Archive for the 'news' Category

-image-Microsoft Vista Prices Leaked

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Gizmodo dug up prices for a few of the flavors of the next version of Windows. Start saving now.

-image-Tipcast

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

After many weeks of redesigns, and late night conference calls, we are proud to welcome you to the launch of Tipcast!
Tipcast is a daily Tips and tricks podcast from the minds of Uncompressed, Tony Nilles and Thom Wetzel. Joining our team is Sean Partridge, who has himself been on many episodes of Uncompressed. For a [...]

-image-AMD Buys ATI for $5.4 Billion

Monday, July 24th, 2006

After all the rumors, the deal finally materialized.
Full press release below…
Edit: Intel has also pulled ATI’s chipset license.

-image-Daily Show on Video Game Violence

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

-image-No Show This Week

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

I just wanted to put up a post letting you all know that U* 24 has been delayed until next week.
I stated a new job this week — and ive been working 15 hour days. As much as I love podcasting my needs for sleep and food have taken precedent over scouring the web [...]

-image-Original “Star Wars” coming to DVD

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

More exciting news for nerds like me: The original Star Wars Trilogy is finally coming in its original form to DVD. While I like the cleaner prints, I hate the added scenes like the idiotic meeting between Han and Jabba, Greddo shooting first and the other nonsense added to the films in the [...]

-image-Nintendo DS Lite Price/Date Announced

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

The Nintendo DS Lite is coming out here in the US on June 11 and it’ll cost $129.99 according to this press release from Nintendo.
If you haven’t seen them yet there are some really awesome videos of the Lite in action over at http://www.cabel.name/. At the very least, watch the third video [...]

-image-Spring Cleaning!

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Perhaps cleaning isn’t the proper term; more like updating — but you should still be excited!
There are a couple of new features I want to make you all aware of… First, we have started integrating advertising and refferals into the site. Per the TOS, I can’t tell you to click on them (in fact, if [...]

-image-*tap tap* Is this thing on?

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

I’ve gotten a couple emails lately asking what the heck is going on since there hasnt been a show in over two weeks. Well, for starters, we havent given up on U*; I take most of the blame myself as a combination of being busy with midterms, and being sick, has made me less than [...]

-image-New Feature: Audio Comments Made Easy!

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Thom and I know that there is more courage among our audience than we have seen so far with the number of audio questions/comments that we have received — so we have decided to make it even easier for you to participate!
Sending us a recorded audio question/comment via email to our account at uncompressedshow@gmail.com is [...]