I loved it. Do it more.

Patrick, Great Show. Love It, very professional, and lots of great information.

Let me know if you would like a co-host, I can send you my resume, email me from my website.

-Nate B

I had the same problem downloading or streaming it cut off at the wifi segment.

Very excited to see you guys again. Patrick needs a pop filter on his lav mic and PLEASE put a limiter on the output of the mixer. Looks like the cameras could use tally lights. I'm sure everything will be better with time.

Bill D

dammit the video cut of before madden segment and you guys need to work on the sound badly for next episode

When the video cut off, I wanted to start it where you left off, but the video set up makes you watch a to z without cutting out the commercial. I wasn't willing to watch the whole thing again, not that I did'nt like it. I thought it was great. I don't have that kind of patience. Get it fixed and I'll see you soon...

When the video cut off, I wanted to start it where you left off, but the video set up makes you watch a to z without cutting out the commercial. I wasn't willing to watch the whole thing again, not that I did'nt like it. I thought it was great. I don't have that kind of patience. Get it fixed and I'll see you soon...

just means they wanted to see the entire show and or want to see more of them.. We know things will get better. And if the commercials are worried about you skipping through, just add a small overlay in the bottom corner of each segment and we still have to see it.

Great stuff.. but cut the video short, and I had sound issues as well.

Great show!

please please please get someone in there that can help out with audio. i know it's been mentioned a lot, but it NEEDS to be addressed.

I enjoyed watching episode 2 and I'm downloading the first show now. I had enjoyed watching The Screen Savers before G4 mucked it all up (I canceled my cable subscription to that channel). I'm glad to find the same great info in a similar format to the old show on the web. I'll be downloading the shows to my CF card for my PPC to listen to on my way back and forth to work. Please keep this show going. Like the screen savers was in the past, this show will be one of my primary links to the keeping up to date on tech.

Nice show but, I agree, the audio needs fixing.

Keep up the good work.

when i play the video in vlc it shows around 49 min. but like others it cuts off at around 30 min. at the wifi segment
is the whole video there ,how can i get it?

Now that Kevin has outed the show, the download is glacial, and I'm on cable. Any chance of a bit torreted version for better download?

Scott,
I'm impressed with how much content you all are putting out. Heck it's good to see Patrick back in video! Anyhow I'd like to get in contact with whomever is running your site, but I'm not clear if this is a Ziff Davis site, or if you're a seperate production company working in partnership? Anyhow I work for a video-publishing company without about 60,000 daily viewers and would like to discuss syndication. Contact me through my website address if you all are interested.

Adam Bruce

Great to see you still wear the same old shirts Patrick! They were daily fare on the TSS, along with Leo's Hawaiian shirts.

Welcome back Patrick , sure missed you, love your style and demeanor. Next time bring your big hammer and deconstruct the audio quality on your feed. Looking forward to seing the next podcast.

Finally got a chance to see this thang. It's GREAT! to see Patrick back on screen. And with Kevin too. (Hint for the crew, get Pat's mic channel a compressor/limiter.)
Other than that, looks like it's gonna be pretty successful. Just beat the recording technology into submission. Good job!

Is this show going to be available as a podcast on iTunes? That might increase you're vewiership tremendously.

Great to see both Patrick and Kevin on Episode 2. I wish both of you much success. Format and formula are great. Even if the media/feeds/files were in black and white and on cinemascope I would still watch. Afterall it is all about the content - Cheers, Joe joec@idsi.net

DD

Is there a bittorrent tracker for this show? If there isn't one, you guys should set one up.

I am so glad that I found this following links on Leoville and Kevinrose.com

I missed pat from TSS I am glad that he and kevin are showing that with any server you can make a TV show.

I don't know what to think anymore about this IT business. One day it's like people are panning for gold, the next day it's like starting out in the newpaper business .... paper boy style. It seems there are no occupations that have bypassed the influence of technology, but then again there are so many small to medium sized businesses that still say "WHY SHOULD I SPEND MONEY FOR THIS?". After 10 years of attempt to gain entry into this field, as a programmer/analyst I wonder myself .... "WHY unless I want to move to the big city, fight the downtown traffic, and still end up being displaced by someone in India working for $2 less an hour". Why?
I'm glad to see that someone has dug themselves out of the rubble. Good Luck!

Linked to the dlTV eWeek Tech News on MSN.com. Great show! Hope Ziff don't sell it off like he did with ZDTV. Tech On!

It's 9:05 EST, and live link doesn't work!!!
Well, ill catch up with episode3 through later downloads.
:-)

Another great show. Hope Pat finds his notebook. I wonder if we'll ever get a "Kilt-Cast".

Pat you and Robert did a excellent program. Keep it up boys we are enjoing it here on the rock of the rock. Newfoundland Canada right on. River

anybody have a username/password to the eSeminar link - they require email,first,last,company,phone,address,... wtf?

checked bugmenot.com but nobody posted anything yet :(

or a direct download link would be appreciated too!

thanks,
Max

Great third show. I thought the "Naked Picturs" folder on the Sony Ericson Phone was funny. Especially when expanded it said "your mother" Great stuff

When patrick is playing with the mp3 phone, he scrolls to a folder labeled, "naked pictures of your mother"...what's up?

FYI (everyone) it seems that you cant download the files if you are behind a firewall.
For the peeps (at dlifetv) can you serve the files over http (for download) to get around the fireewall problem.

Yo

if you find that you can't fast forward on any *.wmv files, just download the free window's media encoder and "index" the file using Windows Media File Editor utility that comes with it - enjoy
- IPfreely
(ya patrick!!)

Thank god for the audio improvements!

Patrick,

Glad you are back. You and kevin are pioneers in the next wave of television.

Would love it if you made this a video podcast, so I could just subscribe through iTunes ( I have already subscribed to Kevin's)

Keep it up

You know, just to point out, this is so hard to find on the net. I lost the link and just spent 15 min tracking this place down. Not on google, not on digg not on yahoo could i find a direct link to the shows and this show deserves so much more press.

I can think of 5 ways off the top of my head to make this place easier to find and more accessible so itll thrive better, im sure the guys running this place can thing of 20.

IPTV is the future i believe and i got your back, dont make it so hard :)

Are you guys going to make this show compatible with DTV (http://participatoryculture.org/download.php).

I tried the XML link, but DTV says there are no shows.

Thanks alot:

First for making these shows

Second for letting us view (whenever we want to)

I had to take a test (a major test actually, MCQ) so I could not focus on the show though I actually downloaded all the episodes yesterday following a link from www.kevinrose.com

But now I have watched every single one of all the 4 episodes ( since I took my exam today after 1 month of preparation :-))

I always missed techtv and was surprised and even p*** that they took of the channel to replaced by some *$%£^......

Nice to see that former techtv guys a stepping up.

Digital life is at my top list of any tech shows on video ( i had stopped watching any show on tv.... )

THANKS

I just bought the new ipod nano and checked off the option to syn with my outlook calendar and contact list, but when I sync it I get an error message. Do you know if I have to change some type of setting or a way around this? Thanks

Why is there no chatroom? That would be a great idea.

My husband and I want to splurge on a flat screen TV. We want to watch movies, tv and he is also a gammer. Plasma looks nice and is cheaper, but I heard that it leaves ghosting. The guy at circuit city said that ghosting is no longer a real problem with the new plasma sets. What do you recommend considering he will be playing alot of video games...plasma or LCD.

Can I put songs from sites like Napster and the new Yahoo service on my ipod?

Thanks for putting this here! The other day when I wanted to mail a question I couldn't find the address anywhere on this site and had to start playing a show to get it, lol! :-)

I can't download the high or low rez QuickTime movies for Episode 5. I get a 404 Not Found.

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/DLTV.005.09.13.05.hi.mov

"Not Found

The requested URL /DLTV.005.09.13.05.hi.mov was not found on this server."

What's up with that?

I want to know more about Bit Torrent. What it is, how it works, and why is it so difficult to set up. Are there simple instructions on gettng it to work? I have tried to set it up on both a PC and a Mac and can't get it to work.

Hi,
I recently purchased a Samsung ML-1610 printer and thus had a sense of deja-vu when you reviewed the Dell 1100 laser printer as they seem identical. I googled a review from a UK magazine, where they tested both including the intercompatibility of toner carts: http://www.compshopper.co.uk/shopper/pcpro-reviews/75055/samsung-ml1610.html

From the article: "Surprisingly, in spite of sharing the same print engine and cartridges (we found the cartridges in our review units were actually interchangeable), the ML-1610 and 1100 don't offer equivalent performance."

No idea if the samsung toner cartriges are going to be as readily available but at least there's a hope of a second option here.

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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron host our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron host our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron host our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron host our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of Digital Life TV. Mark MacDonald, the executive...

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of DigitalLife TV. Mark MacDonald, the Executive...

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of DigitalLife TV. Mark MacDonald, the Executive...

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Great to see you again, can't wait till the next show.

great show guys, however i noticed robert heron was left out of the credits

Great show please do more bring back the old cast of screensavers G4 is bad I do not watch attack of the show it does not have content.

What is a good free program to convert h.264 to divx or xvid. The twit podcast video is in h.264 and I am trying to convert to divx for my Archos Gmini400 player.

Keep up the good work guys.
Being on a 256k (New Zealand Board Band sucks) I'll be waiting for the H.265 version.

Connection's dropping out :(

welcome back? it crashed again, didn't it?

He's worse than dead Jim..... His BRAIN is GONE!

wow. we're kinda using this 'forum' to chat. i know it's a bad time to be asking this, but wouldn't a chat room be nice. i mean, does an irc server take up a lot of bandwidth? well, even if it takes up a LITTLE bit of bandwidth, that'd still be too much--seeing as how dtv needs all the bandwidth it's got to help alleviate bottlenecks such as these.

Sure wish you guys were all back on TV in the US,
I just wanted all of you to know that I was about to get out of computering because I just couldn't keep up with all of the new stuff out there THEN I started to watch Call For Help and The Screen Savers. I NEVER missed a show. With in 2 months I was so "wound up" with computering I remodeled the shop and started to have fun again.
I really wanted all of you to know that you really made life fun again.
Take care,
Jerry Osterle
Computer Swap and Shop
Mission, Ks.

Be careful if you have Verizon. Their warrant is actually set up as an insurance plan and you have to pay a $50 deductible to get a new phone.

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of
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Dare I say we have quality tech(nical) tv once again.

Go a head and finish out the set. I like the professional look over the you shot this in your basement look.

Keep up the great work.

I had a problem with it in Firefox 1.0.7 in WinXP as well. The audio played but the video didn't display. But i found that if i switched tabs in firefox then the video diplayed. Don't know if it's a firefox problem or a DLTV problem.

It crashes my router just like every other steaming media on the internet. I'll stick with the download thanks.

Why can't we view it in the media player of our choice? It's a lot better that way... but you know that of course. So my question is: are we being punished?

It's choppier than usual. @_@ really, really annoying.

An alternative that is the exactly the same hardware and a bit cheaper ith the Hawking HNAS1.

Was so excited I caught and was ready to tun ein live as in happend only to get constant rebuffereing and lag :( will download the show later

The open walls looked great. Is it too late to bring them back?

Great freakin connection. Im downloading at 2000kb/s it took me 2 min to download the whole show! Im at college with a great connection but it must be pretty good on both sides.

Much better then Twit...Luv it Guy's Keep up the good work...

Quite an enjoyable show, but I'll wait a while and see if the h.264 version becomes available.

jw

You said you were going to post that thing on Boingboing.net about the computer companies requiring TCP broadcasting or something (for operating systems so they can control what we may and may not download). Where is that?

You said you were going to post that thing on Boingboing.net about the computer companies requiring TCP broadcasting or something (for operating systems so they can control what we may and may not download). Where is that?

Check out the Dell 2005FPW 20.1" Widescreen LCD Monitor for ONLY $394.35. Go to www.gotapex.com for the coupon-code and the link to Dell. I have a Dell 2405FPW and it is an incredible monitor and bargain.

I would like to see geeky projects with 'asterisk'.

A whole series would be great, AstLinux.org is a good start.

Hey pat. i know how much of a car guy you are, so i have a question for you. whats your take on carpc's? good? bad? love em? hate em? interested to know

Great job guys! DLTV is simply fantastic

Love the show. Question though. Isn't burn-in on newer plasma TVs basically a non-issue?

I also wanted to say that having a custom HOSTS file helps against spyware. You can get one at this site: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Again, I love the show and I can't wait for future episodes.

