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The AWFR/DWF  Bruiser Blackwell Benefit Promos 5_31_2008

Featuring:

• Dark Sinner
• Samoan King Manta Bash
• Dan Wolf
• DC Lurie
• HillBilly Cousine Clem
• The Southern Enforcer
• Lady D
• The Lost Boys

Maximum Championship Wrestling

Full Access III 

Feb 17th 2007 - Dover DE

1. STAY*C Adams -vs- Ruckus

2. Aken Pembrooke -vs- G.I. Marks

3. Gemini Trojans -vs- Zack Matthews &Bruce Chen

4. Lance McIntyre -vs- Louis Rich -vs- Jimmy Starz

5. Rockin Rebel -vs- Brandon Mercury

6. M.C.W. Tag Team Battle Royal

7. Adam Ugly & Tara Murphy -vs- Special Security James

9. Christopher Daniels -vs- Matt Turner

10. Sam JOnes -vs- E.L. Stanley Esq. -vs- Shaka -vs- Massive Mike

Devastation Wrestling Federation

Unleashed

Sat April 21st 2007 @ the Powerhouse Gym in Sewell NJ

http://www.devastationwrestling.com

Maximum Championship Wrestling

The Road To Full Access

Sept 9th 2007

Special Brew'd A local media based band. Blues and Motown are their specialties.

Special Brewd A local Media based band that specializes in blues and Motown.

Feb. 15th 2008 BWO Southern State show in Highstown New Jersey.

InterBoro Highschool Antique Carshow
Sept 15th 2007

Benefiting The American Cancer Society

DLTV - Episode 79 - Sunday July 23, 2006

What's on the show?

• What happened to the live show on Thursday, or "just because the Internet means redundency doesn't mean connection won't choke."
• Terabyte hard drives, increasing areal density with heat, and a whole lot more: Patrick sat down w/ Brian Dexheimer, an Executive VP from Seagate
• The Quiet PC Part II: the graphics card cooler gave us a huge drop in noise!
  
• Curtis from Calgary, Alberta, CA reminds us: dB is a relative measurement
• DNSSTUFF.com: Domain Name Tests, IP Tests, Hostname Tests... one seriously useful website
• A very nice treat for the first person to correctly answer our obscure movie reference! (And some other great movies that have a black case that glows.)
  
• The power died on his external HD: Bartholomew wants to know what to do next.
• Buy a notebook now, or wait? Gary needs help on buying  a notebook, and Mermo's around the corner. (And would a desktop be a smarter choice?)
  
• Colin from Ames, IA has the scoop on who will win the Blu-ray/HD-DVD battle... the answer may surprise you..
• NCAA FOOTBALL 2007: Thumbs up or down?
• Judge rejects US request to drop on AT&T eavesdropping lawsuit: the battle between privacy and national security scuffles on.
  
• Guba.com gives MPAA new tool to fight piracy. Wonder if it'll show up on YouTube soon...
  
• A kinder gentler Microsoft: 12 steps, and Google as a search option.

DLTV - Episode 80 - Tuesday July 25, 2006

Episode 80 went live at 4PM PDT on Tuesday, July 25th.

5 Tips for Better VoIP Calls:

• Hardware reccos, Process Priority tweaks and the secret to hosting voice conferences that don't suck.
• Is it your VoIP client or the network? Check out TestYourVoip for free help sorting that out.
  

Vista Update:

• Build 5472: finally... performance tuning has begun
• Robert's got the word gaming on Vista, the speed of the install and more.
• Driver support: Creative... it's time to pony up a decent XFi driver! 
  
• We need to find out when the public beta folks get these updates!

Viewer Spiel:

• The first HD movie on a disk didn't come on Blu-ray or HD-DVD. Jason asks "how T2 Judgment Day Extreme Edition compares to Blue-ray and HD-DVD?"
• Jeffrey Klassen says "Thought you guys might like these. I was working on some water drop photos, and decided to make you something special!" Thanks for offering up the high res images to everybody, Jeffrey, and tell us how you shot these!
  
