This show replaces my need for G4. thanks!

You've gotta keep these coming, reminds of the good ol TSS days, but so much more candid and enjoyable!

Thanks for the video fix and the FW & RW functions. Lifesavers, well almost.

Its been so long scenes TSS. I gave G4 about a week, and I left that crap. Pat and Kevin together again, this just made my month. This show is awesome, reminds me a lot of when Leo hosted call for help long long time ago( there was no real set, kind of plain) similar to DLTV now, can't wait to see the new set. Any who, I was curious who cuts your video??

Some great tech content, keep it up there are a lot of junkies out there that need their weekly techy fix.

It's so great to see Patrick and Kevin together again, and not only together, but doing a real show about REAL technology.

One of the reasons I upgraded my dish network pack was for TechTV, and then what happened happened and now I'm without a computer technology network. I'd even go as far as to say forget about the video games, or do it on a separate show if this really takes off for you.

If you can keep it confined to computers, electronics and emerging technologies, I think DigitalLife will have enough fan support for a return to cable/satellite. I'm certainly looking forward to it!

The content is great, you guys are true professionals, the expert knowledge and research is evident...KEEP IT GOING!!!

An intelligent show giving me information about the latest software, hardware and gadgets with an affable friendly host who isn't an empty headed set of jabbering teeth. I'm so there. Patrick and crew keep it up and I'm sure those little problems (sound levels and looking at the right camera) will clear right up.

Hey guys... watched you for the years you were on Tech TV. SO ticked that G4 took over and ruined Tech TV!!!! SO glad to see you guys are keeping the legacy going though! Audio suggustions: Dynamics Processing (compressor/limiter), low cut filter on the mics (could hear a lot of plosives, etc.)... THIS SHOW ROCKS!!! THIS IS WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SINCE THE DEATH OF TECH TV! KEEP IT UP!!!!!!! (PS--Get Sarah Lane to do some guest appearances; she's very cool!)

Thanks to Patrick and everyone responsible. I've miss this kind of program, product review and help especially since TSS has been gone. I listen to twit, but this so much better.

It is great to see some decent computer info is back. G4 tried to copy the old screensaver program and failed bigtime. Hopefully we'll be able to pick you up on WideOpenWest cable system. I haven't watched G4TechTV for so long that I didn't know they dropped the TechTV. I'm glad to see you back Patrick & Kevin R. Keep up the fantastic work.

Frank Dajnowicz
fdajnowicz@gmail.com

I just found the show tonite, I really enjoy it.
Nice to see Patrick and Kevin. G4 suck

Man, this show rocks, keep it up. Feels like the Good O' Days when TSS was on.

I guess you got my e-mail! Thank you SO MUCH for offering low-res QuickTime! Please continue to do so in the future.

(Going to blog this on my site!)

One very happy Australian viewer.

Hey Guys,
2 of my questions got on, thanks for answering them. I am real excited about my new Mitsubishi 62628 HDTV. So Far it is working out great, just gotta get some other components up to par. I will definitely look at those better DVD players you mentioned.

I am also looking into Tripplite. I was always an APC fan, but Robert was pretty convincing, and i will take another look. Definitely want to protect my new TV from any spikes... although in storms i will definitely unplug... hehe.

I like the set with the open walls and visible cables. Gives it that homemade/homebrew feeling instead of an overly slick production.

I think Patrick's black outfit looks good on him, kind of sofisticated lookin, but the necklace thing kindof doesn't fit in, straight up.

Any fashionable folks out there with some good advice for the man?

Jim Lauderback kind of looks tom cruise-ish dont you think? (his face not his clothes ... definately not his clothes, colors a little drabby there, good lookin man tho)

The extreame tech and gaming dept guys has the better fashion sense I think. Sorry guys if I sound like a jerk, I post with no bad intentions .. just my eyes hurt ... (now I'm a jerk) =)

It may be that I'm an idiot, but I really thought that the Title field in the comments form meant Mr. Mrs. Dr. etc.. Could you change this to "Subject" or something.

I could watch the whole thing in Linux, using Kaffeine.
Looked and sounded good through out. Thanks for dumping the stream you used the last two weeks.

Just finished ep. 9. Great, as per usual. Robert and Patrick make a super team. (Whenever Patrick does the show intro, I always flash back to/expect to be hearing: the old 30 minute Second City Television program, "With Dave Thomas as the Beaver!" for Patrick's (as Wally, maybe?) intro of Robert.

I find the .mov version plays best, the .wmv is quite okay, and the XVID: visually fine, but no sound. (Drat!) I, too, use Kaffeine to view and to listen. Yes, it's all Linux, here. Here being. Titusville, Florida, 40 miles/65 km, east of Orlando.

Thanks for good IP TV, guys.