Great show. Have become a regular watcher here in New Zealand by downloading the WMV file versions and watching at my liesure.
However the link you have supplied for episode 9.0 cannot be used to download the show using the "save target as" feature of a browser, even though you say to use that feature. I've tried it with both Opera (the best and now FREE browser with no ads) and Internet Explorer.
For previous episodes you have provided two links; one for watching online and one for downloading, can you please do the same for this episode and continue to do it in the future? WMV files do tend to be smallest by quite a wide margin.

Thanks, Peter

I'm having the same problem John. No audio in the XviD verion of Episode 9.

I'm downloading Ep. 8 XviD version to make sure it isn't a problem on my end.

Nice shirt Pat ;)

Wow !!..Love the show and love the celebs.. espacially Jessica Alba ! WooHoo ! I can't wait for another one in NYC. Next time, they should sell those iPod and PSP cheaper for us poor tech geeks ... lol

What happened to the direct links to the videos, I don't like watching video in my browser windows, mostly because windows media player hates me with a passion!

I can't watch it with the stream, doesn't work for me. direct dl plz.

I was there Saturday and had a GREAT time. I met Robert Heron and Jim Louderback in the PCMAG Digital Village. It was great!

If anyone still wants it, I think this is it.

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/dl-live/dl-live.wmv

Is it possible to get a lower quality stream? My connection can't handle the quality of the show @_@.

It was fine when windows media player decided to go 48/kbs (until the video ended up stopping) but most of the time it tries 212-480 something kb/s.... and buffers often... then the video ends up freezing..... *sigh*

It's too bad my ISP doesn't give me the speed they guarantee. Then this woudln't be a problem methinks. (I can't seem to get WMP to automatically go for 48 kb/s, it just seems to pick by itself)

... is actually a medical website :p

Hey, it has been 10 episodes and I dont think the file names have used the same format for any of the shows. Come on people.

Great show, btw. Too bad my connection here in Bolivia sucks! $60 for 128k - so you damn us residents stop compaining about only 2-8M connections!

Great show guys. Once again no problems watching the stream here on the east coast.

I want to thank Robert Heron for taking time to speak with me at the DigitalLife convention over the weekend. It was definately a pleasure to meet you Robert.

Like the DIVX version of the video, please keep ripping it to that. Its the only version you got up there that plays with TCMP on my treo650. thanks.

come on lets go

They Brokeded it

Whats up with the audio from the studio... could it be any worse? Or is just me..

I can't seem to get steady audio/video..... I had the audio for a while, but now it all just isn't working. after setting the buffer for 15 seconds it kind of works for a while.

If you experience buffering, try VLC and put more buufer and do a Spyware scan on your machine if y ou use Windows.

LOL, Yamix! Finders Keepers!!! ;-)

in the windows media download version the audio drops out the first few minutes into the show

I've been loving the show and looking forward to when it goes twice a week.

Keep up the great work. I look forward to this every week, and can't wait until it's twice a week.

Thanks,

Eric

I tried to download the Windows Media file, and got a "File Not Found" error. I like to DL the file and watch it at my leisure. Was the filename changed?

I too have become a fan of watching DLTV on my Palm using TCPMP and would appreciate continuing support for the Xvid version. Thanks for a great show.

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Congrats on all the options for the video.
Im not even gonna ask about a theora version :-+

6 different versions is a very nice selection.

Thanx.

Zeke

SCORE!!

Thanks for reading out my email at the end about the credits Patrick, and of course I meant no offence to you Robbie!

Great program. Keep 'um coming.

Great show, enjoyed it a lot. Becasue the show contains a lot of talking, the wide two shot and wide single could do with being replaced by tighter two shot and close up singles; much better for small screens.

So this thing will start on its own when its time?

Hm, the feed seems slower this week then it's been in previous weeks, and I have a 6MBps connection. You guys think it's time to upgrade your pipes with the ammount of listeners you are getting?

Getting good audio, but video is stuck.

Patrick, think of not puting a checkboard shirt please... it screens off the screen !

Hey,

When will there be a Digital Life desktop wallpaper offered?

Preferrably, 1280x1024 for me.

Thanks!

i was wondering about what would be a good first upgrade on my gateway 310b? ram or prossesor...
i have a celeron 2.4ghz with 256ram what would be your choice guys? i am on a 200.00 dollar budget.

thanks for your help..

Hey guys, great work on the show (and the commericals don't bother me at all, esp when compared to free to air tv, or even cable (here in australia)).

Just putting in a vote for a widescreen 16:9 version (or hey, go nuts and do 16:10 if you want) to suit my beautiful iMac 20" widescreen... the quality is great when reclining from a few meters back, but the dirty pillarboxing isn't nice.

Yes, yes, I know that the maj. of PC users still have 4:3, but the dell monitors are starting to rock peoples worlds, and more and more would certainly be watching you through their htpc setup methinks.

Keep up the good work (even though thanks to time zones i only ever get the downloadable version, never live)

Luke
(in Melbourne, Australia, come check it out some time)

Just felt like gloating: check out the speed I got when downloading it on a Manchester University computer - you guys must have some seriously beasty servers!

http://img491.imageshack.us/img491/2318/dltv12download0al.gif

Hey, the show starts at 9 Eastern, 6 Pacific.

Don't worry.

I have the Aiwa deck they showed. It is a great little unit. I plug in my Clie for talking books and my Nomad for tunes. The sound is WAY better than a crappy FM transmitter.

Great show but there seems to be a problem with the audio. Sounds like they were too close to the mic. Anyway can't wait for Thursday show. 2X a week is the norm now or is it just a special event?

I have no complaints about the content - you guys are doing great and I'll be content to download the video the next day. Keep up the great work!

It seems to be a recuring theme in the comments about problems with the video. I am almost certain that it's related to the throughput on the receiving end. There are simply too many people who have no problems with the streaming version.

That said - Would DLTV consider a lower bandwidth feed for those that have limited bandwidth? Perhaps something in the range of 480kbps total or even less?

I for one would be willing to accept a lower video size to get the total bitrate down to a lower level.

I would like to suggest having the audio ready to download when the episode is first released in wmv.

Some people have a dialup, and I'm sure they'd still like listen to the show, without having to wait for hours, let alone days.

Thanks for your time.

Fernie, I have been thinking the same thing since the 1rst episode.

Fix the mics guys, get some better audio and a more interesting set, then your show won't just depend on your dialog!

But your dialog is alright.

The audio in this episode is really bad. Bad to the point of being unwatch/listenable.

True, the audio wasn't great on this episode... but I'd hardly call it unwatchable because of that. ROBERT IS KING OF ALL MULLETS!

I loved TechTv and DLtv is the future of TV keep it up.

Couldn't believe you were wasting bandwidth on a one minute countdown. Then I realised that it was the live stream I was watching, it was around 9pm here in the UK. Watched until the phone rang and then the dis-advantages of watching WM on a mac became obvious - I'd missed a good chunk while I was on the phone. Refreshing, looking for the downloadable version now.

Could have swore I read it was still going to air at 9pm. Oh, well...

2 times a week? Im so happy.
btw the audio on this show sounds a lot better.

Where are the bittorent feeds?
or don't you want to save on bandwidth costs?

How do you convert DVD IFO files into a single MPG file that can then be converted to MP4 for downloading to the Ipod?

Leo and the guys on TWIT just talk about a bunch of nothing and have become irrelevant in my opinion.DLTV is like I remember Tech Tv being;informative and fun.Keep up the good work Patrick.Steve Jobs has Leo in his back pocket.

I think the show is great! Been a fan of Patrick's since the ZDNET tv days. I also like Robert very well, I am looking forward to the HDTV special. I have a ton of questions on that subject. I am also in the XVID minority. Main reason being I like to sit in my easy chair with my favorite beverage and watch the show on my stand-alone Philips DVD player. It plays that codec. Sidenote** could you make sure you are using "Square Pixels" on XVID since my player goes nuts otherwise and I have to convert it. When I watch you on my computer, I like the H.264 codec the best by far! I think the show should be longer and just get as geeked out as you can make it. Some how-to's (video creation, wireless security, podcasting, computing tips,etc..) would be nice.
Love the show, keep up the good work.

While on the subject of special, the Xbox 360 will launch on the 22nd, the day the show re-airs...

Love the show and you guys should keep it Tues & Thurs, if you make it longer then please do it if not, well, I won't hate you for it. BTW: Leave Heron alone. I like him a whole lot better now than when he was on TSS with those 2 minutes bits and it looks like he's enjoying himself

that they create them througout the week and present them on their shows. That gives them more time to put together some great stuff. I didn't mean to imply many short segments although they they could offer them separetly on download.

Patrick, I want to see anything you are in, lol! ;-) But seriously, I think the show is great the way it is! You and Robert work well together and he makes a great co-host!

I would rather download the entire show at once (gotta love cable modems, lol!) and if you make it twice a week I will watch it! :-) Tech news at the beginning has always been my favorite format. I rely on you guys to sift through all the crap and report the most important tech news of the week! Thanks for all your hard work!

Oh and btw, if you guys listen to TWIT, you will know that Meghan is busy trying to raise her kids, lol! ;-)

Is this AKA episode 15?

This was an awesome show. I gotta say it made me think about getting a front projector for our home theater setup. I was wondering if you guys could actually list your fav projectors (and screens) within the 2-5 thousand dollar range? Glad to see comcast cant keep you guys from doing amazing work. :-D

I love watching DL.tv and I dont mind the ads. I go check my email :D

I was disappointed that Jim didn't mention Dish's HDTV offerings. In my opinion they have the best selection of HDTV channels out there. Dish has all the stuff DirecTV has, plus they have the Voom channels. Voom blows Discovery HD Theater and HDNet out of the water. Plus their HD DVR is half the price of the DirecTV Tivo.

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you say 1:15pm on the site, but I'm watching the stream now and there's still another 5mins left on the countdown timer. I guess they use a 5min lag time for the live show, incase Pat swears or Robert farts.

all i see is dl.tv for techfans by techfans

Oh great another show I won't be able to keep up with getting episodes of

>>"But I digress..."

you forgot exciting/excited and couple of others :) Thank the heavens Robert is there to do the fun part :)

Bunch of whineys here need to stifle themselves.

The file sizes are okay, the settings on XviD need to be improved. What are we using, VirtualDub or mencoder? I can get you a solution for encoding those with much better results. You know, so you don't get those lines in the screen and time somebody makes a movement.

Better yet, take Robert up on his offer last episode that he'd do the XviD encode just right. You get the settings right once. You keep them, it'll be easier from there.

Okay, this comment is aimed @ DLTV. You guys are doing a great job of getting your show going, so don't let these stupid "why aren't you using bittorrent?" or "your instructions suck" comments get to you. These people are just being asshats, so please ignore them. Keep on doing your best on this show.

Alright, I did say "approximating 700 MB"!

(According to the figures shown on the list of downloads at top of page)
WMV - 140 MB
MOV - 140 MB
M4V - 155 MB
XviD - 150 MB (Alright, I did say "approximating 700 MB"!

(According to the figures shown on the list of downloads at top of page)
WMV - 140 MB
MOV - 140 MB
M4V - 155 MB
XviD - 150 MB ( MP4 - 144 MB

SUM(all formats) = 729 MB

So what I was saying is that if all those formats (apart from XviD) weren't there, we can have a single XviD .avi file of size 729 MB - and you'd be paying for the same amount of download (file size wise).

(For those of you who are tired of hearing from me - sorry about posting so frequently - but I'm just bored waiting for my XviD version!)

(I haven't watched this episode, but thought I could speak from experience...)

I always have "too many" programs and browsers open. On my desktops computers, I never run with less than 1.5 GB RAM.

I'm a portable device/laptop fiend...I ALWAYS max the RAM on laptops...if you just plan on it (from the beginning), you'll save yourself the frustration of wishing you had.

Were can I get the digitallife tv desktop wallpaper?

Just love the shows. Last few posts were the harsh tho. I too im getting tried of the HD-cast questiion tho. I mean theres nothing to see with all that extra resolution. So dont ask them anymore. Great show tonite and always tho.

I just watched it, but it cut off the last part of the show. After the last commercial, it cut off... they were getting ready to answer questoins and then it just stopped. I'm watching in WMV and i think it happened last week as well...

does anyone else have this problem?

I have somebody who drools like mad when you're on the tube. So, I would like to pass on a marriage proposal from my best friend Rover. Will you marry him?

Thanks and take time with your decision.

i would never have found a song by john vanderslice :"bill gates must die" on my own.

Can't wait to watch it! (I refuse to watch the WMV... H.264 and/or MPEG4 is the way to go.)

