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Buckeye Cable, which serves upwards of 150,000 customers in the greater Toledo / Sandusky, Ohio area, is looking to make some pretty big changes. The carrier has just upgraded its SeaChange VOD infrastructure in order to "dramatically expand" its HD video-on-demand offerings, and on top of that, it's also hoping to launch a Start Over-type service to help those who notoriously show up late for their favorite show. Better still, the company is looking to expand its linear HD lineup by adding in 15 to 25 new ones over the next 9 to 12 months. Pretty big words for a "small" provider -- guess we'll have to wait and see if it delivers.

Buckeye Cable gearing up for HD VOD, Start Over-type service originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A brand spanking new, and feature heavy demo of CocoT's TransloQuake for classic Quake has been unleashed! If you've been hiding under a...

Filed under: Fiber

It's impossible to say just how legitimate all of this is right now, but the writing has been on the wall for months. We already knew that AT&T was laying down hundreds of millions of dollars for fiber improvements in the Carolinas, and we've already seen dodgy job ads and U-verse cabinets in the central region of NC. Now, we're really beginning to feel it. A number of locals in the Triangle have spotted AT&T trucks casually passing through, and upon asking, were told that U-verse services were planned for certain areas as early as December. More specifically, we're hearing that Cary, NC could be serviced first, though there's no word on when the Triangle / Triad at large would have the option to switch. And maybe it's completely coincidental, but TWC managed to go a lifetime without adding a substantial amount of high-def stations in these very areas -- now that competition's (possibly) rolling into town, we're finally seeing some effort put forth.

[Via The Wolf Web]

AT&T eying December launch of U-verse in Cary, NC? originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I told you all about the upcoming John Romero interview podcast at AVault so that you all could submit questions, and now it's a done deal and...

Scientist help disabled frogs live fuller lives -- and hopefully someday humans too

Camera kept rolling until the cops arrived

It was on this day back in 1999 that id Software announced the "gold" status of Quake III Arena, which meant that the game had passed...

I've got a double dose of appointments today, so I've got to get rolling soon. Sadly there's not much news showing up yet this morning,...

The magazine has declared a winner of its yearly invention recognition

S3 has announced its new Chrome 500 series graphics cards. Supposedly the new cards have DX 10.1 support, can run OpenGL 3.0 applications, has Blu-ray play back capabilities and more.

In addition to supporting Hi-Def Blu-ray, the 500 Series supports features such as Picture-in-Picture and 8 channels of high fidelity audio with the S3 Graphics' built-in Dolby 7.1 digital surround sound processor. DirectX, OpenGL, and GPGPU applications can also be efficiently processed with programmable shader cores to speed-up 3D and non-gaming functions, VIA stated.

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Why would Microsoft buy Yahoo when they can simply hire all their employees? Maybe that is Microsoft’s new takeover plan, let Yahoo slowly die by their own hand and snatch up all the good employees as they leave.

"We are very pleased to confirm that Sean Suchter will be joining Microsoft as the GM of our Silicon Valley Search Technology Center, working on Live Search," Microsoft search head Satya Nadella said in a statement. Suchter, who starts work December 22, will report to Harry Shum, corporate vice president of Search Product Development

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Microsoft Corp. and ESRI together are driving Homeland Security innovations to more effectively help protect citizens, prevent and solve crimes, and enable counter-terrorism through software. The newly formed collaboration will combine the best capabilities from both organizations in geospatial and collaborative technologies, and will result in advanced intelligence for state and local data fusion centers and emergency operations centers. An intended product of this collaboration is the FusionX Appliance, a baseline IT architecture for fusion centers, which will provide users with advanced collaboration and geospatial intelligence capabilities by combining the power of ESRI’s ArcGIS Server Advanced Enterprise with the collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Intel Developer Forum, in its 11th year as Intel Corporation's largest technology conferences, returns to China, the United States and Taiwan in 2009. Beijing will host the first IDF on next year's schedule, April 8-9 at the Beijing International Convention Center. Next is San Francisco, Sept. 22-24 at Moscone Center West, followed by Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 16-17 at the Taipei International Convention Center.

Filed under: Industry, Regulatory, Tuners, OTA

There's no doubt that the CEA and NTIA have been spreading the word about the 2009 digital TV transition as hard as they can, but some folks still aren't taking the time to listen. 'Course, 62% is way better than what we've seen in the past, but that still leaves a full third of OTA-reliant American households sans a government-issued voucher with under 100 days to go until analog slides under the guillotine. Currently, 17 million homes have requested 33.5 million coupons (in other words, most folks are requesting the maximum of two) and 13.5 million have been redeemed. For those with a strange curiosity to know even more, it's stated that a number of eastern cities have the highest coupon application rates, while folks in Hawaii and Alaska could apparently care less. Can't blame 'em given the scenery, eh?

Two-thirds of OTA households have requested DTV coupons originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Researchers have found water ice glaciers on the Red Planet of Mars

Parents, don't worry... your kids go online to learn from one another!

Visions of resurrecting prehistoric animals are getting a big boost from high-tech gene sequencing methods

Filed under: Fiber, Sports, Primetime

Regardless of his age or win total, Oscar De La Hoya is a preeminent eminence grise in the sport of boxing. That said, we understand that not everyone will be able to jet off to Las Vegas to see his December 6th matchup with Manny Pacquia, but those with AT&T's U-verse will be treated to The Dream Match in glistening high-def. 'Course, the pricing is apt to make you consider just visiting a bar ($65 for the HD PPV, $55 for the SD PPV), but who knows how inflated that tab could be by the end of the night. Decisions, decisions.

[Image courtesy of PFW, thanks Anthony]

AT&T bringing De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao to U-verse HD PPV originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The latest installment of Knight Rider was greened up for NBC’s Green is Universal week. The eco-friendly run involves select NBC shows — like the current version of Knight Rider — getting a fresh coat of green paint. Low VOC, of course!

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Atom is geared for low-cost, low-power netbooks and nettops, while the device is a poor choice for desktop PC applications. We show you why Core 2 is better, and give some guidance on how to pick the best power supply for your low-power application.