WHAT WHAT WHAT!!! XVid has no sound!!! Wasted my bandwidth. Oh well have 2 download H.264. I really should read the comments before downloading :)

Just wanted to say thanks guys for the great review on the ADSTech NAS kit. I got mine today and it works great. Dropped a Maxtor 200gb 16mb Cache drive in it, and I'm watching videos off it via Wireless-G.

Keep up the good work! Can't wait to see the finished set.

Hi, great show, but a thought: since for 99.99999% of us viewers this is NOT a live show, there is no need to make us watch through scenes like, "well it seems we're having troubles getting this working, so let's just skip this for now and let me show you..." or "I can't remember the url now but we will put this on our web page after the show for you". Just take your time to get the computer set up for the next part. Later, do a little clipping. Perhaps you are already doing this but just need to do it more. Just a thought.

Sincerely,
Jason Taylor

Just got the double flip.

Things you get when you tune in early.

I agree that I think the problem of unstable stream may be a problem with the viewer's system. I had some buffering, but I may not have if I had rebooted my computer after I had been doing some downloading, excel work, video conversion, etc. before starting the feed. I think clearing out memory is helpful. Also, the download claim by isp's is only their maximum, ideal rate. Did you check afterward to see what your actual download rate was?

With the question about the girl that was told by the dell reperesentative that she needs a quatro 6500... About that. Although it is a professional card and will be more than you need (in some ways) for gaming... the quatro's optimization is meant for things like 3D modeling, just like Patrick said. However! The quatro doesn't do floating point calculations as well as the consumer gaming cards. So it might be great generating polygons, but if you have a polygon with texture, the card starts to show it's flaws.

Serious technical issues with this one. There was way too much bass, especially on Pat's mic, and there was static in the mid-high range that became apparent when the bass was turned down. Also, I don't know if VLC's equalizer is just unstable because I rarely have to use it, but while watching the h.264 version in it, it repeatedly crashed on me.

On the plus side, the video seems to have improved. The horrible, distracting interlacing artifacts have almost completely disappeared.

I love the show, but this weeks audio was terrible! Last weeks was also pretty bad. I cant really remember any problems before then. I couldnt finish watching the show this week it was soo bad.

Please sort it out, you are spoiling a great show!

That's because Firefox is running, you are supposed to close everything when you run it. Else you get prefetch results and other false positives.

It's 4:03pm where I'm at ... which means it's 1:03pm Pacific time. Having technical problems or something?

I missed the LIVE show but downloaded later at 11:30PM EST. I thought the Live show was going to be starting at 9:00PM EST just like Tuesday's edition of Digitallife TV. The table is much better than that metal dumpster bin. :)

Toronto, Canada.
Nov. 10, 2005.

Great show Patrick.

from a BIG fan of TWIT crew & Diggnation crew

Email on the way

Enjoy your week off!!

Ok, I just thought of something wrong with the show!
Patrick hasn't worn a kilt yet, lol! BRING BACK THE KILT! ;-)

Noooooo Robert....why??

Wow I am glad I found your website its great to see you again patrick your show is great and all I can say is that G4 sucks there direction is like mtv without the music..keep up the great work..

Hey guys can we get ogm (OGG Media) aka Theora? You can convert using mpeg2theora. I like theora because is a patent free video standard and is recomended because it doesn´t has the patents and all that thing we purists enjoy. :)

I wonder what things I wanna see in dl.tv and I definetly wanna see more open source/free software stuff. Specially stuff you can do with it.

I would like to see some KDE Killer Apps and things about GNOME.

I wonder what things I wanna see in dl.tv and I definetly wanna see more open source/free software stuff. Specially stuff you can do with it.

I would like to see some KDE Killer Apps and things about GNOME.

"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)."

Umm ...when you consider that not EVERYONE is downloading EVERY format of the video, they are saving a LOT of bandwidth by having videos approximating 150MB. If they had ONLY 700MB Xvid, that would *guarantee* that every person that wants the show HAS to download that 700MB. As an example, I only download the h.264 version which is 150MB. 1 person = 150MB instead of 700. you see?

How can it take so long just to release the wmv version??? We're not talking about h.264 here... It's just WMV. Why don't you guys (Pat and Rob) get some help rendering these beasts? It doesn't take 5 hours to render less than 1 hour of show... I KNOW it doesn't...

The complaints I've been reading tonight is like ones I saw on the comments at twit a few months ago. Working on encoding for a living has taught me computers crash, software doesn't always work the way it should and (BLANK!) happens all the time.

Granted, DLTV is run by Ziff-Davis, a for profit operation. However, Murphy's Law and high technology work hand in hand together. Anything that can happen usually does and at 4 or 5 in the morning. I've done it enough to know.

To AJ and the rest of you, cool your jets. I'm certain the DLTV crew are doing the best. Besides, it's Christmas. Don't you guys have some shopping still do?

