Uncompressed: Episode Eight
Tony and Thom are joined by Grue on the latest show! Our good friend Jeff Lapak joined in with us this week to offer his two cents on all the things we dug up to talk about this week. Gunney sent in an audio question! We talk a lot about the hotness that is the Nintendo DS, best web moments of 2005, the Entertaible, Xbox 360 gets an HD-DVD drive, XM radio, hot chicks (not really) and more!
http://uncompressed.org/podcasts/uncompressed_ep8.mp3
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Nintendo DS
Here is a list of (most of) the games we mentioned during the show:
- Advance Wars - Dual Strike
- Castlevania - Dawn of Sorrow
- Elecktroplankton
- Lunar - Dragon Song
- Mario & Luigi - Partners in Crime
- Mario Kart : DS
- Meteos (great puzzle game that utilizes the touch screen)
- Super Mario 64 DS (its minigames are all very cool demos of the touch screen in action)
- Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land
- Trauma Center - Under the Knife
We didn’t really talk about it, but Tony mentioned this list of The Greatest Gadgets of All Time.
Download Squad’s Best Web Moments of ‘05
They have some neat shots of the Entertaible in this article over on eurogamer.net. I’d love to see one of those in action … in my house. lol
Announced at CES: Xbox 360 To Get External HD-DVD Drive. Sega CD 2.0? I hope not.
That’s all I can remember. I’ll try to update the list if I think of anything good while listening to this week’s show. (I promise this time… lol)
January 5th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Hooray! I got mentioned in a podcast!
Keep up the good work
January 5th, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Sorry for the poor audio of my question. I have lost the foam thingy over my mic and it catches all sounds
January 5th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Gunney - I did the same thing. Until Tony got me the monster mic I’m using now I was doing the ‘casts sans foamy thing. lol
January 5th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
XFM -vs- Sirius(SP) don’t know th eprice diff but, talking with those that have it they prefer Sirius.
For someone who travels as much as I do it is a good deal. I have not yet got either. Of course I also don’t have a truck right now.
January 5th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Gunney, they are just two competing companies. The product they offer is damn near identical — its just the channels will vary slightly from one to the next. Because they are satellite based, reception should be the same on either, and both offer more content then you could reasonably listen to — not to mention both have a huge selection of hardware options. My suggestion would be to just go with whichever you are getting a deal on (hardware or service). Oh, and just to mention, I contacted XM twice with questions regarding service. Both times they were fast and gave me a solid answer. In fact, the second time I called I IMMEDIATELY got a live person. No voice mail (press 1, 3 ,6) no waiting. Just ring ring, “Hi XM Radio, how can I help you?”. I appreciated that.
January 6th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Great show. Even if I didnt get mentioned, insulted, or baited.:)
I’m sad that none of our favs made the internet list, zombo, badger, lama to name a few.
http://www.Zombo.com/
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
I will send in an audio question … when I think of one that will not take an entire show to answer
And some links went up for the last show… Just not by you
Later
G
January 10th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
To back Tony up on his choice XM has 6 mil. subs Sirius 3 mil.
It must sound twice as nice.
January 14th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Or, XM has twice the marketing budget.
I know in larger markets, XM has terrestial repeaters so that you can receive the signal indoors without having to mount an antenna near a window, in an attic, or outside. Does Sirius have something similar, or do you have to rely on the satellite signal from above only? I don’t own either system, so I don’t have a preference myself. FYI, for people with permanant satellite receivers in their A/V systems, there are kits available that will let you use typical coax cable (RG59 or RG6) that you may already have running to your attic to mount an XM/Sirius antenna up there.
January 15th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Even if XM has thier terrestrial repeaters (which I was aware of, but was under the impression Sirius had them too, I might be mistaken) because of a larger budget, im ok with that. If one company provides a similar product, that sits at the same price point, yet works better because they were able to throw more moeny at infrastructure, more power to them! Long live free markets!
January 15th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Oh, and I did NOT know about the coax feed thing - very cool. So does that mean if you have structured wiring in your home, you can just put it through the distribution box like all the other A/V? I have cable TV rather than Satellite, but that sounds like a selling point to me… Sat TV and sat radio companies should do some cross-marketing.