Comments on: Uncompressed: Episode X

By: Gunney

Gunney — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:03:49 +0000

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)

By: TMusic

TMusic — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:41:39 +0000

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!

By: ThomW

ThomW — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 07:11:28 +0000

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!

By: Floyd

Floyd — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:47:01 +0000

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.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:46:20 +0000

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!!!

By: ThomW

ThomW — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:40:57 +0000

Shakka: You bought two guitars? I hate you.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:33:51 +0000

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!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:48:59 +0000

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.

By: jenn

jenn — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:43:28 +0000

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…