Merry Christmas to Pat, Robert and the crew of DLTV. You're doing a Great Job!

In order to determine demand for the show they are holding back to see how many people complain. If a lot of people complain, then they know there is a high demand, and will consider subscriptions or pay-per-view deals. I'm pretty sure of that.

Thanks for the downloadable versions.

Thanks for the show. I'm downloading it as I write this. Obviously some of the rumor mongering about the demise of DLTV was just that, rumors.

Mark Twain put it the best; The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Thanks DLTV and Merry Christmas.

Thank you!!! Finally....

I'm glad Garnett was honest at the end of that clip. Nintendo has nothing good to offer this year which was evident from that lineup. Give that guy a raise!

a nice quick round up.
micro is just too small though, just get a DS.

Thanks for divx feed,I like your show..feeds..,Please keep uo HDtv info!!

Gentlemen

Thanks to Patrick, Robert and the DL.TV crew for their hard work.

Perhaps you could quell the whiners if you posted all formats after they're all converted and tested. Call it the weekend/mid-week post, or whatever PR comes up with. I can understand that you would like to get the latest news out as quickly as possible; however, I'm rather tired of reading all the self serving negative posts that are filled with whining and whimpering.

If you absolutely have to put the show up ASAP just post the streaming version and the rest of us who like to download will need to wait until Fri night or Sat morning. Go home see your families and get some sleep; for god's sake it's only TV show

Thanks, it finally works again!

link works now. thanks for fixing that

Thank you for the poster above, finally someone came forward to say that.

Once again, some of you here are frigging morons. Go do something else and stop whining/ordering them to "go back to work", even tv shows have reruns sometimes, and you expect the guys here to work all year (especially they are probably busy getting ready for CES). But then I think it would be nice idea to post on the website a schedule of some sort.

Thanks alot for the long and fun video coverage from CES! I put your link on my http://ces2006.videocoverage.org with the other few places I have yet found that have CES video coverage streaming and download, some in h264 HD and DivX HD.. dl.tv sure is the longest video coverage I have found yet.

Downloading it now and sure like all the other shows it'll be great (heh even if it was bad i'd watch it because it'll be better then 99.9% of the stuff on tv in New Zealand)

Thanks for the great CES coverage and it's great to see some mac content ^_^

The camera crew was probably drinking or then they just had a really bad hangover from partying in CES.Otherwise a really good show.

thanks alot rob.

there are people out there who have no technical ueber-skills or don't have a high-end pc. It is great to have the audio-only (mp3-version) of the show and the wmv, which runs very well with low-power pc's and with linux as others said before. the more vid-flavors dl.tv offers, the more it costs. if you don't like the feeds, convert it yourself. if you want higher quality, ask ziff-davis to co-produce their show and offer them your high-tech equipment, or donate money/buy adds. wmv/mp3 are worldwide accepted standards. if you don't like them, don't use them. I love the show as it is. and btw: i get it for free.

not more than 15 minutes after you whinned, waiting, they post the wmv. people really need to learn some patience.

as per the xvid, i remember watching a show where patrick said that the xvid encoder kept burping on them. i believe they are looking into divx as we speak. patience, young padawan, you will get something that works for you.

I know this ain't the 1up show page, but I can't find any mail link or comment section on the 1up show page. I can't download the video files recently (the last 2 shows). What's happening? The download starts ok, then it slows down, until finally it stops altogether. Anybody alse having this problem?

test test test test

Been there, took that! Hope it helps! :-)

Notice that they didn't have a comment box about things you don't like about dl.tv? Perhaps they should be a little more concerned about what the viewers are unhappy with as well as what we like. Oh well, did the survey, love the show!!

I'd like to download the episode now, but that DivX version is tempting me to wait for it

Good boys!

Hey thanx to all the back room IT crew for getting the servers back online !

Ever heared of Cache Fly ? :D
http://www.cachefly.com/diggnation

I am sure you have.
Anyway looking forward to seeing vista 3rd time lucky? lets hope so. ;)
See you Tuesday
Stubbz

They said that they dont want to use bit torrent now because they have no way to track how many people are watching the show, but they are working on a way. bit torrent is great and would do a lot for there servers but they as of now have no way to see how many people are watching DL.tv.

Thanks Patrick for for the heads up and updates. Enjoy you and Robert on TWIT as well. Hope that last weekend was just an unfortunate burp.

Long time fan,
John R.
(Kansas City area)

Great so far, but.... Where? When? are we gonna see the next ep!

The guys are re-evaluating their programming to compete with:

Desperate Hardware, Beauty and the Computer Geek and "14", the story of 2 computer guy's and their covert attempts to crash the sql server at the 14:00 hour every Tues and Thurs.

Great show, keep it as is.

People. You can be angry if something you paid for is not being delivered to you in a prompt manner, but this show is FREE and as such must rely on a more modest budget than say, The Sopranos.

