of the future have in common with our own. Without giving too much away, we'll just say that it isn't anything like Yahoo's. Get the podcast [iTunes]...

Engadget HD Podcast 141 - 06.17.2009

Wed, Jun 17 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts After last week's sleeper of a show we were excited to jump in and talk up interesting topics like Managed Copy, the digital transition and the latest do it all media device from Popcorn Hour. As you've come to expect, we took questions via comments, the phone, and the live chat; so don't hesitate to let us know how you feel, any way you like. UPDATE: Looks like we have some gremlins in our MP3 version of the podcast, but the other formats should be fine. Please bear...

Engadget HD Podcast 140 - 06.10.2009

Wed, Jun 10 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts A pretty light week in HD news, but the three of us put our heads together and with a little help from our Ustream chatroom, managed to talk for an hour. There's definitely great gear for HT enthusiasts, including Panasonic's new V10 NeoPDP panels and Paradigm's SUB 25 monster subwoofer; either (or both!) of which would be a great way to kick off TV's post-analog broadcast era this weekend. If the world doesn't explode into ones and zeros on Friday, we'll be back next...

Engadget HD Podcast 139 - 06.04.2009

Thu, Jun 4 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts According the comments from last week it seems we've really hit our stride incorporating uStream into the show and we have to say it makes it much more fun. If there were two themes with week it would be the Xbox 360 as a media hub and Hulu. Some might argue that this doesn't have anything to do with HD, but it does. Once again Richard joined us this week, which is always a good thing, but it is even better when we talk anything gamer related, because lord know the rest...

Engadget HD Podcast 138 - 05.28.2009

Thu, May 28 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts Mea culpas all around after last week's show -- not our finest hour, but we're not willing to give up on Ustream altogether just yet. Apparently, we're not alone, as several people joined us live this week while we got back up on the Ustream horse again. We get grumpy with Microsoft's efforts this week, and somehow still maintain hope for a Media Center + Windows Home Server future. Don't confuse us with sunny, happy wall-people, though -- there's plenty of grousing to...

Engadget HD Podcast 137 - 05.20.2009

Wed, May 20 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts Good times this week as the oldest editor for Engadget HD finally joins your old favorites, unfortunately this new addition also introduced some technical difficulties so we had to work extra hard to clean up the audio. But despite our hard work we're afraid you're still going to be able to notice things didn't turn out quite right. We also continue to try out broadcasting the show on uStream and honestly think we've almost figured it out. When we do have it down, we'll...

Engadget HD Podcast 136 - 05.14.2009

Thu, May 14 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts We're sticking with our format of taking live comments from the Ustream chat at the end of each topic. Big news on the HTPC front this week, as a way to get CableCARDs working with non-OEM supplied systems was unveiled and we even went through the process of getting the job done. If DIY HTPC tech isn't geeky enough for you, you'll probably like our HD 101 explanation of some of the alphabet soup in HDTV. We also talk about some gear that's passed through our hands...

Engadget HD Podcast 135 - 05.06.2009

Wed, May 6 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts Armed with some more interesting topics we once again try and broadcast the Engadget HD Podcast live via Ustream. Luckily this week we took a little different approach and did our best to ignore the chat until after we said what we had to say. Ultimately we think it turned out pretty good and are leaning towards making it a permanent part of the show -- but we'll wait on that decision until after we've read your comments. The highlight of the show this week was the DIY...

Engadget HD Podcast 134 - 04.29.2009

Wed, Apr 29 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts This week was a little slow for news, so we decided to try out a live chat room in USTREAM alongside our podcast, just to keep the degree of difficulty up. Between weaving in and out of conversations, we had a lot of talk about DVRs -- DirecTV is working on adding features, Moxi is lowering the barrier to entry, and TiVo is letting the competition catch up. The old red vs. blu topic came up for the first time in a long time, but Warner's Red2Blu trade-in program is more...

Engadget HD Podcast 133 - 04.22.2009

Wed, Apr 22 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts Lots of news hit the wire just before we started recording so we once again invited Nilay from the Engadget Podcast to join us and help out. He had an early peak at the Amazon HD streaming and provided some good insight, from an HD snob's point of view. Lucky for us he stuck around for the entire show when we also covered other VOD alternatives, the new Moxi HD DVR and a TiVo survey. Next we kinda struggled through some apparently unexciting Blu-ray news, but pushed on...

Engadget HD Podcast 132 - 04.15.2009

Wed, Apr 15 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts A little bit of a slow news week didn't keep us from finding plenty to talk about in this week's show. There were plenty of comments, both of the written and voicemail variety to cover, so we spend a good portion of the podcast covering what's in the listeners' hearts and minds; hopefully Time Warner cable will do the same and rethink its capping plans. We both got some good gear in for review this week, so we spend some time talking about our impressions of the Cisco...