I dont much mind which format i get the show in, as long as i can watch it. We should wrap up the first 20 shows (in the same format) into a single Torrent file, make it easy to pickup to take the load off the servers. i personally dont have the bandwidth to start such a thing, but i can help share once its started.

Hey guys. When you're filming, you need to make sure cell phones are turned completely off and not just placed on silent. During this show you could hear that tell-tale cell phone interference noise when someone's phone went off.

Hi ... excellent show, can't wait to download the file for my PSP. BUT ... When I try to convert the MP4 file for my PSP using PSPv9, it "never" works. Hangs the program. I've tried other converters and all get the same problem. I have no problems converting and using the iPOD file. But this is almost the last of your conversions. It's Monday morning here in OZ, and I've been checking your web site since Thursday last week waiting for my DL.TV Fix ... please help?
PS: If your're wondering why I don't download the WMV file? This works, but after the conversion, the sound and picture are SO OUT OF SINC it's not a pleasure to hear the sound, then wait for up to 5 seconds to see the image react.

TIA ... Jan H

Is DL.TV producing audio only podcasts for every episode because when I subscribe through iTunes, I seem to be only able to subscribe to the videocasts.

Thanks in advance

The Nintendo DS that Jennifer Tsao was using was connected to a blue box during the segment -- was this a scan converter, or perhaps part of a development kit? I think I recall seeing a devkit for the DS on a Japanese site looking nearly identical.

I've enjoyed the video quality available in the H.264 format although have been noticing the slight changes in encoding over the last several episodes (#18, #19, #20). For example, #18 had a bit rate of 532kbps and it was super sharp. Then #19 was encoded with a bit rate of 386kbps which was still outstanding IMHO. This latest episode #20 begins to look more like internet video with a noticed loss of sharpness and color ... it was encoded at 232kbps which gave a tiny file size but loss some of the outstanding quality which I found appealing. I'll vote for encoding at the 386kbps rate ... a very good balance IMHO.

Audio compression is fine at the adjusted AAC 32kHz stereo (was 48kHz in earlier shows) ... and you can probably go Mono although doubt there is much savings there??? As was suggested before ... perhaps record raw audio a tad lower in two channels, one set lower and one set slightly higher, then when you put together the video pick the one that doesn't distort as much and use it for the final cut. I'd be interested to hear some of the production details as to the machine doing the crunching and 'just how long encoding the H.264 takes? :)

DL.TV is outstanding; I never miss a program. You guys are great.

Hey guys, don't forget about us DivX users!!

ok it was mentioned, i think in ep#20, about using Azureus as the RSS reader for downloading stuff.. think even after talking about the DL.TV feeds... How would one use Azureus then???

No torrent feeds yet.. so sad.

Can Azureus even handle downloading 'non-torrent' files?? If not, the comment in the show of 'using azureus as a RSS agregator' is kind of not accurate. I only know it to work for Torrent downloads. It would be great if it could download other media types too.... (if it can i dont know how)

not even wmv available yet?

The Audio Levels still need some TLC. Patrick's dynamics are off the chart. The quiet passages are too quiet (need to turn up my volume to be intelligible), and the loud stuff is heavily clipping some point in your signal chain (probably the IC based mic pre's on your board). I sent you guys an e-mail with some more suggestions on taming down the audio dynamics of the show...

Other than that - Rock on!!! :-)

R.V.

THANKS for the mp3!

I have a JVC projection TV HD-61Z786. I have a cable card installed and it work find and then after two or three day I go to a digital channel and nothing. All I have to do is power off the TV and in 5 min. power it back on and everything is working.

What I like to know is this a cable card problem, Time Warner Cable system problem, or a JVC TV problem.

Thanks
DougD
Milwaukee WI

Joe Rybicki of Official Playstation Magazine joined hosts Patrick Norton and Robert Heron on the 9th...

currently i subscribe the video version from itunes, but the file is huge, i see theres audio version on website, but it'd be much easier if i can just subscribe it from itunes, is there a link for that?

check out www.ikonboard.com best free web bulletin board system online.

i saw your show with brasso used for the ipod nano, I got the 30 gig ipod and i was wondering if it would do the same thing for that screen since the two screens are different

i was wondering if the brasso trick would work for the 30gb ipod because the nano and 30gig have different screens? Gotta know! because i cant pay attention to your show with these scraches!!!!!!

Does anbody else listening to this episode hear Robert and Patrick sounding like the chipmunks, i.e. speeded up high-voiced audio? Or is it just a problem with my system.

Can anyone show ware i can get the background for DLTV?

We just posted a wallpaper/backround section on the right hand column of the website. Here's the link, too:
http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digitallifetv/archive/category/1202.aspx

enjoy!

Maybe they forgot to record again.... That would be the suck.

"Posted by: matt
Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:43 PM

hey all of you impacient people out there why dont you go start your own podcast and then i can post comments about how long its taking you to get your video out...

give these guys a break. they have been working hard the last 23 episodes. and this podacast isnt the only thing in their lives either... sit back relax and chill this is a free serrvice they are providing us

be patient "

Don't they get paid by Ziff Davis? This is different that something like TWIT I believe...

They make money from the ads too Patrick...the person above me talking

BUT PLEEZ ITS BEEN 7.5 HOURS! WHERE IS THE WMV?

Episode 24 of DL.TV aired live at 1pm PST(9pm UTC) this Thursday, December 22nd.
 
Here's the...

I completely disagree with ol' Don. There have been some awesome games for the DS and GCN this year. There may not have been as many games released as other consoles, but pretty much all of the in house games are great, namely Fire Emblem. And who can forget RE4? I dunno, I'm just saying that putting the blanket statement of "nothing good to offer this year" is rather ignorant.

what does anybody know about the hawking hbb1 broadband booster, i heard it really works to eliminate lag for onloine gameing?

Thank you for the DivX6 feed. It looks great!!!
Please keep producing this version.

Listen slappy, just because you like playing zelda for the 10,000th time but just on a new platform with some silly new controller doesn't mean anything to me. I'm not about playing games on something that fits in my pocket (get it?)

If nintendo wants to start pushing some decent games on a legitimate piece of hardware, i'll start to pay attention... otherwise, you can have yer lame ol' gamecube. I'll bet you can't wait to start swinging that stupid new controller around when the next console comes out huh?

Don't get me started here or they'll erase the comments from this thread like they did on the episode when they had mr. dig on. ;)

Peace-

'ol Don

BTW- I hope that isn't your website. Talk about ignorant.. I don't know what's worse, your subject matter or your lame flash skills.

im getting the same thing as the guy above me said. Don't know whats wrong but hope its fixed soon.

File Front Error!

both types give you an error when you try to download them.

Invalid Key or in use or Missing File

Your download key for the requested file is invalid. Download keys are only valid for 48 hours. Once your download is complete, the key is no longer valid. Keys are also only valid for the original server.

Additionally this error may be caused because the file was not found on the server.

If you need help starting your download, please contact FileFront support.

-____- Dont have your own server?

Once Again, DL.TV Has Does Something Wrong. The Stupid Links Don't Work. And Did They Say That Their Was going to be no show on tuesday. And Will They Ever Do Any Desktop Or Laptop or non HDTV, Camera, DVR, or Printer Review? Damn.

390MB for a DivX version...doesn't seem worth it. It's twice the size of the others.

Patrick has stated numerous times that no formats would be dropped because of the avid supporters of each. I would be upset if h.264 were dropped, it's my encode of choice. I'm not "let down" either, I have patience - even if it runs out I can sacrifice my codec for another if I can't wait. I am interested in seeing the difference between divx6 and h.264 though.

Hello....knock knock....anybody home ad DL.TV????
Really, a week for H,264? The only reson it is not done is because they just said f*** it. So I say f*** them. guess Ziff Davis is not REEEALY into the IPTV thing. Oh well, it was good while it lasted, but if they can't put out on time at the same time every week, then it isn't really TV then is it? It is just some geek fad that will never have enough of a following to go main stream.

And to all of you who are kidding yourself about it being "FREE", it has commercials. I can get that kind of "FREE" with an antenna on my TV. Sad.:-(

goto the link in about 74 minutes (upload speed sucks) I recompressed that divx file into a 190mb file that looks more than watchable on my 21" monitor and STUNNING on my zodiac and I sourced from an already compressed divx file it would look that much better if yolu guys did it from the original. only took 52 minutes to make too (I did it 2 pass since i was sourcing from a compressed file already) from original source 1 pass would be fine.

I did mine at 480x320 thats just because that my portables screen resolution its half way between 4:3 and 16:9 :-) perfect. you could off course do it 640x480 I guess but you might need to up the bit rate a tiny bit.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/stuff/dltv

goto the link in about 74 minutes (upload speed sucks) I recompressed that divx file into a 190mb file that looks more than watchable on my 21" monitor and STUNNING on my zodiac and I sourced from an already compressed divx file it would look that much better if yolu guys did it from the original. only took 52 minutes to make too (I did it 2 pass since i was sourcing from a compressed file already) from original source 1 pass would be fine.

I did mine at 480x320 thats just because that my portables screen resolution its half way between 4:3 and 16:9 :-) perfect. you could off course do it 640x480 I guess but you might need to up the bit rate a tiny bit.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/stuff/dltv

DL GOES TO THE DOGS!

First they say nothing about missing shows and being late delievering content... Now they tell us about CES clips and don't put them up on time. I'm out. This is BS. Kevin Rose has better things to say anyways...

whoa whoa whoa, everybody chill. Everybody here appreciates dl.tv, and we're just jokin' around. Techies, above all people, understand glitches occur now and then. We'll have to wait till it's ready, and nobody's going to freak about it. Gosh!

I wanted to see the microsoft ad. :(

When will it be on..... after 9am est and nothing.....

http://moloch.org/html/uploaded_images/bgkeynote-768213.JPG

They need to update the release time, instead of 1:00AM EST on Thursday January 5, 2006.

You can also watch the CES keynote speech via that link as well.

If it takes this long it better be a 2 HOUR show and a special!

Vista is lame, but I'm sure all the Windoze lemmings will scarf it up.

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/8080/

CHILL.. who cares.. there busy.. keep up the good work guys..

cannot understand it i watched like 55 minutes then the player sayed stopped and i had to start over. sup with that?

STFU! Only one person really complained. So stop complaining about people "complaining". I, for one, was just curious as to what had happened.

That goes for you too.

Again Looking forward to your advice and reviews..

Cool ep. Glad to hear some good news for the next gen. DVDs, and it was cool to have Martin Sargent on, Can't wait to check out tomorrows, Keep up the good work!

Here are the direct links to the first two video files to download.

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/gateskeynote/GatesKeynote.wmv

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/shapirokeynote/ShapiroKeynote.wmv

Enjoy!

http://metahost.savvislive.com/microsoft/20060104/ces_billgates_keynote_20060104_300.asx

Copy it into your web browser or open the link in your media player.

Commercial free!

So far it works fine in Media Player Classic.

Suggest you use that instead.

there is a free software solution for you if you want try it. VLC player...works great in any O/S.

okay, I'm outta here...great show...good job....I want a chimp.

I am new at this Azureus Bit Torrent program. How do I d/l the videos with Bit Torrent?

Thank you, Tom

Martin Fn rocks! great show keep it up.

Are you retarded? Show me where I was whining. If anything, I was being sarcastic. Get your facts strait before you start calling people names.

Hey idiot, go read over my last post PROPERLY. I said there are always people who complain, and YOU DID THE SAME THING. Let me refresh your ADD-afflicted memory:

Quote: "I wanted to see the microsoft ad. :( "

You couldn't wait a LITTLE bit longer before getting all weepy? I don't see any sarcasm there. Stop trying to go back and change the tone of your comment after you've been called out on it.

And I wasn't even referring to you in my original post, so I don't know why you're getting your panties in a bunch over it. Chill the f**k out.

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/02/dltv/ces1/dl.tv.ces1.wmv

Enjoy!

You seem to be the one with your panties in a bunch. It's one thing to complain about people complaining, but when you start calling everyone idiots while doing so you prove that you are indeed the one who needs to STFU. How can I explain sarcasm to you in a way that you'll understand? Then again, why should I bother?

I gotta agree with sarge fan, you guys talk about expense and advertisements all the time. I *know* you have to make a living but you could reduce the bandwidth usage and *maybe* nix a minute or two of adverts if you *just*used*bittorrent*

ANYWHO. Thanks for the great coverage, adverts or not.

-Gaiko

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/gateskeynote/GatesKeynote.wmv

Try this link:

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/ces3/dl.tv.ces.3.mp3

any video for this one?