The fact that it hasn't been delivered "On Time" is even more moot since you can download and watch it WHENEVER YOU WANT!

I like the show, I wouldn't pay for it, but I also don't expect my every whim to be catered to simply because it exists.

To the cast and crew, all this aggravated rambling simply confirms is that you guys are doing a great job with the show.

Hey, guys. Just wanted to thank you for getting the episode recorded and up. As you probably know by now, most people are more concerned with downloading and enjoying each episode of DL.TV than they are letting you know how much it's appreciated.

And of course, when there's a hiccup in the process, some of these fans react in language of questionable eloquence. But you knew that.

Anyways, thanks again. Is an H.264 version of Episode 39 coming up as well?

Yeah, thanks for coming out... There's a good reason this ain't on the front page no more.

frank, I also noticed Leo's palpable reaction when he heard the news about this show. I think Leo's great, but these little episodes of his really turn me off. We've seen it on TWiT before. Leo sort of goes into this passive-aggressive mode and the others, namely Kevin and Patrick (and this time Dvorak) express that they're basically trying to do their own thing with this whole medium - and retreat quietly from further debate with their long-time associate.

1) ziffdavis is delivering a Dvorak video show that I'm personally interested in
2) Leo needs to let go of TechTV

After watching my best of Dana Carvey SNL DVD, I had a great idea, call this new Dvorak show, "The Dvorak Group" just like the McGoughlin Group parody on SNL. Dvorak's comments and attitude towards others is just like carvey's portrayal. And its funny!

Just FYI, The Drizzle is a kickback to an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force on adult swim.

Thanks for fixing the stuff to get it to download. I know you guys aren't bored and just break stuff to have something to do. You guys always put on a great show and it reflects how good it is when people are having anxiety attacks when they can't get it to download right away. Keep up the great show and thanks!!

amazing (and nice) to come in to work and have this ready... quite amazing. 573kb/s DL.

Thanks for the quick turn around on the encoding. I never watch the show live. I prefer to watch it on the way to work or in my spare time, so its great to have it early in the morning eastern time.

Where's the PSP video format? Just kidding.

A big thanks to Patrick and everyone that got the downloads up so quick. You have made a multitude of people extremely happy. I am not around to watch it live so the download is important. Download speed is great and your show is great as always. Remember for every complainer out there there are at least a few thousand of us really happy viewers. You guys are great.

Thanks for burning the midnight oil guys!! Love the show! Always good reviews and guest appearances!!

Nero 7 handles Quicktime H.264 on my WinXP machine flawlessly!!! The show never looked better!!!

Thanks!

Thanks guys. Great job! :)

Thanks for getting the show out real quick. Being in Central time the stream unfortunately always starts at diner time. You're dedication is commendable. Awesome show btw.

I like the table, the simple black background has a nice break with the addition of the LCD screen w/ logo. Maybe add one more variable to the background so it looks a little less bare. Lighting really sucked on the guy at the far right. Nice shirt on John and camera was perfect distance from him. I find that the Twit cameraman takes waaaay too many high def. closeups which is not necessary (he looks younger on DL shows than Twit or is that some playboy soft focus lens DL uses?). You have to get rid of that 'behind John angle' and try some new ones. Maybe more two shots when John is talking to the guest closest to him.
The intros were sort of muffed again and need to be worked on as well as both sides of commercial breaks. Those descriptions like Dot.commie and such were great ideas but the longer ones like Splog have to be left on for 2-3 more seconds and I would change either the words font or size so its easier to pick up than the rest of the text. I also dont think fading out of those description into a commercial works as well as a simple cut.

That Norm McDonald lookalike has body language that puts me in a coma. The middle guy. C'mon, you re his friends right? Is ANYONE going to tell him about that hair? Anyone? And to top it off, he not only has the same 'do but also the same voice as my 8th grade teacher Ms. Baker so I really couldnt see past that although he did give a very good answer about UK RFID chips just to have John ask the same question about kennels.

I really think the last guy, Sparks, was on the show Wonder Years, you know....the kid with glasses they say (erroneously) grew up to be marylin manson. All he needs is the tape on glasses and pens in his pocket and he could be a geek adonis poster boy.

Id recommend keeping the set as dimly lit as possible (maybe even candlelight!) and no closeups and you'll do fine.

Mr Smiles from pc mag was as good as on the pilot but like Steven Wright, only in moderate doses.
There is a need for a guy like Sparks every week who might not be a tech wizard but who knows the latest buzz words, web interaction and knows how to talk in 30 second clips.
Nothing worse than 4 geeks sitting around asking 'have you heard about.....?' and who dont know what the latest and newest fad is all about: makes you look out of touch.

