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1080p, 5.1 surround sound coming to Netflix Watch Instantly in 2010?

February 8th, 2010

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Netflix Watch Instantly fans could be due for a big upgrade, as CNET has heard the company will roll out 1080p and 5.1 surround sound later this year. No word on timing or any other details, but this could mean its moving to version 3 of Microsoft’s Silverlight streaming platform with its additional tweaks for adaptive streaming and hardware graphics acceleration. Also unknown is how much bandwidth would be necessary, but considering Microsoft already uses very similar technology for its 1080p Instant On videos on Zune Marketplace through the Xbox 360 while only requiring 3 Mbps and VUDU HDX 1080p videos only state a minimum of񏎔 Kbps, a massive jump in available bandwidth might not be necessary if you already get clear 720p video. The last big hurdle? How much content will be available that way, Gizmodo points out only about 6 percent of current offerings stream in HD we’ll be watching carefully if the pace picks up going forward.

1080p, 5.1 surround sound coming to Netflix Watch Instantly in 2010? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:Ǭ:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HDTV Listings for February 8, 2010

February 8th, 2010

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What we’re watching tonight:

CBS (1080i) has How I Met Your Mother at 8 p.m., Accidentally On Purpose at 8:30 p.m., Two and a Half Men at 9 p.m., The Big Bang Theory at 9:30 p.m. and CSI: Miami at 10 p.m.
Fox (720p) brings House at 8 p.m. and 24 at 9 p.m.
NBC (1080i) has Chuck at 8 p.m. and the season finale of Heroes at 9 p.m.
ABC (720p) has the The Bachelor at 8 p.m. and Castle at 10 p.m.
CW (1080i) airs One Tree Hill atň p.m. and Life Unexpected at 9 p.m.
TLC (1080i) has the season finale of Cake Boss at 9 p.m. and The Ultimate Cake Off at 10 p.m.
ABC Family (720p) has The Secret Life of the American Teenager at 8 p.m., Make It or Break It at 9 p.m. and Greek at 10 p.m.
FX (720p) has Damages at 10 p.m.
History (720p) has American Pickers at 9 p.m. and Pawn Star$ at 10 & 10:30 p.m.
Showtime (1080i) brings Secret Diary of a Call Girl at 10 p.m., State of the Union at 10:30 p.m. and La La Land at 11 p.m.
Travel (1080i) airs Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations at 10 p.m.
TNT (1080i) has an NBA doubleheader with Hornets/Magic at 8 p.m. and Spurs/Lakers at 10:30 p.m.
ESPN (720p) has a college basketball doubleheader with Villanova/West Virginia at 7 p.m. and Kansas/Texas at 9 p.m.
ESPN2 (720p) has a women’s college basketball doubleheader with North Carolina/Duke at 7 p.m. and Tennessee/Vanderbilt at 9 p.m.

HDTV Listings for February 8, 2010 originally appeared on Engadget HD on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Daily Dispatch: Scoble calls Siri the future of the web; FBI wants ISPs to record your activity

February 8th, 2010

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Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.

Why if you miss Siri you’ll miss the future of the Web (Scobleizer)

…No, the real secret sauce and huge impact on the future of the web is in the back end of this thing. A few months back the engineers at Siri gave me a secret look at how they stitch the APIs into the system. They’ve built a GUI that helps them hook up the APIs from, say, a new source like Foursquare, into the language recognition engine.

FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited (Cnet)

The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.

Foursquare Passes 1 Million Check-Ins A Week. Rate Doubled In The Past Month. (TechCrunch)

…Today, the company has some new big news to share via a tweet: they’re now doing over a million check-ins a week.

AT&T FamilyMap App Launches on App Store (AT&T)

…The AT&T FamilyMap app brings a streamlined approach to helping families stay up to speed on each other’s whereabouts by locating wireless devices within a shared family account. The app provides iPhone users with access to FamilyMap’s popular features, which until now, were only accessible through a computer.

Nearby places you might like… (Google Lat Long Blog)

…Now on Google Maps, you can get these types of suggestions automatically. Just look up a place that you know or love, and we'll provide a set of "Nearby places you might like.

Winter Olympics to demo lighting controlled by thoughts (CNN)

…A Canadian company has created what it calls the "largest thought-controlled computing installation." It's an experiment that lets visitors to the Olympics use their brainwaves to control the lights at three major landmarks in Canada, including Niagara Falls.

Lighter Side: Ashton Kutcher Pays Homage To Twitter With Tooter (TechCrunch)

…It’s up to you to decide how funny the sketch is, but it’s certainly an entertaining poke at the celeb’s love for the microblogging network and social media.

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The 3 best Super Bowl electronics ads

February 8th, 2010

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To me, the biggest surprise of yesterday’s Super Bowl—after New Orleans’ underdog victory, of course—was the plethora of ads (well, eight by my count, not including those for Web sites) for electronics products and services.

I can’t remember a Big Game where advertising for gear was quite so prominent. And, to me, all of the electronics ads were entertaining, even if few conveyed real news or even any hard information.

Here were my three favorites, with links so you can watch and judge them for yourselves:

1. Google: Parisian Love. A clever way to reinforce Google’s ubiquity in our lives, this ad was an extended video screen shot of a succession of searches, leading the searcher from visiting Paris to meeting a mate to marriage to parenthood. Where most Superbowl ads are frenetic and last for mere seconds, this ad offered a full minute of poetic calm. (Video after the jump.)

2. Flo TV: Spineless. Sure, an ad (in this case for Qualcomm’s mobile TV device) that portrays a male sports fan as captive to his girlfriend’s weekend shopping expedition is sexist and sophomoric. But to me, this added enough wit to forgive those themes and extract humor from its political incorrectness.

