Just press ”SELECT” on your remote when you see the Start Over prompt and you can restart a show already in progress. It’s easy and it’s free with your Digital Cable service.
If you loved using the existing coax in your home to network your devices together at 110Mbps, then you’ll love MoCA 1.1 even more — testing has shown it can reach speeds of 175Mbps and up the number of participate devices to 16. The real challenge with MoCA right now though is that there aren’t many devices out there that support it and those that do cost a pretty penny — well worth it if you can’t run CAT5 cables though. Advanced Digital Broadcast, and Entropic made a little progress today however by getting the first MoCA 1.1 set-top-box certified, which we’re hoping is just the first of many devices to jump on the MoCA bandwagon. Because as cool as it sounds to have an Ethernet jack on the back of your HDTV or game console, it doesn’t do most any good because there’s only a coax cable running to their equipment.
First MoCA 1.1 cable set-top-box gets certified originally appeared on Engadget HD on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:18:00 EST.
The only thing we love more than analysts and surveys is content providers bickering over each other’s ridiculous PR claims and none are as fun as when Comcast is involved. Avid readers are all too familiar with Comcast’s strategy to give up on the linear channel race and instead focus on VOD “options” no matter how silly it makes them look to those in the know. What really makes this particular situation interesting is that Comcast doesn’t appreciate it when another provider, like Verizon FiOS, gets in on the action when it recently claimed it offered 3 times as many VOD offerings a month as the nation’s largest provider. Comcast claims this is just not true and there are actually at least 17,000 VOD titles available in most markets. If that is news to you, then you aren’t the only one as Verizon blasts back with “I’m surprised that Comcast wouldn’t talk about these numbers in their PR and advertising. We make sure to let our customers know when we’re adding more to their service.” Too true, Verizon, too true. Honestly we couldn’t care less about VOD because we’re in the small group of CableCARD users, but there’s no way we could turn away from a train wreck like this.
Comcast has issues with Verizon’s FiOS VOD claims originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:07:00 EST.
Columbus day weekend, one of the many 4 day weekends during the year, marks a routine trip to Baltimore, Maryland, to visit the in-laws.This particular trip however was slightly different then those of the past, as I completely forgot to load up music on my iPhone!
We were already running late and I did not want to delay our departure any further, so my wife and I got the dogs in my trust 2003 Honda Accord, loaded our bags in the trunk and pulled out of the driveway.
The new cabling standard for High Def. TV comes in many sizes and styles, and wildly varying price points.
Case in point the Best Buy Brand “Geek Squad Elite 8′ HDMI” Cable
Connect your computer to a monitor or projector with this high-speed HDMI A/V cable and enjoy high-definition video and stunning sound quality through a single cable.
Product Features
- Connect 1 HDMI component with an output to an HDMI component with an input
- Digital video up to 1920 x 1200 resolution and Lossless audio through a single cable
- Delivers a bandwidth up to 10.2 Gbps for maximum performance
- Supports 60Hz and 120Hz refresh rates
- Compatible with Deep Color and x.v.Color
This cable is probably sold to just about every Best Buy customer who comes in to buy a Bluray player, or a new HDTV, but is this cable a deal?
I hardly think so! Let’s see if we can use our brains and the Internet to try and save some money on an 8 foot HDMI cable.
As far as I am concerned, Monoprice is the, first and, only place anyone should be buying cables they need.
A quick search on monoprice.com for 8′ HDMI cables yields this gem.
Specs & Features
Connector Type: HDMI male to HDMI male
Connector Finish: Gold
Length: 8ft
Gauge: 24AWG
# of conductors: 19
Conductor Plating: Tin
Shielding level: Triple
Shielding type: EMI
Ferrite Cores: No
Net Jacket: Yes
Built-in Equalizer: No
Supported Resolutions: 480i to 1080pBandwidth: up to 340 Mhz (10.2 Gbps)
Deep Color: 10-bit, 12-bit, and 3*16-bit (48-bit RGB or YCbCr) color depths. “x.v.Color™”
HDMI Certified: Yes
HDMI Spec: 1.3a
Category 2 Certified: Yes
HDCP Compliant: Yes
CEC Compliant: Yes
ROHS Compliant: Yes
1.3 Device Compatible: Yes
Supports DVD Audio: Yes
Supports SACD: Yes
Supports TrueHD & DTS-HD: Yes
Overall Diameter: 10mmUL Specs
UL File #: E139956
UL Style #: 20276
CL2 (In-Wall): Yes
VW-1: Yes
Voltage Rating: 30V
Temperature Rating: 80° C
Even if you paid the Next Day Air Service from Monoprice to get the cable to you tomorrow, it would still only come to $29.85, for a total savings of $51.14.
How can the Big Box Stores Justify their prices? I guess they just figure that most consumers are just uninformed idiots and can be talked in to buying anything.
So the next time someone says they got a deal at “Best Buy” you can laugh to yourself and revel in the fact you are saving a fortune compared to the average big box consumer. Or you can do someone a huge favor and say “Wow, are you within the 30 day return period, because I can save you a lot of money for the exact same thing!
End of Technorambling.