• "What exactly will ReadyBoost do to improve Vista performance?!?!" Info for Bob from Cincinnati. on ReadyBoost, Vista, USB drives, data caching and why his 1GB Attaché ain't cutting it.
  
• We really need to do some thumd/USB drive speed tests!
• Thanks to our audience tippers for the heads up on GParted LiveCD back in EP 75 . Maria from Puerto Rico, says "it was the best. I resized my windows partition, installed Linux and to my amazement, the windows installation was untouched."
• The new background sucks? Josh says "it should be retired." We hated the blue wall. What do you think of the new one? Email us at dl.tv@ziffdavis.com. We forgot to mention on air that Josh is going into the hospital for surgery soon. Throw some mojo his way (in the best Wil Wheaton sense!)
  

News:

• AMD buys ATI. Does NVIDA care? Should you? Loyd Case has some interesting thoughts on the merger on ExtremeTech.com
• ICANN control, the US Gov and the September deadline... Will the US give up control over all domains and addresses with it?
• Google's expanded its real time traffic on cell phone maps. Cool idea. Hope it works on your phone: Patrick's didn't make the list.
• Steve Case looks back on the  AOL/Time Warner Merger: Oops.

One last thought:

• We know, we know: It's Seagate, not Segate... the offending speller from last week's show has been beaten, and we apologize for the error.

DLTV - Episode 81 - Thursday July 27, 2006

Episode 81 went Live at 4PM PDT, July 27th.

The full show notes minus the video processor questions:

Great MP3 Encoder:

• JD's on the hunt for a better MP3 encoder than WMP or iTunes, hears that the LAME MP3 encoder is great, but doesn't want to roll with its command line utility.
• No worries: there are tons of easy to use GUIs that sit on top of LAME so you don't have to go near a command line:
• Exact Audio Copy is an awesome tool for making high quality audio.
• Razerlame is Robert's fave front end for LAME.
• dBpowerAMP is pretty slick, and offers tons of codec support (tho' you have to pay for MP3 support these days.

Stuff:

• Reviewing Sony's Sony HDR-HC3. PCMag's Terry Sullivan gave it an Editors' Choice. Great video... but be forewarned: there's no mic jack, and the manual controls are a bit... odd.
• A good 'real vs. CG" test? George says he's got one for Robert, Autodesks's Fake or Foto? It's pretty disturbing. Anybody seen a test like this for Photoshop hacked photos? Let us know!
• The Return Of Sam and Max!!! Darren Gladstone stopped by from CGW to give us the scoop on our favorite freelance police duo. This time... this publisher... it's really gonna ship.

Interview:

• You asked, so the full Seagate interview is available for viewing. And, yup, y'all were right, Dexheimer said 1TB drives by Xmas 2007, not 2006. Wishful thinking on my part!

Viewer Questions:

• Bluetooth headsets and VoIP clients like Skype: we've got info for Chad.
• You had a ton of questions about the Whitehourse video processor/scalar Robert uses in the lab! We'll have those questions and links (from HTPCs to dScaler to cheap alternates to the Whitehorse) up shortly.

News:

• Digg Fans Hack Netscape
• US Broadband Subscribers Up 33% in 2005
• Intel Slashes Prices 40- 60%, on Pentium D and Pentium 4 CPUs

Comments being censored?

• Wha? We started moderating comments (which means they don't post to the site until we approve them) yesterday on this page after a spate of folks posted pretending to be Patrick ran amuck in the feedback. We always pull spam, info that's false, or particuarly nasty personal attacks on our guests/staffers. Beyond that, it's pretty much open season out there. BTW, if you email us at dl.tv@ziffdavis.com we'll do our best to explain why we do what we do. Comments are back to being unmoderated again.
  

DLTV - Episode 82 - Tuesday August 1, 2006

Episode 82 went Live at 4PM PDT, August 1st.

