Have a good show, hope Patrick made it.

Can't connect. Typical Thursday!

Can anyone else not connect to the stream?

cant connect either in cinci ohio on road runner

I can't connect either. I get an invalid address error :(

can't connect to server? anybody else able to connect?

why wont it let me connect

Hey guys is there a live show now??

Sweet the feed is already running 15 minutes early!

Can't connect either. Whats going on? Server Down?

I just connected, the vid is kinda dark though

We still have 13 minutes, I don't think they have started the stream yet.

I an definately see a countdown. I assume the show is going to start a little later.

15 minutes on the clock

Subj. Says it all

I can't either. Maybe it's because it STARTS AT 13:15 UTC!!!!!

Yes. 15min till it starts!

but it'd be fun with a green patrick.

got it working here :)

No connection for me :(

Just got it working through QT. Though the countdown shows 15 min. Maybe they are doing a later show like they have in the past.

So Patrick is not supposed to be green, but they never said anything about Robert?

I love how it always seems like a miracle the show happens. Keep it cutting edge dudes. Rock!

Can't connect either. Whats going on? Server Down?

wasn't earlier...now it is. :)

the show says itll start at 7:15 eastern time so 4 15 for u calli kids

At least we aren't missing anything.

I just love tuesday and thursday nights !! from Ireland btw...

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Yay, finally got a connection! Guest: Robert's not on.

Road Runners` the best!!

Geez,I really hope the connection speed is back to normal again. I'am crossing my fingers.

YES Hmmm

This is my 2nd attempt at watching live and I know there are no problems on my end. (cross fingers)

Zune

Please post me a copy of the stream link. I can't wait for them to post it. Thank you.

I don't see a link to the stream. Can somebody post it please?

Bah, I suspect patrik had a bad hairday again.

Its 10 after, I thought I was late. OK, hope the show goes on sometime soon.

Here we go, on my couch, with last nights sushi rolls, a drink, and my DL TV ready to go.

Im on vista RC1 NOW!

Only part of the way in, but Robert was better. He had very little dead space.

nice annon, im all set up too :D

Now if only you could fill it with stock soundbites of Robertisms - or Patrickisms - whoever's absent, it could "channel" them & respond to the host :)

very laggy!!!

Cant get the link to work still so looks like ill have to wait to download it. oh well looked like a good show to.

isnt working for me either just my luck trying to watchit live for the second time ever

I wait all week to watch the shows and get phone calls from friends to help them fix their comps. :( Logged on at 4:22pm most of the show has past. have a great night/day

I started an install company out of college, b/c I love HT. The internet killed margins and the ability of most people to keep mom and pop stores open. Installs just don't keep you growing. Retailers started marking up cables looking for any profit. Cables wokr to a certain degree, but everyone goes ape about the topend. What's wrong with a buck a foot for speaker cable or $20-25 interconnects, but no people want it for free? I am bitter, b/c online forums and society's values have really hurt the ability for my company to grow despite the ideal location. Internet purchasing is far too common for people to talk about how people are just bad business people. So, I am going to law school and thanks Patrick for explaining to your audience that MSRP or even 10-15% off MSRP is for suckers. In fact, margins are 30-50% off.. yeah on like 5% of items. Also, cables are completely BS, just look at these Audioquest stupid cables. The AV industry is screwed, b/c it's slowly receding everywhere and I am not weathering that storm. I think advertsing between segments of the show is bull. I normally forward through it or open up another page. Yup, a touch bitter and the show sucked Patrick. Vizio 50" umm that thing looks like crap.

A friend of mine worked at best buy and all the was able to get for like 10% of the retail price! They are a hardcore ripoff.

Robert did great by himself. I liked it a lot. No fooling around between the two, haha.