Engadget HD Podcast 131 - 04.08.2009

Wed, Apr 8 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts We start off talking about why a singular definition of what qualifies as "HD" is hard -- if not impossible -- to come up with in our ever-branching media landscape. One thing that definitely isn't HD, though, is E1 Entertainment's Blu-ray production of Gulliver's Travels, which cropped, zoomed and color-shifted the title in ways that just leave us scratching our heads; quite the opposite of Disney's Snow White Blu-ray release, which will get the full platinum treatment...

Engadget HD Podcast 130 - 04.02.2009

Thu, Apr 2 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts Another day of waiting never killed everyone and a good thing too as we had a few technical difficulties that prevented us from delivering the show on time. Never the less, the big news this week was from Netflix and the fact that evidently Blu-ray has finally grown popular enough that the cost of renting them is impacting the bottom line and thus it gets passed on to the consumer -- surprised, we're not. Of course this spun off a much larger debate of the event's...

Engadget HD Podcast 129 - 03.25.2009

Wed, Mar 25 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts There's plenty to talk about this week, and we kick things off with a lot of internet-related discussion -- Apple turned loose HD video purchases, Amazon has some HD TV show sales, and Netflix opened up its Facebook Connect program. After we ramp this all up to the long-term future of TV, we come back to reality with Windows Home Server's inclusion of Media Center features -- while not to the level of a true headless Media Center PC, this move might foreshadow (maybe...

Engadget HD Podcast 128 - 03.18.2009

Wed, Mar 18 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts The spring is always a slow time for HD news, so with less to talk about, it gives us more time to go into detail. We start off the show with a twist on an old tip, which is to tune your TV for both picture quality as well as energy consumption. Next up, we talk a little EHX 2009, what was there, and what wasn't. The most interesting things at the show this year were Media Center related, so there is more than a little in there if you like that sort of thing. Finally we...

Engadget HD Podcast 127 - 03.10.2009

Wed, Mar 11 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts Not so many topics this week, but we still manage to wring an hour of HD-talk out with lots of internet TV. We go around on ZillionTV, and we're not really sure of what's in store or how exactly it will be implemented, but we don't see a good case for it anyways. Clearly, lots of people are "interested" in internet TV, and we didn't need an analyst to tell us that -- the question will be in how much it costs and what exactly is delivered to end users. Oh, and quality of...

Engadget HD Podcast 126 - 03.08.2009

Tue, Mar 10 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts In this special edition of the Engadget HD Podcast we sit down for an all Media Center, all the time show with the new host of the Custom Integrator show, Derek R Flickinger -- or Dr. Flick as we like to call him. Derek isn't just a Media Center enthusiast, in fact he does this for a living and could quite possibly be the biggest Media Center fanboy ever -- loves himself some HDMI too. His new show is all about how to be a professional Media Center integrator and he's...

Engadget HD Podcast 125 - 03.04.2009

Wed, Mar 4 Listen

Filed under: Podcasts If you've already had enough lamenting over Pioneer exodus from the plasma industry, then you might want to skip this episode completely -- or check out or ACC version so you can easily skip the boring parts. But we'll warn you, you'll be missing some good stuff as ol' friend Ryan Block joins us to clear up once and for all what his predictions for the future of plasma are, and how they differ from ours. But Ryan doesn't just join us for one or two segments, but for the...

Engadget HD Podcast 124 - 02.25.2009

Wed, Feb 25 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsThis week, Ben and Steve soldier on without Engadget's consigliere, Nilay. Plenty of streaming news this week involving Hulu disappearing from Boxee, our how-to on automating downloads to a Media Center PC, March Madness coming into your cubicle courtesy Silverlight, and Netflix's plans for a streaming-only option next year. VUDU is selling HD and HDX content, not just renting it; and even though we disagree on the importance of this step, it is a step in the right...

Engadget HD Podcast 123 - 02.18.2009

Wed, Feb 18 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsIt is once again a sad week for HD fans. It's bad enough that progress in the DTV transition was delayed by 4 months, but now our worst fears have come true and Pioneer is officially getting out of the TV business. To help us cry over the occasion, Nilay Patel from the Engadget Podcast has joined us and he just might be a bigger plasma fanboy then us -- and that is saying something. We eventually do move on though and try to decide what a Blu-ray early adopter is. Then...

Engadget HD Podcast 122 - 02.11.2009

Tue, Feb 10 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsPlenty of things happened this past week in HD, but one thing that won't be happening is a February DTV transition; we gripe about the fourth month delay and wonder what our politicians were thinking. The bad news kept coming as rumors of Pioneer's exit from the TV market swirled this week. It'll be sad if Kuros fade to black, but we'll keep hope alive that some manufacturers will still cater to crazies who pursue ultimate image quality. That might fit in well with the...

Engadget HD Podcast 121 - 02.04.2009

Wed, Feb 4 Listen

Filed under: PodcastsIf you can never get enough of the Engadget HD podcast, you're going to love this week because with some help from a special guest we managed to record the longest podcast we've ever done. There's some great stuff in there though, like some in depth analysis of the latest Netflix news, opinions regarding the DTV transition delay, and eventually an early look at the SageTV HD Theater review. In regards to the last part, we had some help from our friend Brent Evans from...

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