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Host Patrick Roanhouse & Guest Tim Conneally recap five stories in tech and discuss a major topic from the week.
1.) Happy Sys Admin Day july 30th [Link]
2.) State of Maryland declares September 21st Sid Meier Civilization V day. [Link]
3.) YouTube Increases Video Upload Length to 15 Minutes [Link]
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The Future of IPTV
Guests Kelly Sutton & Rob Blatt join host Patrick Roanhouse for an in-depth discussion about the future of IPTV & Internet Provided Video, and the future of content production in general.
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The Banner for the TWiT Network
Out of the little quaint cottage in Petaluma, California one man has changed the idea of of the one man band in broadcasting. Leo Laporte has created a little Podcasting Empire that now pulls in a millions dollar a year profit from doing a selection of audio / video podcasts that have hosts talking about a range of thing. Originally starting with technology the TWiT network has shows that focus on everything from the daily new of Google with “This Week in Google”, Apple computers with “Macbreak Weekly”, Free / Libre Open Source Software with FLOSS Weekly, Science Chat with Dr Kristen Sanford, NSFW with Brian Brushwood, and many others. Broadcasting daily several shows Leo has shown the world that you can do a full internet television network of high end HD Broadcasting for less than it would cost even public broadcasting.
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*UPDATE* sorry podcast listeners I had a goof up in the uploading of the file so i double uploaded the previous podcast this should now fix it
Hey podcast listeners today’s podcast is again with the hosts of the long running podcast GeeksOn. But this time we are talking about geek culture and the history of the podcast done by Aaron Hendricks, Donald Marshall, Peter Robinson, and Matt King.
The Topics we discuss are:
Today’s Music is:
“Through Stars” by Ezek1el of 8Bit Collective
This podcast is released by its owner, Patrick Roanhouse (twitter), under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License.
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Hello podcast listeners, the second episode to talk about E3 2010 is up and this time I’m very honored to have the hosts of one the very first major podcasts that started on the internet, GeeksOn, on the show to discuss E3 Expo 2010.
The GeeksOn hosts are:
The Hosts of GeeksOn: Video Professional Aaron Hendricks, Professional Actor Matt Yang King, Video Game Professional Donald Marshall, Screenwriter Peter Robinson
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LA Convention Center E3 Expo 2010 Sign
Hey podcast listeners this is the wrap up episode from E3 Expo 2010. This was recorded on June 17th on the last day of E3 expo at 9pm.
Podcast Host -
Patrick Roanhouse, @Roanhouse
Guest hosts -
Timothy Torres – Lead Reviewer, www.2d-x.com
Jeffery Wilson – Editor-in-Chief, www.2d-X.com
Terry “Valcor” Lewis – Senior Editor, www.the-Other-view.com
Chris Barylick – Managing Editor, www.Powerpage.org
Thomas Rivas – Features Editor, www.2d-x.com
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Nintendo 3DS unveiled onstage
The major unveil at E3 2010 was Nintendo’s new take on the Gameboy portable system; the Nintendo 3DS. The 3DS is latest incarnation of portable hand-held game console concept developed by Nintendo over the past thirty years. As being a member of the the Nintendo DS family, it has Dual Screens, one being a resistive touch pad. The other in this new incarnation is a glasses free stereoscopic 3D Display with a digital control slider on the side to variably turn on an off the 3D effect.
Some might say this is just the typical Nintendo ploy of rebuilding the same device over again but it actually has some rather impressive new ideas. For one it has a stereoscopic dual camera on the back. Allowing the ability to take 3D photos, with the possible future of taking 3D video as well. The device also still has a camera on the front side but as Nintendo was very secretive they gave away no information besides the most obvious external features.
Nintendo of Japan CEO, Satour Iwata unveils the 3DS
Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo of Japan was the one to unveil the 3DS to the public. Being the father of both the Wii and the DSi it was only natural he would tout out Nintendo’s new money maker. Some of those money making ideas include 3D movie distribution with partnerships with Disney, Dreamworks, and Warner Brothers already announced. Trailers for such movies as Disney’s Tangle and Dreamworks How to Train Your Dragon were just some of the movie content coming to the platform.
But the DS isn’t just a media player. It’s a game device, and as such a heavy list of developers were brought on board to show concept games and near final version. The flagship first party title being the return of a Nintendo Classic, Kid Icaras. Other game concept demos shown off were PlayStation 2 level graphics version of Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater, a fully working demo of StarFax 3DS, and a rather cool augmented reality game demo with shooting target and a dragon in on the table top that appears from a famous question block from the the Super Mario brothers games. Below you can see just how many developers and publishers have promised to develop titles for this 3DS when it launches March of 2011.
Game Developers & Publishers Signed to Develop for the 3DS
Xbox Kinect Experience Event Promo Photo
Microsoft brought the guns to the gun show opening up E3′s press conference today. As the population of the united states saw on the network Spike TV some big announcements happened. Not all of the ones we thought but some big ones and some cool ones and some that made me go, “Oh really now!” Starting with the peripheral on the block, the recently re branded Project Natal, Microsoft introduced it as Kinect for Xbox 360.
Xbox Kinect Product Promo Photo
Kinect is a sensor bar with stereoscopic cameras, infra red emitter, microphone array, & a motorized base to move and track the user. It connects via the USB on the back of the Xbox 360. But what makes its so special? Its some surprising impressive first party demos and even more impressive third party developed games.
some of the simple first party games they showed included:
Kinectimals – A virtual pet game akin to Nintedogs that has wild tiger cubs as pets
Kinect Adventures!—”jump, duck and dodge” on obstacle platforms akin to Japanese game show Hole in the Wall
Kinect Sports – Microsoft’s version of Wii Sports with mini games such as soccer, ping pong, bowling, volley ball, & boxing.
Kinect Joy Ride – a wacky racers take on racing games using your Xbox Avatar
The games from third party developers included:
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved – Ubsisoft’s fitness game with highly impressive features and abilities.
MTV’s Dance Central – a hip hop dance game by MTV owned Harmonix, the Next gen of DDR?
Unnamed LucasArts Star Wars – On rails game that involves force powers & light sabers and Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon graphics.
Forza Motorsport for Kinect – a sequel to the ultra realistic racing game from the guys who is stated due early 2011
Other major features shown off were the video chat platform called Video Kinect. a Video chat the takes the movies with friends concept and moves it to full video chat version and voice & motion control. View Web pages, movies, music, and photos with each person taking a corner in a four way chat conference. Plan8 has already taken a step to register and is planning to develop it’s own Xbox Kinect videocast called VideoKinectCast or VKCast for short. The new xbox units they are giving away to people who attended the event will be nice to help with that.
As of now no official price as has been set for the Kinect.
Release date is November 4th 2010 with a worldwide release.
E3 Expo 2010 Banners waving high
The banners and trumpets are beginning to rise. E3 expo 2010 is only one day away from officially starting. But Microsoft has decided to forgo the typical PR day and is having their own little open event to celebrate Natal’s launch at the USC Galen Center. What makes this the big show; besides having the famous performers of Cirque Du Soleil performing, they are also having it a no camera/gadget event. The only people allowed to film and then later broadcast the event is MTV Networks. What is so big that its only up to the media broadcast control of MTV? I have no clue but someone is getting paid big for this. So I sit waiting at a small Starbucks near the Los Angeles convention Center just working away till the start of the event.
Here are just a few of the other shots for the Banners on the outside of the LA Convention Center.
