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We’re having a Chicago meetup this weekend. Details are at www.Carnivore.tv.
When: Sunday, July 27th
Where: Bluegrass Restaurant: 1636 Old Deerfield Road, Highland Park, Illinois
Phone: 847-831-0595
More Details: www.Carnivore.tv
I’ll be getting Beats Headphones in the mail soon to review. Early reviews look very good!
Ion’s USB VCR allows you to convert your old VHS and prepare the video for watching on portable devices.
If you have a Blackberry and you have playlists in iTunes, you can use the Media Sync application to sync changes to your playlists.
I can’t wait to see Microsoft Research’s Multi-touch Spherical Display. We’re being teased with small tidbits of information, and hope to see more at the Research Summit next week.
The Acrylic Cowboy PC Case lets you mount PC components so you can plug and unplug and test all the components you want.
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July 25th, 2008 at 5:19 am
The Beats Headphones (did anyone else think ‘the beets’ from Doug when they heard it…) looks ambitious. $350 for headphones is a lot of change, heh. And can you really drive them w/o an amp and have them sound as good as they say they are? I have some Sennheiser HD580’s… VERY comfortable… sound good, but I don’t have any “high end” equipment to really judge them.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hey Cali, while watching this brief straight from the website, I noticed that it cuts off immediately after you start the story about the Microsoft Spherical display. Is this an upload error or something else (possibly on my end)? Since your tweet twelve hours ago says that #399 is up, I’m assuming that the direct download links saying “upload in progress” is just an anomaly.
Cheers! (be careful driving to Chicago!)
Mark
July 25th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Hi Cali
Here in UK viamichelin is a very nice route planner – now available even for iphone.
I enjoy your show… also you looked great on CNET.
-Karthik
July 25th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
General question
Why are the Risk game groups on the monitor behind you?
I’m sure it’s been asked before.
Thanks for the show
July 25th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
as mswope mentioned there is a video cut-off down the line………..
would like a full screen plug-in to cream my 24 inch screen
keep up the good work..:))
missed the bloopers…….
July 25th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
hey I live in St. Louis MO. where where u in Missouri?
July 27th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
DOH! A broke brief…thats awful! I need my cali!
:(
July 27th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
@Linh (LOL) :D That was the first thing I thought about.
I’ve used the less expensive Sennheisers (starting with the 414x) since I was seventeen and found them to be very comfortable.
I’m currently listening to Aimee Mann – Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse on iTunes via a pair of Philips SHP 2500 headphones.
@Cali Audiophile quality sound for portable digital devices methinks is a neat idea, though a pricey one for the time being.
It’s a good bet that when more and more comparable products are introduced into the market, they’ll become more affordable.
You two have a safe trip back to Dallas. ^..^~
July 29th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Cali,
Please don’t support Monster Cable in any way. They make it common practice to bully small companies with “Monster” in their names, even if they are not related at all to home theater. Their products are tremendously overpriced, and they spend tat profit on lawyers, shutting down small, hardworking, business owners.
A quick search will reveal cases too numerous to list, but to get you started, here’s an excerpt from the shownotes of my podcast, The Real HT Info Podcast, episode 34
“Monster Cable, aka Goons and Bullies, beside making overpriced cables, can also lay down a heck of a frivolous lawsuit. Kurt from Blue Jean Cables spanked them hard (http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm), but their latest victims, Monster Mini Golf (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/26/monster-cable-at-it-again-sues-mini-golf-company/), may not be so lucky. Boycott Monster, get more for your Home Theater $$, and don’t support starving out the little guy.”
P.S. Check out Sennheiser, Grado, Beyerdynamic, and Ultrasone, among others, for headphones that will sound as good as the Monsters, at less cost to both your wallet and other business owners.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I understand what critics of Monster Cable are saying. Some of the points are valid. I agree that Monster goes too far in their efforts to protect their trademark, but I think they have a right to go too far. Absolutely Monster sells their cables for far more than it costs Monster to make them, but they have a right to do that as well. If people don’t want to pay the price of a Monster Cable, they don’t have to pay the price of a Monster Cable. Lots of people are willing to pay, though, and that’s what a free market is all about.
A bigger issue is when retailers do not stock reasonably priced alternatives. That’s what we should get upset about. When the lowest priced option in a store on any cable is $30, that’s a problem. It shouldn’t be a problem, though that a company wants to sell a cable for what ever price someone is willing to pay. That’s freedom.
I buy cables from Monster and I buy cables from Monoprice. I’ve had both good results and bad results from cables bought from both places. I have a Component Cable from Monster that drives me crazy because the plastic around the RCA plugs is too fat and the RCA plugs are much, much tighter than they need to be. I have an ethernet cable from Monoprice that is next to impossible to unplug without adding a screwdriver to the mix.
Monster Cables are well made and beautiful to look at. Lower priced cables may be well made too, but there certainly isn’t the same attention to detail. There are some Monster Cables that are almost works of art. Does that justify the price? Only if people are willing to pay it.
My friends in the music world absolutely love Monster Cable. My friends in the digital world almost universally hate Monster. If you don’t want a Monster Cable product, you don’t have to buy one, but I would hope we all stand for a free market where companies always have the right to manufacture high-end products.
The Beats by Dr. Dre are headphones designed to reproduce the same quality sound produced when music is played in a professional recording studio environment and they’re on the market at a price point that competes with Bose. I don’t think they can be compared to $100 HDMI cable because they are competitively priced for the target market and, to me, they sound better than our Bose Quiet Comforts and our AKG studio headphones.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I believe Scoble showed the spherical multitouch surface a while back in one of his fastcompany videos where he had a tour around Microsoft. This was months ago, but it still looks really cool! I believe this is the video: http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/the-innovations-microsoft%E2%80%99s-new-research-building
July 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Here is another link about the Microsoft Surface Sphere: http://gizmodo.com/5030603/hands-on-with-the-microsoft-surface-sphere-prototype
July 30th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Save yourself some money and get some nice Gradolab headphones. Plus you can at least say your headphones are not made by freaking Dr. Dre
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