We pinballed thru a selection o' topics on the show:

Stuff:

• Ageia's PhysX physics accelerator for gaming. Worth the $300, or spend you gaming dollar elsewhere?
• Belkin's Wireless G Travel Router: a palm full o' 802.11g routery goodness (The Linksys WTR54GS Wireless-G Travel Router with SpeedBooster is pretty sweet, too.
• Yes, Adam, the US gets a lot of the cool cell phones well after they've hit the streets in the UK or Japan... and 550 (US $1040) sounds steep to us for a PS3 pre-order.
• And for everybody that's emailing... yup, November 17th is the US release date for the PS3. We forgot.
  

802.11n:

• "Should I buy a wireless router now or wait for the real 802.11n?" asks Hal from Sioux Falls, SD.
  
• The answer depends on whether it's for a business that needs industry standards, or if it's for use just in your home... and, yes, there is a performance difference between Pre-n and Draft-n& and both smoke 802.11g.

Questions for the DL.TV Crew:

• No HyperTerminal in Vista? Mark's looking for a "good open source terminal emulator" to replace it when connecting to the console ports on routers and switches.
• Know a good open source/ad-free utility for printing PDF files? email Robert!

News:

• E3 Downsizing: The biggest party in gaming is going small.
• Dell Investigates Second Laptop Fire
• Hi-Def Add-On Coming for iPod: why?
• Animaniacs Vol 1 on DV.... woot!

Iceland:

• Baldwin from Iceland was miffed, but we're cool now He thought we were mocking Iceland's broadband penetration in episode 81.
  
• No way. We love Iceland! We were mocking US broadband penetration!(Tho wiring a country of 300,000 is easier than wiring a country of 300,000,000!)
  
• Iceland's EVE isn't quite #2 behind WoW in popularity: check out MMOGCHART to find out just how many folks are playing your favorite massively multiplayer online game

Episode 83 streamed live 4PM Thursday, August 3rd.

Techno-Oddness:

• Availabots, Nabaztag the WiFi Technobunny... er, "lapin communicant,", and the future of odd gadgets that 'speak' to you without your monitor or speakers.

Free Tools From The DL.TV Crew:

• Wow, you guys had some pretty solid ideas about how to print to PDFs for free!
• Never printed to a PDF? It's like printing to a document on your desktop, instead of a physical printer.
• Most of you recommended: CutePDF Some folks prefer PDFCreator.  PrimoPDF was also popular.
  
• Other ideas? Use something with it build in, such OS X, OpenOffice, or Office 12! (Well, when it ships.)

Viewer Questions:

• Intentsly wants to know when the new Merom notebooks will arrive&We've got a rough date, and NoteBookreview has a good preliminary list.
• What's making video playback shake on my monitor? What kind of tech would we buy if $2000 fell out of the sky? More!
  

News:

• NBC and YouTube Form Partnership
• House Wants Ban on MySpace
• MacBook Wireless Hacked... this driver vulnerability works on PCs, too All you need is the right, er, wrong WiFi setup. And all you need to do is turn on your system. (The details of the crack have not been made public, yet, so hopefully vendors will patch the holes quickly!)
  
• AOL Says Workforce to Shrink by a Quarter& ouch

DLTV - Episode 78 - Tuesday July 18, 2006

The not nearly complete show deets:

• A bit deeper on the Core 2. Will the power in Intel's latest make it your next processor Or will AMD drop prices so much, there's still a good reason to go Athlon? ExtremeTech's Jason Cross joins us on this one!
  
• Help quieting your (my) PC Part One: the SPL meter and hope for noxiously loud fans in your computer.
• A Festival of Viewer Questions!
• 4GB SD Cards, Microsoft's suing somebody, IM Attacks Climbing, YouTube serves up 100 million viddys a day?

DLTV - Episode 85 - Thursday August 10, 2006

Episode 71 - Tuesday June 20, 2006

Products:

• Shuttle's SN27P2: The best small form factor PC yet?
• Festival of Backpacks: Can a notebook backpack be worth $300?
• Backpacks from Lexie Barnes, Ripley; JanSport, Alt Pack LiveWire BT; Booq, Python XM; Targus,15" Getta Backpack;  Targus 15.4" Drifter Backpack; Spire, Volt XL

News:

• Sony Pictures Delivers First Blu-ray Titles
• Samsung Blu-ray Players Ship to Retailers
• Sen Stevens and his Deal On Net Neutrality
• MS Halts Vista Torrents
• Apple Negotiating for iTunes Movie Downloads

Viewer Questions:

• Maximize the life of your notebok battery
• DDR vs. DDR2 Memory

DLTV - Episode 84 - Wednesday August 9, 2006

We shot Episode 84 live on Wednesday August 9th at 4PM PDT (7PM EDT, 23:00 GMT/UTC) instead of our usual 4PM Tuesday time slot. The show will be available for download Thursday, August 10th.

