Uncompressed: Episode X
Welcome back for the TENTH serving of Uncompressed! Tony and Thom are happy to welcome two guests onto the show — our good friends Sean, and Jeff both hop on for this very special event (lol). We had three great audio questions from listeners/friends TMusic, Floyd and Oz to chat about, then talked about our usual mix of the strange, cool and fun. HDTVs, iPods, Guitar Hero, Nintendo consoles, dudes dating their moms were just a few of the topics we talked about on tonight’s show.
http://uncompressed.org/podcasts/uncompressed_ep10.mp3
Tony and I both want to take a second and thank all of our listeners. We have a blast doing the show, and hope you guys (and gals) enjoy listening to it.
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Thanks again for listening!
Links follow…
Computing
- Read Site Advisor’s blog to see more about adware/spyware/crap that comes along with some of that “free” software you download from the internet.
- Windows XP Home’s support extended to Nov 2008
- Aim Ad Hack
Television
- iTunes boosts prime time ratings for NBC, ABC
- ted: Torrent Episode Downloader - I wouldn’t recommend using it, but it is a neat concept
Gaming
- Nintendo Revolution controller teaser video - really cool/funny/fun looking stuff!
- $10 DDR-style game pad
- Guitar Hero music tracks — If you own a PS2 and you still haven’t bought this game, check out some of the music in the game, then buy it!
Weird and Wacky Stuff…
- Dude dates his Mom online … lol. It’s Weekly World News, but still funny.
Music Credits
Tony’s been working on finding and making some new music for the show. The opening theme is “reason of the stone age (remix)” by gerador zero and modified by Tony for the show. The closing music was “sad sequence part 1-2″ by fumitaka anzai.
January 19th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
holy wow.
what was with the super ultra suave uncompressed intro??
you made umcompressed sound so dirrrty… i think i might’ve had a special moment
‘course, then you started the geek-speak…and it was all over…
January 19th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
EL OH EL. Thanks for the comment Jenn.
I also wanted to comment that when talking about the size of HDTVs I said that you want to get a screen twice the size of your seating distance. Of course, my mouth was moving faster than my brain and what I meant to say was that you want to sit 1.5 - 2 times the screen distance away. Effectively, I had it backward. Just wanted to clear that up in case any of you are actually (heaven forbid) relying on us for advice.
January 19th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Holla!!! What’s up guys - I just wanna say I had a killer time being on the show. Always fun to get together with friends and talk tech…I was telling Tom that I am always 3 months behind on what’s new and being the last to know about GuitarHero bothered me so much I went out ant bought 2 for me and my wife. We gunna Rock it out on the 55″ tv and I am gunna host some guitararama parties at casa de ShAkkA…Word!
January 19th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Shakka: You bought two guitars? I hate you.
January 20th, 2006 at 9:46 am
I got the Cherry Red! My wife yelled at me for the gratuitous spending, but I won her over with my party concept -GOAL!!!!
Next Firday @ cAsA de ShAkkA - Bring your plastic Axe and your favorite booze!!!
January 21st, 2006 at 1:47 am
Great show guys. You pulled out all the stops for Episode X.
I was dying a few times, wishing it was a live show so I could call in and talk AV with you guys.
One of the points I was going to make is that if you have DirecTV, you can get the sat receiver/PVR in one chassis, like the cable box. With the integrated box, you are recording the satellite stream directly, instead of encoding and decoding an analog signal from an external source. This means there is no loss in quality when recording.
Also, I was wondering if you have seen the new DirecTV PVRs that don’t use the Tivo software. I haven’t played with one in person, but from what I hear, it does a few things better than the old Tivo boxes. For one, I think the buffer is 90 min, vs 30 min for Tivo.
BTW, thanks for the suggestions with my iPod problem. I will have to do some research on it and try and find a solution. I bought it from an actual Apple store near me, so maybe I will go back there and run some tests.
January 21st, 2006 at 2:11 am
Sometimes when we’re doing the show I wish it was live too so people could drop in and talk sort of like how Grue magically showed up half way through Ep X. haha
Glad you liked it Floyd!
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Nice job! I think one of the funniest parts was in the intro where Thom said “I hate virus-scanners” blah blah blah… and then you put in when he said that he loved them and they saved his butt. LOL! Seriously though, good job!
January 23rd, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Great show!!! Laughed my tail off just about wrecking on my way to Alabama.
Shakka, nice save on almost letting the F-bomb drop, LOL. If it weren’t for that NY accent I would have sworn it were my younger brother by your dialect.
Thom, you always have me rolling with your wit.
Cool intro with clips from past episodes.
BTW, I thought my audio question had bad sound. Only one thing to say Oz, WOW (no that is not War of the Worlds)