Joe

Member since: Jun 8th, 2006

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Win a super rare signed 300-Edition Xbox 360 Elite and 300 HD DVD! (Engadget)

Jul 31st 2007 5:14PM Best scene was definitely when the hunchback was in the Persian king's brothel/tent. That was hilarious.

DVD Jon whips up a way to activate iPhone without AT&T (Engadget)

Jul 4th 2007 2:02AM What is Google, and how do you use it?

Gates says TV is doomed, Internet where it's at (Download Squad)

Jan 28th 2007 1:07AM Even with a 1.5 Mbps connection your still pressing the limit.

"In general, an HD signal in the current standard of compression known as MPEG-2 gets encoded into 19.4 Megabits per second. That is several times the rate of standard-definition channels, which are typically coded at 2.5 to 5 Mbps." - Multichannel News (http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6400524.html)

Those numbers are for cable television, but it would probably be pretty comparable because any tv service would have to similarly compress channels.

Even considering that consumers could get a slightly faster connection (due to bandwidth limits artificially put in place by ISPs), you have to remember that for many connections (like DSL) speed also depends on how much the network is being used. Just like normal phone service, DSL is actually sold beyond its capacity. If everyone using a companies DSL lines was concurrently maxing out their connection (with, say television) they wouldn't get near the amount of bandwidth that their service plan was supposed to provide. This isn't a problem currently because its extremely unlikely every DSL subscriber for a company would be maxing out their connection at one given point in time. However, its much more likely with the addition of television, because its used much more often and takes up more bandwidth.

Gates says TV is doomed, Internet where it's at (Download Squad)

Jan 27th 2007 6:36PM "What's stopping this all from happening immediately?"

You forgot bandwidth. People are already talking about how services like Bittorrent and YouTube put significant strain on the internet. If TV ever fully migrates to the internet, more bandwidth (especially on the end user side of things, I mean there's no way your getting HD video with a 200 KB/s connection) will be neccessary.

What did you buy yesterday? (Download Squad)

Nov 25th 2006 6:51PM $20 200gb Maxtor HD
$17 2 Speaker and Subwoofer (Altec Lansing)

Sony's Stringer reveals "obsession" over Xbox 360 (Engadget)

Jun 8th 2006 7:14PM Does it make anyone else angry that all of the links on Engadget stories are searches? If you put a link on XB360, I don't want to search your site. I want to see the official page, especially when you have followups on new product releases. Its a really low-down way of keeping viewers at your site.