YES! Finally a widescreen DL.TV show! Kudos to the DL.TV crew! (you guys really do read the comments here! LOL). I was even able to zoom the video to fill the whole screen. Great job!

Firefox 3 Rocks....

16:9 yes finally but what is with the the 16:8 guys? By my calculations you should be about 45 more pixels on the hight.

Finally widescreen! YES!!!!! Will we have HD soon too?! Please?! For my Apple TV? That would be FANTASTIC!

Keep up the good work guys. Been with the show since the beginning and I really enjoy it every week.

Nice to see DL.TV in widescreen, but too bad it looks like a 4:3 image stretched to 16:9.

Hey guys while this show was widescreen the aspect ratio was wrong when playing the show in windows media player on a pc. just a heads up as you all looked a lot fatter this week :)

Ah, widescreen, no wonder it looks smooshed in my iPod Classic.

Looks like my viewer tech pic will never be chosen at this rate, I'll submit some better quality pics for my next submission.

Speed up Firefox, YES!

Most of the comments left at techradar.com were negative, all positive for me.

Picked the mods I thought would best serve me and they have not disappointed, Firefox has never run this fast for me, like - grease lighting!

Did have to uninstall Minefield, even thought it worked great, it isn't compatible with RoboForm and several other extensions I depend on. Roboform stated they have no plans to support Minefield. Bummer...

Regarding the question from Chris. Would it have killed you to spend a couple minutes in wikipedia looking up media lifespans or their tolerance to heat or water? You had to ask someone off camera about how a tape holds up? You never actually answered his question. Lloyd always has full, detailed answers.

Scott, you're a good co-host, do some more shows.
Same here, looks like the image is stretched,
and for some strange reason I can't stretche it back to the correct size.
Normally media player classic does the job for me, but this is the 1st time it refused.
Did you lock the aspect ratio or something ?
And personally I prefer 16:10.

But anywayz ..
Keep up the good job

Scott, I don't mean to be a downer, but you've got to prepare a little more for the show. You fell apart several times during the course of the show and generally seemed frustrated by something. Maybe you were working to get the show in the new widescreen format? Even if it's somewhat stretched, it looks much better for the widescreen folks.

Hey Dude,
Not a downer. I have no problem with constructive criticism. I could give you an excuse, but that is exactly what it would be. Thank you for the advice. And yes, we were working on getting the widescreen ready. We are still working on some tweaks to make it even better.
Thanks again,
Scott

I love the 16:9! Next step is 720p please.

I agree with the other Aaron I like the widescreen but could it be one for the apple tv?

Pulling tabs off the newly updated firefox browser does work like you said it did on your XP machine. Actually, you already could do that with any Firefox and IE browsers. I've always been able too. is how I store my quick access to the pages that I want.

I like having the widescreen, but the video seems stretched vertically, because you all seem thinner is an oddly looking way. but, other the other hand, the lower third looks too stretched horizontally. Keep up the great work, though, guys!

At first it looked as if the image was stretched but once I set the ratio in VLC to 16:9 instead of default it looked fine.

I agree with Jamiejamez. It just looks like a stretched out 4:3 image. Keep up the good work though.

Hi guys,
thank you for speeding up my FireFox!

About the new screen format..
Is this why my PSP now says "incompatible Data"
Do i have to switch my PSP RSS feed from IPod/PSP to another one?
Thanks for the great show, Greetings from Holland!

Hey guys,
about the image issue...we have fixed all the problems. we missed a couple settings. should be fixed now. thanks for watching.

The show was squeezed in so you guys looked like you had been run through a press on my TiVo series 2. The series 2 boxes will display wide-screen format video so I don't if the problem was in the encoding or the fact that TiVo does sometines do funky things to video from the internet.

Tried out the firefox tweaking and it was a success, pages like the BBC news and Facebook load much quicker thanks for the great tips!

i liked the 4:3 format better. fits my iPod's screen which is where i watch the podcast.

Great show keep up the work

Alastair, Edinburgh

PS Whens the Gura of Tech back on?

Good show. Plays nicely in VLC (.mov file). It is wide screen, but the image is off-aspect. Robert Heron ... should have caught that! Great content as always. Just keep tweeking it.

Hey Guys,

On the viewer question about streaming internet video to your tv, you missed a great option for people with consoles. It's called Tversity. It's free, it can transcode on the fly, and it is simple to use.

I don't see the love affair for 16:9 for a couple of talking heads. On the WMP you guys resembled Gumby.

A slightly easier way to speed FF3 up - just install the Tweak Network add-on and simply select the 'Power' profile. That'll set max connections to 40, max connections per server to 16, max persistent per server and per proxy to 16, turn on pipelining, turn on proxy pipelining, and set pipelining max requests to 8. Easy as pie. And if you want to change the settings you can do it easily from within the extension UI.