Enjoyed the show and all the topics more than I thought I would. Big improvement from the pilot in the presentation department and I liked how all 4 people were able to participate in the Origami discussion and contributing in their own way. Ive heard many discussions over this subject and this one by far surpassed it because it explained much more thoroughly a lot of aspects.
Best line on this topic: "...they found a niche between a failing market and a shrinking market"

I'd love to hear this group discuss a 'XP on Mac vs OSx on other pc's and what possible consequences both will have' discussion with this group. Seems to me they could theorize a little more freely than some other roundtables. C.mon, you all know you want to hear this topic!

And yes, I agree with the poster above: Of all the shows yove done so far, ep. 1x01 is the best !!!

Fire that producer of yours, we hear he's a slacker!

so much for getting it out in the morning =P

Digital life tv is excellent.

Dont forget you have a world wide audience, so US, UK, EU pricing, avaliability, etc is often appreciated.

The South Pacific Countries and Australia love your show, best on the internet.

well done to all.

Keept up the excellent work.

the ipod link seems to be linking ot the mov file not the m4v file. if i just type in the m4v file path i get it so it looks to jus tbe a wrong link.

I download the DivX like I do everyweek but this weeks looked like crap, either you guys encoded it wrong to theres alot of frame rate loss, I had to download the .mov file becuase I couldn't stand it, if you could reencode it that would be cool, thanks.

Hey guys: HE APPOLIGIZED! Yes, they made a mistake, but he has appoligized and said it wont happen again (hopefully)... it was an honest mistake, and im sure that the DL.TV team is getting a lot of heat for it anyway.

I love how fast ya'll get the encoding done.

Good show.

Suize the speed of your computer has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the ability to download that file in 20 minuites! I could download the same episode on a 333mhz Pentium III with windows 98 and a 10/100 network card.

Don't confuse your bandwidth pipe with the performace of your PC! The ability to play H.264 instead of .wmv and using GPU rendering to playback videos instead of cpu is something competely different.

Not trying to be an @ss, but come on! >_Suize the speed of your computer has NOTHING AT ALL to do with the ability to download that file in 20 minuites! I could download the same episode on a 333mhz Pentium III with windows 98 and a 10/100 network card.

Don't confuse your bandwidth pipe with the performace of your PC! The ability to play H.264 instead of .wmv and using GPU rendering to playback videos instead of cpu is something competely different.

Not trying to be an @ss, but come on! >_

On a side note DL.tv rocks, keep up the good work.

dude dont even worry about the sht talkers out there. i think that 90% of us know that things happen that cant be helped.....
can't wait for the download...
:-)

The anticipation!!!!
I actually checked the show notes and saw the yahoo widgets thing and hadn't used it before so I decided to check it out. Its pretty cool! Can't wait to hear you guys critique it!

stuff hapens. will be here for the dL
and will try for the next live show.

it's all GOOD>

your more frusterated than we are I know!

Without info, it's Lord of the Flies out here. People can't help themselves (maniacal laughter...)

I just wanted to thank you for the updates. Your loyal viewer(s) appreciate being informed. We forgive you, but we don't forgive your web hosting service (may they chew on week old sweat socks until they fix their problems).

Have a great weekend!

So, it was Window's fault?

Thanks for letting all of us know what's going on. Too bad it happend on the one day I really wanted to watch the live stream. I'll just wait for the download instead.

Hey thx for the info, good to know the tape still was rolling, looking forward for upcoming episode dl's.

I could say what's already been said in just about every post before this, but I won't.

Instead I'd like to thank you guys for doing what you do - Free of charge no less. I can't imagine what the bandwidth costs are like. I'd also like to say thanks for taking the time to let us know what's going on and giving a decent explanation instead of the usual PR garbage that I've become accustomed to from just about everything that interests me. I wish you guys a lot of success with this venture and it's longevity - just don't sell out.

Patrick, thanks for all the details. Its good to know what happened (even though I don't watch the live stream as its on too late in the UK for me on a work night!) and to keep the agro-kids at bay :-) Really looking forward to checking out the show on downloads, and I hear you've mentioned the Nintendo Wii, so I look forward to your opinions on that, haha!

That's says it all Pat, don't worry, you still have your fans here waiting for the download.

You should have bought a MAC !!!

If you look at it from the glass half full angle; you learned a lesson on how not to do it. someone has to be the first. but this simply displays how cutting edge a bi-weekly IPTV show really is. You guys RAWK keep it up. Can't wait to see the next 45 minutes ;)

Remember when YOU posted this?

3) The Downloads For Episode 56
Will be available Friday.

Well, its FRIDAY 5:00 PM (PEE-EMM) MST which would be 4:00 PM (PST) YOUR time and still no show?! Isn't this even the time you would "normally" be live streaming if it were Tuesday or Thursday? And if I recall correctly (probably not), didn't you guys even say you PRE-RECORDED it?! So why so slow with making it available for download? What ELSE broke?