What's on the show? Viewer questions! Big honking piles of them:

• Extended warranties: good or bad, asks Brett?
• Allister asks "What hardware do I need to connect a Cable TV box to a Media Center PC? What type of interface will I have? "
• Can I get an adapter for my old ATA drives if my new motherboard has SATA ports, asks Jason?
• CRT to LCD... will I notice a difference, especially if I use a DVI connection to my computer? We're on it, Ben.
• dot19408: is looking for help setting up an email server over his home DSL line... we say let an ISP handle that... but email us with your suggestins for whether dot should try to run Sendmail from home.
  
• Rich wants to know the proper way to pronounce Linux. (We've got the word  from Linus thanks to Paul Sladen.
  
• Allister asks "What hardware do I need to connect a Cable TV box to a Media Center PC? What type of interface will I have? " 
• Jason asks "If I get a motherboard that has SATA connections,  can I get adaptors for my old ATA drives?"
• We had a stack of URGE questions to follow up on... Ty adn Jeff were especially curious about what happens to the tunes you download after the 14 day free trial ends!
  
• John from Iowa wants reccos on a long distance WiFi setup... it depends on how far = long distance!
• Converting CDs to Vinyl? Kelly's on a mission! Companies like CustomRecords can make short runs of records for you, but they aren't cheap. 
• Nate's more geek than you... he tried dropping a Core 2 Duo (Merom) procesor into his Core Duo notebook... and gave us the heads up on what happened. Thanks Nate!
• What about live phone calls on DL.TV???
  

DLTV - Episode 77 - Thursday July 13, 2006

Howdy Folks,
It's been a real interesting day. We're re-rendering most of the video for EP 77 due to a major audio glitch. A vile high pitched hiss was sitting on top of most of the compressed video, so re-captured it and started over again.

In the mean time, I'm rebuilding the EP 77 site entry. For reasons I'm sure I'll never know, Telligent's Community Server decided to publish the admin tools for the site in this space earlier when I posted an update as to when the video would be available for download. That's a new one... I'm kinda hoping the error was between my keyboard and chair, tho, frankly, I'm not sure how I could publish the admin tools.

In any case, Sorenson Squeeze is humming along on your video, and we should have all the formats posted for download by 5:30.... er, make that 6:15PM PDT/9:15PM EDT/01:15 GMT/UTC.

Our apologies on the delay... hope you enjoy the show!
Patrick

DLTV - Episode 76 - Tuesday July 11, 2006

The full show notes:

Robert Gets Nuked By a Virus:

• Welllllll... maybe not nuked, but he had a Trojan try to sneak a keylogger onto his system...
  
• Trend Micro's free online virus scan sorted him out.... he still won't run an antivirus on his gaming system.
  
• BTW: be careful where you download files!

Viewer Questions:

• "If I own a VHS tape of "The Matrix," is it legal to rent and copy a DVD of the Matrix, to ensure my investment is in more permanent format?" asks Ryan, from South Dakota. (Morality vs. the DMCA... guess which one holds up in court... and guess which side disgruntled parents with DVD thrashing toddlers falls on?)
  
• "Is there a cellphone that can replace my digital camera?" Chad from Grand Rapids, MI wants "3 megapixels at least!" We know of one such phone in the US, Nokia's N80, demoed it a bit, and talked about a similar phone heading towards Verizon users.
  
• HDTV or monitor shopping? Doug from San Marcos, CA wants to know "about the Contrast Ratio specification. Is a higher number better or a lower number?" The answer might surprise you.
  
