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Thursday December 15, 2005


DL.TV Episode 22 aired live at 1:30pm PST this Thursday, December 15th.

Here's the deets:


  • Ruby on Rails 1.0 has finally shipped--of course, programmers have been using the popular open-source framework for months.
  • IE and Mozilla collaberate on a new RSS Icon. Apparently they all agree that the best way to ensure consistency is to change the icon.

  • Can Brasso clean iPod scratches? It can, and Patrick demonstrates why you should only use it in a well ventilated environment.

  • Noise isolating headphones work--sometimes too well. Good places for isolating 'phones: airplanes, buses, and construction sites. Bad times for isolating 'phones: while flying airplanes, driving buses, or working in construction sites.

  • Traffic bites: but, if you live in SF, Seattle, or LA the TrafficGauge can help you avoid the gridlock.

  • Viewer Question: Nikki from San Francisco, CA asks "How do I go about finding an ISF-certified tech that can calibrate my LCD TV without ripping me off?"
  • Answer: Well, as long as Robert passes the ISF test he might help you out. Otherwise, use your best judgement!

  • Gamers rule... Child's Play raises toys, games, and cash for sick kids in Childrens Hospitals. Hillary? Mr. Lee? Are you listening?

  • Viewer Question: Chris from Germany asks "Can I connect a VGA output to the HDMI port on an HDTV?"

  • Answer: No, and it definitely pays to get a video card with DVI output: they're cheap, and you'll have a much cleaner signal for your HDTV.

  • Plus, all the critical geek news, your latest viewer questions, and much more!



Episode 22 in Quicktime H.264:

    Right Click here to download DL.TV Episode 22 in H.264, 156MB


Right Click here to download DL.TV Episode 22, Audio only. 18MB



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Posted By:  Patrick Norton
Posted by: john
December 15, 2005 4:01 PM

nothing is showing exept DL.TV

Posted by: FARTknocker
December 15, 2005 4:03 PM

it's usually a 15 mins lag time.

Posted by: Don Keedix
December 15, 2005 4:09 PM

what the deal...lets hope is not 15 mins.
or I'll just download it saturday.

Posted by: wmearly
December 15, 2005 4:11 PM

Comments will erased in 5...4...3....2

These people are obviously touchy for some reason.
Above criticism I guess.

Posted by: FARTknocker
December 15, 2005 4:12 PM

Or just wait till later this afternoon, it will be downloadable.

Posted by: Liss
December 15, 2005 4:12 PM

I keep getting a message, cannot create Direct Show Player. I used to be able to watch it all the time, what is Direct Show Player, where is it and where has it gone?

Posted by: FARTknocker
December 15, 2005 4:17 PM

Download the current windows media player, Liss.

Posted by: Scott
December 15, 2005 4:20 PM

But I don't want to wait until this afternoon. I am at work and looking to pass some time by watching a little dl tv.

Posted by: FARTknocker
December 15, 2005 4:26 PM

Well when you get home from work the show should be ready for download.

I'm about to give up, it's been nearly 30 mins now. Download the show manually after I've had lunch or something.

Posted by: john
December 15, 2005 4:30 PM

im going to wait till its live even if its tommorow

Posted by: Fartknocker
December 15, 2005 4:31 PM

it's possible they are doing the show now, and they don't realize it's not airing. Hopefully it's recording at least.

Posted by: Jeremy
December 15, 2005 4:32 PM

I have been waiting for half an hour now and it still has not started.

Posted by: FARTknocker
December 15, 2005 4:32 PM

Funny they added more links to the video streaming page.. but still no-show.

Posted by: john
December 15, 2005 4:36 PM

1:30pm 4:30 est

Posted by: FARTknocker
December 15, 2005 4:38 PM

Yeah.. it's been so long now the show is probably over, or almost over by now.

Posted by: Jeremy
December 15, 2005 4:39 PM

I will wait till 1:45 and then give up on it.

Posted by: Jeremy
December 15, 2005 4:41 PM

If you read the top of the page they have changed the start time to 1:30pm pst so with the 15 min lag time it should start at 1:45pm

Posted by: Mike
December 15, 2005 4:42 PM

Same here! After 1:45 I am outta here.

Posted by: Jon
December 15, 2005 4:42 PM

Nothing like sitting here wasting bandwidth to see DL.TV

Posted by: FARTknocker
December 15, 2005 4:45 PM

ok the Y2k counter is back up! yay!

