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TWC adds three more HD channels in Jamestown / Binghampton, NY (Engadget HD)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:11:31 GMT

Filed under: Cable , New content While Time Warner Cable has been boosting HD lineups in overcrowded areas of New York and New Jersey for a few months now, folks in the less traveled portions of NY have gone without. Granted, it's no onslaught of 50 , but we have received word that Disney HD, ABC Family HD and Toon Disney HD have just landed on EPGs in Jamestown, Binghampton, Corning and Elmira, NY...

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The BMW Museum's kinetic sculpture takes your brain to another dimension (Engadget)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:04:00 GMT

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Ready to have your gray matter softly stroked? Perhaps you should take a trip to BMW's recently opened museum in Munich, where a kinetic sculpture comprising 714 metallic balls suspended in air will soothe your weary mind. It's one of those things that's better seen than described, but if you can imagine a wave of undulating orbs that appear to weightlessly float, you'll...

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ATMC Cable acquires Tele-Media, 1,100 subscribers to be switched over (Engadget HD)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:28:18 GMT

Filed under: Cable North Carolina-based ATMC Cable has just acquired another local cable company, Tele-Media. The agreement will see "the majority of Tele-Media's cable television assets in Brunswick County" becomes ATMC's, and all areas currently served by Tele-Media (save for Bald Head Island) will soon be served by a new master. That means that just over 1,100 customers in the Bricklanding, Shell...

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ASUS intros DVB-T My Cinema-PE6300 PCIe TV tuner (Engadget HD)

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:56:00 GMT

Filed under: Tuners , OTA You're going to have to sit this one out, Americans -- unless you own a vacation cottage in Europe, that is. ASUS' latest PCIe TV tuner is aimed squarely at those in DVB-T territories, as the My Cinema-PE6300 hybrid card tunes both digital (DVB-T, obviously) and analog (PAL / NTSC) signals. There's also a hardware MPEG2 encoder to take some of the strain away from your CPU,...

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No DirecTV HD for Vista Media Center until 2010? (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:26:50 GMT

Filed under: Media PCs It has been three months since we received leaked confirmation that the yet to be officially announced DirecTV HD tuner for Vista Media Center (VMC) was part of an upcoming update code named Fiji (expected in October). The fact that so much time has passed and our sources still haven't actually received a tuner was really starting to bother us. So we got even more concerned...

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Gadget Lab Podcast #36: Wired's Summer Test, JVC Everio Camcorder, and Asus' U2E Ultralight (Wired)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:25:05 GMT

In this week's Wired Gadget Lab podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso talk about the new Olympic-themed Summer Test review site , which includes the best of the latest swimming and biking gear, among many other cool items.The new layout is sleek, easy to move around in, and full of content, but they'd still love some feedback on it, so let them know what you think. In addition, they'll...

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TWC brings a dozen HD channels to Kansas City, has SDV to thank (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:22:35 GMT

Filed under: Cable , New content Remember how we told you that switched digital video was enabling more and more cable carriers to add more HD channels? Case, meet point. Just days after Time Warner Cable implemented SDV in Kansas City (and ticked off more than a few CableCARD users), we've now found out why such a decision was made. As of now, twelve new high-def channels are at everyone's disposal,...

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HDTV Listings for July 5, 2008 (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:39:45 GMT

Filed under: ESPN-HD , HBO-HD , NBC , TNT-HD , Listings What we're watching tonight: NBC (1080i) brings U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials at 5 p.m. and U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials at 8 p.m. ESPN HD (720p) presents AFL playoffs with New York/Philadelphia at 7 p.m. TNT (1080i) presents NASCAR Sprint Cup series @ Daytona at 6:30 p.m. Cinemax (1080i) premieres Live Free or Die Hard at 10 p.m. Permalink...

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3D mammograms increase breast cancer detection by 23 percent (Engadget)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:29:43 GMT

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Scientists have developed stereo mammograms -- breast X-rays taken with special cameras and at multiple angles -- that they say can help them increase detection of breast cancer by 23-percent while decreasing false alarms by 46-percent. By overlaying images taken at different angles or using 3D glasses, Researchers at the Mayo clining say they can now see behind dense tissue...

