RealNetworks Barred From Selling RealDVD Ever Again [Realdvd] (2)
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Last week a judge put a temporary ban on the sale of RealNetworks' DVD backup program RealDVD, claiming that it violated the DMCA. The court has decided to uphold the ban indefinitely, and judging by...
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cbsmith said:
Wow, that was short lived.
Scientists Find Gene That Makes You Good at *Halo* Also Makes You a Premature Ejaculator [Bad News] (21)
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After a study of 200 Dutch men, scientists found that those with a premature ejaculation problem all had a version of a gene that controls the release of serotonin. And, unfortunately for all of you awesome Call of Duty players out there, those affected seem to "have very quick reflexes. They may be excellent at playing tennis or computer games, for example." Oh, cruel fate! Well, at least now you have an excuse, both for ...
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Hadyn said:
Finally a good comeback when someone says "pwnd u n00b!"
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fei said:
靠，以后还有谁敢吹嘘自己游戏打得好？
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Rahul Das said:
this can't be serious!
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Leobardo said:
Que bueno que en las retas de Halo On-Line me ganan :D
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Greg Lowe said:
I never was very good at Halo.
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Coop said:
HAHAHA!
jherskowitz shared as favorite Circuit City On the Brink of Failure [Circuit City] (6)
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Banks aren't the only thing failing right now. Beleaguered big box Circuit City's stock has dropped below 50 cents a share, meaning it's on the brink of going under. Since Blockbuster pulled out of a deal to buy them earlier this year, it's looking like no one will step in to save them. I'm no big fan of Circuit City, but I don't want to see them fold, either, since less competition is rarely a ...
Question of the Day: Who Controls the Remote in Your House? [Question Of The Day] (1)
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Whenever I give up the TV remote to someone else in the house, I am inevitably forced to suffer through The Bachelor or something that involves female friendship and bonding during difficult situations. It's torture—which is why the remote rarely leaves my side these days. Besides, I consider myself a fair remote ruler. I try to find stuff that we are both interested in watching. But what about you? Who controls the remote in your ...
Holographic TV could be here by 2020 (1)
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It's been a holy grail of display technology for a long time: true 3D holograms that you don't need special glasses to see. Think R2-D2's projection of Princess Leia in Star Wars, only not as fuzzy and in full color. The barriers keeping holograms from becoming reality are many, but researchers at the University of Arizona (go Wildcats!) in the Optical Sciences department have broken through one of them. They've created an image that's "updatable," ...
Supreme Court to Rule on FCCs Fines for Casual Swearing [Swearing] (2)
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This is America, the land of the free, where we can say and do what we please without some government overlord pushing us around about it. And there's a landmark case coming up before the Supreme Court on November 4th, election day, dealing with just this: the right to accidentally drop the F-bomb on live TV and not get in trouble for it. What would our founding fathers do? The case revolves around "fleeting expletives," ...
Surprise: RealNetworks Banned from Selling RealDVD Copying Software [Realdvd] (2)
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After being oh-so-predictably sued by six movie studios, RealNetworks is now just as predictably banned by a judge from selling its weirdly anachronistic DVD-ripping RealDVD program. At least until Tuesday, so the judge can review the filings to determine just how boneheaded it is. In a small victory for Real, they got the case moved out of the studio-infested Central District to California's Northern District court. Now they just have to convince the studios and ...
Update [Drugs] (2)
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To settle the pipe vs. bong debate on the NES controller bong I posted a couple days ago, James, the genius behind it, sent a photo of its insides. It is in fact a bong (or at least a water pipe), you OCD potheads, so you can sleep easily. Check out the new photo in the original post.
Sony unveils 3rd generation eBook Reader, the touchscreen PRS-700 (2)
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Sony unveiled on Thursday its third generation Reader Digital Book. The new Sony Reader, model PRS-700, will join the Reader lineup as the new “premium” model alongside the current Sony PRS-505 Reader. Some nice enhancements are in store for those of you prefer books in a digital format. The PRS-700 adds a bit of texture to the casing while still maintaining the same “paperbook-size” dimensions and light 10oz weight of the current Reader. The biggest ...
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billpoly said:
I'd like this, but in a Kindle! The Sony Reader isn't a bad device, but the book selection and prices are no match for Amazon.
Do You Prefer Playing Multiplayer Games Locally or Over the Internet? [Question Of The Day] (2)
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I've been on a big Worms kick lately on my Xbox 360. It's the perfect game for four semi-sober dudes to play together, as its full of dicking each other over and explosions while being slow paced enough for even those with the most dulled reaction times to still participate. But when I've tried it with friends via Xbox Live, it just hasn't been as fun. I don't play on Xbox Live too often just ...
