The Engadget Show - 003: Drew Bamford, Joystiq's Chris Grant, Adamo XPS, and lots of game demos

This is a big one, folks. The new installment of The Engadget Show is jam-packed with goodness. First up, Josh sits down with HTC's director of user experience Drew Bamford to discuss Android, Sense, Windows Mobile and a whole lot more. Then we've got a charming little segment where Paul and Josh go hunting around NYC for KIRFs, and Chris Grant joins the gang on stage for a dissection of the holiday gaming situation... and some demos where the gang gets to show off their totally radical moves. Seriously, Josh and Nilay have a DJ Hero battle, and Paul Miller skates (but doesn't die) in Tony Hawk: Ride. Don't miss this one -- it might just be the best yet! Full video is after the break.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel
Special guests: Drew Bamford, Chris Grant
Produced and Directed by: Chad Mumm
Executive Producer: Josh Fruhlinger
Edited by: Michael Slavens
Music by: Glomag
Visuals by: Dan Winckler
Opening titles by: Julien Nantiec

Special thanks to VIZIO for providing the 55 TruLED LCD HDTV!

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[manifest3r Posted Nov 23rd 2009 5:39PM]

we want the mutharaping HD2 review!

and let me change my pass :(

[Bobbo Posted Nov 23rd 2009 10:22PM]

@manifest3r

seriously...what in the hell is holding the HD2 review up!!!

[months Posted Nov 24th 2009 7:05PM]

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_hd2-review-418.php

[schmidt1985 Posted Nov 23rd 2009 5:42PM]

I love how the show is 851.5MB in the itunes store. Gota take it to the man when you got no cap

[Nerdtalker Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:14PM]

@(Unverified) You mean "stick it to the man?"

[newjaruz Posted Nov 23rd 2009 5:44PM]

Haleluia!

[glenskey Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:52PM]

@newjaruz do mean hallelujah, or is this another word entirely? :)

[hoodieninja Posted Nov 29th 2009 11:00PM]

@glenskey


lol

[Dary Posted Nov 23rd 2009 5:46PM]

Yeah great lighting, finally! Thanks ;)

[Mitchell R Posted Nov 23rd 2009 5:47PM]

finally, i can watch :)

[Stereotype Posted Nov 23rd 2009 5:51PM]

I must say there are a few things I found that made this show the best so far.

Lighting: MUCH BETTER!
Appearance: Very classy Josh...better then those creepy pants...*shudders*

I haven't watched the rest of the show...but so far so good. :)

[MRCUR Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:43PM]

@Stereotype - Agreed. The lighting is 100% better this time. Loved the first half (see my comment below, the download isn't working for me correctly).

[losttime Posted Nov 24th 2009 3:27PM]

I agree. The lighting was so much better. It seemed like the heads of Paul and Chris were still in darkness at times . . . but overall, much better than it has been.

[Eleazar Posted Nov 23rd 2009 5:54PM]

I know wm6.5 has a lot of visual stuff to troll about but

Excel is not meant to be pretty

[One Love Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:00PM]

For the love of gadgets, let your guests finish speaking Josh.

[aRcane Posted Nov 23rd 2009 8:50PM]

@One Love
Read my freakin' mind.

[aRcane Posted Nov 23rd 2009 8:52PM]

@One Love
Exactly what i was going to post. Ream my freakin' mind.

[DirtyVegas Posted Nov 23rd 2009 9:15PM]

@One Love

I think Josh likes to hear himself talk, at the cost of everyone else.

[TheSeventhSon Posted Nov 24th 2009 4:59AM]

@One Love
Couldn't agree more.. Topolsky's narcissism tends to get in the way of his interviewing skills just a tad :) Let your guests finish ffs!

[epicka Posted Nov 24th 2009 8:24AM]

he wants his job :P

[wachtrij Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:04PM]

Love The Engadget Show. Josh, your way of presenting the show is just awesome. Keep it up, this is a winner.

[Username Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:10PM]

This is definitely the best one yet. It's obvious you guys did a lot of work making a great show. Josh, great job on the interview, especially getting him to bring those slides. Keep it up!

