The Engadget Show: Hands-on with Times Square

In addition to our full length Engadget Show, we'll be doing short segments on a wide variety of topics which we're hoping will delight, inform, or at least entertain for a few, precious moments.

Ever wondered who makes the outrageous displays in Times Square? Now you'll know. Josh talks to Meric Adriansen from D3 LED, the man who designs and builds those massive structures, and goes behind the scenes to see the rigs from the other side. Want to get deep inside of the art and science behind the light pollution that is -- literally -- New York's most visible spot? Watch the video... and subscribe to the RSS / iTunes feed below (we're still waiting on Zune Marketplace approval).

Also, if you missed the premiere of the show with Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, you can see it here.

Host: Joshua Topolsky
Produced and Directed by: Chad Mumm
Edited by: Michael Slavens
Music by: Bit Shifter

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[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:09PM]

THAT WAS AWESOME, GUYS.

Reason #5890725902 that engadget is the best tech site in the world :-)

Keep it comin'

[wazd Posted Sep 24th 2009 3:00PM]

How can Engadget adore any kind of screen that is not capacitive?!

[PorkchopFlavoredCupcake Posted Sep 24th 2009 7:42PM]

Indeed, a nice opening to what should develop into a good show.
On a side note, Gizmodo had an idea to open their show covering the same subject, but they discovered their TV-B-gone remotes wouldn't work, and Jesus Diaz's requests to upload pr0n to the servers to display in Time Square were met with fail. Sucks for them.

[ohpleaseno Posted Sep 24th 2009 8:42PM]

Yeah, i'm REALLY impressed with the production value. Good job.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:09PM]

Guys this show is really awesome and I just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed the first full episode and now this segment. I hope you continue to do the show its great.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:34PM]

Best quote of the video: "There are no Macs in Time Square."

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 25th 2009 8:26PM]

@TMPRIDE:

Dammit, now I must watch it.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 25th 2009 8:43PM]

And it was worth every second.

Great job, guys!

[Nightryder21 Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:10PM]

No Zune Love?

[anstosa Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:18PM]

I second the motion set forth by Emiliano for increased Zune love post haste. All in favor?

[Rossgadget Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:19PM]

Aye!

[MarcusMaximus Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:20PM]

Aye!

[MokeUSA Posted Sep 24th 2009 2:04PM]

Aye

[Sidewinder Posted Sep 24th 2009 2:33PM]

Any opposed?

*slowly reaches for crowbar*

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 11:07PM]

Yes, please continue zune support. It would be great to have a zune-resolution video podcast feed -- the 720p files are pretty large and my Zune80 can't take advantage of the resolution anyway.

[mobilehavoc Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:11PM]

Can we get the RSS feed for the iPhone/iPod/Zune format download? I want to have it auto download on my Pre but the 720p feed is overkill and doubt it'll even play.

[Joshua Topolsky Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:15PM]

I'm wondering about that. Maybe we ought to do a poll. Multiple feeds (which is a bit of a pain), or a single feed with just the non-HD version? What would you prefer?

[Shovel Man Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:19PM]

A non HD version in a single feed, m4v would be good, I would think.

[MarcusMaximus Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:19PM]

@Josh: Def. keep the 720p version. I don't see a link for the Zune and it'd suck to not have the 720p video for the Zune HD.

[Malweran Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:21PM]

I'd prefer a poll, then everyone that visits the site can actually vote what they like instead of 5 people deciding for the rest.

[J D Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:21PM]

i vote for the non-HD feed

[sweet greggo Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:45PM]

@Josh:

Keep it 2 feeds. I enjoyed watching the first show on the big screen (though it took forever to d/l for some reason).

[Nexus Posted Sep 24th 2009 2:01PM]

a vote for a 2 feeds one audio (podcast only) and another aduio podcast mixed with the engadget show in non-hd m4v on weeks you dont do the podcast and do the show instead, the second having these little bits added in when you do one.

[kemo Posted Sep 24th 2009 5:58PM]

Two feeds please (and iTunes Podcast channels). One in HD (720p) and one in iPhone/iPod/smartphone/etc. friendly 480p or even only 480*xxx.

[iCello Posted Sep 24th 2009 9:58PM]

HD feed if you want but please make the iTunes vodcast 480 and iPhone formatted. Want to subscribe in a smaller format that I can view on my phone.

[gadgetfanboy Posted Sep 25th 2009 2:00AM]

My vote:

2 iTunes feeds, and 2 standard RSS feeds

For each flavor, one larger 720 format, and one smaller mobile-sized format (with the iTunes one being playable on the iPhone of course!)

[attilag78 Posted Oct 1st 2009 12:52PM]

Definitely 2 feeds (720p and iPod version). Of course it'd be nice if podcasts can do the same like TV shows or movies. You subscribe to the HD feed and get automatically the SD version, too - I don't know whether iTunes supports this though

[sntXrrr Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:16PM]

You guys really surprised me with those tidy and neat fx. Quality stuff!

[Rossgadget Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:15PM]

Tried to subscribe to the RSS M4V feed using Google Reader but to no avail. Any informed readers out there? Fill me in if there's something I'm missing (I've never even heard of a RSS M4V feed -- not a big iTunes user either)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 9th 2009 7:41PM]

Unfortunately, GReader doesn't support video feeds. Try something like feedreader.

[Jaoimy Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:17PM]

Great work! Love the way you use embedded text :)

[tankgunk Posted Sep 25th 2009 1:37AM]

Yeah, it was swift, but I missed the first one the first time.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:17PM]

So when is Engadget gonna take their show on the road! Not everybody lives in NYC!

[decypherSMC Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:20PM]

Engadget Canada! oh wait no good tech comes up here…

[crow610 Posted Sep 24th 2009 2:34PM]

Matrox dude!

[CKurt Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:18PM]

Hey! Why didn't you mention the companies name? Is it BARCO?

[Wwhat Posted Sep 24th 2009 8:05PM]

Haha. millions of dollars thousands of hours of works to make insane ad displays, and somehow their name was lost in it all.
Maybe after they get their planet-sized display?

[scoobydooby Posted Sep 24th 2009 8:45PM]

D3. It was in color on the front of the machines driving the screens. www.d3led.com

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:18PM]

Like it, love it, Gotta have the Engadget Show.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 5th 2009 8:46PM]

Is it wrong to crave for this show? Is it bad that I hope that any day, boom, there will be another one? Is it?

[MishkaGreen Posted Sep 25th 2009 12:50AM]

The FX reminded me Fringe.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:19PM]

Great. Just awesome.

[hl2run Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:20PM]

AmAzInG !

[aatkco Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:23PM]

Awesome

[serialtoon Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:32PM]

that was full of win. thanks engadget!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:27PM]

Can someone please tell me why there's a guy to the right showing affection @ 00:28. This is engadget right??

[Wwhat Posted Sep 25th 2009 7:50AM]

It's called 'outside' and you should go there once, they have things called 'streets' with 'people' which are humans walking around freely being humans, anyway take some diazepam first then try it, but not too much (of either)

[RLJSlick Posted Sep 24th 2009 3:10PM]

Great job!

[victorstuber Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:34PM]

I'm loving the new Engadget shows/Videos Keep em comin!

[Thedude88 Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:36PM]

Very well done. Great job.