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Filed under: Wireless

Wow, it looks like someone was listening when we said that Pivot wasn’t going anywhere just an hour ago — Comcast, Time Warner (Engadget’s parent company) and Cox have all confirmed to the AP that they’ve backed out of the quad-play partnership, leaving Sprint alone to awkwardly hang out with Advance / Newhouse, which declined to comment. That must be a fun party. Of course, this also means both of the partnerships Sprint and Big Cable got into have now failed, but that doesn’t mean the competition in the space is over: both Time Warner and Cox say wireless is still in the cards for their companies, but Pivot was just too complicated a venture. Comcast hasn’t said anything yet, but promised a comment tomorrow sometime between 7AM and 11PM.

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Source: Nilay Patel

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Filed under: HDTV

You want to know — nay, you deserve to know — which service provides the most HD content. Engadget HD’s got the answer, see how your HD provider stacks up.

 

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Source: Ryan Block

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Filed under: Home Entertainment, Networking

Being an HBO subscriber is about to get a lot more appealing, as the Time Warner-owned pay channel giant is set to roll out a new service that allows subscribers to both download select content as well as view live feeds on their PC. “HBO on Broadband,” as the feature is called, will give HBO on Demand customers on Time Warner’s Roadrunner network access to both the live east coast feed along with numerous TV episodes and Hollywood films, although downloads expire after 12 weeks or less, and you can’t natively transfer any of this video swag to a portable device. Mac support is also conspicuously absent here, but seeing how the offer is confined to Time Warner cable and broadband subscribers only in Wisconsin for now, anyway, it’s quite possible that an OS X client (and 64-bit Windows one) will become available as more regions get switched on. [Disclosure: Engadget is part of the Time Warner family]

[Thanks, Judith]

 

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Source: Evan Blass

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While Time Warner (parent company of AOL, which owns Engadget) won’t go down as the first cable company to modify the oh-so-lovable fast-forward feature, at least the latest hamstringing won’t affect those willing to pay up. Dubbed “Look Back,” the newfangled DVR feature will reportedly come “without a monthly fee,” and will only allow customers to skip ahead and back in predetermined chunks of time; moreover, it will be limited to programs that are watched back before midnight of the day they air. The firm plans to test it out this October in South Carolina before “gradually introducing it around the country,” and it was also noted that this — along with the “Start Over” feature that functions exactly as it sounds — would not require viewers to “remember to record programs,” but alas, it also eliminates the ability to keep a library of stored content onboard. Ah well, so long as we diehard DVR users can keep on coughing up the dough required for a fully-functional FF button, we’ve no real qualms with this option joining the fray.

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Source: Darren Murph

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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

The seesaw match between DirecTV and Time Warner (parent company of AOL, which owns Engadget) over those blasted “superior HD” spots has reached another milestone, as a US appeals court has “upheld a lower court’s decision that prohibits the satellite television operator from airing advertisements that claim superior service in markets where Time Warner Cable operates.” Notably, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit did, however, “set aside part of the lower court’s order, saying the way it had been worded could be construed to prohibit the unfavorable comparison of even Time Warner Cable’s analog programming.” Ah well, it’s not like those ads were exceedingly enthralling to begin with, right?

 

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Source: Darren Murph

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