I could, at least, see it ;) Postage stamps belong on envelopes, not on a show that displays items they review. CPU's Does anyone else feel that the Core 2's are just not ready to buy yet? Video Cards Does anyone know of any Nvidia cards coming out with Gddr4 or anything to answer the ATI X1950? Home Theater Does anyone really have the money to drop on $1000plus TV's? Does anyone really get distracted by a little noise in a shadow? I think that video quality is a nice to have, but the cost gimme a break. A slight bit of light Rant Mode: Its a shame that todays movies rely so heavily on cgi , lack story, character, and have thin plots. Its like cgi has or is trying to replace the things that make movies "classics". I can recall movies where you never saw the "monster" nor the villain, but YOU could IMAGINE what it or they looked like. You know that melon we have attached to the tops of our torsos, its contains that imagination thing. Unless exercised, it gets lazy (cgi). I've talked to some people online, who (say) they can't picture things in their mind. I just wonder if all the inputs available today audio/video-wise is contributing to weaken people's abitities to visualize things. Dreaming..ah dreaming, we die if we don't dream. Is it getting so hard to find substance that we turn to what seemingly would be good stories from the past and yet cgi them all to death (think Wild Wild West and how over the top half the things were-and I didn't even see the movie). Eye candy with a good story, such as Lord of the Rings could have hardly ever failed. The story was strong enough to carry it even without the cgi. Though I think because the story was so beloved that the cgi was done with so much heart and caring. If only the Hobbit would come... Intentsly

They do it for TV shows, why not for DLTV? People would actually buy them (to save having to d/l 95+ of the bloody things). Synopses of each show (Show Notes) could be displayed for each episode. It all just sounds like $$$$ to be made ;) Of course you'd have to figure out which format to encode them all to be playable on various home dvd players. Lest you use your TV to display your PC video already... Intentsly

Haven't seen the show yet but the comment regarding cables above may not be entirely accurate. If the rest of the audio system is up to the challenge, analog cables make a HUGE difference. The difference between Tara Labs Prism BiWire speaker cables and some $100/pr Monster Cables I bought is like night and day. The system loses all imaging, warmth and sounds downright "plastic" when the Tara Cables are replaced with the Monster stuff. Granted the system has to HAVE imaging, warmth, and detail to start with so don't try this with ANY Home Theater In A Box (HTIB)... you need real components to hear the difference... but it IS clearly there. Digital cables, on the other hand, either work or they don't. Get the cheapest ones that work.

I feel so dirty, cheap, and now used.

Robert, Great show, Loved the mix of sequences and found this to be the best show yet. Please try to do more like this one with the same fast pace.

Where do you download/see the show? Since the download or stream is not out yet. Where the heck do you guys see it?

I think you are generalizing things way too much. There are tons of good movies these days. You must just be watching the heavily marketed ones. I agree that Wild Wild West was a load of crap. But, that is just one movie out of many. One recent movie that I have seen, and was impressed by, is V for Vendetta. Check it out. And as far as HDTV is concerned. I think it is well worth the price for the people who care about the quality in which their content is delivered. I have had an HDTV for about two years now, and I am saving up for one of the new Pioneer 1080p plasmas. It may be absurd to some, but it is worth it to me. And, yes, it drives me nuts when there is noise in any part of the picture. Peace, Mitch

So when is this show gonna actually start? I've been waiting for it to load for 4+ hours

Ehm, what timezone are you in? I'm in the Eastern U.S. timezone EDT, its already been aired about 3.5 hours ago. Currently 22:45 or 10:45PM here in Massachusetts, U.S.A. Intentsly

I saw many ads for "V for Vendetta", but didn't hear of anyone going to see it. Usually if a movie is hot, I hear about it from others raving. I did not for that one. If you feel the need to save up to spend ungodly amounts for HD content, then you are amongst those few who can afford such things, not a majority of folk can. I'll wait til everything is switched (meaning foisted or crammed down our throats) over to it. As far as a slight bit of noise, yes maybe it detracts a bit, but, for the non-HD tube TV I have, I can live with it. Far more things to take care of before spending money on such things. Cable costs enough as it is, adding HDTV just doesn't make sense to me. I'm not an audiophile, nor-videophile, just an online gaming and computer hardware junky :) Intentsly

Hey Intentsly how' it going.. I agree with you about not being an audiophile or videophile type only a gamer hardware junky. Have a great night don

Oooorah! ;) (its a Marine thing, though I'm Ex Navy) ...someday UT2K7....someday Diablo3....someday if only someday was tomorra ;) someday bloody someday (to the tune of U2's Bloody Sunday) hee hee Intentsly

someday ELITE 4, but Iv been waiting 15 years. Eleite, frontier elite, Final frontier, and WAITING. ALl i want is for them to update the graphics, and I will spend another 5 years inside my home, NEVER to leave again.

Why bring up the cables controversy and take such a wussy tip-toe side? We know PCMag's opinion and therefore we know yours potentially. Cables will be a thing of the past with more forms of digital transmission.

