HDBeat Podcast 001 - 02.17.06

Welcome to the first HDBeat Podcast! We hope you enjoyed the beta; now it's time for the real deal, although our first sound attempt is sketchy. Bear with us since we're 1,000 miles apart; we will make it better but we can't promise 5.1 Digital Dolby! Today is precisely three years before the analog TV shutdown and we chat about various HD news from this week and give our humble opinions on all things high-def.

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Hosts
Ben Drawbaugh and Kevin C. Tofel

Producer
Ben Drawbaugh

Format
42:22, 19.4 MB, MP3

Program
Bush signs DTV bill into Law
New TI chip for HD on a phone
Widescreen iPod video is next?
MovieBeam HD box from Disney
Radiospire: HDTV with no wires
24 cameo by...Senator McCain?
NBC's Olympic Coverage
Universal-HD's coverage of the Olympics
TNT-HD coming to DIRECTV
How to connect your PC to your HDTV
Got HDCP? Think again
AACS still not finished: is this intentional?
Sony announces wholesale Blu-Ray movie prices
Initial HD-DVDs to be 1080i
Playstation 3 price rumors: $599 for Blu-ray movies?
Playstation 3 hands-on....is 1080p gaming in the cards?
Remove commercials and compress HD files with DVRMSToolbox

LISTEN (MP3)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 11:00AM]

A great kick off episode, gentlemen.

I like that its not just a rehash of the week's news, but you guys add a solid layer of analysis on top of the news.

The intro bumper music is a big improvement from TWIHD (sorry, Ben, I loved everything else about TWIHD).

Thanks, guys,
Dan

[BenD Posted Feb 17th 2006 11:08AM]

Thanks Dan!
You could not of written a more complimentary comment. You hit on one of our main goals of "not just a rehash of the week's news".

Yeah I like the intro music much better too, plus it is podcast safe unlike the old song. I have always wanted to have a contest of which the winner would be the first person who could tell me the name of the intro song and the artist.

The production quality will be better in the future, Kevin is much further away than Warren and Skype doesn't seem to be cutting it, plus I was having some technical difficulties on my Mac (yeah it is still a computer) that reduced the sound quality.

Thanks again.
Ben

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2006 2:26PM]

I really liked the show. and look forward to future episodes. Great work guys :D

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 18th 2006 12:10AM]

I am subscribed. This will fill the void left by the HT Guys going back to one show a week.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 18th 2006 1:34AM]

I was wondering why every once in a while I heard digital audio artifact during the podcast. It was just a little distracting.

[BenD Posted Feb 18th 2006 12:51PM]

Those artifacts are my fault. I didn't do a test recording before we started and my setup was causing static, which it does from time to time. We didn't want to record the entire thing over again, so I used Audacity's noise removal, which removes the static but also causes digital noise artifacts.

I will check it from now on and we are trying to get it worked out so we don't have to use Skype to record, which will make Kevin's voice as good as mine.

Thanks for the feedback and I promise to get the bugs worked out.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 20th 2006 3:16PM]

Sweet podcast. Recently I listened to another "1st podcast" and it was painful to listen to. You guys are like pros already.

I'd put in a request for less compression. Perhaps it's the Skype. Seems like the compression sounds are on both voices.

[BenD Posted Feb 20th 2006 4:26PM]

Thanks for the kind words Iffy, that noise you hear is a result of Audacity's noise removal. I had to use it to remove the static that my usb headset leaked in. It won't happen again.(I will test it first next time)

Ben

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 3:23AM]

I'm interested. i'm like it
The compression sounds is so fast.