Sorry, to be so negative, but WOW! You guys are Tech Guru's (GODS to some even) and even YOU have techincal melt downs almost every WEEK! Is it a money issue because I can't imagine that it is a "technical" issue...

Just to say thanks for the update, and keeping us (the viewer) apart of the show.
I had no problems as i Juice the show, so its sat there waiting 4 me to watch when i want to watch.
Keep up the good work.
StubbZ

Big fan of Patrick and Robert and really enjoy DLTV. I like many others out here really appreciate what DLTV is trying to do but they need to get the cobwebs out of their system pronto.

It should be obvious that for all but the most ardent fans the frequent delays and problems with downloads as well as not having a hard and fast schedule of episode releases is frustrating and tiring.

I know you guys are bustin' your rears to get the show out ASAP but I think it is in your best interest to get this problem solved sooner rather than later even if you have to split each show into several chunks and get a set of multiple machines to process each data type and let them all crunch away in parallel.

The powers that be need to give Patrick more personnel and resources so that he doesn't have to stress about the technical production of the show. This would leave him more time and energy to create content for the show in an ever more competitive iptv environment. If Z.D. doesn't have the resources then Patrick should pack up his wagon and find someone that does.

A little harsh but although there is all this talk about anyone can do a grown up podcast on a shoe string budget are just drinking too much of the cool-aide as Dvorak would say. If the economics are not there yet to sustain these things then it would be better to determine this sooner rather than later. How long will it take? 5? 10? Years?

Hey I think the people that are complaining have never been in the position of responsibility for tech that has very specific up times. They don't know that you are putting more pressure on yourself than any of us do or have a right too. I remember getting calls at 2:00 am and thinking what is gonna be worse. Finding out about some family member being sick or dead or hearing someone from work saying everything is down. You gotta come in right now.

Besides I have a 128K line. I don't stream anything from the web. I just download it when I have about 5 hours.

I've watch you Patrick from your days on the screen saver and I feel confident that your level of professionalism is more than enough for this.

Keep up the good work.

I do infact watch DL.TV on my HLR 5064 HDTV, meh, love the VGA onit.

Looking forward to the new episode today, lets hope all is well, and its goes off with out a hitch.

Fax gnomes... gotta feed them, good stuff.

Wow, that was pretty quick.
Thanks to you guys I have something to do at work now.

I agree with jEFF.. 6:40AM in Toronto and already downloading the show.. Keep up everyone. We need an award for the best " IP TV " Showw.

Patrick posted:
"The next episode of DL.TV streams live Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 at 4pm PDT, 7pm EDT and 23:00 GMT/UTC, and will be available for download Friday, May 5th."

This is so cool that Patrick can defy the laws of nature and go back in time to post his podcasts before they are recorded. I love it!

He could teach Leo a few things about getting podcasts posted in a timely manner.

Was the PS3 will be a $499 blu-ray player (with the additional feature that it can play some games - I suppose).

Would HD versions of DL.TV actually be less post production work for you guys (less compression time)?

To coin a phrase "Honkin bandwidth"

Thanx

Mongoose

Just like many others we tried to download dl.tv

Some tried ALL the links and was disappointed each time the link failed.

Rather than complain I decided to create a fictional conversation with an IT representive of DL.TV

Is this some cruel joke on DL.TV audience?
No.

Is this a part of a bigger problem?
Could be.

Does anyone is DL.TV doing something about it? Probably

Will this happen again?
Yup

What can we (DL audience) do about this crisis?
Be patient.

How come Robert acts like he's had one too many Red Bulls?
Good question. You should ask Robert.

Patrick enjoys off road and welding -- why doesn't he have a show that offers off road tips and tech, and include welding technology?
Good question. You should ask Patrick.

This ends todays fictional talk with a DL.TV IT guy. Next week we have a fictional discussion with Robert Change about operating cameras and sea sickness.

MPlayer - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

I been using it on Linux for over 4 years now and have yet to find anything freely available to download off the net it can't play. It has great performance because I can download and play 720P videos off apples trailer site on my 800MHz-ish P3 Laptop

I've been using Xubuntu lately and its a snap to install.
sudo apt-get install mplayer w32codecs

There are several front-ends for windows now that you can get, I recommend MPUI. It's the best i've tried and I can also put it on my USB pendrive so I have a usable media player at any windows computer I sit down at.

Download MPUI-1.1.8_with_MPlayer-CVS-060330.zip and unzip it then make a codecs folder on the same level as the MPUI.exe and drop in all the codec in the second zip archive I posted below.
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http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155302&package_id=172921
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-all-20060501.zip

They didn't lie, they are back in business.

www.thepiratebay.org

:)

Now to make the unholy infidels pay for their actions in court.

Man this program is the bomb! Its the only place I can actually get in-depth technology reviews and previews. Patrick and Robert, keep up the good work! I'm downloading this episode at 45-50K (one of the fastest rates I've had in a while).

