HDBeat Podcast 005 - 03.17.06
Since Ben and Kevin were too busy drinking on St. Patrick's Day to do the podcast in a Irish Pub, the show came on a Sunday. Plenty of news, both good and bad, on the HD-DVD front as well as the big Sony Playstation 3 Get the podcast
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Hosts
Ben Drawbaugh and Kevin C. Tofel
Producer
Ben Drawbaugh
Format
48:35, 22 MB, MP3
Playstation 3 delay is official
Playstation 3: Coming to North America (and the world) in 2006
Sony Pictures isn't the only one that won't down-rez
Ultra-Multi to end the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray war
HD-DVD will launch with more of a whimper than a bang
HD-DVD might not be ready, but Netflix is
Sony Blu-Ray available for pre-order
HD Tivo - Series 3 release date?
MCE and DIRECTV Viiv in the works
Toshiba's new et20 HD projector
What is so difficult about LCoS?
Panasonic: HDMI control interface
Shopping for $900 LCD's
NBC gears up for NFL and "Today" show in HD
MovieBeam Review
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James @ Mar 19th 2006 7:30PM
Just about crapped myself when you mentioned the 60" SXRD at Sears for $3k since I just got mine for over a grand more than that. Thanks goodness, my check showed you weren't looking at the SXRD.
Kevin C. Tofel @ Mar 19th 2006 8:16PM
Sorry James. After a closer look, I realized it was the Sony LCD, not the SXRD. That's what I get for multitasking.
James @ Mar 19th 2006 8:57PM
Even at a between $4k and $5k, I highly recommend it. The SXRD has changed my life -- it's that wonderful. Buy it!
Scott K @ Mar 19th 2006 9:59PM
A few things from the show...
You mentioned cable boxes must have HDMI. As of now, this isnt the case. I work at a small cable company (small compared to Comcast) and we do offer HD boxes with DVI (w/ DCP) output.
Also, I wanted to mention that I too have had a few universal remotes that might have been able to control all my devices, but weren't worth the trouble. I must say the the Logitech Harmony 880 is working great for me. The web based interface for programming isnt as quick as I think it should be, but I am finally able to control all my devices with one remote.
Thanks for the great site and great show.
Joshua Nelson @ Mar 21st 2006 3:05AM
Ben - you may have already checked this out, but Lathe is a great program for getting video to portable devices (PocketPCs, Palm, iPod, etc.). I looked into their support of DVR-MS and based on the link below to their forum, they plan to add it.
http://www.omniquiti.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6&highlight=DVR-MS
It does cost $8, but worth the price to play with it. I use it to get video quickly and easily to my PocketPc 2002 and it works great. Here is the link to purchase it:
http://www.omniquiti.com/store.php
Joshua Nelson @ Mar 21st 2006 3:08AM
By the way in the meantime it looks like this is a good first step and then use Lathe to get to your iPod.
http://www.thegreenbutton.com/community/shwmessage.aspx?ForumID=26&MessageID=113435
Ben Drawbaugh @ Mar 21st 2006 7:51AM
Joshua,
I looked at those, I have been using DVRMSTOOLbox but it doesn't convert to iPod.
I suppose I could look at a 2 step approch but I realy was hoping for a one step, because of time and disk space.
Jim @ Mar 21st 2006 12:25PM
Hey Guys,
You mentioned that you were curious about any good codec comparisons. Doom9 does a pretty good job. This one in particular compares Divx 6.1, x264 rev 387, Xvid 1.1, and Ateme High Profile Encoder core 1.4.0.3.
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-final-105-1.htm