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We weren’t expecting to see the Wii U take the top slot in this week’s podcast, but we also weren’t expecting the Cardinals to take out the Patriots. We’ll get to the bottom of Nintendo’s TVii all the same, as well as the latest news from Google Fiber, Ceton and a slew of freshly updated apps. Finally, we’ll dive into the first wave of new TV arrivals for the fall, and a few high profile Blu-ray releases for this week.

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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh (@bjdraw), Richard Lawler (@rjcc)

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14:50 – Nintendo unveils ‘Nintendo TVii’ for Wii U
18:00 – Here’s the company behind Nintendo TVii
20:00 – Nintendo TVii supported by ‘all’ major US and Canadian cable companies, dish services
21:44 – Google Fiber announces 180 qualified fiberhoods, sets approximate rollout schedule
23:30 – Google Fiber announces qualified areas tomorrow, snags ABC channels including ESPN, Disney
27:26 – Ceton Echo WMC extender beta units set to ship in October, on target for November release
32:31 – Hulu’s PlayStation 3 app upgraded, is the first for the living room to deliver the ‘new experience’
33:45 – Hulu Plus, HBO Go and Max Go apps for iOS updated with support for closed captions
34:04 – Cox TV Connect for iPad gets remote DVR scheduling, access to the guide at home or away
35:48 – Shazam now rides shotgun with any TV show in the US, gets cozier with Facebook
39:38 – Steam Big Picture beta hands-on
42:54 – Sony reveals HMZ-T2 head-mounted display pricing, launch date and features in Japan
44:32 – Sharp further cuts bonuses and salaries to stay above water, save $180 million
45:51 – Must See HDTV (September 17th – 23rd)

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Engadget HD Podcast 316 – 09.18.2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fox embraced a radical thought when it outlined its Digital HD initiative earlier this month: customers are more likely to buy digital movies if the content isn’t artificially delayed and priced to match the releases on conventional discs. The studio is about to see if that gamble on common sense pays off. As of today, you’ll find 600-plus Fox movies ready to buy or rent in HD across every major digital video store in the US, with many downloads cleared to arrive ahead of their physical counterparts at lower prices that reflect a disc-free reality. The media giant has also decided to play nicely with Google after a longstanding absence, putting its movies and TV shows on Google Play Movies and YouTube. Its tentpole movie release Prometheus is unsurprisingly being used as the prime incentive to try Digital HD; the title is available online three weeks before the Blu-ray launch at a more reasonable $15 price. The sci-fi thriller is even Fox’s first movie destined for UltraViolet cloud lockers. Only Americans will have expanded access to movies and TV at first, but it shouldn’t be too long before many countries can be creeped out by Michael Fassbender’s android — including on their Android devices.

Continue reading Fox kicks off its Digital HD initiative by joining Google Play and YouTube, offering movies early

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Football is officially in swing, and this week we’ve got a couple of big college matchups with LSU taking on Auburn and Michigan vs. Notre Dame. Thursday is also one to keep an eye out for with Cam Newton taking on the Giants in prime time, NBC rolling out its usual slate of shows and a few season finales from FX. Look below for the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.

Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventure
After Star Wars last year, Lucasfilm is back with another restored series in HD, this time Indiana Jones. Consisting of all three movies and another, completely unrelated flick plus lots of extras, it should be quite an experience for the fans. Check out the announce post here for more details on the enhancements, or check out the trailer embedded after the break..
($65 on Amazon)

The Mob Doctor
Coming in tonight after the season premiere of Bones, we’re not sure if this show will stick around any longer than The Chicago Code did, but we’ll give it a shot. Centered around a surgeon who somehow ends up paying off a mob debt with some off the books surgery, we’re just happy to see PJ from My Boys back on TV — if Jim Gaffigan drops by we’re in for the duration.
(September 17th, Fox, 9PM)

Continue reading Must See HDTV (September 17th – 23rd)

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Must See HDTV (September 17th – 23rd) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Now that Ceton has pushed its Companion mobile apps for Windows Media Center out the door, our attention returns to the hardware we got a look at during CES. A blog post from the company indicates the Echo extender has passed FCC and CE certifications, with alpha tests under way. If you’re not in position to borrow a unit from the home of an employee, your next opportunity to obtain one will come when the beta starts. The 1,000 applicants accepted should receive ordering information around the end of this month before hardware ships on October, which, if there are no delays, could mean general availability as soon as November. Still waiting for word on that slick six tuner Q DVR? So are we, but an update, along with final specs for the Echo version 1, are promised at the end of the month.

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Cached away for over a century, the world’s first color moving pictures have been shown for the first time yesterday, according to the National Media Museum in the UK. The celluloid, shot by inventor Edward Raymond Turner in 1899, was actually in black and white and it was only through a curator’s research that its colorful significance was also unearthed.

When the footage was first shot, each frame was run consecutively through red, green or blue gels, and the process needed to be reversed during projection to reveal the color. Fortunately, a blueprint by the inventor of how to do just that was also found, allowing the institution’s team to replicate the process digitally to produce the final footage.

This type of color gel processing didn’t take off in the early 20th century due to the mechanical complexity, and it would have been inferior to a chemical process since each frame carried only one-third of the full color information. Still, it required a clever mind to dream it up, with an equally big brain to uncover it and finally give Turner his due. See the video below the break for the stunning un-retouched, non-hand-colored results.

[Image Credit: National Media Museum]

Continue reading World’s oldest color film footage discovered in museum archive (video)

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World’s oldest color film footage discovered in museum archive (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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