My 11 year old son and I had been enjoying your excellent coverage of the CES when all of a sudden Martin Sargent showed up. His behaviour and verbal comments are HIGHLY OFFENSIVE.

We thought that DL.TV was "For tech fans by tech fans." I was at a loss to explain to my son why "Marty" was saying and doing such inappropriate things on a general audience show. His comments and behaviour were in no way, shape or form funny or entertaining. They were highly distasteful and I was almost at the point of having to turn off the show because I did not want my son (or me for that matter) to have to watch his sexually pre-occupied antics. For example:
1. His continuous references to pornography shows.
2. He asked a female demonstrator to pass a UV light over his crotch area (and actually moved it there in front of the camera while she was holdng the UV device) and said "Oh will it kill anything I might have picked up from that stripper last night..)
3. He kept harassing both female demonstrators to go to a bar with him.
4. When one female demonstrator was showing him a device that warmed up and they were both lying down he made reference to it "warming in just one area..." His constant references on a sexual theme would be insulting even to a 14 year old, let alone a general audience of intelligent TECH FANS. I think that Sargent could be credited with hurting the reputation of DL.TV just by his behaviour at the CES.

There are so many talented people out in the market place who could and would do a wonderful job at reviewing the newest and latest technology at the CES .. surely DL.TV does not have to hire someone as unprofessional as Martin Sargent to do the job. How about giving an opportunity to a Tech student, for example...
The world does not need more of this low level behaviour and talk.
DL.TV needs to wake up and maintain its professional level of coverage for tech fans. PLEASE!
Lorne Farnsworth,PhD

I think Martin Sargent is a wonderful guy to have on the show during an event like CES. Everyone are in ecstasy over all the new products but Martin Sargent is, with his obivious talent for comedy, able to bring everything down to earth.

If some people for some reason don't like Martin Sargent the solution is simple: donwnload the show and fast forward...

DL.TV is at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas! We've...

Hi guys,

you forgot to compress the audio of part2 of the CES shows.
It is uncompressed PCM 32khz, thats the reason why it is so
freaking huge.

You guys are incredible......great shows and i'm addicted !!!!!!!!!!!

Love the show, can't wait for more, and yes brin the sarge in once in awhile, we need some crazy humor from him.

Thanks Patrick and Robert for all your hard work and things...

The show was a sucess as IPTV media..

I am Happy that a Major Magazine is in the ForeFront of the IPTV revolustion.

Thanks to the Geeks that Know what IPTV is really all about..

one question Though I want to collect all the shows and I was having a good start untill I lost them so guys where are eps 1 - 7 ???

Keep up the Great work and I love how the PaytheBills segments are going not too long and not too pushy and Mind Wrapping =) =) =)

glad to see home brewed commercials...

Hope 2006 is the Year for DLTV and IPTV

Thanks much a Fan of Pat and Rob since 2001

Thanks Patrick and Robert for all your hard work and things...

The show was a sucess as IPTV media..

I am Happy that a Major Magazine is in the ForeFront of the IPTV revolustion.

Thanks to the Geeks that Know what IPTV is really all about..

one question Though I want to collect all the shows and I was having a good start untill I lost them so guys where are eps 1 - 7 ???

Keep up the Great work and I love how the PaytheBills segments are going not too long and not too pushy and Mind Wrapping =) =) =)

glad to see home brewed commercials...

Hope 2006 is the Year for DLTV and IPTV

Thanks much a Fan of Pat and Rob since 2001

Good Tech Review
Maybe few more "real" closer ups of tech goodies!!

Great content, my credit card is going to be b*tchslapped in '06. (Is that PG-11?)

And thanks for checking in on TWiT from time to time, it's definitely not the same without Patrick and Robert joining in on occasion.

Hey, how about a Divx video version!

Show 24
I installed AVG antivirus after reinstalling XP Pro. After installing ZoneAlarm I noticed a lot of network activity. Using ZoneAlarm to block access to the network it reported AVG needed access to IP Address 127.0.0.1. Do have idea why AVG is accessing this local loop back IP address? I am now using the free for 12 months eTrust ezAntivirus that if found on the Microsoft web site. How do you rate eTrust?

Im in bed in the uk with my laptop waiting for the show :D

Live link is up

http://zdpub-diglifestudio.wm.llnwd.net/zdpub_diglifestudio

Wow on Itunes the day after. Good to see it get on there so quick. Thanks for making such a quality show.

yay!! someone deinterlaced he intro in the h.264 version. I wondered when you would get around to this.

http://getfireant.com/ great podcatcher/video catcher which supports rss/atom and bittorrent. you can download shows that distribute via bittorrent like diggnation/systm/hak5/stepone automagically..

Only thing I don't like is its built-in media player. works for both windows and the mac.

I cant stand waiting for MPEG4 releases...anyone know if there's any way to watch the WMV's in Linux?Even VLC cant play it :`(

Please bring back the Divx file of your show.
they looked great!!! and worked on all portable
players.

Episode 25 of DL.TV streamed live in the new 4pm PST (7pm EST) time slot, on Tuesday, January 10th. Here's...

What is wrong with you people??? All people do here is whine

"I want xvid"
"My paitience is wearing thin"
"I hate media player"
"I want Ogg Vorbis"

They do that damn show in what? 6 different formats but that's not enough for you????? These guys work hard to put this stuff out for us. The least you could do is have a litle paitience and accept what they offer with a little freakin gratitude.

I love the show guys, you keep 'em comin and I'll keep watchin.

I admit my post may have been a kneejerk reaction but it was not meant to feed anyone. I'm mostly a lurker around here

Actually, I don't use Windows Media Player myself. A friend showed me VLC and have been using that for everything now.

My post was meant to vent my frustration that most of the posts here are people wanting more and complaining they get less. Like I said before they work very hard to get this content out to us and I thought a little appreciation was in order.

I don't mind the commercials though that may be because I stream the show from my laptop to my TV and I'm used to seeing commercials there so I just ignore them. I just see them as the price of keeping the content free and available to me whenever I choose to watch it.

lord rel your post was actually well thought out and brought up some good points. Just thought I would throw another 2 cents in there

Hi,

thanks for all of the download options.

but I'd love a divx in a .avi container for my handheld (not an ipod).

i've tried to transcode the wmv (microsoft... blechhh), and the (mov... non-standard apple shite... that's coming from a mac guy :) with no luck.)

Episode 25 of DL.TV streamed live in the new 4pm PST (7pm EST) time slot, on Tuesday, January 10th. Here's...

This show scrolls like butter.

Episode 27 of DL.TV streamed live at 4pm PST (12am GMT), this Tuesday, January 17th. Here's the deets:...

quit gripeing about codecs, DLTV is going way out of thier way to produce this many versions of the show anyways. VLC player plays all the files perfect anyways, so get that player and play everything. Personally I think WMV H.264 and MP3 are the only things that should be offered, WMV = quick, H.264 = nice, mp3 = fully mobile.

My $1.50 cause I'm worth that much.

All I want is a codec that is compatable with windows media player / media center, that doesnt suck as much as WMV does.

I've heard WMV is crappy or is it just me getting confused?

What you should do: contact the guys that do the Call for help torrents they do 45min shows in 200mb at 640*480 and it looks amazing!!! go into the CFH forums to find them at leovilletownsquare.com :)

"There are some MOV/WMV convertors, but they either cost money or suck."

Mencoder doesn't cost anything and it sure does not suck.

(hint: Mencoder works pretty good with dv input and it even compiles on osx.. and together with the latest xvid lib.. woah)

If you want to quickly convert something into xvid try:

mencoder -noskip -mc 0 -ovc xvid -oac mp3lame -xvidencopts fixed_quant=4 -lameopts cbr:preset=96 -fps 30 input.wmv -o xvid.avi

..you only have to set the fps for wmvs mostly. (to find out the average framerate of wmvs run 'mplayer shitty.wmv -v')

(btw.. I'm the one who told andy how to do it :))

..and check out the doom9 forums!

Looking for a fast, easy way to convert my VHS collection to dvd. In addition what DVD's do I use as I hear the DVD-r's only last two years.

Episode 27 of DL.TV streamed live at 4pm PST (12am GMT), this Tuesday, January 17th. Here's the deets:...

Great show guys. I downloaded the Windows Media format ver. and can't fast forward to the section of my choosing. I have been able to do this in the past. What is the deal guys...I don't always have time to watch the whole show (you know...wife, kids, work, etc).

Is this just me or are you trying to force me/us to watch the hole thing?

Great show guys. I downloaded the Windows Media format ver. and can't fast forward to the section of my choosing. I have been able to do this in the past. What is the deal guys...I don't always have time to watch the whole show (you know...wife, kids, work, etc).

Is this just me or are you trying to force me/us to watch the hole thing?

I have a divx/xvid dvd player. I enjoy watching high quality movies & TV shows. People are encoding shows like my name is earl from an HD source & the file sizes are only 170 megs. Your show is great but the ALL of the encoding is CRAP. PLEASE FIX UP. & thanks for what you do.

There's one other reason why I miss Divx or Xvid: my standalone DVD player can read those formats... So, when the show was available in one of those formats, I simply had to burn it as is on a DVD-RW and watch it on the big screen TV. Now, it's not that re-encoding is difficult but it's not practical to wait several hours for this so I watch it on the far less enjoyable computer screen. I suggest to drop MPEG4 in favor of Xvid or Divx.

http://www.winavi.com/en/download/download.htm

What about OTA HD coming down through coax? That's HD okay right?

So when will I be able to watch DLTV in my living room? Some vlogs are making it on to akimbo (rocketboom). What is your favorite living-room IPTV player?

Joe Rybicki of Official Playstation Magazine joined hosts Patrick Norton and Robert Heron on the 9th...

DigitalLife TV runs live every Tuesday night at 9PM EST.
 
Here's the deets:

Intel Responds...

so... wheres the download? im patiently waiting....

i digress....

*snicker* sorry patrick i had to do it!

Not Found

The requested URL /dltv/episode28/dl.tv.029.wmv was not found on this server.

would you be THE Scott? as in Associate Producer Scott?

Thanks for brinking back the Divx!!!

 
 
 
 
Episode 24 of DL.TV aired live at 1pm PST(9pm UTC) this Thursday,...

Episode 25 of DL.TV streamed live in the new 4pm PST (7pm EST) time slot, on Tuesday, January 10th. Here's...

Patrick says: "Welcome to another fine, blended edition of DL.TV!" The show streamed live at 4pm PST...

Episode 25 of DL.TV streamed live in the new 4pm PST (7pm EST) time slot, on Tuesday, January 10th. Here's...

Patrick says: "Welcome to another fine, blended edition of DL.TV!" The show streamed live at 4pm PST...

Episode 27 of DL.TV streamed live at 4pm PST (12am GMT), this Tuesday, January 17th. Here's the deets:...

DL.TV is at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas! We've...

It's DL.TV's second day at CES (Friday, 1-6-05) and we've got another...

DL.TV Episode 14 - our first Thursday episode -  aired live at 1pm PST, on November 10th.Here's...

DL.TV Episode 12 aired live on 11-1-05.
Here's the deets:
Check out the DL.TV viewer map on Frapper,...

How about doing like the twit.tv show, you could provide an RSS feed for people to automatically download new shows in fine H264 quality using BitTorrent aggregator download software. There is the http://fireant.tv for windows and mac and there is the http://dtvmac.com for mac and DTV for windows soon.. Thus you would save some bandwidth costs and we could be downloading your new shows automatically and nicely using p2p.. If you want to provide http download RSS feeds that would be okay also.. am I right thinking you don't have those video rss feeds yet?

any reason the divx file downloads at 40kB but the h.264 file downloads at 400kB?

DL.TV Episode 10 aired live on 10-18-05.
 
Here's the deets
Tyler Kovacs, CTO of Zvents talks...

Joe Rybicki of Official Playstation Magazine joined hosts Patrick Norton and Robert Heron on the 9th...

Episode 15 aired live at 6pm PST, this Tuesday, November 22nd. 
 
Here's the deets:
...

Episode 15 aired live at 6pm PST, this Tuesday, November 22nd. 
 
Here's the deets:
...

DL.TV Episode 11 aired live on 10-25-05.
 Here's the deets:
How's the video on Apple's new iPod?...

DL.TV Episode 11 aired live on 10-25-05.
 Here's the deets:
How's the video on Apple's new iPod?...

Jim Louderback joined us on the seventh episode of DL.TV and
brought in some inexpensive, but not necessarily...

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of DigitalLife TV. Mark MacDonald, the Executive...