I do like the new aspect ratio - but one thing, I watch it via TiVo and you're 16:9 video was squished into 4:3. So you get the classic 'tall and skinny' look. Fortunately I'm on a TiVo Series3 so I switched my display aspect to 'Full' to stretch it to fill my screen and get the proper aspect ratio. But I believe there is a way to encode for TiVoCast properly for widescreen, some of the other TiVoCasts do it. (DL.TV on my 61" DLP is nice. ;-))

PlayOn is cool, I've been playing with it on and off since the first beta, using my PS3 as a client. If you have a usable client device it is definitely worth checking out.

But I'll plug a new product from my employer, Sling Media, which just shipped last Thursday, the SlingCatcher. Aside from 'catching' video from a Slingbox, you can run SlingProjector on a Windows PC and stream all or part of your desktop to the SlingCatcher. So you can play video from Hulu, YouTube, etc, and flag just that video window to be encoded and streamed to the SlingCatcher for display on the TV.

Again, full disclosure, I'm a Beta Program Manager for Sling. Though I wasn't on the SlingCatcher beta, I was busy running the PRO-HD beta.

"About the new screen format..
Is this why my PSP now says "incompatible Data"
Do i have to switch my PSP RSS feed from IPod/PSP to another one?"

I have the same problem.

The speeding up of Firefox 3 part of the show was pretty lame. There were absolutely no metrics involved. If you want to prove that the Firefox 3 hacks improved load performance, then you have to show some metrics. There are some firefox addons that you can install that measure load page time.
ie. Load Time Analyzer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3371
Also, Scott, you loaded the same website before and after the performance tweaks without even clearing your cache. Of course, its going to load faster the second time, because your browser has already cached the website.

As for the 16:9, great job. Now I cant wait for the HD version of dl.tv

Now that you guys (DL.TV) are on the right track with the widescreen format, its now time for a video player update for your site. For the times that I can't watch the show live, you need to update your online video player so that we can watch it in either a medium sized window or full widescreen option (maybe have a button that re-sizes the window at the bottom with the other player buttons). Hopefully, you can implement these changes and eventually have HD content as well.

The last show asked how we like the new 16 X 9 format.

I'm glad it was finally implemented as I've been setting my PS3 machine via TVersity to watch in 16 X 9 and it's been stretching the people out of proportion.

This new format has finally solved that problem.

Is it just me or is the new widescreen looks a little too stretched??

Agreed that online storage is the best way. Carbonite is only $5/month.

Long term local storage ... I need to make some corrections to what you guys said. For one, thumbdrives do NOT use magnetic storage. They use flash memory which uses parasitic capacitance (not magnetic fields) to store charge. They are an extremely poor choice for long term storage. Magnetic storage (no such consumer products I know of) however is extremely robust. OUM, also not available to consumers (used mostly in space because it's impervious to alpha particles) will last forever.

Which brings us to optical media. If you have a good burner and use high quality DVDs optical storage should be very robust. Obviously it won't survive a house fire, but unlike thumbdrives and other charge-based media it won't be destroyed over time by mere degredation or phenomena such as charge leakage.

For that matter, maintaining a good RAID 5 server is also an option you did not cover. Just replace a drive when it goes bad and you will never loose your data.

That said, off-site professional storage is the way to go. They essentially do the last item I mentioned (raid 5), but have a professional team with 1000's spare drives that they swap out the very moment one goes bad.

FYI ... Robert Heron was falling off the screen for me near the end of the podcast with this new format. I was watching on a regular TV, streamed to my mediaMVP.

First, I'm glad that you guys are moving toward (I assuming) HD video. However, your attempt on this show fell short... I think that your ratio was off as I believe it should be 640x360 not 640x284. The video looks squished as it is and does not look good when played at 200% scale on my 1900x1200 monitor...

Video issues aside, I enjoyed the topics covered today.

PSP not working.
Just to tell you that there are more of us.

Bit more info... a bit only I'm afraid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Portable_hardware#Multimedia_playback

finally 16 by 9 look good guys when are you going pump it up to 720p

Just hooked up my PS3 with the Play-On software. My immediate response: Sshhhwwinng! The install was fast and simple, the updated PS3 firmware immediately recognized my new "media server" and, within minutes, my wife was watching this week's episode of NCIS in glorious widescreen on our Toshiba Regza. I can't wait for the full-feature version to be released. Thanks for the great recommendation.

P.S. This regular viewer LOVES the new 16:9 format

i have six boxes of 3 1/2 floppy's from the 80's on. all of them work. even my harvard graphic disks work, of course i keep them cool and away from magnetic fields (which means they are a bad idea for backups) but mine do work. If yours don't i would say heat or fields got to them.