3. KGB: Sumo Wrestling. Introducing a new cell-phone service that answers your questions for 99 cents, this ad pitted a KGB user against a Web surfer, as both tried to get a Japanese translation of “I surrender” in time to avoid a pummelling.

(The ad succeeded, in that I couldn’t resist texting a question to KGB this morning. In less than two minutes, the service successfully identified Ollie Halsall, the dazzlingly brilliant guitarist in the ultra-obscure ’70s English band Patto, and even added the fact that he was also played keyboards and sang.)

I liked the other electronics ads, too, includingVizio’s ad for its suite of Internet apps, with its image of a still-singing Beyoncé being dropped into the maw by a giant mechanical arm; Intel’s lunchroom spot, in which a table-serving robot has his feelings hurt when new Intel chips are touted as the best product the company’s ever created; and an ad in which Megan Fox snaps and sends a photo of herself in the bathtub with a Motorola phone, triggering a series of disasters involving distracted men—even though my enthusiasm for the latter was deemed (lovingly) by my wife to be “slightly pathetic”…

What were your favorite ads from last night, electronics or otherwise?

—Paul Reynolds

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Coming this spring: Four new Canon point-and-shoots

February 8th, 2010

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Canon Powershot SX210 IS
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With the PMA camera trade show two weeks away, Canon just introduced four new PowerShot digital cameras—a superzoom and three subcompacts.

The priciest, the 14-megapixel PowerShot SX210 IS superzoom, $350, includes a 14x zoom, 3-inch LCD and dedicated video record button. The subcompacts are the 14-megapixel PowerShot SD3500 IS Elph, $330, which has a very large 3.5-inch touchscreen LCD and 5x zoom with wide-angle capability; the 14-megapixel PowerShot SD1400 IS Elph, $280, which has a 4x zoom; and the 12-megapixel PowerShot SD1300 IS Elph, $230, with ańx zoom and wide-angle capability.

Canon Powershot SD3500 IS Elph
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All models include a new FE flash exposure feature that not only automatically adjusts the aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings, but also changes the strength of the flash’s illumination. All but the SD1300 Elph include new scene modes, including fish-eye and miniature effects, and can shoot HD-resolution video. Plus, like the newly announced Panasonic point-and-shoots, the PowerShots will support the new higher capacity, SDXC memory cards, which will eventually be able to store as much as 2 terabytes of data.

All cameras will be available this month, except the SX210 IS, which will be available next month.

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World’s Thinnest BenQ V2220 LCD Lays on the BS Pretty Thick

February 8th, 2010

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On one hand the BenQ V2220/V2220H is a 21.5-inch LCD monitor that manages to be the thinnest in its class (just 15mm). On the other, BenQ has taken the whole “dynamic contrast ratio” fib to a whole new level.

They claim a 10,000,000:1 DCR with their edge-lit LED technology.

(Keep in mind, the human eye can only see somewhere between 50,000:1 and 100,000:1…meaning that you can’t even prove BenQ wrong!) But we know the claim is particularly ridiculous, as the static contrast ratio is an absurdly typical 1000:1.

Still, the marketing doesn’t mean you should write off BenQ’s latest ‘V’ LCD line completely. In sizes ranging from 18.5-inches to 24-inches, with inputs including DVI, D-Sub and HDMI (on ‘H’ designated models), Taiwan will receive the new monitors this month for an undisclosed price. Then you’ll be able to score them internationally at a later date. [BenQ via FarEastGizmos]

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Sharp and Samsung settle LCD patent cases, end legal dispute

February 8th, 2010

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After three years of spent treasure, Sharp and Samsung have finally settled their LCD patent fight. Although the terms of the agreement won’t be made public, a Sharp spokesman was caught boasting about conditions that “will be in favor of Sharp” — the company that kicked off the battle back in 2007. As a recap, the disputed patents covered LCD TVs, monitors, and mobile phones in lawsuits filed in the US, Europe, Japan, and South Korea. After a string of defeats in the US and Europe resulted in an import ban on its panels, Samsung, it seems, was left with little choice but to settle on Sharp’s terms.

Sharp and Samsung settle LCD patent cases, end legal dispute originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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VIZIO Super Bowl ad pushes internet connected HDTVs in a big way

February 7th, 2010

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We weren’t sure exactly what Beyonce, David Goes to the Dentist and Chocolate Rain all had in common, but VIZIO squeezed them all into its Super Bowl ad. Still striving to remake its reputation from being merely a cheap HDTV manufacturer to a premium one offering lots of features, the ad (embedded after the break) shows how it’s bringing “the best of the internet” with VIZIO Internet Apps. We still need to see if its picture quality will measure up and whether the widget experience has gotten any better (read: faster) in 2010 to be truly convinced, but a slick ad never hurt.

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HDTV Listings for February 7, 2010

February 7th, 2010

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What we’re watching tonight:

CBS (1080i) kicks off Super Bowl XLIV at 6:28 p.m.
Fox (720p) airs ’til Death at 7 & 7:30 p.m.
HBO (1080i) has Big Love at 9 p.m.

HDTV Listings for February 7, 2010 originally appeared on Engadget HD on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16ᚩ:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HDTV Listings for February 6, 2010

February 6th, 2010

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What we’re watching tonight:

Fox (720p) has the NASCAR 2010 Budweiser Shootout at 8 p.m.
HBO (1080i) presents Temple Grandin at 8 p.m.
Food (1080i) brings Food Network Challenge at 9 p.m. and Iron Chef America at 10 p.m.
NBC (1080i) has Saturday Night Live with Ashton Kutcher at 11:29 p.m.
ESPN (720p) has college basketball with Michigan State/Illinois at 9 p.m.