Are there any viewers in West Africa?

Great shows guys, great shows. It really the only show i look forward to. And, yes, this includes regular tv on those old box thingies that sit in my basement.

Have a great weekend! :-)

I have a life and an interest in tech and other things too...
DL.TV is a good thing.

Thanks Robert for the SUsE and Xgl show. I downloaded and installed as a second OS on my drive and after a couple hours had the whole thing working. Having very little with the command line(dos centuries ago) found this a great challenge and with the web as help found it relatively painless. Enjoying it and loving it!!!!! Thanks DL.TV for being here.

Somebody must be downloading a whole book. The tubes are getting clogged.

Thank you for another fine edition of DL.TV

Instead of rerendering the h.264, mabey you should try re-encoding.

Thanks for letting us know Patrick!

Keep up the good work, and make sure Robert didn't accidently trip over the power plug. :)

whats up with that aww thats GAY!

Thanks for letting us know Patrick, thats a bummer.

Thanks For The Notice. I hope you get everything worked out. I love the show and can't wait to see it tomorrow.

Thanks Patrick -

I had to go somewhere in 30 mins so I was going to be really mad that I could only watch part of it live. This makes life easier and thanks for your notice and mucho thanks for all your efforts to try to salvage an unstable network mess. Sometimes out here in audience land we take for granted all the stuff everyone does on your end to make it fly. Good work!

Have you guys ever thought of switching from limelight?

Thanks for letting us know - keep up the good work guys - good things take time right? Keep fighting the good fight!

for letting us know.
I feel sorry for dl.tv crew everything seems to break on them when they try new products. hope they can fix the problem soon. good lucks guys ..

Christian, I think Lee was just kidding around.

But I'm not kidding around when I say Ted Stevens should stick some dice up his (**RIAA**)

Ok, I'm awake now. I realized you just edit the original post and the stamp is updated at the top of it. Doh! Switching between 3rd and 2nd shifts sucks!

Just so people posting new posts, don't post more things like Lardzor and I did -
READ THE FOLLOWING FROM THE ORIGINAL POST:

"Hey DLTV crew,

After much pain and suffering, we wanted to let you know that show downloads and the flash player will be available late today (Friday). Remember, we are based on the west coast of the United States. So, that late today (Friday) thing, is late today (Friday) in the lovely San Francisco bay area.

Thanks a bunch for your support,
Scott" - posted by P. Norton

So, thats late West Coast time which = Late East Coast time +3Hrs. Meaning Saturday morning probably...but its worth the wait no?

Intentsly

In this day and age inept people.
Thanks for trying to do your best.

ps...love the show!!!

I continue to hear on TWIT how regular television is dead and how IPTV will reign supreme. People will be leaving network television in droves and move to content that is more targeted to them, like TWIT and DL.TV. This always cracks me up. The thing about network tv is that when I put it on NBC at 9 pm Thursdays I KNOW I will see The Office and that nothing will stop that from happening (unless the president decides to give a speech). IPTV has no such set schedules. It's up whenever the content creators feel like it (or when their connection actually works). It's also strange that a tech show will be released for download a day after it's streamed live; a show that talks about up-to-the-minute news is released a day late for mass consumption. I find it laughable that anybody would suggest that network television is dying when there is such low standards as to when a show is released. Inconsistency breeds resentment, which drives viewers away.

Remember Lads, New England is +3Hrs ahead of the West Coast. Keep the faith, though I'm sure they'd rather be enjoying their weekend ;)

Intentsly

Anyone notice that Patrick looked a little sweaty in the last half of ep. 78? May I make a sugestion? Get the goom to 62 and then start the show. I know it will seem cold at first but.... cold makes you alert. Builds character. Also... Robert has lost weight. Good job! I hope he is not smoking... only loosers smoke. Pats wardrobe is getting better. But as for Robert, no non button collars on button down shirts please... it looks gross. Collars must stay upright at all times... Oh maybe try a polo with the collar up... that's how I roll.

And as for the rest of you.... you get your hands on cool *ss **it and make a kick *ss show. Then we will all bitch at you. Pussies.

The tubes are clogged!!!!

Anyone got a lotto ball?

stop with the dang TUBES already!

well everyone seems to be showing their "support"

Ahhh guys, its way past "EARLY SATURDAY" even on the west coast. Is there going to be a download link today or not ??? Pleasssssss .....

Not only that, but you win the prize MC, a whole episode of DLTV late (I mean aged to perfection) LOL

I see lots of negative comments about the show being delayed and I've been waiting for it since last night. But thats all right, I know it's going to be good and I'll patiently wait for it. (Don't take too long though :p)

Ok.. so the h.264 takes a long time... put out the others (wmv,divx, xvid etc)and add the longer ones later

Maybe you could get Leo or Kevin to host the show on their network to help you out guys.

