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Engadget HD Podcast 301 - 05.30.2012
May 31st 2012, 00:38

Engadget HD Podcast 296 - 04.25.2012As we kick off the 300+ episode era, we welcome a guest, Engadget's own Steve Dent, to talk about high frame rate 3D filmmaking and why (or if) we should be excited about it. Other big news in the week gone by are new developments in Amazon streaming as it launched on the Xbox 360, while Comcast's VOD is popping up on Android and more TiVos. Ultra HDTV is also closer to becoming a reality, while LG officially took the wraps off of its first OLED HDTV. We'll also dig into NBC's Olympics broadcast plans (good news for streaming, not great news for 3D), while the E.T. Blu-ray gets a trailer and we talk about what to watch for the summer.

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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh (@bjdraw), Richard Lawler (@rjcc)
Guest: Steve Dent (@Stevetdent)

Producer: Trent Wolbe

00:00:45 - Editorial: Despite shaky 48 fps Hobbit preview, high frame rates will take off
00:29:44 - Amazon Instant Video streaming is now live on the Xbox 360
00:34:05 - Amazon adds 'hundreds' of Paramount movies to Prime, signals a Clear and Present Danger to free time
00:37:43 - Comcast video on-demand comes to Boston area TiVo Premieres Monday
00:38:55 - Comcast Xfinity TV Player app brings VOD streaming to Android devices
00:42:45 - ITU meets to define 4K and 8K UHDTV parameters
00:49:23 - LG's 55-inch OLED TV gets official design, possible €9,000 price tag
00:53:24 - Silicon Image pushes new MHL 2.0 chips for phones and HDTVs with 1080p60 video, faster charging
00:54:20 - Sony-made Google TV units will come with Plex as standard
00:55:40 - How-To: XBMC 11 the XBMCbuntu way
00:56:36 - Nuance adds Rovi's metadata to Dragon TV, becomes annoyingly good at TV trivia
00:58:10 - NBC lays out 2012 London Olympics broadcast plan on TV, internet, apps and in 3D
01:11:07 - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Blu-ray trailer and box art pop up online (video)
01:13:10 - Must See HDTV (May 28th - June 3rd)

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TiVo shows a Q1 net loss of $20.8 million, will launch TV Everywhere web portal soon
May 31st 2012, 00:04

TiVo shows a Q1 net loss of $20.8 million, will launch TV Everywhere web portal soon

TiVo has released its financial results for Q1 2013, and right off the bat they show a wider than expected net loss of $20.8 million. This is despite a rise in revenue and subscribers (driven mostly by Virgin Media, which added 242,000), and the company expects another loss in the second quarter due to rising litigation costs in its ongoing cases against Motorola and Time Warner Cable. We've already heard about TiVo's new Stream placeshifting box, IP multiroom extender and six-tuner XG1 gateway, but the new product news is a plan to launch TV Everywhere streaming. The first cable operator joining in the new venture will be RCN, and TiVo says its portal will allow providers using its DVRs to deliver streaming video in or out of the home, with video on-demand and remote DVR scheduling on PCs, tablets and mobile devices. That's expected to launch later this year, but for all the details, numbers and quotes you can check the press releases after the break.

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Press pics of Gigabyte's X11 lightweight laptop reportedly pop up online
May 30th 2012, 23:38

Press pics of Gigabyte's X11 lightweight laptop reportedly pop up online

Last week, Gigabyte teased us with the promise of a new bantam laptop, the X11, that would be the "lightest notebook on earth." Today, it appears the good folks at Pocket-lint have taken a bit of the wind out of the company's sails by posting a plethora of press pics of the new machine for all the world to see. Naturally, we can't say for sure that this is the forthcoming X11, but whatever it is, it's a slim little black beauty that looks to be right at home with the MacBook Airs and Ultrabooks of the world -- it's got a wedge-shaped silhouette and a modicum of external connectivity (one USB socket and one DisplayPort). Want to see more of it's ebony exterior in advance of tomorrow's official announcement? Head on down to the source link for the full spill.

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Google starts selling accessories for HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus on Google Play, has you all docked up
May 30th 2012, 23:14

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If you liked the idea of buying an unlocked Galaxy Nexus straight from Google but were put off by the absence of the official accessories, have no fear. A swing by Google Play now gives US shoppers the chance to buy the regular Desktop Dock, the HDMI Portrait Dock or the Vehicle Dock, whether it's packed in with your Android 4.0 flagship or after the fact. All three require the HSPA+ edition -- sorry, no attempts to shoehorn the Verizon model here -- and cost between $49 to $54. The accessories reinforce the notion that Google is a little more in it to win it than the last time it sold hardware directly, although we have yet to see whether or not the store section will carry any hardware that isn't fully blessed by Google as part of the Nexus ecosystem.

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Noctua developing noise-cancelling PC fan, will demo at Computex
May 30th 2012, 22:57

Noctua developing noise-cancelling PC fan, will demo at Computex

Try as we might to block it out, we just can't stand the whirring of our PC fan when it starts to act up. There may be an end to our cringing, as Austrian company Noctua is gearing up to debut a fan with integrated noise cancellation at Computex. The cooling fan to be shown in Taipei is only a prototype, but we know it's a Noctua NF-F12 model that uses noise-control technology from RotoSub. Luckily, Computex is less than a week away, so we'll soon have a better idea of whether this fan can keep our PC from sounding like a 777 ready for takeoff... we're sure our coworkers would appreciate it.

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