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron hosted our sixth episode of DigitalLife TV. Mark MacDonald, the Executive...

Garnett Lee from 1up.com joined Robert Heron and Patrick Norton on the Fifth Episode of DigitalLife TV....

DigitalLife TV runs live every Tuesday night at 9PM EST.
 
Here's the deets:

Intel Responds...

Garnett Lee from 1up.com joined Robert Heron and Patrick Norton on the Fifth Episode of DigitalLife TV....

Kevin Rose joined Patrick Norton on our second episode of DL.TV. Here's the deets:

Intel Tells...

Im from the UK and have 10Mbit and get full speed off you , so nps here. Keep up the great work.

Download speed at 100kb. It went really fast considering my usual download speed is at around 70kb. And the service I use is Earthlink because I've heard bad things about the comast service here in San jose. But I really should switch over to them.

Started at 177kb/sec and gradually picked up to 480kb/sec. Not bad -- I generally get from 490-520kb/sec downloading from another file server in your area.

DL.TV Episode 29 streamed live at 4pm PST (midnight GMT) this Tuesday,...

I usually get about 540kb/s when I DL an episode. I am in Texas using Time Warner Cable's 6mb RoadRunner service. Thanks for the great content, keep it up!

Comcast Cable here.
Maximum transfer rate = 785.3 kB/sec.
Average transfer rate = 595.4

Hey! Did any of you guys get asked to take a survey when you click on the download page? I gave very high marks to Pat and the gang! I don't need no stinkin' survey to say how great I think the show is, lol, but I took the time to say that anyway! ;-)

Way to go, manfesto! :-)

DL.TV Episode 29 streamed live at 4pm PST (midnight GMT) this Tuesday, January 24th. Here's the deets:Pixel...

DL.TV Episode 29 streamed live at 4pm PST (midnight GMT) this Tuesday, January 24th. Here's the deets:Pixel...

This show rocks, I didn't know where Patrick went when "The ScreenSavers" went off the air, I finally found him.

330KB/s, Europe, Holland. My connection is limited to 8192 Kbps.

330KB/s, Europe, Holland. My connection is limited to 8192 Kbps.

Im downloading at 463 KB/s on a 4 Mbit/s (max 470 KB/s) ADSL.
Slovenia -> Europe.

Anyone else find it annoying that they talked about slipstreaming for 3 episodes prior and then all we got was a website and a couple screenshots?

Come on if you are going to hype a future segment maybe Robert could actually USE the thing and give us some info that can't be found in 30 seconds on a website.

I'm in New York City running a 30Mbps cable connection and I started download at 20,000KB/s (How?) and leveled off at 3700KB/s, so your connection is very good. Total download time was 58 seconds.

I find my speeds are the same dling the divx eps vs the other ones.

QUESTION: are you guys going to convert the rest of the previous episodes to DivX?

DL.TV Episode 30 streamed live at 4:00pm PST (well, about a 1/2 hr. later, this time) on Thursday, January...

Of course I'll fill out your survey, I know the value of statistical inferences myself.

In episode 29 .. Robert said there are no "Hi-Def" 42" plasmas. For the most part that is true. Most are 1024x720 which in Lloyd Case's vocabulary falls short of megapixel HD. Akai and Hitachi offer 1024x1024 42" plasmas. There would be better pixel density for sure, however the only drawback I could see is if you send PC through it ... would have to pull back on resolution to maintain aspect ratio.

As much as I don't want to be patient and wait ... this is the year of 1080P LCD. All HDTV's are pricey ... so why not wait for some good brands with better componentry to drop into the Sceptre and Westinghouse price range by end of year. JVC 40" and Sharp's redesign of it's 45" are some of the only premo stuff out now, but that will change.

Providing constructive feedback works for me.

Survey gets a little nosey around the employment arena.

I'd remove that portion of the survey.

Patrick and Robert are doing a great job.

whats the deal with encoding divx?
I normally give up waiting and download anyone of the above and encode it on my 1.8 ghz laptop in about an hour. what takes you so long?

Is anyone getting really slow speeds, I used to get about 356kb, but recently I have been only getting like 75-150 Kbs, more less around 100, so whats up?

It's about the same speed as always 594kb tonight. Maybe it is because I am in the Midwest - safely away from the two coasts. :-)

Althou I prefer XviD/DivX I almost always end-up downloading other formats because u guys always takes ages to release it.
I can't understand the problem, converting to XviD/DivX is super easy and relatively fast.

I'm also waiting for DivX to show up.

WHERE IS DIVX.

Quicktime is the best i;ve found, and thats coming from an DivX/Xvid fan. Anyone else agree? Comments?

Just copy and paste the URL into Windows Media Player's Open URL dialog and it works fine.

Come on on guys! I want my DivX and I'm sure a lot people want it too. If you don't have the computing power to encode it, send me the footage and I'll do it myself (I have DivX 6 Pro)...

So you guys stopped doing DivX? Is that why episode 31 says DivX available Feb 1st after 4PM despite the fact that its now Feb 3rd? I like DivX... =(

DL.TV Episode 32 streamed live Thursday, February 2nd.
 
Here's the deets:

Patrick broke the...

DL.TV Episode 30 streamed live at 4:00pm PST (well, about a 1/2 hr. later, this time) on Thursday, January...

My concerns are external players like a phillips DVP642 or a modded xbox.

The mpeg-4 version will play on those players but its lower quality than the divx was.

As for XBMC, well it plays the WMV version fine, and since its the smallest filesize, and its out first, I usually watch that.

H.264 is a bit demanding for a poor old xbox, you have to put up with a lot of frame drops on bitrates this high. I believe a happy medium would be to make the h.264 640x480, and decrease the bitrate some so it will play better. This would also make it smaller than the WMV version, which would make it better for archiving.

I should say I'm a fan of xvid as well, and there is some amazing stuff out on the being done with it (624x352, 50+ mins, 350MB) ... it seems you just have to have the know-how to do it, which apperently nobody at dl.tv does.

Alright, I watch DL.TV every release at work on my gp2x handheld, it supports 2 formats, DivX, and XviD....

The ONLY way i'm going to watch the show is on my portable device, and I don't want to sit here and convert mp4 to divx...

So what's the problem? There is a demand for it...

please release divx download

I lot of us want to watch DLTV on our TVs.

You've got 4 formats that can run on any computer.

How about 1 for DIVX enables DVD players?

What are you trying to prove by offering H.264 AND MPEG4?

I lot of us want to watch DLTV on our TVs.

You've got 4 formats that can run on any computer.

How about 1 for DIVX enables DVD players?

What are you trying to prove by offering H.264 AND MPEG4?

Another vote for Divx OR Xvid for all of us principled, independent, non-corporate, geek, fans.

YESSS!! another vote for divx or xvid!!! Bring it back! Screw WMV!!!

Hi, I'm a regular viewer of you show and must say this is one of the best tech video podcast out there.

However this episode crashes iTunes (6.0.2.23) on my XP (SP2) desktop about 12:10 into the show.

This has occured a few times in some of your previous episodes.

FYI I've never encountered this problem with other video podcast.

Divx provides the best quality when watching it on my
19" LCD at full-screen using mplayer. *All* the other
formats suck wind in this mode. And are not much better
in regular mode. :-(

Please bring back DivX.

My DVD player supports either of these formats. Thanks!

>H.264 is a bit demanding for a poor old xbox

works here without problems

last week h.264 episode was screwed, didnt work in quicktime/mplayer/media player/media player classic/vlc, so it was definitely bad file

Interlacing is UNBEARABLE, its sooo lame i dont know how you manage to get paid for making those videos.

Please, I've been waiting to download DL.tv due to the message I saw on Episode 31 (about being available on the 1st). And now I see there's not an option available for Divx this time around. If I don't see Divx, I don't download.

Hi,

I'm very pleased with the show and everything, but I'm asking for a bit of continuity in the video section. It confuses me. I started of watching the crappy version that normal people get from iTunes, then I started to just download the h.264 file right of the homepage. But when I compared that to xvid I switched to xvid. When that was gone I switched back to h.264 and then to divx.

I'm not even sure that was the real deal but the point is that it's confusing to have always those changes. And I say that because I store everything that I download. (It's great to look back to a certain episode and lookup some info).

I'm very sure that there's a good choice because you CAN compare codecs among each other by quality.

Good luck.

Please bring back the Divx I watch the show on my philips DVP-642/37 dvd player

Please bring back the Divx please. I now have to convert (takes 1 hour) the MPEG4 to play on my Zen Vision:M, which I love by the way. It has a great screen.

Another vote for divx, Patrick emailed me a response a while back about the Divx.
"We get less than 300 downloads per episode, give or take, in the DivX/XviD formats. Out of tens of thousands of downloads, Getting that format requries us to do an extra capture and encode on top of all the other enocding. So it's kind of a labor of love... and we weren't getting much love for it. Factor in a 12-18 hour work day on the days when we have to do all the encoding and uploading... and it got dropped. Oddly enought, Scott's encoding episodes 24 to the latest episode this week, so you'll be caught up for a while.

BTW, I thought the Archos could play MPEG4?
P"

Well I vote for DivX/XviD, but understand your position ... I think one of the reasons there are so few downloads is DivX is the last one posted. I will download the mpeg4 version because it's released before the DivX.

I am planning to buy a HDTV, and I was browsing the Philips Online Store and I found some interesting specs. I am looking at the 42" LCD and the 50" Plasma. The 42" plasma has a Contrast ratio (typical) : 500:1 and the 50" plasma has Contrast ratio : 10000:1, so I don't know if the contrast ratio is really that important or how it'll effect the colors. Also the 42" LCD's brightness : 400 cd/m2, and the 50" plasma's Brightness : 1500 cd/m2, do I really need my TV to be really bright and how is that going to effect the colors or resolution? Then I found an interesting point, on the Plasma page it says it has a High-definition plasma WXGA display, 1024 x 768p, but if you scroll down it says that the panal resolution is 1366 x 768p, yet on the LCD side it is all 1366 x 768p. What does that mean or is it that they just made a mistake on the page? Last question, whats a good contrast for a LCD backlight? Thank you for looking over all of my questions, and please give me some firm answers.

Are the files hosted on a server connected via dialup?

Because it doesn't matter when I try to download one, it's almost always stuck at about 50kps.

I just got through downloading another file from another site at over 500kps so it isn't my connection.

As long as everybody is asking for different formats, I would like to add CCIR 601. Bring it back!!! I need this to run on my old laserdisc player!!!

About time ya'll.

I've been albe to DL the show since this morning.

You guys need to leave the comment section alone and let people post the links.

If anyone wants, you can change the 33 to 34 for next weeks show as well since it takes them longer to post the links, then it does to upload the files.

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode33/dl.tv.033.mp3
http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode33/dl.tv.033.wmv

For next week; wait a couple hours after the show, then change the "33"'s in the above link to "34", and you won't have to wait until they post the link some 12 hour later.

DIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVX
DIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVX
DIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVX
DIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVX
DIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVXDIVX

Sorry sorry, couldn't resist :)
Really, I'm not too bad off now because TCPMP on my Zodiac can play the MP4's as well as the DivXviD's using it's DSP chip decoder.

I'll download the DivXvid later when it arrives because I still haven't figured out how to play MP4s on my PC with Media Player Classic without installing QuickTime (QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media are BANNED from my Windows and Linux systems. Sticking to principles is a real pain in the arse when everyone uses proprietory codecs and you only have AVI, OGG and MKV to play with...!)

It's DL.TV's last day at CES, and we've got a ton of innovative and quirky gadgets show you before we...

It's DL.TV's second day at CES (Friday, 1-6-05) and we've got another great show covering the vast range...

DL.TV is at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas! We've got tons of coverage on all the new...

WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!! Divx format!

You guys rule!

I've been waiting 4 divx since ep 31 and now it's here...I'm stoked!

Finally I come to DL a episode and there is a working DivX link :)

You know that CES is sucking when DEMO is making the news? When was the last this thing had this much coverage????
sheesh

Thanks for the DivX guys. Also appreciate the new versions
of the previous episodes.

Thx.

I streamed watched it last night and got that old spaghetti western feeling... It was funny! So will we get to see Vista soon?

Bittorrent and eMule links would be great. It would take some pressure off of your servers. If your interested in eMule, try this free and legal database at http://content.emule-project.net

It would also help with outages.

Either way I love the show, peace out!

-Matt J.

Bittorrent and eMule links would be great. It would take some pressure off of your servers. If your interested in eMule, try this free and legal database at http://content.emule-project.net

It would also help with outages.

Either way I love the show, peace out!

-Matt J.

