I have been first or secod etc for a comment and I don't see live often.

I have never been first or second for the comments and I don't get to see the live version very often.

I think I like this better than Leo's stuff now.

The show is friggin great, but the intro theme etc. licks the ass.

Will there be a guesthost or will robert do the show all on his own? Could be an interesting show then :)

Looking forward to some good rants.

"Make better DL.TV"

shouldn't it be

"To make DL.TV better"

In the post live is in quotations. I'm assuming that is because they taped the show on Friday, at least that's what they said on Thursday they were going to do.

freeRIP is a great ripping program. been using it for years.

Perhaps it was meant to be "make better DL.TV". It is a fine-blended show afterall. I make better Kool-aid than my brother. I use a fine blend of sugar, kool-aid mix (read: more sugar) and only the finest tap-water around. I make better Kool-aid. I don't, however, make Kool-aid better. Oh yeah!

live unedited on tape i hope. the pre edited versio?

So I wonder why they dont just let us download it now? I am surethat is is not live and I am sure they have done the encoding already... Odd

Yea! Another episode of great dl.tv. I wish it was on more times during the week. I guess this episode won't have any bloppers because it was taped on Friday. At least that is what they said Thursday. waiting....growing lonely,growing old....waiting...

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"Originally Posted by: foop johansen
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:21 PM

The show is friggin great, but the intro theme etc. licks the ass. "

What is up with that Kid in the intro? his laugh drives me nuts...

I am going to git some coffee while this puppy buffers.......

Does anyone here pay for indie music? like as in emusic?

It would of been nice, that you advertise the GMT time, for your International viewers. Looks like I missed the show by an hour :-(

I have tearing in video play back and streaming but not in games i was wondering if anyone had a link to a web site or solution to this problem

Anyone having problems? My display starts, stops, buffers, starts, buffers.... buffers.... hang. I rebooted and tried another machine and it didn't connect to start playing.

I'v only had audio for about 3 minutes between buffering

I get nothing...

I don't understand what a lot of you are using to connect and play the stream, but I never seem to ever have a problem with the playback. I use WMP for the playback of the live stream and just add the URL: http://zdpub-diglifestudio.wm.llnwd.net/zdpub_diglifestudio always seems to work with no problems for me unless dl's stream is having the problem.

The reason why they are forcing us to view the entire show is because they most likely want to prevent you from skipping the commercials. I really hope that the downloads get listed immediately after considering they got the entire weekend+Monday to encode.

Is anyone else besides me not able to see the rest of the show? This is the first time it completely stopped working.

A question:
Since getting the downloads out is a "by the next day" sort of thing, does it make sense to stream the show at multiple intervals on the show day to serve your viewers more quickly (stream it every two hours 3 or four times).

I'm ignorant of how you actually pay for bandwidth, but this suggestion appears to me that you would get the show out to more viewers on show day and save to 'total' bandwidth by reducing the demand for downloads (because more people would be able to watch one of the streams and not need to download.)

What do you think? total brain fart or good idea?

"I'm ignorant of how you actually pay for bandwidth, but this suggestion appears to me that you would get the show out to more viewers on show day and save to 'total' bandwidth by reducing the demand for downloads (because more people would be able to watch one of the streams and not need to download.) "

nice idea. great stream here

I haven't been able to connect to a single second of this feed. Where are they dL links!!

I've been used GameJackal for a while now and it's was definately worth the $10. It's worked with every game I've tried it with; however, I've heard Starforce locks it out but I won't install that on my machine anyways.

GameJackal works by grabbing the calls to the CD from the copy protection. It records these and then plays them back on subsequent runs. I haven't had problems with patching games because none of the original files are modified. Some patches may require you to record more data off a disk.

I tried to watch the steam and it just didn't work for me. I tried the link on the main page and on the one posted above... no luck. It 'has' worked on this computer/location before (but not today).

It started and stoped a few times and then the audio stream finally started working, but the video was a static snapshot.

System
ThinkPad T30 (512MB)
Windows XP SP2 (updated)
WMP 9

Tried the URL: http://zdpub-diglifestudio.wm.llnwd.net/zdpub_diglifestudio
and it was a rock solid stream. Strange.

