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Time for a Very Special Fun Fur Covered Edition of DL.TV!

The Deets:

WinHEC:

• ExtremeTech's Editor, Loyd Case gives us the deets from Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference
  

Products:

• The best sites online for managing photos.
• Digital camera recco: superzoom and image stabilization!

Viewer Questions:

• John from Columbia, PA asks "Will Boot Camp run Vista Beta 2 on a Mac?"
• DL.TV downloads speeds: 2MB per second, or 20Kbps?
• What's up with Windows suddenly askign to reactivate?
• Your responses to the Wii pricing question!

Episode 65 in Windows Media:

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Episode 65 in MPEG4:

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Episode 65 in DivX:

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Another DLTV episode packed full of tech goodness!

In the News:

• Student Faces Expulsion For Web Post
• Nintendo Indicates Wii Pricing
• FCC Won't Investigate NSA Phone Logs
• Teen Suspects Charged Over MySpace Extortion
• Free Nationwide Broadband?
  
• Microsoft Reveals Rival for JPG Format
  

Gaming Goodness:

• SiN: Episodes, Emergence: Awful or Awesome... Thanks to 1UP's Garnett Lee for dropping by w/ the review!
• Wii Pricing: Did Nintendo pick $250 so they'd sound serious? Why not $199???
  
• Email us your opinion on that. Put "Wii Pricing" in the subject!
  

Product Round-Up:

• NAS Mini-Roundup: ExtremeTech's Victor Loh on Network Attached Storage

Viewer Questions:

• Lukes says: Dudes, Adult Swim is not a live stream, those are the times for the broadcasts!
• Matt asks for low cost in ear headphones options. We give him two, plus an over the ear choice.
• Cameron asks "How good is that ATI $50 trade in?"
• Bryan wants to know if 802.11b will take full advantage of his cable modem.
• Brian asks about video editing: MacBook Pro, or wait for the Intel PowerMacs? Dude, go mobile if you're not doing scads of rendering. And check out the MacBook, too... it's got serious performance once you get over the graphics.

 

Episode 64 in Windows Media:

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Episode 64 in MPEG4:

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Episode 64 in DivX:

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Episode 64, audio only (MP3):
    
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Time for another perky edition of DL.TV.  Hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Heron

In the News today:

• US Veterans' Data Exposed
• EMI Profits On iPod Sales
• Judges Approves Sony Rootkit Settlement
• Samsung Will Sell PCs with Flash Drives
• Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Released
  

Products to play with:

• Windows Vista Hardware Requirements: No, Virginia, Vista doesn't need DX10 to do Glass.

• Vista Beta 2 (Did NOT like our 6600GT graphics card, at least not with lots of windows open.)

HowTo:

• Defrag happiness! Robert says defragging won't help system performance.
• Patrick says it's a nice way to boost performance a bit on machines where you're constantly moving files on/off and around. (Especially if you've into double digit fragmentation.)

Your viewer questions:

• Carlos asks "Why do none of these tech shows that have risen from the ashes of TechTV mention this potential breakthrough and explore it for its validity and real world applications?
• Max says "I was searching Google Video and found quite a bit of copyrighted material: Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force... Trigun and Gundam Wing... Doctor Who... South Park. Will anyone crack down on this?" (You know, a lot of those videos look like they've been submitted by the copyright holders, which means they'd be all kinds of legal!)
• Cameron asks "Can you make a ultra-deluxe version of DL.TV, say a gig for each episode or at least twice the current size? I want my quality dang it!"
• Joel from Pittsburgh, PA asks "Do SpywareBlaster and SpyBot Search and Destroy's immunize feature really work? I use both and seem to detect the same amount of spyware that I did prior to using them." (Props to Neil Rubenking over at PCMag for some great info to help Joel!)
• Steven from Union, NJ asks "Can a PCI Express graphics card be used in a regular PCI expansion slot?"

Episode 63 in Windows Media:

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Episode 63 in Quicktime H.264:

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Episode 63 in MPEG4:

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Episode 63 in DivX:

            We can't purge the Limelight network of the busted file from this morning, so we've uploaded it again and set up a new URL to work around that. Our apologies for the delay. --Patrick

            This should work for everybody: Right click here to DL.TV Episode 63 in DivX, 325MB

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We have a finely ground show for you today, hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Heron.

 

News:

• Supreme Court Sets Aside Patent Ruling.
  
• Microsoft Announces Vista Hardware Requirements (More on this Tuesday!)
  
