Please, no more Jim. He does his best and we appreciate that, but he has that sort of alpha type personality which is always a low level annoyance. Thank you.

No, I say we need More Jim from time to time!

Just because you have an inferiority complex doesn't mean he shouldn't be allowed to host a show.

I remember watching Jim since before the dotcom-bubble. I like him.

@ Jem

Very true, and it comes out in the What's New Now podcastas well.

This is one reason I find TWiT easier to listen to, Leo is very a good/easy-going host and is very effective at diffusing situations when other Type-A's like Dvorak is getting high up on his horse, interrupting or po-hooing someone's idea or comment.

@ Brisco

I don't know if the problem is psychological with the viewer or not, but not having an endearing host that is butting heads with his co-hosts doesn't make for easy watching, which I think most podcasts attempt to be... unless your Borat, then abrasion is the entire purpose.

oh u guy's. enough with the drama queen episodes.
really,grow up and act like a adult.

So what you are saying is that in order for you to enjoying watching a show the hosts have to be in complete agreement all the time. There is a difference between having a different opinion and "butting heads." Disagreements, as long as they remain good natured, are an entertaining and efficient way of conveying more than one point of view in a talk show format.

I will agree the show is different when Jim is hosting instead of Pat, but that doesn't make it bad. After all variety is the spice of life.

My soft-modded XBox is without a doubt, the best piece of hardware I have bought/put together in a long time. I went the XBMC route and I wouldn't want to live without it.

Robert and Jim talked about upgrading the HD which does require a modchip so soft-modding will not work. If you do put in a modchip, you can also upgrade to a quieter DVD player as well.

I backed up all of my DVD's and CD's onto a 400GB sata drive on the PC, categorized the music/movies/TV/photos into secure SMB shares, and pull it from the XBox over cat5e. It's easy, makes for a fun project, and is really useful.

All that said, it doesn't support HD. When I get a CRT projector I think I'll give MythTV a go.

@ Mark

The internet is a better place with you contributing to it.

@ brisco

I should have clarified, but yes what you said is exactly right. Good-natured disagreements are fine.

Maybe I have my ear tuned to it too critically, but in every episode of What's New Now when both Patrick and Jim are on, it sounds like a "Jim needs to one-up Patrick on every point, or get the last word in".

My guess is that arguing this point is like trying to argue which ice cream flavor is the best.

Great job Jim! I would like to see you on DL.TV or Cranky Geeks every week.

We'd watch you anytime Jim! btw: Have relied on your equipment reviews forever. If if doesn't break when you use it, it must be a good!;-)
Thanks!

My preferred RSS reader is Bloglines. I can check my feeds from any computer with only a web browser, and the knowledge of what I've read and haven't read resides online. Now that Google has improved their reader's interface, I'm sure it's fine too, but I like Bloglines' package-tracking feature.

Whats up with the download today. Its slower than pine tar in winter, or maybe on a pitchers hand.

Jim kicked a**! He's a great host! He has this comfy who gives a sh** style approach that works.

I just watched 106 and Robert and Jim really worked very well together! I miss Patrick of course but jeez he better watch his back. It was an exciting show and there was good on screen chemistry.

Also while I am here, it seems like you guys are doing a lot more video segments now. On the one hand this gives the show a more corporate and professional feel, but on the other hand it makes for a better show. Keep it up.

--------Robert and Jim talked about upgrading the HD which does require a modchip so soft-modding will not work. If you do put in a modchip, you can also upgrade to a quieter DVD player as well.-------

Not true, I have a chip with a 160 gig drive.
I installed a 120 in a friends xbox after SOFTMODING him. You do not need a chiped xbox to have a larged drive. You DO need a friend with a chiped xbox to complete the process though.

--Nitty Gritty--
Backup YOUR eprom.
You softmod your friend. You unlock his hard drive. You backup his eprom and the backup you made while softmoding to a computer. You then take the hard drive out of your chiped xbox, put in the new larger drive, and use AID 3 to "Prepair" the drive. Then Softmod the drive.
You then ftp his eprom to the new large drive. You use AID 3 to lock the new drive (Using HIS eprom)
Now copy over any of his saves and such.
Put the large drive back in your friends machine.
Done.