• DL.TV on his PSP: David should check out PSP Video 9
  
• iPod Video vs. MPEG4 vs. H.264... William's wondering if they're all the same thing. (Nope!)
  

HowTo:

• Robert shows everybody how to turn on file exertions (and some other nifty things) in the Windows XP Folder Options. Man, y'all love file extensions, Robert's got the email to prove it, and it's a nice way to figure out when something is a nasty 'ol .exe file instead of a nice safe .txt file!
  
• If you've seen this message: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below." you need to open that link with an RSS reader instead of your browser. Unless you've got, say, Sage loaded in Firefox, or use IE7's new built in RSS reader. Or the RSS reader built into Google or My Yahoo. You get the idea.

News:

• Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 7 Critical Flaws Patched, including. Excel's 'Zero Day' flaw. 
• If you aren't doing it automatically, Patch Your System! 
• Britain to Extradite Hacker Suspect to U.S.
  
• Take care of your disgruntled employees: BSA Pays Bounty for Software Pirates
  
• Firefox Version 2.0 Beta Out
  
• Friendster Wins Patent
  

What Was That?

• A couple folks asked about the t-shirt Patrick was wearing. It's a Hank III shirt from his last tour. The dude is amazing live if you can catch him! (Didn't like the picture on the front? Be happy you didn't see the back.

DLTV - Episode 75 - Thursday July 6, 2006

New Set:

• Say 'G-bye' to the big blue wall. We're finally redecorating the set. Don't ya just love our plastic tarp sheet thingy?

Viewer Q&A Is In Full Force:

• "Getting sick of the bloatware that is Adobe Reader on Windows. Any ideas on an (hopefully) free alternative?" We got 'cha covered, Mike. You want Foxit reader!!! It's a simple, small, and reads Adobe PDF files no problem. It's free for personal use
• There's no install for Foxit Reader. We walk you thru how to place it (or any other .EXE file) into your Programs Folder on the show.
• Spherical Desktop? Duncan and Chris want Robert to check out SphereSite's Spherical Desktop in his search for a ... spherical desktop. 
• Jamie asks "Will the folks that came up with AGP come up with an alternative to PCI Express?" They already did. Kind of.
• Brandon says he wished he had our PayPal advice a little earlier: he was ripped off for $1000! 
• "Can windows read the Mac HFS+ system or OS X read and write NTFS?" Billy from Gurnee, IL just bought a Macbook and wants to share an external hard drive. He needs MacDrive 6 and an HFS+ formatted drive. We showed how it works in Episode 45.
  

Better Free Partitioning:

• The best free partitioning tool? Non-destructive? Create, resize or destroy FAT, NTFS, HFS and HFS+?
• Bradley, Brett, Ian Stewart, Wesley, Johan, Nicolas and two Jasons all swear by the "GParted LiveCD!"
• Brad, Nicholas and Johan (from Helsingborg, Sweden!) added in deets and suggestions for safer use.
• All in response to the software we showed in 74. Thanks for the tip! GParted is awesome.

How To Burn an ISO disk:

• BTW, the bootable GParted disk comes in ISO format. Don't just burn the ISO to a data CD. It won't work.
• If you don't have CD burning software (or can't figure out how to open the ISO file in what 'cha got) try downloading ISOBurn 1.6. It's fast and easy.

LOTR Fans Get Your Gaming On:

• Lord Of The Rings, The Battle for Middle Earth 2 Thanks to Dan Hsu, EIC Electronic Gaming Monthly for the review!
  
• PS: Robert Hates Hobbits, reveals Gandalf's 'secret' Hobbit fed addiction.

News:

• Nintendo Gives Pres. Bush DS Lite, Copy of Brain Age We know a lot of folks (mostly programmers) that LOVE Brain Age.
• Digital Album Sales Way Up, CD Sales Slightly Down. 'Course, CD sales still outnumber digital album sales 19 to 1. Or, say, 282.6 million units to 14.7 million units.
• MS To Launch iPod Rival by Christmas
• eBay Bans Google Checkout So much for PayPay competition...
  

Live Nude Geeks?

