Posted by Tim Stevens in BLOGROLL, MEDIA
Filed under: Home Entertainment
If you're not a Netflix subscriber and aren't interested in becoming one, please pardon
yet another post about streaming content from the formerly DVD-exclusive renter -- but for those non-Xbox owning, non-Live subscribing readers who want to get in on some HD Watch it Now action, we have some good news for you.
Earlier indications were that other Netflix-friendly devices would see updates enabling high-def support and now, in what appears to be an official confirmation from Roku's VP of Consumer Products, that company's
little $99 box will indeed be "delivering Netflix in HD by the end of the year," complete with a tweaked interface to suit all those extra pixels. Additionally, streaming here will operate over lower bitrates than the Xbox is expecting; good for those with iffy download speeds, but perhaps coming at the cost of quality. Finally, and teasingly, Roku devs are said to be working on "another major new feature" that will blow your mind. Oh, how we do love surprises.
[Via
Hacking Netflix]
Roku's Netflix Player handling HD content "by the end of the year" originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by Tim Stevens in BLOGROLL, MEDIA
Filed under: Desktops
Looking for the latest in CPU spice to keep your gaming rig flowing? You'd better go find your wallet/purse and head to your local computer shop for a fresh Core i7 (
née Nehalem), because they are apparently available for sale
right now -- before most of the major sites have even received theirs. User gooddog over at the Overclock.net forums has
flaunted posted this picture of his recently purchased 3.2GHz Core i7 Extreme 965 CPU. Paired with an Asus P6T motherboard and running at the stock clock rate it scored a 5,606 in 3DMark06, in-line with what
earlier testers found. O/C'ed up to 3.8GHz it delivered a tidy 6,608, a mark that surely gives it control of
all benchmarks and, thus, the PC universe.
[Thanks, Adam]
Intel's Core i7 purchased, overclocked, benchmarked originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by Tim Stevens in BLOGROLL, MEDIA
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
If you're American, it's nearly time to do your civic duty and pick the lesser of two evils for the greater good... and then to wonder if that vote actually got counted. With Diebold admitting its own machines are
utterly insecure, competitor Sequoia is now under the microscope and, after a little
quality time with the company's machines, Princeton researchers have filed a 158 page report on the ease of replacing their ROMs and winning yourself an election. Okay, we know what you're thinking: "Hacking hardware isn't exactly easy when the computer is in a locked box." Amazingly, it is. A researcher was able to bypass the physical security mechanisms in 13 seconds, despite never having picked a lock before. Now you're thinking: "But you'd need to do that on hundreds of them!" Not so; once infected that malicious code can spread itself to others, and, with no paper trail and an easily bypassed internal audit system, you're well on your way to whatever dark corner of Washington, D.C. you care to occupy!
[Via
Ars Technica]
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