Softmoded xboxes REQUIRE the hard drive to be locked.
Chiped xboxes do NOT require the hard drive to be locked. (PS, my xbox now also uses his eprom because to the way the eprom has to be flashed onto your xbox, before being able to lock a drive with it)

Also, softmoding can also be done without a action replay, if you chipped friend will copy the softmods onto a memory card for you.

if i want to do the streaming like Roger showed in the show, does the PC side(where the files are stored) have to be WinXP Media Center edition? or any regular with sharing enable is fine? (any special sharing settings required?)

Action Replay is the best way to softmod.

And I dont appreciate this legal bull$h1T. XBMC is open source, Microsoft wants to make the XDK open then they can do that. until then, I will go to usenet and dl my favorite new XBMC release.

I use XBMC to stream tv shows and DL.TV, not to mention all the great other features.

You need to stop putting the legal stuff in front of our heads, be more like The Broken where you don't care. This is the internet, if they dont like it, dont watch it.

Poor audio on the Windows file. The last two shows have had poor, distorted audio on the WMV download that wasn't present on, flash, the mp3 or h.264 versions. Last week it was mostly on Patricks mic - this wee it's overall. Format isn't a real big issue but I get the WMV version so I can use my MM keyboard functions that only work with WMP. Thought you might want to know. goos show too, btw. Louderback is a little loud and interrupts but he's the boss so what can ya' do...Keep 'em coming guys!

YES YOU CAN USE A BIG HARDDRIVE AND SOFTMOD! I put a 80gb harddrive into my xbox, with softmod. Go read a tutorial!

Does not have to be a Media Center PC.
Regular ol Windows with file sharing enabled.

Also, be sure to in stall XBMC (Xbox Media Center)
You wont be streaming anything with just the dashboard. XBMC is a necessity.
Once your softmoded....Backups, Emulators, DVDs, Music, Streaming Media...........It's a whole new machine.

thanks everyone for the comments. Patrick absolutely does not have to watch his back, because he's way better than me (first), and I'm waaay too busy with all my other jobs to do this more than once in a while (that would be second).

But I had a lot of fun!

On the XBox, thanks for the update. I know I've seen 720p games via my xbox (an MLB game from EA), so it is at least somewhat capable.. But I guess I'll need a mod chip for HD. Or an xbox 360, which might be less of a hassle. And more legal?

Jim says the "F" word @ 5:27, and am I the only one who thinks he looks like Tom Cruise?!

And I thought I heard Jim say "aw sh!t" at 4:04 or so...

Anyone got a link to the Antec fan Jim showed off in this episode with the bendable feet? I tried Antec's website but didn't see it.

I've been waiting for Jim to cohost since he was a guest in the early days on the set with the 2x4s and mylar. He is one crazy dude.

So Jim dropped an "F" bomb and said "Sh*t". I didn't care. They need to get over the squeeky clean thing. This isn't TechTV anymore. It actually makes the show more relaxed, natural and comfortable to watch.

Man WTF is up with the downloading? I'm getting like 20k/s from the site. I can DL from others places at my regular speeds of close to 200k/s fine so its not me. Someone needs to check the server out.

I noticed he dropped the "F" bomb to. I mean first Pat now Jim. When is Rob gonna drop it? It's interesting that after 100 eps. they start to become more relaxed in what they say.

OK, for the record, I did NOT say the F-word. I've been hyper sensitive to any swearing since getting royally reamed for saying "Sucks" on Fresh Gear 7 years ago.

I did say "frigging" or maybe "freaking" -- which is close, but not over the line. I guess when you compress the audio, you lose some of the rrrrr...

freaking poor audio compression codecs!!!!!

jim

Jim how many times do you get mistaken for Tom Cruise a week??

