Uncompressed Episode 19
Tony and Thom are back, and this week we’re joined by good friends Matt and Dave! The four of us talk about the latest happenings in Oblivion (again), video cards, and lots of talk about upcoming games, movies and other tech news!
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OBLIVION
- Buy Oblivion! Xbox360 / PC
- BT-Mod is a mod that makes the interface in Oblivion a little more PC-friendly. Biggest difference is that the inventory fonts are de-360′d
- Record Breaking Sales of Bethesda Softworks’ The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
ATI vs Nvidia
Crysis
- Crysis is just coming to the PC. I’m glad we’re not getting another 360 port.
Nintendo DS
FEAR
- Remember FEAR? That awesome first-person-shooter Thom was going on and on about for a couple weeks back in December? Yeah — it’s coming to the 360.
Random News
- 300Mbps wifi products coming soon
- 500lb potato battery - I’m going to build a potato-powered car! (not)
- Winternals vs Best Buy. Best Buy is so screwed. lolz!
- New prius to get 113 mpg (94mpg US) — who cares? I’m sticking with my POTATOES!
Movie Chatter
- Rotten Tomatoes says Lucky Number Sleven looks like a stinker!
- Thom is really looking forward to The Wild! (Yeah right)
- Silent Hill looks interesting
- Note to Xmen 3: Please don’t suck. I hope Brett Ratner doesn’t screw this up.
That’s it for this week!
April 20th, 2006 at 7:54 am
On the show I talked about how stupid I am in Oblivion and that I’d picked up a pick-axe and overencumbered myself past the point where I could move. I forgot the best part of that story — how I got myself un-overencumbered.
I ate my way out.
I sorted my inventory by weight and started eating everything I could — heaviest stuff first. lol
April 20th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Omg that is hilarious! At least now you know to shift-click.
If all else fails, you can always check the instruction manual too ;o)
April 20th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Just a note in reference to the video streaming bitrate you guys touched on.
In general, HD is streamed between 25Mbps (HDV, for example) all the way up to uncompressed HD at 1.5Gbps. Since most people wouldn’t have a multi-terrabyte array for storing uncompressed HD, the high-end is unlikely
The Avid DS Nitris has a proprietary codec that streams the HD (with a full raster, which is complex, but basically means “real” HD) at 185Mbps.
Generally, the way I understand it, HD streams in prosumer environs run around 25-50Mbps range. HDV, for example, while not being a very good HD codec, runs at 25Mbps (1080i, 19 for 720p) which is interestingly the same as DV25, which is a very good SD bitrate (and the one that our Vortex Network News solution uses).
It looks like the new HD disc technologies are going to run in the ~30Mbsp range.
300Mbps wireless to stream HD? Absolutely! Even with a good, full-raster codec!
April 20th, 2006 at 11:56 am
I don’t have the manual. I bought it from someone I know and the dummy didn’t send the manual.
*grr*
April 20th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Thanks for the info Oz, very interesting! So, when are you making a guest appearance on the show?
April 24th, 2006 at 10:56 am
I, unfortunately, have nothing to say of interest to your listeners. You guys talk about so many things I have NO clue about (but enjoy hearing about) that you’d probably get nary a word from me
Now, if you want to talk about Avid video products or ALEX (http://learn.avid.com), then I’m your man! LOL! I have spent so much time these last few months learning all of the Avid products and doing QA testing for ALEX (which stands for “Avid Learning Excellerator”, and was announced at NAB just today) that I’m a wealth of information about that.
I don’t play games anymore since I don’t have much time between studying for some certifications, testing ALEX (which I’ve been doing from home on the freaking weekends, too) and cleaning-out the rat hole in which I reside. I have little interest in hand-held games or consoles, which you guys love to death, so, aside from media-related stuff, what it there for me to talk about???
Why am I even getting into this? I guess because I’m waiting another couple of minutes for lunch. Actually, it’s lunch-time now, so, PEACE!
April 24th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Oz, im sure you would lend yourself to some colorful commentary regardless of show topic.
April 25th, 2006 at 8:07 am
LOL! The word “colorful” is what scares me…
I enjoy listening to you and Thom and whoever you happen to have around. Floyd always has something interesting to add and Shakka is funny as hell…