Engadget Podcast 116 - 10.31.2008: Terrifying Halloween edition
posted Oct 31st 2008 12:30PM
We hope you're prepared to be menaced by the unstoppable, demon-like tech punditry and heart attack-inducing fear that only the Engadget Podcast can provide. This week, the team takes you on a hellish ride through the rancid underworld of the New Xbox Experience with Joystiq's evil kingpin Chris Grant. You can also hear Josh, Paul, and Nilay psychotically sound off on new Netflix happenings, explore the twisted nature of HP's Mini 1000, tear into the meaty gristle of Windows 7, and more. Enter at extreme risk of bodily harm to your personage!
WARNING: This podcast has been known to kill people. Engadget assumes no responsibility for injury or death.
[Thanks, JS and Rom for the image]
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, and Nilay Patel
Guest: Chris Grant
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Don't Fear the Reaper
00:01:08 - New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions
00:31:54 - Week of Netflix
00:51:39 - HP Mini 1000 hands-on
01:02:16 - Windows 7 details galore
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Come on guys! here's my Atrac3plus 48 kbps version of this podcast? lol
I WOULD say this: Come on guys! Where's my Atrac3plus 48 kbps version of this podcast? lol
That's not funny, two of my friends died listening this podcast.
I love the 8bit version of Don't fear the reaper..
First time i have heard that and i already have 4 other versions of the song..
You guys are hilarious.
"You can't make a red-headed Mii."..."That's racist, that's what it is." lol
BORING!!!...
Why is Itunes still throwing up errors when subscribing :-(
Thanks for bringing the podcast back guys!
The Zune Marketplace is still not updated with this episode.
For some reason this episode did not show up in my RSS reader. I'm glad I saw the story in my regular Engadget feed, but the Podcast feed was broken for this show...
Am I the only one excited about where Windows 7 is going with multi-touch? Have you seen the demos on touch screens? It's actually pretty slick and usable. Everything you can do with a mouse you'll soon be able to do just as easily with multi-touch (and many things easier...we all love pinch zoom). I love the "dragging up" replacement for right-click Windows 7...that really impressed me. You guys were saying "well..what can it really do now?" It's in pre-beta now. The difference between what it can do now and what it can do when it's released in 2010 is huge. Granted, multi-touch isn't going to do much for desktops, but the desktop is dying. Casual users are heading towards netbooks and power users are heading towards laptops (compare iMac sales to Macbook sales). I think we can all agree that tablets suck, but we're already seeing "convertible tablets" coming out, and I think Windows 7 is going to make these extremely powerful. The real question is how well Windows 7 will work on low-end netbooks. But even if it's an epic fail, I think what they're doing with multi-touch is going to change everything. Apple is going to need to play catchup now.
Hello,
Just wondering if you guys have tested the Netflix playback on Xbox 360 with its wi-fi adapter? I'm just a little concerned about streaming this kind of content over wi-fi.
Thanks
Joe N