• Thankfully, we're not talking about Robert or Patrick. Nope. It's an animation from the always entertaining Michael Fry (The co-creator of Over The Hedge) You can watch Live Nude Geeks here!

DLTV - Episode 86 - Tuesday August 15, 2006

Episode 73 - Tuesday June 27, 2006

News:

• Vista: No WinFS. Again.. Ever. Not even as an add-on. NTFS will never die.
• Pay Your Parking Meter With Your Cell Phone:Vancouver is So Cool Volume 235
• Fon = $5 WiFi Router (If you're willing to share your bandwidth.)

Our Blu-ray Festival:

• One burner and a player, either costs a grand. As in $1000.
• Samsung's BD-P1000 standalone Blu-ray disc player:
• Pioneer's BDR-101A Blu-ray Burner: Got 42 minutes? You can back up 25GB

The Other Free Browser

• Opera 9, 'the other free browser.' You asked us to look at it. We did. Opera 9 does not suck!

Viewer Questions and Answers:

• Forget about Box.net: you can get 25GB of FREE online storage: check out StreamLoad, say Justin, Will, another Justin, Dean, Greg, David, Zak, Kirat, Teemu and 'Anyone Anyone.' There's a catch on the free version, tho!
• Nate says "Just bought a Toshiba Qosimo G35-AV650 with an HD-DVD drive. Seems that being on the bleeding edge with HD drives has it's problems regardless of which HiDef camp you choose."
• "After watching the section about XGL on suse on Thursday, I thought I would recommend you suggesting an XGL live CD ." You can try out Xgl witout breaking your system. Thanks to Chris and Luke for the heads up on Kororaa.org. Zak from Portland, OR says "The ten-window interface you showed in Xgl is not called a dodecahedron as you stated, but a dodecagonal prism." Our bad!

Episode 72 - June 22, 2006

On the show today:

• 42" Plasma HDTV Reccomendations
• Is Linux prettier than Vista? Check out Xgl on OpenSUSE
• Help finding WiFi on vacation: Netstumbler and WiFi Antenna tips
• AT&T Owns Your Data
• Nokia: No More CDMA Phones
• Samsung Blu-ray players are in the stores!
• Fun with Robert and Picasa Web Albums

Our Tricaster, the box that streams the show, is having server technical difficulties. We're going to have to pull the live stream. Our apologies to our live viewers, but the show will be available as usual for download Friday, June 23rd.

Hmmm... we've got the Tricaster up and running again... looks like the Tricaster VM (a specialized control panel) died. Watch out Tom Green!

Episode 69 - Tuesday June 13, 2006

It's time for another edition of DL.TV.  Hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Heron.
 
In the show today...

News:  

• Court Says US Gov Can Keep on Snooping on VOIP Calls
• Deal On Net Neutrality Remains Elusive
• Google Readies PayPal-Killer
• JavaScript Worm Targets Yahoo!
• Toyota To Double Number of Hybrid Models
  

Jim Louderback is on today to show off some notebooks:

• Gateway E-100M
• Dell XPS M1210
• HP NC2400

Viewer Questions and more today on DL.TV

It's time for another edition of DL.TV.  Hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Heron.
 
In the show today...

News:  

• Court Says US Gov Can Keep on Snooping on VOIP Calls
• Deal On Net Neutrality Remains Elusive
• Google Readies PayPal-Killer
• JavaScript Worm Targets Yahoo!
• Toyota To Double Number of Hybrid Models
  

Jim Louderback is on today to show off some notebooks:

• Gateway E-100M
• Dell XPS M1210
• HP NC2400

Viewer Questions and more today on DL.TV

Episode 68 - Thursday June 8, 2006

Here we go again with another well versed edition of DL.TV

We are back in the studio.

In the show today:

News

• ESA Sues Minnesota Over Video-Game Bill
• Apple Files Second Suit Against Creative
• Another Windows Vista Feature Bites the Dust
• Intel Aims Core 2 Chips At Sub-$1000 PCs

Product:

• Apple, MacBook, $1099-$1499
  
• Sony Reader
• Future TV Tech. Picture tour of SID. Society for Information Displays

Windows Vista Beta 2 Download:

• PCMag has a good hands on guide
• Remember folks: You WON"T be able to undo the install!
• Click here to go to the Windows Vista Beta 2 Download
  

Plus your Viewer Questions:

Episode 67 - Tuesday June 6, 2006

Patrick's in New York City at the DigitalLife Event pre-show, so we pre-taped today's episode in Robert's HDTV Testing Lab.

