plonk420

Member since: Jan 10th, 2006

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Criterion Collection's October Blu-ray release schedule includes Seven Samurai (Engadget HD)

Jul 17th 2010 9:59PM i wonder if they're using x264 yet for their blu-rays?

Hands-on with the Boxee Box (Engadget)

Jan 5th 2010 10:51PM someone just pointed out how similar to Boxxy this is spelled. i am now unhappy. :-/

Poor customer service earns DirecTV a lawsuit in Washington State (Engadget HD)

Dec 25th 2009 3:12AM is their service worse than Comcast's?

it took me 152 minutes and 6 calls (3 of which were hangups (4 if you count a useless modem reboot)) to (begrudgingly) setup a TC. a TC that they didn't even verify with me that the issue had been resolved before they cancelled it...

Ask Engadget HD: Best video encoding process to maximize quality & compatibility? (Engadget HD)

Dec 2nd 2009 2:48PM @plonk420

oh, but i tweak my settings by hand per encode... you're going to have inconsistent quality ... or waste space (which would bug me) if you don't hand tweak it :-P

Ask Engadget HD: Best video encoding process to maximize quality & compatibility? (Engadget HD)

Dec 2nd 2009 2:40PM uhm, x264 plus whatever handholding GUI you prefer (i seem to be in the group still holding on to the supposedly dying MeGUI)

any of the others have a nice suite of other tools that they keep up to date like MeGUI used to do?

Engadget's Black Friday giveaway, part eleven: win a 32GB Zune HD! (Engadget)

Nov 27th 2009 11:32PM so i herd you like mudkips?

Eyes-on LG's 15-inch OLED TV makes us want to punch an LCD (Engadget HD)

Sep 3rd 2009 3:46PM just NOW realizing LCD is crap? (well, outside of the INSANELY overpriced IPS)

i'm really looking foward to the Zune HD (probably the only oLED device i'll be able to afford for a while) if ONLY for seeing how good their implementation of a panel is and its performance vs video compression artifacts, response, etc...