Hey guys its me joey they didnt release my e-mail but if youd like to contact the company or me e-mail me at romUdog@gmail.com and lets talk also any job offers would be gr8 after im done with this job (its me joey the one they tlked bout) anyway romUdog@gmail.com names joey

Anyone looking for a sub-$300 Mp3 player should definitely check this out. It's not flash-based, and has average battery life, but the features it has an the ridiculous amount of storage it has (80 gigabytes!) definitely makes it one of the best Mp3 player values you can get for $250.

My Names joey too! email me @ goatse.se

Robert you rock! When you rant it brings tears of joy to my eyes and makes my geek heart bursts with pride.( ...by the way has anyone ever told Patrick has a head shaped like Jimmy Neutron?)

Keep up the good work lads!
We're counting on you!

hdortez@sbcglobal.net

Normally they stream it live while they are actually recording it, after which they generally go directly into compression and comversion which takes around 6 hrs I think is what they keep saying, after which they add the downloads and put up the flash player, so inorder for them teo stream it multiple times on show day would have to record and encode the show the day prior. And although this may seem simple enough we don't neccessarily know what their schedules are, I'm sure that Patrick spends a good part of the day Monday researching stories for tuesday and wednesday for thursday with friday spent dealing with other behind the scenes specifics that keep the show running "smoothly" despite a bumpy stream from time to time

Darn! another episode done with. I still want more! It was just getting more interesting right near the end you guys. i like to hear you two "discussing" your differnt points of view.It's so funny.
For all you people having problems viewing the show, I just don't know why you are. I have a very old windows98 PC that will play the stream!! People! Learn how to use a PC! Read!
P.S. I do use my XP pro machine to view the stream just saying I could use the 98 PC to view it and have,lots, in the past.

Hey guys this is REALLY!!! Joey Im actually typign on my sweet 3grand gaming monster right now as we speek its big and glowing and sounds like a b1 bomber when i turn it one eneywayz if you want a SUPER killer radical gaming beast like me just email me at JOEY.deeeez@gmailcom or if you wanna contanct me to gimme free stuff that would be ggreat too LoLZ I dont type like this from lack of consideration to those who may be reading this it just so happens that those jackasses dident include a keybored with my new monster killer gaming beast and im stuck using this one that has soda pop and dorito goo all stuck under the punctuation keys but hey at least the !!!!! workds!!!

doesn't look like you need a keyboard becuase you can't even spell or type right. Or, is that because all muscle control of your fingers has been damaged from hours of game playing. LMAO !!!

"For all you people having problems viewing the show, I just don't know why you are. I have a very old windows98 PC that will play the stream!! People! Learn how to use a PC! Read! "

I have never had a problem with dL'ING the show or connecting live from time to time before today.

I do not think the problem is me.

I have never had a problem from this computer before with DL TV.

Just becuase it works today and not for me and other's does NOT mean we arte idiot's doing something wrong.

I believe that the downloads have already been encoded. At least you guys can post them.

I am very sorry David and anyone that took my words as calling them an idiot or doing something wrong. Heck! I diffently don't know much about computers, but I just don't understand why I seem to be able to watch the stream everytime it's on. I do not think anyone is using an older PC than me (windows98) and on a WLAN at home and still always plays the stream. I just open the URL: http://zdpub-diglifestudio.wm.llnwd.net/zdpub_diglifestudio
in WMP8 or WMP9 on my XP machine,and it plays. Maybe some of you are using a dial-up. In case you are, then I know why it buffers long time. There is no cure for that other than getting broadband!

There needs to be a better intro, it looks and sounds really bad. Please make it something cool like The Screen Savers intro or something. :) love the show, keep it up guys!

Here's to Thursday's show. There's only one song that I know of that has "Heron" in the title - he should use it for Thursday's theme song.

/3g gaming box if you can guess the song
//not really

Can someone give me a gmail invite?
Please
test0237@hotmail.com

What is so damn well-blended about your show? I hate coffee similes (or is that a metaphor?