Posted by: TigerClaw
December 15, 2005 4:45 PM

Well, There is the countdown clock, So the show will go on. :)

Posted by: Dani
December 15, 2005 5:09 PM

Why don't you guys just wait and download in tonight, like I do?

Posted by: Don Helms
December 15, 2005 5:30 PM

Good show guys. ;)

Posted by: Addex
December 15, 2005 5:36 PM

I wonder when the new logo is coming up on the site?? And Rob and Pat & DL-crew great job with all this...

Posted by: TyGuy
December 15, 2005 7:06 PM

I was wondering how long it takes to have the wmv file out usally its right after the live show. But its been a while

Posted by: mike
December 15, 2005 7:44 PM

it takes a while for them to cut out all the times patrick says "i digress"...

Posted by: demps
December 15, 2005 8:17 PM

mike, that is so true. Hah, maybe someone needs to send in an email to them and ask Patrick if he can try to use other words instead of 'digress'.

Posted by: David
December 15, 2005 10:35 PM

I just do a shot everytime Patrick says "I digress"

By the end of each ep, I'm usually wasted.

Posted by: kib
December 16, 2005 4:35 AM

you want faster h.264.. stop using friken quicktime. use x264! it's faster and better (and free). you guys should really spend some time on the doom9 forums.

p.s.: I recommend mencoder

Posted by: Sasha
December 16, 2005 2:35 PM

Ahhh, Patrick, Ive been watching you ever since TSS, please move your micraphone, ever time you look down, you baffle the audio. I havnt read any posts, can I be the only one that notices this?? C'mon Patrick, your better than that.

Posted by: Drummer
December 16, 2005 3:56 PM

I noticed theres a problem with your RSS feed for the newest H.264 version. The file name is different. I'm gonna direct download it, but try to keep track of this so I can just use my podcast client :)

Posted by: Randy V
December 16, 2005 10:45 PM

Hey,

I just wanted to point out that the Cannon MP500 Printer/Scanner you reviewed DOES indeed have 2 seperate paper feed sources. You have a cartridge in the front (4x6 thru letter size), and you have the auto-feed slot on the back (4x6 to legal). I just bought one for "me mom" as an X-mas present, and I loaded up the front cassette with 4x6 glossy paper for her photo printing, and I loaded the Auto-Feed slot with standard Letter paper. You select which tray from the print driver, or on the front of the printer. I will also add that the Cannon has unusually high Ink capacity, and the cartridges are fairly cheap. Scanning was better than expected.

Rock on!

Posted by: RusH
December 17, 2005 1:34 AM

Robert - there is no easy VGA to DVI converter, DVI simply has additional analog VGA pins for analog signal, but there are boxes outputting only digital from DVI, and there are boxes accepting only digital thru DVI - so no easy adapters. You cant go from DVI to VGA if the box does not output analog on those additional pins.

You would need a box full of ICs to sample analog signal, lets say
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=1310

There is no difference between DVI and HDMI, theye are EXACTLY the same signal wise (plus audio in HDMI connector).
So the answer is YES, you can connect VGA to HDTV TV thru HDMI :)


"IE and Mozilla collaberate on a new RSS Icon" - why not simply use yellow XML or RSS icon? :/ Like Opera or the WHOLE WORLD on www??? yeee, right :/


"sticky notes in browsers" - Opera has notes feature, but they are not tied to links/bookmarks per se.

Robert - great humor again ;]

PS:Why are the comments being deleted over and over?

Posted by: RusH
December 17, 2005 1:35 AM

Robert - there is no easy VGA to DVI converter, DVI simply has additional analog VGA pins for analog signal, but there are boxes outputting only digital from DVI, and there are boxes accepting only digital thru DVI - so no easy adapters. You cant go from DVI to VGA if the box does not output analog on those additional pins.

You would need a box full of ICs to sample analog signal, lets say
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=1310

There is no difference between DVI and HDMI, theye are EXACTLY the same signal wise (plus audio in HDMI connector).
So the answer is YES, you can connect VGA to HDTV TV thru HDMI :)


"IE and Mozilla collaberate on a new RSS Icon" - why not simply use yellow XML or RSS icon? :/ Like Opera or the WHOLE WORLD on www??? yeee, right :/


"sticky notes in browsers" - Opera has notes feature, but they are not tied to links/bookmarks per se.

