What we're watching tonight:
- CBS (1080i) has NCAA basketball tournament action with Brigham Young/Kansas State and Kentucky/Wake Forest after 8 p.m.
- Fox (720p) has Cops at 8 p.m.
- Ion (1080i) has The Guard at 9 & 10 p.m.
- NBA TV (1080i) airs Hornets/Jazz basketball at 9 p.m.
- ESPN (720p) has the NCAA Div. 1 Wrestling Championships at 7:30 p.m.
HDTV Listings for March 20, 2010 originally appeared on Engadget HD on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
Keep your eyes tuned to this post -- because at 5:00 PM ET, we'll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab and OLPC Project, Dr. Richard Marks showing off Sony's PlayStation Move, commentary from Joystiq editor Chris Grant, plus much, much, more! You seriously don't want to miss it!
Of course, if you're in NY we'd love to have you attend the show in person at the Times Center. It's absolutely free! We'll start handing out tickets at 2:30PM, open the doors for seating at 4:30PM, and the show itself starts at 5PM. There will also be giveaways from Sony after the show, but you obviously have to be here to participate! All the info about attending can be found here.
Can't make it? We forgive you, and there's a live video stream that can be found after the break. In the spirit of awesome, we've enabled tweeting directly to the live stream! To be a part of The Engadget Show broadcast, just include the hashtag "#engadgetshow" and watch for your tweet on the ticker at the bottom of the screen. One thing to note, The Engadget Show is a family program, so any single instance of swearing or trolling will force us to turn off the ticker... and it won't come back on. So, keep it clean and have fun!
Click "read more" for the stream! Continue reading The Engadget Show Live with Nicholas Negroponte, PlayStation Move, and Joystiq's Chris Grant The Engadget Show Live with Nicholas Negroponte, PlayStation Move, and Joystiq's Chris Grant originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
Palm tanked after turning in a dismal 3Q earnings report driven by bad smartphone sales. The good news? The phone is becoming just an app on a smart, portable device. The disruptive contours of that smart, portable device is still in flux, and about to get buffeted again by the release of Apple’s iPad in about two weeks. This is still anybody’s game — heck, if even Google is worried about the next Google, why can’t Palm be the next Palm?
When we heard ESPN was testing 3D at its new Innovation Lab at the newly rebranded ESPN Wide World of Sports, we just had to see it for ourselves. But while the fact that ESPN was testing 3D during a Globetrotters game caught our attention, after we arrived we discovered that ESPN did more than just change the name from Disney's Wide World of Sports. No, ESPN built a lab and a full production studio that is tied into its main one in Bristol via ESPN's fiber network -- so no need to bring in satellite trucks. There were new video boards erected around the facility and enough fiber was run through out the place to support more HD cameras then ESPN even owns. In addition, permanent HD cameras were installed throughout the facility which Disney hopes to leverage to eventually let you bring HD recordings of your little league tournament home. Now of course the lab and 3D was of the most interest to us and in there we found lots of HDTVs and of course a 3DTV, all with access to the main control room as well as all the cameras in the facility. We did get to check out the very same footage of 3D gold that evidently helped persuade The Masters to go 3D -- and we can see why, even the casual golf fan can easily see how much an extra dimension adds to the production. Overall we learned that ESPN is serious about testing out new gear and technology at this new facility, and the rebranding of the park is about more than just changing the signs.
Gallery: An inside look at ESPN's inovation lab An inside look at ESPN's Innovation Lab originally appeared on Engadget HD on Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
It will come as no surprise that research shows that increased availability of 3D content is vitally important to sales of 3D-enabled TVs in 2010 and beyond.
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the Entertainment and Technology Center (ETC) at the University of Southern California have just published the findings from a survey of 1,914 [...]
What we're watching tonight:
- CBS (1080i) continues NCAA Basketball Tournament first round action at 7 p.m.
- MyNetworkTV (720p) has WWE SmackDown at 8 p.m.
- NBC (1080i) has Who Do You Think You Are? at 8 p.m.
- Syfy (1080i) has Caprica at 9 p.m.
- Starz (1080i) has Spartacus: Blood & Sand at 10 p.m
- TLC (1080i) brings What Not to Wear at 9 p.m. and Four Weddings at 10 p.m.
- HBO (1080i) has The Ricky Gervais Show at 9 p.m., The Life and Times of Tim at 9:30 p.m., Real Time with Bill Maher at 10 p.m. and Funny or Die Presents at 11:59 p.m.
- History (720p) has Gangland at 9 p.m.
- Discovery (1080i) has American Loggers at 10 p.m.
- Food (1080i) airs The Best Thing I Ever Ate at 10 p.m.
- NBATV (1080i) has Celtics/Rockets at 8:30 p.m.
HDTV Listings for March 19, 2010 originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
It may sound like two big companies fighting over who gets what. But there's plenty at stake in this court fight for other content creators and Web site operators.
Apple's launch ad for its "magical and revolutionary" product succeeds in attracting 2.4 million views online, making it the second-most-watched online ad.