[Drago Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:15PM]

Ok so Steve Ballmer is not important enough for you to dress up, but this guy is?. On the other hand I love the show. I bet it's going to be very polished before you get Steve Jobs on the set.

[manifest3r Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:24PM]

@Drago: jizz before you know it

[Corpsed Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:00PM]

@Drago He'll never come on the show.

[Nerdtalker Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:16PM]

@Drago Gods don't talk to mere men, even Josh, even if he thinks he is/is a demigod.

It doesn't happen. Ask Anand of Anandtech (yes, that one) about talking to Apple. They don't do it.

[charliemikefoxtrot Posted Nov 24th 2009 5:55PM]

Ok, Steve Balmer is a raving f-ing lunatic why would he dress up? He could have come onstage in a tu-tu with a strapon on his forehead and Steve would not have even noticed... He's got all the crazy in a $3,500 suit that still looks like a bag of A$$ a room can handle.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:19PM]

I want a HD2 running Android on any carrier except Verizon.

[JXCGunrunna Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:07PM]

@(Unverified)
I want an HTC snapdragon android running on every carrier including Verizon

[ossger Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:22PM]

I'm kind of curious. As much as I would like to personally attend the engadget show, does anyone besides me find it not worth it to view the video.

[BigJayDogg3 Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:35PM]

@ossger: I wish they would have uploaded this earlier (or streamed it), but I still find it worth watching.

To each his own.

[Cameron Posted Nov 23rd 2009 9:18PM]

@ossger
I'm with you on that one. Committing a large chunk of time just to hear a rehash of the stuff I read about every day is too daunting. Maybe if they segmented the show by subject and put up several videos instead of just one.

[MRCUR Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:42PM]

Anyone else having issues downloading the HD version? When the download starts it says the file is 1.1GB, but the first time it only downloaded ~450MB of it, the second only ~125MB.

I'm using Firefox 3.5.5 on Snow Leopard. Any ideas?

[Sneakz Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:49PM]

@MRCUR Downloading HD for me isn't working either. A second attempt worked though its crazy slow. I simply canceled it after it was downloading at 60KB/s.

[Judd Sandage Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:55PM]

@MRCUR I too am having issues however I am using windows 7 not OSX but the version of firefox is the same.

[Swordrune10 Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:46PM]

@MRCUR i was downloading the regular version and i kept having problems with it 3 times on firefox in ubuntu, but now it seems fine

[MRCUR Posted Nov 23rd 2009 9:21PM]

I finally got it to start downloading and stay downloading using Firefox (3.5.5 again) on my T61 running Windows 7. Of course it still has another 2 hours or so to go, but I'm guessing it's worth it.

[aaronaut Posted Nov 23rd 2009 10:35PM]

@MRCUR i had issues with the download as well. once it did finally it crapped out at 11ish minutes and i had to go download the itunes version to view the rest of the show

[einhanderkiller Posted Nov 24th 2009 2:35AM]

@MRCUR Seems to be fixed. I'm downloading at 2.5 MB/s now.

[irmeli Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:46PM]

lovely pink eyeshadow josh!

[newjaruz Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:08PM]

@glenskey
yup that is exactly what I meant. Just to lazy to look for the correct spelling ... so no, not a new word. Haven't been in church for a while
lol

[cjcamilla Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:54PM]

I went to the last 2. Definitely going to the next one =]

[E W Posted Nov 23rd 2009 6:58PM]

Holy broken downloads Batman!

[JXCGunrunna Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:08PM]

Nice to see Chris on the show

[DJ Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:10PM]

I actually liked the lighting in the older episodes, this lighting is more professional, but bland.

Loving the HTC interview. I know Sense is their baby and blah, blah, blah but I would kill a man for Sense on the Droid.

[Darwin Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:10PM]

If this is the best one yet I'm glad I didn't see the other ones.

[Darwin Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:14PM]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that none of the Engadget "staff" have girlfriends.

[schmidt1985 Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:32PM]

@Nerdtalker

Sure lol

[hk1388 Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:15PM]

You guys should consider torrents as an alternative to download the HD version because 37.6 KB/s is not working for me...

[Oghowie Posted Nov 23rd 2009 7:17PM]

iPod download through the direct link and iTunes will start but not finish. Please fix.