First Great JOB! but Watching ep.90 and wondering what happened to the "Frugal" Patrick and "Pressure Pushing" (On Companies with lousy Specs and High prices) Robert (although he still is for HDTV's) BUT on you recent Laptop Roundup I quess I was hoping for someone (other than myself) to bicker about the lousy specs on dells' RAM/HDD/DVDR DL/other components, because I was able to "Customize" on thier respective websites and create what would be 3500 for about 1300 without all thier Bloat-ard/software! But you still did kinda touch on all the subjects just didn't hammer the companies as musch as used to in "TV days" (but maybe they're paying ya which I kinda understand I guess ...uhhh where'd my soul go?) anyway GreatJob!

Jim said "freakin'", that was it. It's not like he has a problem pronunciating, try listening better.

Oh, and he isn't short like Tom is. How tall is Tom anyway, 4' 6"? He and Prince out to get in the ring and box, just like Screech and Horshak (sp?) did in the 90's.

No offense Jim, but you are better off staying behind the camera.
I think you know that.

Bring Jim on more often. The guy was a breath of fresh air (no offense to Patrick!). Great personality, upbeat, funny.

I think Jim did a pretty decent job, except for dropping the F-Bomb early in the show. =D Yeehaw for nontraditional media, unless the FCC has gotten in on the fun on this stuff too. =D

Thanks Roger,
For:

- Helping not void my warranty
- Not purchase windows media center
- breathe life into my cheap a*s media setup

P.S. You left out the part where I had to install
XBMC.....

I would also add,
After installing XBMC, install the MC360 Skin.
It is very nice.
http://blackbolt.x-scene.com/

@DL.TV crew, I normaly like your show so I'm sorry to report this but I'm highly disapointed by Roger Changs presentation (or should I say miss-reprensentation) of a modded Xbox in this Episode 106. He showed it in very poor light so to speak.

First of all; why did he not set it up to boot directly to XBMC (XboxMediaCenter), why did he play the medi-files from the file-manager and not from the "My Videos" interface (and why didn't he show of the "My Music" and "My Pictures" views as well), that just gives the wrong impression, the real interface is so smooth and great to use, and why the heck did he use an old third-party skin (a clone of Wndows XP MCE 2005) when the original Project Mayhem 3 skin is much nicer.
http://www.chokemaniac.net/download.php?cat=pm3

Secondly; if possible choose a hardware modchip before a software mod (softmod), only use a softmod if you for some reason don't want to spend the $20 to £60 bucks on a modchip. Once you tested XBMC you probebebly won't mind spending some money for a modchip and DVD-remote control for your old Xbox.

Finally; the orignal Xbox and XBMC does too output HD (720p and 1080i), you just need to buy a other video-cable, a component cable-adapter, either from Microsoft or a third-party one. True the Xbox processor is not fast enough to decode native 720p or 1080i/1080p video but it can upconvert all video that has a lower resolution than 960x540 (a.k.a. HRHD or Half Resolution High Definition) to 720p and 1080i. So a normal NTSC or PAL DVD-Video movie can be upconverted to 720p and 1080i without problems on the Xbox in XBMC.

I like to request a new review and new reevaluation of a modded Xbox with it booting directly to XBMC with it's original skin and the latest version, XBMC 2.0.0

PS! www.xbox-scene.com is much better than www.xbox-hq.com

xbmc4me, the xbox segment was just fine. I'm not sure what your problem is. Perhaps you should start a "I married my xbox and consumated the relationship" blog.

Keep Jim Louderback in the office and away from the DLTV show. He comes across as a half-stoned frat boy and got on my nerves in the first two minutes.

LOUDERBACK! LOUDERBACK!... I think that Patrick and Robert should be the anchors and Roger and Jim be correspondents... i forgot to say it in the past episodes but thanx for the drinks jim and for some reason i can only hear the crowd in the back speakers.

You'd think that if Jim really didn't say the f word they wouldn't have cut out the sound in the downloadable version of the video!

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