• Pioneer Sells Blu-Ray Drive For $1,000
  
• Intle Fanboy Offers Complete Processor Collection on eBay: 4004 to Pentium4
  
• Intel To End 386/486 Production
• Wired posts AT&T Whistlerblowers Evidence. (What WAS the NSA looking at?)
  

Products:

• A Feast of flash players... watch out iPod nano!
• mobiBLU B153 (2GB) Amazing battery life (153 hours???), but the interface and bass could use help
• SanDisk Sansa e260 It's hard to tell if the Sansa or the
• iRiver clix is the best iPod nano alternative out there. Patrick's vote is for the clix!
• mobiBLU's DAH-1500i Cube doesn't have the battery life of the 153, but we like the audio better.

Viewer Questions:

• Dodging sketchy stock spam... what's up with those PDF attachments.
• Urge rocks: but what happens to the tunes I download during the free 14 day trial? Um, you loose access to them... it's a DRM thing.
• Windows Vista and the new MacBooks: Will it run? What about Aero/Glass?
• H.263 vs. H.264
• Choosing LCD panels for use in bright sunshine.

Additional Weirdness:

• Robert Heron warns us all about canned air, projector bulbs and accidental flamethrowers.
• Apple's new store in NYC will be open 24/7/365 (Will there be bouncers to protect the staff?)
• The Ultimate Big Red Button from MIT's dorms will be in Tuesday's show next week.
• PS - Robert's a bit miffed for mentioing the NeuNeo/Helios HVD2085 upscaling DVD player. Apparently it has some issues with film-based DVD movies. In the mean time, stick with a name brand upscaling DVD player (Panasonic, Samsung and Sony come to mind). 
  
• BTW, the Oppo OPDV971H has caught his eye and he's looking at getting it into the lab ASAP.
  

Episode 62 in Windows Media:

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Episode 62 in MPEG4:

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Episode 62 in DivX:

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Episode 62, audio only (MP3):
    
            Right click here to download DL.TV Episode 62, audio only (MP3), 22.9MB

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We have a totally stuffed episode for you today!


What's in the show:

News:

• Skype Offers Free Phone Calls!
• Apple Introduces the New MacBook (So much for the iBook)
• DARPA's Building A Man-cannon
• Creative Sues Apple, seeks iPod import ban
• US cities sue travel sites

Demos:

• Windows Media Player 11 (and MTV's new audio shop: Urge)
• Real video without the RealPlayer: It's Real Alternative
  

E3 2006 Wrapup:

• The event of the year for folks that love video games!
• John Davison, the chief kahuna of ZDM's Game Group talked us through the announcements at the show.
• John's picks from the show floor? Mass Effect, Warhawk for the PS3 and Halo 3
• The editors from ExtremeTech, 1UP, EGM and the rest of the crew gave us their fave picks from the show floor
• Wii, good???  Dan Hsu of Electronic Gaming Monthly got his hands on a on the next generation Nintendo console.
• Did he like it? What about the 'Wiimote?'

Field Trip:

• A taste of the Maker Faire, an amazing full of DIY (do it yourself) folks.
• Patrick joined Dan Huard and the crew from Systm to put together a video covering the fair.
• Sponsored by Make Magazine, it was quite the gathering of folks that build things for fun.
• Flamethrowers? Welding? Toyoa Prius hacking? Folks that embed RFID chips in their hands?
• You can see all that and much more of the Maker Faire at Revision3 or Systm.org

Viewer questions:

• No love for the Aussies? (Yes, yes, it is a continent.)
• Celeron D or Pentium 4 for gaming?
• Can we help with DVD ripping?
  

Episode 61 in Windows Media:

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Episode 61 in Quicktime H.264:

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Episode 61 in MPEG4:

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Episode 61 in DivX:

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Episode 61, audio only (MP3):
    
            Right click here to download DL.TV Episode 61, audio only (MP3), 26MB

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The next episode of DL.TV streams live Thursday, May 18th, 2006 at 4pm PDT, 7pm EDT and 23:00 GMT/UTC, and will be available for download Friday, May 19th.

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It's time for another Kickin' Episode of DL.TV

In the show today:

News:

• Google Google Press Day: Google Google Desktop 4 (beta), Trends and more
• Hirai Defends Playstation Launch Price
• Iowa State First in Virtual Reality Rooms
• ICANN Rejects .XXX
• We'll give you more on E3 on next Tuesday's show: in the meantime, check out the E3 coverage at PCMag.com , ExtremeTech and 1UP.com.
  