News:

• FBI/AG Wants ISPs to Keep Your Web Usage Records for Two Years! (AOL, Microsoft, Google, Verizon, Comcast and more!)
• Viewer Question: Is BellSouth blocking MySpace and YouTube?

HowTo/Product Help:

• Thinking about buying a new PC? You might want to wait till July.
  
• Intel's new Core2Duo and Core2Extreme chips promise to wipe the floor with anything you can buy today.
• ExtremeTech's Loyd Case has done the benchmarking and has some buying advice!

Viewer Questions:

• Tim from San Jose, CA asks "What happend to the pictures, or better yet, videos of Robert Heron's infamous HD lab? What kind of PLASMA, DLP, LCD, or SED (yes SED) displays, is Robert playing 5th Element on?
• Brian says "My dad is asking me for advice on a good 50" plasma for a new home we are building. I'd like 1008P support. What's best deal out there in the $2k to $4k range?
• Bill asks "When I plug my new HDTV into the computer, I only get 800x600 or 1024x768. Are there drivers I can download to get a 16:9 resolution? I hate the stretched video I'm getting now!"
• Jon from Oceanside, CA says "I saw your recent episode where a user posed a question about the life of span of CD's. We use archive grade CD's with a gold reflective layer that have an estimated life expectancy of 300 years. Check out MAM Archive Grade CD-R and DVD-R media.
• Paul from Toronto, Canada wonders if we "know of any good bluetooth gamepads that will work with my PowerBook? I'm looking for something that looks nice and is comfortable." This is the only one we've seen, it'd designed to wrap around a cell phone. Anybody have a better option?
• Michael was "wondering why Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose on Diggnation talk openly about software piracy and hacking, and while you guys seem almost scared to talk about it. Both of you have sponsors, what/s the deal?" Truth is, neither DL.TV or Diggnation is gonna tell you how to crack copy protected material!
• Rick asks if we "could review Mobile Internet Access from Internet in Motion. He's looking at wireless broadband from Verizon or Cingular and wants to know if if IIM might perform better. It's new to us, but we'll see if we can demo it.

Time Killer:

• Looking for a soothing time killer? We don't know who Vectorpark.com is... but they've got style. Check out Levers... if you don't mind loosing your mind while balancing odd objects into a virtual mobile. Heads up: it'll run on any system with a browser that can play flash.

Episode 74 - Thursday June 29, 2006

Viewer Questions and Answers:

Backup Awareness Month T-shirt Giveaway:

• Ya'll have some horror stories! And some of you just want a blue T-shit. (Wow... we didn't expect this kind of response.)
  
• We've only got one shirt, but we'll see if we can get a few more.
• We've got stories from DL.TV viewers with some insane backup, rescue and data loss stories.

Is AT&T Feeding The NSA Your Packets?

• The crew at 27B Stroke 6 have a theory.
• Their "Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA"let's you it out on your PC in seconds.
  
• Or just get your paranoia watching us on the show!
  

Blu-ray Wrapup:

Guitar Hero 2 And a Game Pricing Survey:

• Guitar Hero 2 is coming for you.
• 1UP's Garnett Lee looks like a rock star with the plastic guitar in his hands. Patrick just looks goofy.
• Garnett would love to hear what you think PS3 (and any other) games should cost.
  
• $20? $40? $100? Email us at dl.tv@ziffdavis.com with the subject "game prices" in the subject.
  

News:

• Senate Backs Telco Bill With No Net Neutrality What is it and why should you care?
• Cory Doctorow does a great job explaing why net neutrality is something you want.
• Google's Pay Service Now Online Is this the end for PayPal?
• MySpace Not Just a Danger to Minors When a date becomes a mugging.

DLTV - Episode 101 - Thursday October 5, 2006