Hitachi DLNA Camcorder Concept Streams HD Video to TVs As It's Shot [Camcorders] (3)
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Hitachi showed off a cool-looking camcorder concept at CEATEC this week, which adds a Wi-Fi module for streaming video from its hard drive or what's being shot live over WLAN to your TV. For recorded video it uses DLNA, which means it will work with any number of DLNA-compatible HDTVs or a PS3. For live video, the camera runs its own IPTV server, which compresses the video down to H.264 in real time before sending ...
Vudu HDX 1080p Movie Downloads Reviewed: "Insanely Sharp" [Vudu] (3)
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Vudu's new HDX 1080p movies—promised to be "Blu-ray quality"—go live today. David Pogue has the first look, and while HDX movies are not literally Blu-ray quality (which would be an impossible with our crappy broadband), they are indeed "insanely sharp" and compared to other movie downloads, it's like "seeing a movie on VHS videotape and DVD side by side." No wonder though, the bit rate averages around 9Mbps and spikes to 20Mbps during action scenes, ...
Netflix Watch Instantly Streaming for Macs By Year's End [NetFlix] (7)
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Almost two years after launching and spreading from PCs to set-top boxes and consoles, Netflix's Watch Instantly streaming service is finally coming to Macs. In a post on its official blog, Netflix promises Mac users that "we’ll have something for you by the end of the year." We're taking that to mean the service (meaning they've come up with a new non-Windows DRM scheme), and not just a really funny Christmas card, though I do ...
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Ben said:
Sweetness.
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Frank said:
Yeah, not like it matters now with the XBox update.
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Frank said:
thaaaank you
HD Guru Tackles 125 TVs In One Review [TVs] (3)
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HD Guru Gary Merson has outdone his own ambitious track record, reviewing 125 TVs for a single story. He doesn't go into the aesthetic design of each model, or even measure contrast and color depth. Instead, he boils it down to some criteria you won't find on corporate sites or press releases. He once again looks at static resolution vs. motion resolution, judging how much clarity is lost when content actually plays. He tests for ...
150" Of FAQ: Secrets of the World's Largest Plasma TV (4)
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Meet Dorothy. At 150 inches diagonal, she’s the world’s largest plasma screen and the biggest direct-view TV ever made, built (and named) by Panasonic. We got to play with her recently and as you've seen, it was mind-meltingly awesome. Even though firsthand experiences with Dorothy are akin to filling a leaf blower with nitrous oxide to jet-huff directly into your brain, Dorothy's backstory is almost as incredible, especially when it comes to manufacturing, shipping and ...
Which of the EIGHT Versions of the Iron Man DVD Should You Buy? [Iron Man] (4)
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Okay, so you don't have a Blu-ray player and you're not getting a new Dell. That still leaves you with eight—EIGHT—different versions of Iron Man to choose from, with everyone from Walmart to Borders hawking their own exclusive kit. Best Buy's might be the most exquisitely fanboy fapworthy, encasing with the flick and a custom lithograth, plus a Mark III mini-bust made by Sideshow Collectibles. Here's a guide to the rest, which we've placed in ...
Transformers 2 Will Be Shot in IMAX, Get Ready for Five-Story Transformers [Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen] (8)
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Holy crap. Parts of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are being shot in IMAX, meaning you'll get to see literally five-story Transformers getting smashed, exploded and all of the usual Michael Bay craziness in the only screen size truly worthy of Michael Bay. Like The Dark Knight, non-IMAX scenes will be letterboxed, and it'll blow back up to full screen size for IMAX sequences. Man, if there was ever a movie that needed to be ...
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AfroWhitey said:
Well, there's another 30 bucks down the drain
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Mathew said:
Sweeeeeet...
Panasonic's 150-Inch TV In Action: It'll Melt Your Brain, Empty Your Wallet and Ruin Your Life (7)
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How big is too big? That's the question that you inevitably ask yourself once you spend any amount of time with Panasonic's new 150-inch plasma TV prototype. We visited it in Panasonic's towering warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey last Friday, running it through its paces with 4K footage, Blu-ray movies and Playstation 3 games. After spending a day with it, was it the type of thing I honestly wanted to set up in my living ...
I Played Portal on a 150-Inch Plasma HDTV and You Didn't [What Financial Crisis?] (17)
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On Friday, Mahoney and I went to Panasonic HQ to check out one of the first prototypes of their ludicrous 150-inch plasma TV. This thing puts the 103-incher that I checked out last year to shame, weighing a whopping 1700 pounds before the stand is attached and sucking up 7kW of power while it runs. We hooked up our energy-efficient-in-comparison PS3 and suffered through playing a bunch of video games on it to report back ...
New Criterion Website Could Revolutionize Streaming Video (2)
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Last week, while visiting Criterion Collection headquarters to observe their transition to Blu-ray, I brought up the subject of digital downloads. To my surprise, they let slip a little detail that sheds light on how a master disc maker like Criterion will manage in an all-download future. As we've seen, even "HD" digital downloads are far from the quality of Blu-ray, so there's a hesitance to offer up their restorations in a format that doesn't ...