I been checking back everyso often is like
all you guys have been doing is refreshing the page
to see if it is posted
the server is down right now dl.tv

take a break
on monday it will be posted and you will
have three that week.

Is that a bad thing

FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE CONSTANTLY WHINNING AND COMPLAINING ABOUT THE SHOW DELAY, DON'T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT HOW MUCH HARD WORKD AND EFFORT GOES INTO EACH SHOW PRODUCTION THEN STOP WATCHING AND GET OUT OF HERE.

i was really looking forward to this episode. i can't watch the live stream cause of time differences. (i need my sleep and i can't stayup till 4 in the morning each time.) thanks for all the hardwork. here, it's already 8:30PM sunday. so a lot of time has passed. regardless, thanks for all the hardwork.

Thanks a lot guys...

The download speed was great... I got a sustained download speed of over 570 KB/sec. I'm in Lacrosse WI using Charter Cable.

Thanks for all the hard work. Love the show

Thank you very much from ALL of us, inconsiderate monsters.

For coming in during the weekend to render the show for us.

Thanks for spending a big chunk of your Saturday night and Sunday morning encoding! It was a great sacrifice to appease us geeks for our DL.TV fix! :)

Way to go PATTY! Nice job getting it up! thanx for workin like a dog for us.

T_T why isn't it loading D:

there we go, dl.tv logo

I am hearing some comments, is the show gonna be streamed tonight after all?

Nice Work DL.TV!

We ask and you deliver!

OH download speed is about 300kb/s which isn't TOO bad considering last week when it was crawling at about 30kb/s. But normally I'm getting 600kb/s, but since the video downloads were just opened up, I'm sure their servers are getting hammered now.

Thanks for putting the downloads up so quick!

Are you guy using the Core 2 to help push out the video? I never got it this early, IT'S 5:57 AM here in New York. Thanks!

Nice upload. And as always thanks for the show!

Great Episode as usual guys. Thanks!

The wmv feed was updated but the XML feed for divx is not yet updated. Just thought I should let you guys know so you could look into it for possible errors. Keep up the good work.

thanks a lot guys, top job

have been waiting for the download... When are you guys going to let us know about the hyperterminal solution for vista?

They haven't released Vista's price offically yet? Robert was just giving a ballpark figure.

thanks..Just starting the download..this is gonna keep me going thro the night as I wait for my A Level results

Thanks for struggling through to get the downloads out!

Downloads at night are alot faster for most of us anyhow so it all works out.

Thank you for having multiple players, because I couldn't get the WMV file to work until yesterday, lol. DL is moving forward, pretty soon dl tv will truly be saying "ALL YOU BASES BELONG TO US". World domination is just around the corner!

Everyone who complains about the show download delays needs to to chill, you have no right to complain, you are part of what's wrong with this world today, take, take, take, me, me, me.

Shut your selfish appreciative trap.

But if you can do better then my all means put up or shut up.

Easy to get links to files in many formats on demand or "live" DL.TV and Ziff-Davis are wonderful. The BBC news site is a pain in comparison. special video players and podcast downloding software if they had anything important to say or their sponsors something to sell i didn't see it.

Keep up the great show. (Fingers are crossed that you get a cable TV contract.)

Thanks again you guys for the terrific show!

The video quality is terrible on the divx format.

I'm glad you posted the other links first. I download the DivX for long term use, but I always download the wmv first. That way I can get my immediate fix since I rarely get to watch the live show. So post em as you get em.

Keep up the good work!

After everything written about the compuiter for students "One laptop per child program" Can you guys show us one?

Thank you very much to all of you who produce direct host and run dltv. Keep up the good work! Dont listen to the arrogant, selfish pukes who are allways CRYING about something wrong with the show. Too many spoiled people on this planet right now.

Finally, some good advise for all of us.

Thank you

Hey guys...ever thought about encoding into Theora/Vorbis...a very nice, patent-free (not to mention high-quality) codec combo that's easy for newbie Linux users?

Just a thought.

total nostalgia cure for The screen savers!! Its great to see you again Pat!! This is soo awesome Im so mad i just found out about this! Im gonna be here every week!

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Whoa! That is some machine you got blazing there. Core 2 Duo?

I also had a thought, if you happen to have a lot of Macs laying around you could turn on xGrid on them to speed up the render time for the H.264.

Thanks for getting it out this fast!

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keep the divx my dvd player thanks you.

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Thanks for staying up late to do these. I wasn't expecting that. Download speeds maxin my connection at 825KB/sec(6600Kb/sec)

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Thanks for posting the download links! But I see the html code up there.

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well, whatever the probs may be, just do wht i do... blame the dog! dont have a dog? blame someone elses!

Holla,
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Hi,
I'm Gerry.

Just saying hey - I'm new.

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