Picture Tour of NAB 2006:

• A tour of National Association of Broadcasters show floor: from holographic storage (Maxell and InPhase) to HD cameras, AM antennas, 'the world's first' surround sound mic, helicopters, The Red Digital Cinema Camera, ARRI's new 16mm film cameras, big honking cables and quite a bit more!

Product Review:

• Cingular's Cingular 8125: Windows Mobile 5.0 with a keyboard.
• Doesn't offer the phone performance of hte Cingular 2125, but if you're in need of a bigger screen and a keyboard, it's an option.
  

How To Tip:

• Transcoding Video 101, or "How do I get better looking video on my portable?"
• Step one: RTM and learn the specs for your device!
  

Viewer Questions:

• Pedro wants an HD-DVD checkup
• Jeff's looking for a judgement call: Dell or Apple for a notebook?
  
  

Episode 60 in Windows Media:

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Episode 60 in Quicktime H.264:

            Right click here to download DL.TV Episode 60 in Quicktime H.264, 176MB

Episode 60 for the video iPod:

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Episode 60 in MPEG4:

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Episode 60 in DivX:

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We're redecorating the studio, so today's show is short 'n sweet!

Show notes:

News:

• Sony Announces PS3 Pricing
• Nintendo @ E3: A Whole Bunch of games for Wii!
  
• Microsoft Announcements @ E3
  
• Warner Bros. To Sell Movies Via BitTorrent

Product Review:

• Toshiba's HD-A1: our first HD-DVD player
• Gorgeous HD-DVD video.
  
• Slow controls. No 1080P. $500 price tag.
  
• If you're not an early adopter type... wait.
  

Viewer Questions:

• Jim's looking for advice on playing back MPEG4 video: set top DVD player, or PC?
• Alex from Ohio: "Does the PS3 pricing seem high?"
• Ryan asks about normal DVDs and HD-DVD players.

Episode 59 in Windows Media: 

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Episode 59 in Quicktime H.264: 

            Right click here to download DL.TV Episode 59 in Quicktime H.264, 91.1MB

 

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            Right click here to download DL.TV Episode 59 in MPEG4, 88MB 

 

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We're Back with a jam packed edition of DL.TV

Show notes:
News:

• Blu-ray Discs Delayed
• FTC Sues Companies for Selling Phone Records
• Silicon Valley Boasts Best Tech Pay
• Open Document Format Gets ISO Approval

Product Demos:

• Samsung Q1 The first Origami/UMPC we've gotten our hands on. Think baby Windows XP Tablet PC.
  
• We know at least one viewer it's perfect for. What do we think? Watch the video!
  
• Fortune Fountain's DialKeys brings the thumb keyboard to the Q1... thought you should know.
  
• Pure Digital Point & Shoot Camcorder
  
• Costs $130, grabs 640x480 MPEG4 video, available at Target, and it works pretty darn well.
  

Viewer Questions and Feedback:

• Can I get in trouble for dropping Cain and Able on a school computer? (Yes!)
• What can I use to convert the Coax signal from my Dish reciever into something my monitor can use?
• I've got a Mac Antivirus tip for you!
• Are used CD/DVD/console game stores in touble?
• Lots of T9 suggestions... thanks Tom, Jeffrey, Nic, Geuis, JDub, Adam, Owen, Jesse, Tyler and Dave!

Episode 58 in Windows Media: 

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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 Wednesday, May 10th.

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A Finely Pulsed Almost All Viewer Questions Edition o' DL.TV.

Show notes for Episode 57:

News:

• Intel to spend $1 Billion to push net to poor nations 
• DARPA Challenge Goes To The City!
  
• Beware of Phony American Express Log-in Screens

Viewer Questions:

• Will the Toshiba V803T work with my SIM card from T-Mobile?
• What antivirus protection would you recommend to a Mac user?
• How will the quality of an up converted standard DVD would measure up to the new Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats?
• Is the W810 CDMA compatible?
• Should I wait for the next gen Mac?
• Is my computer "Vista Compatible"?
• What you do guys think of Dell TVs?  Their 32" LCD is only $1,399 right now.
• The DL.TV H.264 file looks like a slide show on my Cingular 8125.  Shouldn't it have better processing power than the iPod Video?
• I deleted some system fonts.  How do I get the basic Windows Fonts back? How to add fonts to Windows XP
  Free fonts? Try GetFreeFonts.com

And the JVC DVD player Robert mentioned:

• The SRDVD-100U
  
  
  

Episode 57 in Windows Media: 

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

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