Guys stop inpersonating me its not cool even ask dl.tv im the real joey...lol i can send u the original pic lol

Not to moan, but if the show wasn't live, couldn't it have been rendered by release time. Maybe not, but just wonderin'...

Honestly I think they delay the conversion so that people actually watch the ads and try to tune in for the live version 'cause it comes out earlier. I inevitably skip over the ads in the downloaded version; I just don't have time for that junk.

In terms of technology it's possible to do a conversion from DVD MPEG2 to Nero's decent MP4 codec in realtime on a P4. Xvid/DivX doesn't take too much longer. I can't conceive of why their box takes so long; they should cut down their resolution on the input end I guess; there are so many wasted pixels on the receiving end!

Furthermore, I can't watch the live stream 'cause I'm on a school connection: 3 T1s for 550 bandwidth hungry high school students simply don't work. Oh well. College next year will be so much better in so many ways!

I sent your invite Rich

B Williams,

I am here at Baylor University, and in my dorm room they cap us off at 900 kbps. This is a similar speed to many campus users.

Also, you are not going to be running any P2P applications when you get to college.

Regards,
Logan Renz

sorry for being over defensive

If your show is Tuesday and Thursday...it should be ready for download(and show up on iTunes on those days). If not....tape the show earlier. Easy.

it streams LIVE on tuesdays and thursdays forget about itunes...some things are just better than true 'pod'casts even if it is avalible for fanboys after a while...it needs to be rendered first and uploaded to the servers so that usually takes a while

I do agree on special circumstances like today, when it was pre taped I don't see a reason to not put it up on the site shortly after the stream for download

Well, isn't this ridiculous. You pre-record on Friday, yet we STILL have to wait for the downloads... What on earth we're you all doing on Monday and Tuesday Morning? Surely you had the time to render everything so for once we could have it straight after streaming?!?!

Guess Pat actually does most of the file uploads himself and hes not there, hes at the media conference instead

Generally at what time do the downloads get posted? I always show up from work and the downloads are tehre... but i keep forgetting when they are available...

Man no doubt, the intro is crap! The show is great but after sitting through the intro I want to stab out my eyes because of that kids laugh. Furthermore it looks just cheap and awful, I understand the show has a budget but please that should be one of the easiest things to fix and improve the show quality!

Yes the intro needs work, fix it! But can we shut up about it already.

Just do away with a long intro, just have the title screen and get it going.
It will save time on the encoding/posting.

few more hours to go till the download is available

MOO!

It seems most of you have questions or complaints about how long it takes to get the videos to us...

1) We don't pay a dime, so calm down. They'll get it to us when they get it to us.
2) They have stated NUMEROUS times (especially in #53 or 54) why it takes so long and that's one of the reasons why Patrick is going to that conference thingy.
3) Internet TV is still new - it's not like going to download.com - there's lots of stuff that happens in the background that we never see... you don't know (well most of you don't) what goes on with that whole process. Maybe do some reasearch and learn about... that'll keep you quiet until they get the download up!

/rant

@ DigitalXaos...
So, who made you spokesperson for the day, huh? Don't go telling folks to calm down, or keep quiet, chum.
The valid point was made - if it is a pre-recorded show, then it can be available for download earlier.
That's it. Simple.
It m

Thank you all for the invite to gmail. I have listened to robert talk about it for a long time and wanted to try it for myself. Thank you to all. Again Thank you
Thanx
Richard

PS
Thank you

Patience.
Its free, it'll be here eventually, and it doesn't really matter if it'll be late or early since its a heck lot better then no DL.TV. Yes?

So sit back, relax, fire up your Xbox360 and go play Oblivion for a bit and come back later. :)

common then, let us download ;)

by the way, anyone wants to by an r6 -00?

Before they spend money on a new intro, they should charge much higher fees for ads that are especially irritating to the viewer -- you know the one I'm talking about -- looks like it was shot in an office cubicles using their own staff who can't act and god awful sound FX. It is so irritating I cannot even recall what they were trying to advertise.

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The requested URL /dltv/episode55/dl.tv.055.mov was not found on this server.

if the encodeings done as a few of us suspect why not post the downloads?

If this show was recorded last week, then why were the download links not posted to start with?