I was wondering why you guys pulled down the DivX link?

Okay, I realized that I can just use the Episode 33 link and change the 33 to a 34 to get to DivX downloads. Make it easier and post the link others on top?

Heres the link if it isn't posted yet.

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode34/dl.tv.034.divx

The link to the divx file has a %20 after it.

You are always going to miss counting the d'loads that get passed on to other http mirrors etc. You'll get the same with your torrent files going to other trackers. But if you seed enough hosts early people will generally stick with the tracker with the most seeds.

As for couting download numbers, Have your client seeding the whole file early and create a simple plugin for Azureus that keeps stats on peer numbers. The instant any peer reaches 100% of the file you count it as a hit.

Can you tell all your http hits actaully have the whole file? ;)

Hello!

Do you guys have the Crysis screenshots that you showed on the video available for download? Would be greatly appreciated, thank you :)

Sorry, couldn't resist. =-)

Here's my theory about the 1200 hours bug: Somewhere they're storing the uptime in milliseconds in an unsigned 32 bit integer.

If you did that, you'd have (says google calc)

(((2^32) / 1000) / 60) / 60 = 1193.04647

hours before it overflows.

Bad developer! No cookie!
(Not that I can afford a Bravia anyway)

A computer would be a digital source. Going to VGA means converting that digital source into an analog stream. To present that onto an LCD would mean converting back to a digital signal again. Since a possibility of signal degradation occurs with each translation, why not go from a dignital source to a digital display?

Don't know if there's just a lot of traffic or what, but I am downloading the WMV file and it's only 34% downloaded and says it'll take another two and a half hours!! Yikes! How long is this show, lol?! ;-)

hey, nie preview of crysis, but please fix the download link for the divx version or give us an alternative download link, like bit torrent ;)

The reason i belive they take so much time to do their encoding is that they actually want the output video to look good so they're taking their time with that. Also some compression works better with certain kinds of video, i've had quite a few videos of boradroom presentations with very bright colors on the walls in the room they were given, which looked god awful in divx and xvid but excellent in quicktime and windows media 8/9.

Why hasn't dl.tv exploited bit torrent as a distribution system? It might take an extra half hour to get all the torrents made, but the bandwidth savings would be substantial and it would make for faster downloads as well.

Any chances of seeing some bigger versions? Particularly a 2560x1600?

heres the proper link for the divx file
http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode34/dl.tv.034.divx

calm down, joe. the stream's not up, because a) yesterday's show was "cancelled" and b) there won't even BE a stream for today's "make-up show."

gosh, you give joes all over a bad name (including the fake ones using it as an alias). ;)

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Whens I woke up, I was layin in my front yard. I was covered in some type of sticky ooze of a liquid and I couldn't remember a thing. Anyways, I just came in my house to wash up when I noticed my computer actin up, so I comes on over to check it out.

It was hard to descibe, but it was... wait a minute... I just heard something out front of my house. Sounded god awful whatever it is. I'm going to go check it out now. I'll finish this post in a few more minutes. wait... what the hell was that? someones coming in my front dooorrrerryhgfjjjjjjjjjjjjj

I forgot to mention that DeComb is plugin for AviSynth, and not a stock option. I also did not give a proper link, here is one you can click instead of cut/past.

http://home.pacbell.net/brutus/dl.tv.035-clip.avi

I recommend you let the advertisers worry about their advertising. I'm sure they don't need you using them as an excuse to WHINE LIKE AN INFANT.

I love Digital Life Tv, and these pioneers to Tech TV previous...YOU GO! Straight up...awesome!!!!

Missed you guys last Thurs. Your show is awesome. Finially something to watch Tues. & Thur. nights. My son turned me on to it a couple months ago & now I am addicted. Can't get enough, so PLEASE DON'T GO AWAY!! I'll send money .... {so will others I'm sure}

you guy were annoying Thursday, too much giggling, lets hope we don't have another power outage w/ the server.

DLTV . . . GET YOUR S+++ TOGETHER. IN THIS BUSINESS YOU CANT PASS BLAME OFF ON ANYONE ELES BUT YOURSELF. SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU F UP, YOU LOSE CREDIBILITY. WHY SHOULD PEOPLE DOWNLOAD YOUR EPISODES IF YOU CANT EVEN RUN A SHOW. DONT GET SLOPPY.

DLTV RULES! . . . FOR NOW

dl.tv . . . we understand people get sick. we also understand high-traffic sites can go down. in this business you can't pass blame; but, then again, you weren't really doing that anyways. see what happens when your site goes down? people flame you. although, why should people flame you if you run a show for free? we all think you deserve a break every once in a while.

dl.tv rules! . . . 4 ever!

p.s., i love ". . ."s! THEY RULE! f the comma! it sux! 1337 h4x0rz use dot-dot-dots! YEAH MAN!

people are pissed and people get pissed because their pissed. it goes around and around , dont you see? i just wanted to see my post about being pissed on here,thanks

I sit by the phone waiting for you to call. Why do I sit here. Why do I care. Yet youve always been there in the past. Maybe its time to just ... move on.

I just want to tell you boys that I love the show and that I have learned so much from the show that even if the show ended now I am all the wiser havening seen the episodes. Thank you for all the free knowledge and I well keep checking for a new show for as long as it takes!!

notice the withdrawl symptoms- easily irritable.

How about doing a Clutch Cargo style episode in the future? That will teach us...

...what they are doing is not *new*" is what I meant to type

Also, yes, I know that Leno, Letterman, and the Daily Show are not live. But they are daily and air new shows 4-5 times a week.

DivX video quality is great, better than all other formats (iTunes quality really sucks...). But the sound is strange. Maybe you should increase the sampling rate or something?

Otherwise, your show is great! And gives me a good treat improving my english...

Nice to see you guys back. And to make you feel back at home let me start off by saying... bring back the theora format, no divx, no I mean xvid.

I enjoy having the avi file because I can burn it dvd-rw and watch it on my dvd player and tv. Better than watching it on the computer.

come on guys where is the divx/xvid file.

Watched the show live over a DSL-line in Sweden last night and it was smooth. Was expecting dropouts, but there were no hitches whatsoever.

It's really nice to watch it live in decent quality knowing it is streamed half across the globe. Keep up the good work.

Great Show Guys! But like others... Where's the divx?

Please show a little love for a Creative Vision:M user and post an avi version each week. I really enjoy the show but I hate to wait for encoding to watch it on my portable player. Thanks guys.
By the way I love the show. I never miss an episode.

I liked screensaver, Attack of the Show sucks. Where the DIVX version. It works the best with my D-Link DSM 520 Media server.

I want my Xvid. Do it!! I command You

Where is the Divx or xvid version?
You guys looks like you did a really bad encode and dropped some frames when i play the H.264 version on my xbox, you don't want that now do you ;)

Other than that small detail, it's a great show

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Thank you for one of the best shows you've done! We like the way you talk about the tech news. We feel included in your discussions, it's laid back & like we are there.

Thanks for the Vista tour. Please more when you feel there's more to show.

Enjoy keeping up with what is going on in the Tech world.
Keep up the great work! Never miss an episode..thanks from both my Husband & I!

No Divx ?

Great show! This is what the new media is all about.

Request: Could we have the archives updated to include shows 31-34? Thanks!

Where's DIVX?

Just thought I would let you know that not just Canada has Curling Stadium's. Here in Duluth, Minnesota we have a curling club - Link: http://www.duluthcurlingclub.org/ , where the 2006 U.S. Junior National Championships were held earlier this year. Here in Minnesota many towns have clubs like this, to learn more about curling check out the UNITED STATES CURLING ASSOCIATION site - http://www.usacurl.org/

Love the show, Keep up the good work,

Josh Halvorson
Duluth Minnesota

Plz state if you sre not going to provide divx anymore..

I have taken the feed for xvid out of my av-replay program since that doesnt work anymore. Any chance of spinoff shows?? Thx for the free shows and tech entertainment...

I know it must sound like a broken record but please give us an .avi - we really like to burn to CD?DVD-RW and watch you guys on our TV

The Windows Media edition audio leads the video by half a second or so at the end of the program. This is somewhat disconcerting.

Thanks Robert and Patrick for your DivX distribution. I was waiting for Episode 37 in DivX, but it did not come... so I gave up on that. Now how about WMV/H.264 in High Definition? Joking. I know you have a busy schedule and you have lives, so thanks for the DivX (Better quality especially when I transcode to burn onto DVD to play on regular DVD player).

I think you guys should update the sidebar links now that Episodes 38, 37, and 35 are the lastest episodes, not 30, 29, etc.

Love DL.TV and have gotten about twenty friends to watch it.

The DivX files Rock!!

Now that you guys have made your decision on these formats, can we get an RSS feed. Started using Democracy player.

Episode 27 of DL.TV streamed live at 4pm PST (12am GMT), this Tuesday, January 17th. Here's the deets:...

DL.TV Episode 28 streamed live at 4pm PST (midnight GMT) this Thursday, January 19th. Here's the deets:...

DL.TV Episode 29 streamed live at 4pm PST (midnight GMT) this Tuesday, January 24th. Here's the deets:...

DL.TV Episode 30 streamed live at 4:00pm PST (well, about a 1/2 hr. later, this time) on Thursday, January...

Or a bad hair day? Lets see ep 39 available March 2 next ep available Friday Feb 22nd??

Possibilities are 1. TARDIS 2. Tame Black Hole 3. Stuff Up. 1 or 2 would be really hi tech but my money goes on 3. Time to fix the web page guys

I would like to see more mods, SLI, overclocking, new cooling systems, new amd processors and , oh yeah, tips on expanding wireless access points.

It's late Wednesday, mtn time (8:50) - and I am patiently waiting.

Whatever you guy did worked. I use to download this show at around 400-500kbps. Now I got a steady 1200kbps, 200 more than what my ISP (RCN Boston) is supposed to give me. And ditto on the VLC player.

i wonder how much interference is being caused by the BPL system that is in place, in cincinati that the poster on here was talking about?

Sure have been many complaints by amateur radio operators being one myself, and professional electronics engineers alike , and others. it will be interesting to see how it works out. The technology sure has it's critics. The FCC also seems to have taken a blind eye to the technical consequences, in lue of the mighy $ as well.

Same goes for the divx version:

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode39/dl.tv.039.divx

downloaded the divx from the linky, it no worky...
:-(

It's Thursday already. Where is the rest or formats? 'iPod first' attitude is killing me.

"(I know, How did we get this size?)"

Mmm, probably because half the file is missing. Mine cuts out at 17:36, but the total time says 39:48. I downloaded three times to make sure.

the divx copy i downloaded stopped at 17:36 too. What's the deal?

Patrick!! Don't listen to those cry babies. The younger generation does not know what it is to work or how long it takes to get the job done. They need to learn to relax and wait their turn. THANKS for the great shows. I convert the wmv to play on my PocketPC to watch in bed.

Will this be available for download like dltv, with the time difference and all it would make life alot easier for us in Oz

When I saw 170mb I was happy, but it turns out it's much much more than that, and I know we may not be the target audience here, but hey people, there are still people around the world using 256kbps DSL... even if it is because we have no other CHOICE.

Honestly, a LQ version would be greatly appreciated but those of us in countries that have no access to faster broadband even if we'd be happy to pay for it. (I'm in Argentina, by the way).

Want to delay it an hour so that I can watch it live? :)
At school right now... :(

y I get a 404 when I go to download BAD! BAD! BAD!

Arg. Blocked by 8e6 Technologies. What kind of a company name is that, anyway!

Why all the upset about immediate file availability and download sizes?

Folks, these shows are provided for FREE. How about a bit of thanks to the team that brings this to us instead?

For what it is worth I'm on dialup. Yes, dialup. Not even 56k because my telephone service doesn't support it. There is NO broadband available where I live. (Ah yes, there is a horrible price for all of this wooded beauty. ;)

I want to see the video of the show so I will download it with Flashget. It can take a day or two. And you know what, as much as that sucks I'm STILL thankful to have it available. It's worth the wait. Thanks guys. :)

Ok, here is the solution to dl.tv's problems...

1. Stop streaming the show. It doesn't work for enough people (people=morons) and creates panic style comments. Comments should be about the show content, not about download problems. Continuing as you are reflects badly on Zdnet, Patrick, Jim, etc.

2. Record the show; post the show; announce the show.

Problem sol ved.

-Clouseau

Hey, I don't care if I have to pay or get it free. It's when something is not reliable at the same time and same day you loose people! Think if google worked and then didn't and then did and then worked they would be #1 right now?

