Recent Comments:
CNN's Beck 'could care less' about games, bloggers are 'losers' {Xbox 360 Fanboy}
May 8th 2008 5:35PM What's not to get, sir? These posts are traffic drivers. Look how many comments posts about anti-gaming media receives?
Kerkorian's boy says Ford should offload Mercury, Volvo {Autoblog}
May 2nd 2008 2:48PM MMM is right, the Chinese or Indians would kill for the Mercury name. As for demographics, they wouldn't care. They simply want the name brand and the dealer networks, not the actual cars. Those would be replaced with their own models, and may diverge from Ford's design language.
Infiniti wants a 1-series competitor {Autoblog}
May 1st 2008 5:02PM My sister-in-law drove something like that called the G20. It was a dog -- the car, not my sister-in-law.
Grand Line Auto: Almost failure to launch (Boston edition) {Joystiq}
Apr 29th 2008 2:59PM Indeed, you are correct about the rise of Blue Laws nationwide. I read a story about it on Slate about a week or two ago. Anywho, were Menino and his brown shirts at the Pru taking photos of the buyers? You have to love the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts.
More details on Comcast changes / additions in New Jersey {Engadget HD}
Mar 17th 2008 6:23PM Ryan, you sound like the Comcast employees who seed misinformation over on the NJ.com message boards. As a happy FiOS customer, I have to say, there is no line item on the bill labeled "Verizon tax."
Additionally, the only people unhappy with Verizon's logical groupings of channels by interests/subjects are the media companies who prefer the old way of doing things, where they jockey for the lowest number on the cable system. From experience, I can say it works better when channels are grouped logically. My wife found channels she never knew existed on Comcast because of the logic Verizon uses.
As for picture quality, it is like night and day as Gimpgutter also notes. FiOS really does have the best picture quality.
I could go on about how great FiOS is, but I'd rather go watch TV...
HGTV and Food Network to begin HD simulcast {Engadget HD}
Mar 10th 2008 5:59PM I wonder if this means Fine Living Network and Scripps' other channels are going HD soon, since HGTV HD actually aired FLN content in addition to its own content.
Take-Two: More companies want to buy us {Joystiq}
Feb 29th 2008 5:23PM Do you really think Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo would dare upset EA? After all, EA killed the Dreamcast by refusing to support it, and the console makers remember this. There is no way they will upset EA by counter bidding.
My bet is on big media as having an interest.
Check out what this business journalist has to say about it...
http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2008/02/who_are_those_possible_taketwo.php
Poll: What do you call a combined Yahoo! and Microsoft? {Engadget}
Feb 1st 2008 3:01PM You guys really don't read the business press much... because Wall Street's been talking about this deal since May 2007!
http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2008/02/was_microsofts_yahoo_bid_reall.php
FiOS TV celebrates one year, comes to more homes in New Jersey {Engadget HD}
Jan 11th 2008 11:18PM I have to agree with GP, the lack of HD On Demand is the only thing I miss about Comcast. However, the value of FiOS vs. Comcast is overall in Verizon's favor. I pay the same price to VZ for a triple play bundle with two DVRs, more channels and faster Internet than what I paid Comcast.
Anyway, its older folks who still think in terms of Ma Bell who view FiOS with skepticism. Honestly, I find the cable company to be far worse than VZ.
Interactive Media Guide hits more FiOS TV areas {Engadget HD}
Jan 11th 2008 11:04PM Well Den you're not alone, I too live in Jersey and still have the craptastic old guide that almost sometimes makes me wish I still had Comcast -- then I remember I get faster Internet and more TV channels for less leading me to accept the clunker of a guide.