Hey! Just to clear up on CD ripping from windows media. Windows media 9 will only do WMA, if you want versatility on ripping from WMP, you'll need to upgrade to WM10

Mad props to Patrick for sticking in the Firefly quote at the end.
Keep it up guys.

Patrick said his specs included a 7600gt...now unless hes got like 5 HDDs, and 4 gigs of the best RAM...how the heck does it equal $3000? The highest processor is like $1500 @ the most.

I will not replace my currect collection of DVD's since both playres are backwards compatible. I will keep my old collection and just start buying new movies or old movies I do not currently own on the new format. The issue was really big yes between VHS and DVD. Duhh!!! You could not play DVD in a VCR. Same issue we had with the PS2 or X-BOX260. We just played our favorite games on the new system we just did not throw them away. I do not see what the big problem is. The only case at hand is which new format will win or which win will have all the best movies. That is the issue. I do not see movie studioes support both at any time.

I just got back from Iraq and almost all of the guys I went with eventaullly had mp3 sent to them. I had cd based player that worked fine. Most of the guys had various flashed based players and one had a hard drive based iPod. I also had my lap op so I was able to burn mp3 cd and we all shared music.

Be Safe Michael

Try iAudio!!!
I love my U3
http://eng.iaudio.com/product/product_U3_feature.php
Does ogg too!

http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/DigitalLifeTV/
This page does not to scale on my 21" 1024 display, its locked too wide. Fix it you web monkeys. looks amateur

Robert's shaking like Ted Kennedy scratching a lottery ticket in a wind tunnel with an inner ear infection. What's up with that? Viva la cooking sherry old boy? Eh? A little "sippity-sip shakity-shake"? Nice!

Might I suggest instead of getting Robert to hold stuff just placing it on an industrial paint shaker instead? (it'll twitch less) I haven't seen someone's hand vibrate like that since Buddy Rich introduced the single press roll.

Just an FYI that the W810a (Sony Walkman phone Heron showed) will be available this summer through Cingular so if you can wait, you can get it for a carrier-subsidized price.

Somehow I'm not confident about the ripping quality of Windows Media Player (not that I've tested it). MP3 encoding asside, to ensure the highest quality rip, especially for older CDs that may not be in mint condition, I would recommend Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) which does error correction and other fancy tings.

Great episode guys!

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Yeah. First time that i'm available to watch the live stream.. Could someone give us the link for the live stream please? Kthx..

Sony Ericcson W810i look great and Its unlock. Also I remember from PR i had read somewhere that seagate is also coming out with 1td HD to be out by 4q of this year. I am not holding my breath for it. but This will make the price drop of the 500gig Sony Ericcson W810i look great and Its unlock. Also I remember from PR i had read somewhere that seagate is also coming out with 1td HD to be out by 4q of this year. I am not holding my breath for it. but This will make the price drop of the 500gig

Sony Ericcson W810i look great and Its unlock. Also I remember from PR i had read somewhere that seagate is also coming out with 1td HD to be out by 4q of this year. I am not holding my breath for it. but This will make the price drop of the 500gig Sony Ericcson W810i look great and Its unlock. Also I remember from PR i had read somewhere that seagate is also coming out with 1td HD to be out by 4q of this year. I am not holding my breath for it. but This will make the price drop of the 500gig

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Where are the links?

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Wouldn't a VideoRaptor be so nice? :-) I've been gawking at this system for some time and I think dl.tv could use one of these. Perhaps everyone can chip in to help get one for 'em. I miss ZDTV! I still have my ZDTV cube (signed by Leo even!), back when TSS was still on-air. Perhaps this would be one more step to making it happen.

http://www.tiesseci.com/English/index.htm

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I hope Robert kick his $3,000 gaming PC ass, in the face off. If he doesnt I am sure he wont ever hear the end of it. Dont let us down Robert!!!

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Wow I just discovered that Pat is actually doing online shows. I was a huge fan of Pat and Leo and the whole tech tv crew until the G4 disaster struck about 3 years ago and this is the first time i've even seen them since then.

Great show! Definately this gonna watch this every week and inform friends about it!