Still wondering how the first live broadcasts for the new 3DTVs will work? Comcast Fellow Mark Francisco has been working on bringing 3D home for several years now, and was able to clear up some of the questions that you've been asking about what takes place before home viewers slip on those " beautifully styled" glasses for the first time. Whether you'd want to, can afford to with the first generation of compatible HDTVs, or why it's expanding the use of that silly Xfinity name weren't among them, so for that you're on your own.
What format/compression will Comcast use on its Masters broadcast and going forward?
Just like DirecTV, Comcast is planning on a side-by-side 1080i (not sure what that is? Check out our breakdown of the different ways to send 3D) MPEG-2 transmission. Mark confirmed what we'd heard previously in our discussion with Bob Wilson from Motorola, on the backend, very little needed changing or updating to enable this transmission, which will take up a 6MHz channel, other than their frame multiplexers. There will also be an h.264 stream and VC-1 (for the Masters.com feed) and for broadcast within hospitality tents at Augusta National.
Will I need a new cable box or have to get a firmware update of some kind to watch 3D?
All of Comcast's HD set-top boxes connected through HDMI already capable of handling the signal, so don't expect a firmware upgrade (unless you're waiting for remote DVR features, of course) between then and now, although future upgrades will include 3D menus and guide information, which are currently still 2D. Continue reading Comcast's 3D Masters broadcast explained Comcast's 3D Masters broadcast explained originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
Food company's Facebook fan page became a lesson in how not to deal with social-media backlash this week, when a company rep snapped back at environmentally motivated critics.
With sales of the Palm Pre sagging amid fierce competition, financial analysts are starting to wonder when--not if--Palm is forced to give up.
It seems that without plans for a double or even triple dip on the horizon, Warner's somehow found a way to squeeze lots of extras on the home release of its recent blockbuster, Book of Eli. Denzel Washington and the Hughes brothers will chime during a picture-in-picture Maximum Movie Mode, and "more than 90 minutes" of Blu-ray exclusives are in store. Besides being a Blu-ray/DVD/Digital copy combo pack it's listing extra scenes and several featurettes, but with a BD-Live logo prominently featured in the ad, we're hoping that maybe 2010 has another new wrinkle over 2009's top home movie releases (other than 3D.) Book of Eli Blu-ray disc arrives June 15 with plenty of extras originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
Just as Comcast leapfrogged DirecTV's 3D plans, its claim to the first live HD 3D event has been stolen away by Cablevision, which will broadcast a Rangers/Islanders NHL matchup Wednesday, shown both in a special viewing party in the Theater at Madison Square Garden and on iO TV channel 1300 (if you already have a 3DTV but not Cablevision then keep an eye on your channel guide as, like the Masters broadcast, it may be shared with other networks.) While this is probably just the beginning of another FCC battle over who it will have to share the broadcasts with, MSG is just focusing on keeping a trend going since it was one of the first to jump on HDTV production of NBA and NHL games way back in 1998 and plans to keep 3D broadcasts coming over the next year with more games and concerts. Production is being handled by 3ality Digital, previously responsible for the BCS game that turned some of our preconceived notions about 3D with its BCS National Championship broadcast a little over a year ago, which plans to use 5 cameras from a lower angle than usual to resemble the perspective of the actual players -- minus concussion-inducing blindside hits to the head. Anyone willing to host a viewing party? We're totally down to bring snacks... if you'll cover our 3D glasses.
[Thanks, William & Vinny] Cablevision bumps Comcast to the back, 3D sports at home starts next week originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
France, Germany and the UK have asked the European Union to take measures aimed at preventing the jamming of foreign broadcasts in Iran and censorship, particularly by banning exports of certain technologies.
The three foreign ministers, Bernard Kouchner, Guido Westerwelle and David Miliband have written to partners calling for “the adoption of a European statement condemning [...]
Two months after Google shook the world with its threat to leave China on censorship and hacking concerns, there are increasing signs that an exit is imminent as the two sides refuse to back down. Following are the possible paths the world’s largest search company could take -- and the possible reactions from Beijing.
The Czech/Slovak pre-pay DTH platform Skylink is likely to add up to six new channels, one of which will be in HD, to its offer this spring.
According to Parabola, they will probably be Cinemax, Retro Music TV, bebe tv, Fish and Hunting, Viasat Nature and HBO HD.
Interviewed by Parabola, TradeTec CEO Jaromir Glisnik was [...]
A Madrid court has ordered Mediapro should pay €97 million in a breach of contract dispute with rival Audiovisual Sport (AVS) over the live rights to top flight Spanish football.
The ruling means Mediapro must now give up the rights to first and second division matches to its Sogecable-owned rival.
AVS, in which regional broadcaster Televisión de [...]
Satellite reception is the second most popular way of watching TV in Germany, but DTH is the leading digital platform, according to the SES Astra Satellite Monitor.
“Seventy-five per cent of all satellite households is now digital,” said Wolfgang Elsaesser, MD of Astra Deutschland, during the presentation of the figures earlier this week in Berlin. “Now [...]
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