Engadget Podcast 094 - 11.17.2006

Big, big week for gadget news (as we all well know). The Zune, the PS3, and the Wii, it's been pretty crazed around the hallowed halls of Engadget HQ. We're not going to spend a lot of time talking about the news surrounding the gadgets since something tells us a lot of you are wondering what they're like, and whether you should buy one. We also briefly touch on some other noteworthy announcements, including the Lenovo X60, Nikon D40, the Core 2 Duo MacBook, and those sweet new Cingular Windows Mobile devices. It's going to be a hell of a holiday season this year.

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Hosts: Peter Rojas and Ryan Block

Producer: Trent Wolbe

Music: Solvent - Instructograph (Ghostly International)

Program:

0:01:25 - Zune review
0:20:37 - PS3 unboxing!
0:35:03 - Wii hands-on, unboxing!
0:43:03 - Xbox HD DVD hands-on
0:48:03 - Xbox Live Video hands-on
0:52:54 - Hon Hai cops to iPhone contract
0:56:02 - Apple's MacBook goes Core 2 Duo, too
0:56:16 - Cingular 8525, BlackJack now for sale
1:00:46 - Nikon D40 officially announced
1:03:40 - Hands-on with Lenovo's X60 Tablet PC

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[irdepesca @ Nov 18th 2006 4:01PM]

Sweet, thanks! Console edition.

[phono48 @ Nov 18th 2006 4:43PM]

it should be "buy" instead of "by"

[Daniel @ Nov 18th 2006 4:51PM]

It seems that the mp3-feed keeps redirecting to the AAC-feed in iTunes. :(

I guess it is be cause the RSS has an entry like; http://podcasts.engadget.com/rss-aac.xml

Is it possible to get a clean mp3-feed that will work with iTunes?

TIA!

[Daniel @ Nov 18th 2006 4:54PM]

The XML above is stripped, it suppose to be;

< itunes:new-feed-url >http://podcasts.engadget.com/rss-aac.xml< /itunes:new-feed-url >

[ipodman715 @ Nov 18th 2006 5:48PM]

I made a flash audio player:
http://twit.no-ip.info/~twitmirr/engadget

[Hans Fredrik @ Nov 18th 2006 5:50PM]

The PS3 part has one big mistake, the 360 is more capable of outputting 1080p, since the 360 graphic card is quite alot more powerfull than the PS3 graphics card.

Source:
http://dpad.gotfrag.com/portal/story/35372/?spage=8

[Arno @ Nov 18th 2006 6:46PM]

In the podcast, you you guys said "this might be the longest podcast ever" like that's a bad thing. It's not! I loved this podcast. Lots of opinion and talk on the big recent news. That's why I download podcasts, I want to hear tons of opinion on news I read yesterday or things happening at the time. Not saying you guys haven't been doing it, but not to this extend.

Keep up the good work.

[mike @ Nov 21st 2006 12:20AM]

With ITunes the podcast is save in MPEG-4 Audio File format, instead of mp3 which is what I wanted. The result is that the podcast can't be played on my mp3 player.

I can download the mp3 file manually, but that's not ideal. How can I get ITunes to download the mp3 version? And what version am I getting, is it aac?

thanks.

[Daniel @ Nov 21st 2006 5:45AM]

I use a php script to strip the mp3 RSS-feed of the follow tag:
< itunes:new-feed-url >http://podcasts.engadget.com/rss-aac.xml< /itunes:new-feed-url >

The above tag is why the mp3-feed keeps redirectiong to the AAC feed in iTunes. :(

And now my iTunes downloads the mp3 again and I can transfer the Engadget Podcast to my ZVM again, yay! :D

[julie @ Nov 21st 2006 11:08AM]

Whoever was breathing through the nose like an overweight vacuum cleaner ruined this podcast....:(

[Erick @ Nov 29th 2006 9:22AM]

Hey Fellas,

One thing I was noticing lately, being a father of 2 (only 17 months and 2 weeks, but still...) about video game consoles.

The new consoles are truly for older people. Sure, Wii is kinda cheap, but it is completely a new direction, not just the casual machine as you mention. Looking around there are SO MANY "game systems" for kids. Vtech, Leapfrog, etc all have games, kinda cartridge based, etc, but they all have pretty decent graphics, some of them look like PS1 to N64 level, and they are cheap. So, I'll always be a gamer, I own the 360, I'll own the PS3, and may get the Wii for fun party games down the line...the first thing I'll seriously get for my children will probably be from Leapfrog or VTech...These companies are now the new kids game systems. It will be interesting to see if game studios can somehow get onto these systems for other casual games and not just learning based games.