DUKE, the problems with woireless transmission, is FI everyone is doint it...SOEMONE will run over your channels/frequencies.. Even with ranges in the 30 foot range, it Bleeds to others upto 100+ feet. Then watch some GEEK try to amplify the signal just to get a few more feet, and the whole neibhorhood is recieveing his signal. Safe, secure, and direct is the best method, ASK Home depot, and their wireless system, with hackers outside.

Dl.tv now with added post production effects (or did they superimpose those in the live feed as well?)! Very funny. I like the the comedy voice stylings of Mr Norton, so the effects were a big bonus.

I played the Recorded File (Xvid) on my Sennheiser Headphones. Being a young fellow with very nice headphones, I typically hear anything encoded into an audio stream. It just so happens that in Episode 95, aloud, high-pitched, painful noise was somehow slipped into the stream. If this is an attempt to discourage young people from watching the show, congratulations, you have suceeded. -JimXugle

I meant digital transmission like HDMI, SPDIF, Fiber Optic, firewire, and ethernet. Wireless N is pretty far away and I prefer a hardline if possible.

One thing I would like to say about converting the audio from one bitrate to a higher one is that no matter how high of a bitrate you re-encode the file into, it won't help if you are just re-encoding the same file, because the better audio is generally already lost.

so long as they aren't re-making it from scratch. ;) Intentsly

bloody dialog boxes! hee hee Intentsly

WTF was up with his pants? I didn't notice, but my girl said you could clearly see the outline of his whole 'package'. At first I thought it was pixillation... but.. no, total nut huggers. good grief!! Can someone preview these things? Thought it was a family show!

Forget mp3. use a current generation compression codec such as acc, wma, or ogg. With good headphones or speakers you sometimes need to up the bitrate to 256+. I can usually tell if my music is lower than that. If you have the space, support, and battery life use a lossless codec.

Stop complaining about cables ... by the best you can and prioritise your money on the things that matter - if you have to give up a new mobile phone for a 1% improvement in your AV experience then stand back and think about what you really value. High end products are made for two groups of people : those who can afford them and need them, and those who can't afford them but think they need them (suckers). My 2 cents.

Pat, That Audiophile gag was hillarious. Sometimes I feel like that guy with the pipe! Great show!

Good show as always, Pre-recorded piece was good and i would like to see more. Show is as always to short(yeah i know it is a bandwidth thing). Had not previously noted the difference that cables and recording bit rates could make to sound with my old speaker system. Recently upgraded my sound system and have just tried some lossless recordings(been so long since i just played a CD) and astounded at the difference, so thanks. Quality in big screen TV's is more important than older or small CRT's. as CRT's have across the board general good quality. But start blowing them upto 42" and small problems gets big or annoying. I recently changed my plasma and opted for a drop in potential resolution to get the colours and smoothness that i wanted st my budget. So it's always good to know when your playing with normal budgets what the screen your looking at has as its week points so you can prioritise. A Quick question will the Xbox360's HD-dvd drive(due out in november/december) be the first UK high def player on the UK market? thanks all.

Wow i feel so special in that you might read this and i get to talk to you you really are god! when i was growing up i love computers and right now am working on my ccie i just wanted to thank you on all those days of boredness i had a show i could watch and could really look forward to seeing judging that my friends really arent like me ... thanks alot Pat i wish you guys could do The Screen Savers again ... man it was the shizznet of the crizznet or something like that .... grrr youve probobly heard this from so many people but damn you freaking rock my socks off dude ... any ways ... ehh ill try to watch the show tomorrow!! looking 4-ward to it

Hello all. Quick note on cables, digital connections like hdmi / dvi don't need uber high quality cables. The signal is digital, so the 1's and 0's will either get there or they wont. A 'clean' 1 is just the same as a dirty '1'. Having said that, if you get a really cheap cable with bad plugs on the end you might get issues cause of bad connections, but not loss on the cable. Analog connections like component connections are affected more by noise on crappy cables. A nice cable with good clean connections will sound better than rusty one with loose connections. But the difference between a good piece of 4-gauge vs a many hundreds of dollars cable will be neglegable.

As for high quality audio and video cable, i dont know if any of you guys watch patricks buddy from the screen savers, kevin rose who released a few episodes of his show called "systm". They made a great episode 3 on how to build your own A/V cables from scratch which is how its done professionally when used in long distances...pretty good stuff