Here we are at the big 2-Oh! It seems like just last week we were in our teens. Ah...good times.

So, this week we discuss:

• Blu-Ray Backed by Netflix and Porn
• Avoid Intelliflix.com
• LeiasMetalBikini.com
• Warez Bust in Europe
• Google Video Sucks
• Microsoft still profitable
• $6000 to boot Windows on Intel Macs, Red Hat gets you nothing Free
• Sing it with me: Humuhumunukunukuapuaa, That's Our (almost) State Fish
• Netgear Storage Central
• DOA4 review
  
• Viewer Mail? No, but we do have Listener Mail!!

This week's show is just chocked full of news, news and more news, a quick product review or two and, of course, a movie review. So... pretty much like every other show.

Right then. Here's the breakdown:

• Disney is in talks to buy Pixar, which would make Steve Jobs a Disney board member
• Imation is acquiring Memorex and will probably be merging their two catalogs of products
• A new, if not somewhat questionable, study out that states that using cell phones does NOT cause tumors
• There's a new world's record for solving the Rubik's Cube - you can sleep easy now, Penny
• Konica Minolta announced their not just quitting film cameras, they're quitting cameras all together!
• Gmail FINALLY has a "delete" button, now I can trash 1.5 GB worth of old email!
• Nintendo Revolution, due out Thanksgiving, to sell for $300... or will it?
• Digital music sales are expected to triple this year, coming in around $1.1 billion
• Sethran bought Sony's Location Free Pack, but hasn't taken it out of the box
• I talk about my new camera lens, the Sigma "Bigma" 50-500mm Telephoto Zoom lens
  
• We review Jet Li's Unleashed DVD and collectively decided that it's, uh, okay
  
• A bonus tech tip from Sethran - you can use a regular camcorder a/v cable to connect your 5G iPod to your television
  
  
  

Mmmm... Stew!

A dozen and a half episodes knocked out. Whee! This week we're experimenting again... using Apple's iChat and the latest release of Garageband - aptly named Garageband 3. It's killer for podcasting now!

So this week we're live via web chat. You'll probably notice that the audio quality is slightly less than what we typically spew out. Still, we discuss the following:

• The last week of 2005 broke the records for music downloads... someone call Guinness!
• Steven Spielberg's BAFTA SNAFU - who knew England wasn't DVD Region 1, anybody?!?
• Levi's iPod Jeans, @ $200 per pair, these babies probably WON'T be turned into Daisy Dukes
• Nikon is discontinuing their film cameras, unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool pro
• Microsoft quietly killed their support for Windows Media Player in the Macintosh world
• Xbox 360 only supports HD-DVD, unless Blu-Ray is better
• My new Akai 20" LCD TV/DVD Combo, hung nicely on my bedroom wall
• Our movie this week is Crash, available at your local rental shop
  

We'll see about recording live, in person, again next week... unless one of us is feeling lazy again.

I'm a scientist. No.

We're back! Off for almost a complete month, can you believe it? So what do we have to talk about for this first episode of 2006, you ask? Well, we're a couple of Chatty Cathys, so... a lot! Our longest episode yet in fact, coming in at thirty-three minutes. Here's the breakdown:

• Toshiba's HD-DVD stand-alone player and the Xbox 360 add-on HD-DVD player
• The upcoming MacWorld with possible announcements regarding possible upgrades to the .mac accounts and an early launch for the new Intel Macs?
• Philips' Entertaible
  
• Google announces they will be peddling videos
• Target's new lawsuit involving a litigious customer, a digital memory card and home porn
• James McAlla, email spammer supreme, gets his comeuppance
• Sethran's review of the Sony PSP (pronounced pssp)
• And our review of the movie The Wedding Crashers, now available on DVD
  

Hopefully you've got a half hour to kill and feel like listening to us to do so. And don't forget to use the comments section of this entry to post your holiday stories. We're curious to see if any one out there hates Christmas more than Seth.

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