Robert - great humor again ;]

PS:Why are the comments being deleted over and over?

Posted by: RusH
December 17, 2005 1:47 AM

one thing - deinterlace it next time (or shoot in 30p) :) example time:34:54 Roberts waves his hands and you can see interlace artifacts.

Posted by: BRAD
December 17, 2005 6:34 AM

hi

Posted by: Pinoy
December 17, 2005 12:52 PM

I'm so glad that you guys like leo, kevin, double D & Patrick are making this web shows, like old times in TSS.

P.S. what happend to yoshi? does he have a site?

you guys rocks!!!

Posted by: jt.johnston
December 17, 2005 8:37 PM

If you are having trouble seeing this episode, I went and upgrade from flash 7 to 8.

Guys when you talk about your email address, display it on-screen. Or make it real easy to find on this site.

Great to see TSS (so to speak) back!

Posted by: Anonymous
December 18, 2005 2:15 AM

I'd never run a GPU That needed an External Power connector.. lmao

Though they are really buggy apparently.. very nice numbers.

Posted by: Scott
December 19, 2005 2:48 PM

I'm one of those people who have ears that don't easily take the iPod supplied headphones. I have a piece of cartilege that comes just over my ear canal, so the earbuds are held out from my ear and they won't easily stay in my ear. I also have small ear canals that face backwards, so the Apple headphones don't work either.

The squishy headphones look like they might work.

Posted by: The Count
December 19, 2005 7:01 PM

Episode 22 aired on December 15th
Today December 19th
4 days and no hope of Xvid

Posted by: Drew
December 20, 2005 10:19 AM

I like the Flash Player up at the top of the page. Nice idea!

Posted by: josh
December 21, 2005 1:45 AM

I dont understand why you pepole complaine about xvid. They told you it takes a lot of time to finish that. Just use something else to watch it.

Posted by: Christian Uribe
December 21, 2005 3:56 AM

Regarding your question about a program to write notes in the browser. I would like to point out that Opera has, for the longest time a feature called Notes, embedded in the browser, which allow you to type a quick note, attach a website to it, and even send it by email.
Here is a demo:
http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/flash/notes/

Speaking of Opera, is a bit sad to see how far apart from it all you guys have grown.
It appears that since the Firefox hit to 1.0 there is only two browsers out there, and donīt get me wrong, that is not my concern, but the fact that more and more features are getting attributed to Firefox, when they have been part of Opera since 1999. (Just thinking about tab browsing mentioned in this episode)
You know, the more and better browsers the merrier, but credit where credit is due, and if you are in the business of bringing tech news to the people, keep an eye on the facts. Same goes when one episode ago you mention, sad week for browsers for new vulnerabilities found on Firefox and the overdue version of IE7. There were no vulnerabilities on Opera that week, no delays on delivering a new version, and a TP already out there being publicly tested.
You guys have a good show, keep it up, but there is more out there :)
Regards,

Chris.
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/

Posted by: Jonathan
December 21, 2005 5:48 PM

I'm intrigued about the in ear phones an have just ordered some Creative EP-630's. Apparently as comfortable as Sony EX-71's but with much better sound - yet only Ģ20 from Amazon (UK). Looking forward to them and think you should review them if they are available in the USA.

Loved the show (as usual!) but agree about the interlacing on the H.264. Didn't seem as good as encode as normal ..

Posted by: d i n e t h
December 21, 2005 10:29 PM

can the brasso clean the back of the iPod Nano as well? i.e. the shiney side...

Posted by: Corey
December 22, 2005 1:19 PM

used this for a while, but it was only functional on ie: iMarkup . don't know how the new versions work. but it was great as a web designer to be able to point at things and send the sticky to a client.

Posted by: Mark
December 31, 2005 4:33 AM

iMarkup only works on a private network like a corporate MAN or LAN on your own servers for collaboration anyways. They (under a different name)and another company got C&Ded because the public sharing part worked by storing non-commentable screenshots essentially on their web servers. Ain't IP a bit#h.

Diigo was somthing similar but it didn't last on the extension page long before it got pulled behind the Beta invite curtain again. "A Purple Bunny" doesn't quite do everything he was asking for.

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