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Poll: Do you own / plan to own an HTPC? (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:11:03 GMT

Filed under: Polls , Media PCs Okay, so we apologize for putting the cart before the horse here, but after checking out responses from a poll posted up late last month , this question came to mind. Do any of you out there actually own an HTPC? Do you plan to? With devices like the ZvBox gearing up to transfer your PC's desktop onto your HDTV, even the notion of a bedroom-based media center PC seems...

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Snailbot as slimy as real Snails (i4U)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

To copy animals to make robots is nothing new. MIT's Anette Hosoi is now looking at snails to get inspiration for one slimy Snailbot. The snailbot has moveable segments that ripple on top of a thin layer of synthetic snail sludge (mhm yummy!). Like...

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Verizon's FiOS TV expansions: July 5, 2008 (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:24:59 GMT

Filed under: Fiber Being a holiday week here in the USA, we didn't expect too many Verizon installers to be on the clock. Even still, Verizon announced that FiOS TV would be headed to three new locales this week. Two of the three are in New York (Rockville Centre and Northport on Long Island) while the other is in the Bay State (Stoughton). Given that Verizon just boosted the high-definition lineup...

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I4U Review Round-up: PNY GTX 260, iPhone headsets, Asus Eee PC 901 (i4U)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT

This week we reviewed for instance the new PNY GTX 260 Video Card. We gave the PNY GTX 260 an Editors' Choice Award. The PNY GTX 260 is a good performing video card that is currently strapped with a price a bit too expensive when compared to other offer...

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AT&T outlines $250 million network investment in Connecticut (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:52:04 GMT

Filed under: Industry , Fiber Given that we're still waiting for some tangible results from AT&T's half billion dollar fiber investment in the Carolinas , we wouldn't get our hopes too high for any sudden improvements in Connecticut . The carrier has announced plans to invest some $250 million in the Constitution State's wired and wireless networks, which should bring 3G access to more cell sites...

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Texas Instruments extends projector-based DLP chip warranty to 5 years (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:41:59 GMT

Filed under: Industry , Displays , DLP , Projector In a bid to assure you, the prospective customer, that Texas Instruments' DLP chip is "bullet-proof" (its word, not ours), said outfit is stretching the warranty on any single-chip DLP module to five full years. Of note, this announcement covers chips within education, business, and home theater projectors only, and each manufacturer will be responsible...

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Researchers boast of progress with printed electronics (Engadget)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:51:38 GMT

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets There's certainly no shortage of researchers working on printable electronics these days, but a group from the EU-funded CONTACT project is now boasting of a "major step" towards being able to print electronics on everyday materials. At the moment, they seem to be focused primarily on printing organic TFT displays directly onto glass plates, which apparently required the...

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Is Roku's Netflix Player living up to your standards? (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:40:52 GMT

Filed under: Other hardware , Set-top boxes , Internet This week's installment of How Would You Change over on Engadget Classic involves the first dedicated set-top-box to enable Netflix streaming right to your TV. Did you pony up $99 for one of these things? If so, head on over and let the world know if that was a good move. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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University of Hawaii games stay SD, for now (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:05:47 GMT

Filed under: Sports Warrior football fans will need to watch their next QB to put up incredible college numbers and proceed to a career as practice squad NFL QB in standard def for the next season or two. Local station KFVE/KHNL just doesn't see it being feasible to put its PPV University of Hawaii games in HD yet (although the local cable channel on Oceanic already shows high school games in HD)....

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iPhone 3G Line already started in NYC (i4U)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:27:32 GMT

A couple hours ago I wrote a story on the iPhone 3G launch and asked the question when the lines will start to build. I did not expect that Apple fans to start lining up already today one week before the iPhone 3G launch, but they did. Engadget interv...

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Denon releases 'me too' SYS-56HT 5.1 speaker system in Japan (Engadget HD)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:34:14 GMT

Filed under: Speakers We're typically envious of all the products that get rolled out to the Japanese market early or exclusively, but this is one case where we just don't feel like we're missing out on much. Denon has introduced the SYS-56HT 5.1-speaker system for Japan, and it just fails to get us excited. Of course, this assembly could pump out mind-blowingly-good sound, but somehow we doubt it's...

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