Crap folks, There working as fast as they can; doing the best they can. Chill with the complaints and give more "at-a-boys" and or Good Job Guys!. All the negativity does not make them work any faster. As for the encoding and file formats? Honestly I don't care; as long as I can watch it with a player that I have on my system I am good. I mean VLC can pretty much play anything MS Player Classic can too. And the file sized? I am sure at LEAST 60% (or more) has some form of broadband or has access to one either via a friend's house, at there work place (if they allow that kind of thing) or good ole open free wifi. Besides if you want you downloads to go faster; kill BitComent or the like's for a couple mins. Heh.

Patrick, your doing a kick ass job  Being Watching TSS since the beginning and listen to the other podcast that the old school TechTV Crew (TWiT, Whats New Now, The Chris Prillio Show, Diggnation, ExteremTech). Rock on man, Rock on.

Just wanted to drop in my two cents& I'll return to the back of the room now&. PEACE!

Awesome show! I bet Leo is mad but, you have to admit ziff davis is starting to make a techTv-like network.

cool show Heron and Dvorak always tops, but can you please lose the Windows Media streaming BS

Good God, you have a LOT of stupid people posting to this page....
Whine-bitch-moan Dvorak...
Whine-bitch-moan TWiT...
Whine-bitch-moan shill for Microsoft...
You kinda get the idea...

This is for the Brain-dead who insist on mistaking what this page is for;

It's NOT about TWiT! Patrick and Robert does that show because they WANT to, and ZD DOESN'T have a problem whith that.

It's NOT for bitching about how you hate Dvorak. Simple thing, stupid, DON'T download! Nobody is making you listen!

It's NOT for bitching about Leo's absence or presence. LEO makes that decision, not Ziff-Davis.

It's NOT for bitching about (your favorite program here)!
DLTV puts the shows out in as many formats as possible so other people with crappy hardware can STILL see the shows!
Yah, I'm NOT thrilled I HAVE to download in WMV! This G3-500 ONLY shows choppy in ANY other format, and WMV is the least of the worst!

C'mon ON, people! Clean the CRAP outta your heads! Positive and negative comments, yeah. That's how shows evolve. Random ranting and raving (sorta like my post), take it elsewhere! We already get enough e-mail SPAM without getting blog-spam!

watched part of the show, what I saw looks good, downloading it now to finish it.

Keep put out the great shows

For the love of god could you please not use crappy comic sans ms for the end credits! Is this a comic book? no. Are the end credits a word bubble? no. Is this for little children who like crappy overused fonts? I hope not. Comic Sans has its uses but NOT as the end credits to a tech show. I want to stab my eyes out when I see it
used like that.

Other than that the show was ok, in the beginning it was stiff and seemed kinda akward and the black background makes everyone seem far apart and distant.

Not much was said here that hasn't been said before, the problem with iptv now is that 40% of the shows are tech shows and they all talk about the same stuff that has been written about already on 80 blogs because there isn't that much tech news in one week for 12 shows and a hundred blogs to all say original things.

All you Mac people need to take your fuchsia colored ibooks and head over to leoville. This show isn't for you (that is unless you want to hear unbiased opinions on computing and technology).

The show is great. I really like the fact, everybody have his time to talk and listen each other result to learn opinion of everyone on the stand.

Great intelligent tech show, Good Job Dvorak, I might drop TWIT for this. I dig the Polka music.

I like video podcasts, these aren't the days of Ovaltine and LIttle Orphan Annie anymore. I simply don't have the patience for every Tom Dick and Harry audiocast coming out these days. My loss and my ad-revenue eyeballs, I guess.

Video compression efficiency is IMHO a lame reason to use a hideous black background for a visual presentation.

should bring on better geeks with more crankiness, I nominate richard stallmann, eric raymond, linux torvalds and theo de raadt. now that would be entertaining.

We need a few watchdogs to warn us about overhyped tech gadgetry that "stinks"!

I like it.

will try to download again...i watch ur show on my plasma... could u put a moving DL.TV logo in the background... thanks, big fan from the screen saver days, :)

Great show, I was really wanting to know what they all thought about the sapce elevator though. On the other hand get this show up and going as soon as possible.

Guys, Get a bigger desk. You can see Patrick's chair peeking out behind the desk on Screen Right! Small point but the difference between semi-pro and broadcast quality ;)

The show was good, thought it would be a twit clone but it's definitely different and for the most part held my attention, didn't like sebastian rupley, and I think the name is terrible, only one of the geeks seemed cranky. But I like it, great idea.

This show idea has SO MUCH promise. I like Dvorak's BS-cutting style, but I think he needs crankier geeks on the set with him. Although I can see where coming up with someone as cranky as Dvorak could prove challenging..

Hello DivX lovers,
I read a couple of posts saying that the DivX file is not working all that well. I tested what we had and it was working fine, but I recaptured and rendered a new file anyway. So, download again and enjoy. I tested the file on a couple different machines and looks fine. Let us know via email if there is a problem.

I enjoyed the show! So much for the space elevator though.

I just have to say, the show is great. I love the new project also. I am a government contracted network engineer with a passion for new tech, gadgets, and gaming. Your insites reflect my own experiences with my after work hobbies. Like the Orb network topic. I've been a user since Dec. and love the feature. I use an ATI A-I-W 8500DV with tuner capabilities on one of my desktops at home and love the freebee as well. It was refreshing to see your episodes that involved the topic of how the people at Orb funded the setup. Your input and research answered a question that I thought I would never have blogged or emailed. Good form also. Very relaxing and not so stuffy. Buy the way, Verizon Fios is here is Pittsburgh. I do not benefit from the service(but will soon). One of my colleagues got the $45.00 version with 15 Megs but called to downgrade after your webcast. The Fluke shows the difference only when Ping(ing) out to remote ip location. Some snags on server redirects. The drop down of bandwith speed evened out his speed tests across the board. Well, anyways thank you. I enjoy the show and hope you keep it up.

Phew! 41 downloaded. If I survive until tomorrow night I'll be back. If not, I won't!

I can't seem to download the h.264 version. When I right click I get a 4KB "dl.tv.041.mov.html" file.

Maybe a corrupt download (to the UK), but: the .m4v crashes both iTunes and QuickTime Pro (after about 40 seconds from the start). QT Pro reports "Buffer overrun detected".

Ditto to Luke's comments above; The H.264 version was unwatchable as encoded on my 3ghz P4.

what is the best format for running on a pentium 2 300
256mb laptop

"why no torrents?
Posted by: de-pro 9
Wednesday, March 08, 2006 8:53 PM

We could download your show much faster if you had torrents up. ;) "

They said they can't do bittorrent till they can track how many times poeple download the files. So they can charge the ad people and make a living.

Personally this should be done asap because they would save a ton of bandwith which would in turn save a lot of money. I always have a 5:1 to 10:1 share ratio every week with ogg vorbis version of twit.

You guys are really on top of it, thanks for fixing it, I was laying in bed about to watch it, and it starts crashing, so I knew if I came to the site, someone must've brought it up, thanks again. And don't ever stop making the ipod viddys!

-Kenny

The audio was 2 seconds out of sync on the DivX version. I tried not only running it in DivX player but also in VLC and Media Player Classic with the same sync problem.

we all know that nothing ever goes to plan, so just learn from your mistakes and give us some great shows!

Darn, I was just going to upload a Bittorrent link of the show I recorded.

That Heron's be up to something again

24 kbps!? Or do you mean 24 kBps?

If you are uploading at 24 kbps, it'd take a day or two (or three..) to get the DivX version uploaded... Never mind all the other formats....

Either way, I have to agree it sucks.

Just like the good ole days at AOHELL! Well, I guess I'll go watch paint dry for a while and check back by...

Whoa ususally the WMA format is smallest... but I'll grab the smallest version there is.. and today it's the H.264.

I second the question about the WMV being larger. How bout a version in any of the video formats under 159mb, so I can fit the last 4 epsiodes on a cd-r.

I love the show and have been following you guys since TechTV days but I do get disappointed when you were asking yourselves whether "is there curling in Sweden" and other facts about the olympics. Sweden friggin' won the olympics in hockey and curling. It's almost as sad as when Kevin Rose was wondering what currency SEK was? That is the Swedish currency. I've lived in the US for close to 10 years and I do keep myself a little bit more informed about what I'm talking about. Shape up, we all know you're smart guys.......instead of coming across as dumb...

I've noticed that on the Divx version of the show, the audio gets a little bit out of synch with the video. This usually happens in the last 25% (roughly) of every episode.

I usually watch the episodes on my Palm Lifedrive with tcpmp (which is why I need the Divx, it's the only format the program will play).

Anybody else notice this, or is it just me?

Where is the RSS feed for the DIVX version? It would be nice...

Surely you're from Sweden.

I too have noticed a lot of problems with A/V Sync on the h.264 movies.

Thanks guys I appriciate you guys staying up and getting all of the formats ready. And Im getting 479kb/s

Borrowed a friend's cheapo portable dvd player & noticed it does MPEG4. No more screwing with PSP video9, just divx to cdrw & go.
Does Sony make an official backdrawer/closet stand for PSP? :?
joe in boston

I got 100mbit.down/24mbit.up and getting pretty high speeds (all the way to sweden =] ) when downloading your show, but even if it was 20kb/sec i would still download it,,,, thanx for a great show

Is there going to be a DIVX RSS feed anytime soon? That would make podcasting the show much easier.

Thanks

Which format offers the best video quality, divx or h264?

Looks like you've made some big improvment in the way you encode the different formats... we don't have to wait for 2 days to enjoy your shows. Many thanks for that!

You guys "only" have to work on updating your RSS feeds now!

You guys have opened a Pandora's box, guys. Now you have to figure out whether you're going to roll out the video early every time :P

To be fair, I really appreciate it! Thanks, guys!

And yes, Robert was amazing this episode. Unleash teh fury.

thanks for the quick encoding and awesome show.

Missed the first 15 mins, Windows decided it needed 35 updates at 2:PM. You guys need to do a 'Logan's Run' kind of thing, like Cranky Geek #1, #2, #3... Or maybe Dvorak as Head Crank?

Lol, never thought of calling Mr. Happy a key before? "Let's get up, turn the key and start it" - AC/DC

Looking forward to the download, 'cause I missed some of it. So how long is this going to be a beta? What, you're competing with Google now?

You guys got the h.264 up fast. That Quad Core Powermac working out for ya huh?

This is great - but it is getting a bit too large to download. Any chance of a lower quality version of (say) 100Mb for those of us not in Southern California?

I'm at a tech park with quad OC-3's, so DL speeds for me are usually limited by the upload speed of the server.

For the first time, DL.TV has downloaded in a relatively speedy fashion. From 1800 - 1900 KB/sec. (14.4Mbps)

Thanks for whatever upgrades you've made!

Well I was gonna complain about the size of the divx file until I saw the quality, it was a lot better than it has been in the past. keep up the good work guys.

fantastic the qualitys great, i know others will complain its too big but im gonna end up blind watching the ipod version or the wmv stretched up to fit my 32ins telly this was great

im amased that people complain that they are getting 700kbps+ download im on 2mb and in britian its about as fast as you can get there is 10mb available in places but cable isnt everywhere, 8mb is on the way, the sooner the better

cheers for the divx rss feed as well

brent

Big honky file. As long as the quality is great I'll keep downloading. Anyways I have a DVD burner if my 100gb harddrive gets a bit bloated.

this show is quite boring. not like dl.tv. Cranky geek seems quite fake to me. No life in it. an d Jon d cevorak can get to people's nerve by his stupid comments.

i dont think they should be that much bigger there has to be some settings to tweak with to bring it down... becuase it keeps getting bigger.

I use Verizon DSL in Seattle and am paying for 3Mbps but my dl.tv speeds are stopped at 192KBps. What gives? Is Verizon speed capping me or what? I use the divx format because I have an awesome upconverting Toshiba DVD Player (Costco only 80 bucks) that will play straight divx files but 50 minutes to download....might as well be dial-up.

I know it's not the dl.tv's fault; just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.

David Sparks ruined it for me.

This guy Devorak always finds faults into others. Always talks negative about every single thing and funny thing is he doesnto like change and he claims himself a tech buff.
Be real man and change your attitude.

I agree we don't need DLTV in HD. Scary.
But not everybody watches it on a 3inch ipod screen.
640x480 on a 27inch screen show alot of compression artifact. The DIVX version is 720x544 and looks great on a home theater system.
I know I am not the only on who feels this way.
Complainers just post more.
Regardless of my DL speed, I would download the higher resolution file. I download overnight or download and do something else until it finishes.

Yeah, David Sparks was lame. Not cranky - lame. To elaborate, I found him rude, off-putting and let's face it, a bit "unseasoned".

Hmm, so far I can't tell the difference between DivX, h.264, wmv or mpeg4 they all seem to have some kind of artifacts. I don't think it's the Republicans who are living on Fantasy Island...

Wear a kilt day? good idea. better idea? Talk Like A Pirate Day! Arrgh. Keel hawl your keyboards Sept 19th! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day

Watching episode 45 on h264 was very frustrating because of the lack of deinterlacing. Did the king of deinterlacing Roger Chang fall asleep during the preparation of the raw feed for compression?

It's pokey but dependable! Lol, like Patrick.

Seems a bit illogical to have me tie up an ip address downloading at this speed for 15 minutes when I could download in 20 seconds if they'd do away with the packet governor. The ip would return to the heap and bandwidth freed. Stupidity must be a corporate thang, either that or Ma Bell has the general IQ of a houseplant! 165MB in 15 min 10 sec. Thanks DL.TV! Be back tomorrow night ready for #46.

The show is downloading just fine right now!

just want to know what download speed australian's are getting, im with optus cable and get 70kb down.

Well, once I was getting 77 kb/sec and power cycling fixed it. But every download was slow. If you're downloading TWiT from an AOL server at you're usual speed then it's most likely NOT on your end. But, I've noticed on Ma Bell after I've downloaded a gig of FREE videos from various places, the speed drops if the files are over 100MB, normal if under. Are you exceeding you're local daily bandwidth usage allowance? Maybe ZD has exceeded the bandwidth they're paying for, for certain server farms? I get the impression they have this stuff spread out all over the place. I wonder if there's a way to pick the servers that are least busy? Either way just trying to help, 3-15 is way too slow! I can see why you'd be pissed.

I've been DL'ing the wmv version sense day one and enjoy the show on my computer but I just DL'ed the DivX version and it looks and works great on my Philips 642 DVD/DivX player on my HDTV monitor.
Great job people!
Love the show.

Another X TechTV viewer.

Steve

Guys, I love the show and the name. I just started watching episode 2 and I have a comment. Please sit down. You all look like you can't wait for the show to be over so you can find a chair.

Rick Lucent

Hmm downloaded the divx and my new computer wont touch it grinds it to a hault. note though it definately NOT your guys its me :-) just built a new A64 3000 system to support sli but ran out of money so living off a PCI Rage Pro 128 (yeah thats not a typo) till I can afford the sli cards WOW it just pukes on that video ! downloading the mp4 for the zodiac :-) (I guess torturing this video card by running 1880x1400 is not nice either :-) hehehe

Keep up the great work !! hmm it even has a wee trouble with the mp4 but its tolerable :-) man I cant wait till my next pay check so I can have my sli goodness to play with :-)

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

Pat:
What is with the AMD motherboards only supporting 4 gig's of ram??? what is this the dark ages LOL with 64bit processors I would expect more from AMD. I am hopeing build my next system with 8 gig of ram. How long will we have to wait. Some of my image files are already reaching 2 gig when printing 24X36 16bit color prints. I would like to hold the entire image in RAM when working on it. God forbid if i ever try to interpolate a image to a billboard size.

Thanks
David Sarti Lebanon Tennessee

Australian cable residental broadband is running at 17Mbps.

But OKI Japan demos 160Gbps transmission
http://www.infoworld.com/techindex/broadband.html
Oki Electric Industry Co. said on Wednesday that in an experiment, the company pushed 160Gb of data in a second over fiber across a distance of 635 kilometers.
March 15, 2006.

Digital life tv at 160Gbps now thats real broadband internet !

Cinema Widescreen Movies

HD special, this show rates 5 out of 10 guys, due to the lack of babes presenters !

Don't your have any babes over there in the USA that know anything about technology?

Sorry you guys can't afford chairs, it makes me tired to watch you standing.

Its great to watch cinema wide screen movies at home in high definition 1280x1080p.

Cinema has a aspect ratio, width to height, that is greater than 2.35:1.

Widescreen TV is only 16:9 (16/9 = 1.78:1).

So when watching a cinema wide screen movie on a 16:9 TV often the movie is letterboxed, that is there are black bars at the screens top and bottom.

Maybe it would have been better to make the world standard for wide screen TV wider, say 2.5:1 so we don't have letterboxed black bars.

Home theatre high definition (HD) front projectors can overcome letterboxing black bars.

The reason why the world has HD is for near floor to ceiling home theatre to become a reality.

In your post on the main page you guys stated that episode 47 was posted THURSDAY march 28 ..concidering that today is wednesday the 29th. I think you guys made a foobar...just a note

Wow, i'm getting d/l speeds a little over 400kbps, way to go guys!

Can we please have the blue wallpaper?

Today's show looks extraordinarily good. By the way, what a nice monitor! I have that monitor too for my HD Hometheater. Today's show went smoothly with clean sharp crisp viewing experience. Keep up the good work!

anyone notic the fact the almost always, the DivX file size is exactlly 350MB? seems wierd cause they are different length...

Is it me or have they done something bad to the DivX aspect ratio?

The clip is encoded at 16:9 which screws up those footages shot by the main cameras (which shoots in 4:3...). The images spliced in seems to be fine though.

Gonna Need Some Options for DL Wallpaper wheres it at SUP

Hey Guys,

Love the show.
I am curently using Norton Anti-Virus 2006, but I really don't like it. Do you have a suggestion on the best Anti-Virus out thre, that does not installed crap on my computer that I don't need. I just want a good simple Anti-Virus.

Thanks,
Stephan..

klo is right, the aspect ratio looks wrong on the PC. The DivX is encoded at 720x480, a 3:2 ratio. It should be 640x480, a 4:3 ratio.

You just did that to drive traffic.

Ben's suggestion on an archive page with a link to the episode detail page followed by a link for each available format for that ep, all on one line, is really excellent. I second it (although I have all 52* episodes that you guys have made archived at home).

* yes, 52. 49 regular episode and the 3 CES episodes.

Wow. It took me a couple of hours to figure out what was going on. The rest of the family were asking me why the net was so slow. My immediate reaction was to blame my teenaged son! By the time I figured out it was my laptop, I had 6Gb of dl.tv there! I'm already way over my download limit from my broadband provider, and they've sent me threatening letters for the past two months. I hope this doesn't put them over the edge!

50 (=fifty!!!) episodes already! well done :)

Click here to download and watch the show!
 
 

 
What's on the show? Here ya go:...

I stream the windows media file directly into windows media player, my internet connection is working fine (3 mb down) yet half way through the show it is hung of buffering at 5%.

Maybe it's because so many people are accessing the downloads.

Same slow download speed here is NJ with Comcast. I can almost predict it is on purpose, then in a few months they will offer a higher cost teir to allow faster vid downloads.

Another opening of Thunderbird another 50+ messages from DigitalLifeTV.

EVERY time I open Thunderbird I get EVERY announcement for EVERY show (or non-show like the *We broke the RSS feed* one).

I discussed this briefly with someone at dl.tv through e.mail and at the time stopped, for a little while. Then it started again, after a complete OS and Thunderbird re-install.

It doesn't happen with CrankyGeeks or any of the other dozen feeds I have going.

COME ON NOW!!!

Daily show would kick arse!

go go daily show! go go daily show!

everyone chant with me.

I've just started watching, I've got a backlog of archives to go through, not to mention Diggnation, a daily show would swamp me!

Thomas, there's no need to do five a week there's many other great video podcasts to watch on those other days for your commute, I wish some the video podcasts (and audio podcasts) would take time off more often so I could consume all these great shows and there's always a another good one popping up now & then (somehow I also make time every weekday to watch CFH on TV over here)

I know I've been pushing DivX all the time, but why doesn't DL.TV get encoded using DivX into AVI files instead of the DivX files? They are the exact same quality and everything, but just more capatibility with AVI.

Where's the countdown clock? Did we crap about the Tuesday show so much that we are all going to have to cool our heels till Friday. Pleaseee.

Yeah, mark me down as another person who wishes there were a BitTorrent option available. I'd seed for a few days, sure!

Amber MacArthur - not McPherson

Is it just me or does the divx version seem like it's either droping frames or skipping frames? It just doesn't seem smooth, previous shows were fine though.

Yeah, it really surprised me to see all the feeds my itunes suddenly subscribed too, lol. I think I'm moving towards the manually download method too. Of course the problem with that is if I can remember to download them. I love all the new podcasts/vidcasts coming from Revision3, Ziff Davis, and TWIT but there needs to be an uber feed with all the shows. Make it simple to download all your favorite podcasts and vidcasts at once. Of course that would eat up a hard drive pretty quick. Mine is almost full with just DLTV and French Mai...err.. I mean...NM

Yeah i am seeing the same problem with the Divx download.. My RSS feed is Divx, so it sucks as i am downloading 350mb file only to chuck it for a the H.264 version from the site.

I love Pat, but what's his deal with the Beatles? It must be that unspoken but strict punk conformant code regulation rule that you must hate the Beatles.

So there is actually more content in the wmv version? I thought they where all the same show just different codecs...am i wrong?

I was right, the audio bitrate is huge! check your encoder again!

Okay, when Rob got hit with a rubber band by the off-camera guy, I was reminded of my own experience with people in these sorts of roles. What's the deal?

Please post a Bittorrent link. Your site keeps dropping connections and the bandwidth is saturated...

Yea, the speed is so slow. It drops out after 5min and I have tried to download each video but they are all the same. Bittorrent would be good as it would be less prone to this error. TPG, Brisbane, Australia.

I heard on DL.TV Broadcast #54 talk about crankgeeks be done on thurdays. I haven't seen one since the 1st where are they posted at?

Thanks
Robert

wow...are you guys getting /.ed or should my speed be down from usually 900k to 78 and 117?

speed is 100K ....no where near the normal 500K

Please add faster gerbils!

Hi Guys,

Have you used the Democracy Internet TV app yet? It's pretty cool. It allows you to subscribe to channels and automatically download episodes of stuff (like video podcasts).

Check it out, and, if poss, make dl.tv work better with it :)

www.getdemocracy.com

Chris :)

My download went from 579kb to 78kb. the longer it goes the slower its getting WHATS UP???? usually get 478kb per download

finally finnished at 61.4KB thats the slowest ever from here..

My dl speed is usually 125 to 135K. Today it started at about 50 and quickly went down to less than 5 and is now stalled out completely. Downloads from TWIT are normal and speed tests show normal. Download of Whats New Now podcast is also stalled out so it seems like a problem with Ziff Davis servers.

I'm getting a little better that usual at 300-305 KB/s.
Just over 20 minutes to get the 359MB DivX.

Please give us a higher quality version, bittorrent or direct download. I would gladly wait longer for a 500-700MB version, and if its DivX I can still watch it on my DivX compatible DVD player without re-encoding.

Keep up the good work!

im downloading at about 800k/sec, must have been a ton of people downloading or somehting the speed seems to be great now.

Also, about 1080p tv's - i was under the impression that no 1080p tv currently on the market can support 1080p/60, i heard that all the tv's (until the new ones coming out in the fall) can handle only 1080p/24 and 1080p/30? Can somebody set me straight?

-FeatherKing

There are many factors for speed issues including:
1. High number of requests (What you people have experienced)
2. Network congestion *do 2 the above
3. A-hole has lots of bittorents going on your network
4. Problems on the server end
etc...

Right now, 4:49 pacific, i'm getting the usual 600KB/s. If you want higher speeds wait until later in the day to download. You won't but that is just what I'm saying.

I usually get about 300KB/Sec download and I'm getting that as I type this - and - here's the relevant part: My Internet connection is basically over barbed wire, steel fence wire and bailing twine - truly remarkable. Obviously there's a touch of magic involved here.

I'm averaging about 600kbps to a detroit suburb. I started around 1mbps and it's been droping. I'm also over wireless

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Your RSS feed for the audio only version links to video (h.264 i think)

Click here to download and watch the show!
 
 

 
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lol, maybe what DLTV need is one of those HP "bulletproof" servers :-D:

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/49205-0-0-225-121.aspx?bodycontentparams=320065-0-0-0-121&ERL=true

(Yeah, I know... it was a software problem... still...)

Thanks for the timely, transparent, and detailed update.

I'm consistently impressed by your candor, profressionalism, and dedication to your committments.

Judging by posts and comments from your current and former colleagues, my evaluation is far from unusual.

Keep on rockn' & rolln'.

Isn't Divx supposed to have great compression or something? Why is it huge compared to the others.

"Isn't Divx supposed to have great c