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Q Gary from Sunnyvale, CA - No sound out of HD-DVD player/PC not working right with new ECS motherboard

• Video receiver cannot decode Dolby TrueHD
  • Only can support Dolby Digital
• Should have a choice in HD-DVD settings to switch to Dolby Digital
• Not using actual ECS drivers, but the Intel chipset
  • Should be the same
• Try downloading some drivers from ECS’ site

Steve Gibson - Paypal Security Key

• Paypal will send you an oval-shaped dongle
• Gives you a different security key when you turn it on
  • Changes every 30 seconds
  • Logs you into the account
• Added layer of security

Q Matt from Ottawa, Canada - Booting Windows Vista from a USB drive

• Macs should be able to boot from USB or Firewire
• On a Mac, you need to slowly train it to use column view

Q Chris from Denver, CO - Backing up 3 machines/Security at hotels

Q Chris from Denver, CO - Backing up 3 machines/Security at hotels

• An external drive is a great way to keep backed up
• But something called off-site backup is integral as well
  • If you have a fire or something at home, your external drive would be fried
• Windows Backup Utility isn’t that great
  • Puts all info in a huge ball of data
• Image backup
  • Creates a full and complete “image” state of the drive
    • bit-for-bit copy of the hard disk
• Simply use SSL
• Can use a VPN if you want
  • Like VforVPN or HotSpotVPN

Q Chris from Denver, CO - Backing up 3 machines

• An external drive is a great way to keep backed up
• But something called off-site backup is integral as well
  • If you have a fire or something at home, your external drive would be fried
• Windows Backup Utility isn’t that great
  • Puts all info in a huge ball of data

Dick DeBartolo - Cubicaller

• Basically a doorbell for your cubicle
• Has several funny ringtones
  • Take a listen
• Prevent people from sneaking up on you
• Silly gag gift

Q Scott - Can’t transfer subdirectory files to Vista machine

• Using Apple Airport Express
• Need to have the latest version of Samba installed for it to work well
• New Airport Extreme update just released
• Take a look at this article regarding getting Vista and Samba to work nicely together
• There is also a thread on the Apple forums regarding the issue

Q Warren from Madison, WI - Connecting MacBook to monitor

• Need to buy a mini-DVI to VGA dongle
• Should probably get a monitor that can accept analog inputs
  • Like the Dell panels
• For laptop security, look at the Targus DEFCON locks

Q Darell from Van Nuys, CA - Bass from subwoofer is transmitting to people downstairs

• Need to get subwoofer off of ground or find way to insulate it
• Professionals make insulation products
  • Such as Dynamat
  • Auralex makes an isolation platform for $59

• CSS Zen Garden is a site to show you how the database and design is separated

Q Peter from Buffalo, NY - Mac alternative for Frontpage

• May have to redesign
• Won’t be able to use Frontpage extensions
• Adobe’s Dreamweaver is a great tool to create static pages
  • Very powerful
• Most people create dynamic sites using content management systems
  • Wordpress is a great tool for that
• Leo uses Drupal for TWiT.TV

Scott Wilkinson

Q Scott Wilkinson

• For HD movie discs
• Blu-Ray uses uncompressed PCM audio
  • Same as what would come off of a CD
• Question is, if it’s compressed well, will you hear the difference
• MP3s have severe compression
• 2 basic forms of compression
  • Lossy
    • taking away bits that are considered not to be heard by the human ear easily
  • Lossless
    • Similar to zip files
    • Can save you about a factor of 2
• DTS high resolution is lossy, but sounds great still
• DTS HD Master Audio is lossless
• Dolby TrueHD is also lossless
• Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus are lossless
• Movie studio is in charge of deciding what audio codec is available
  • For Blu-Ray camp
• HD-DVD requires for all new codecs to be supported
• Most Blu-Ray players can’t even support all these new codecs

Q 1080p content - worth it?/Vizio TVs

• Both are always progressive
• Old TVs were always interlaced
  • Not enough bandwidth in the past
  • Every other line being drawn up every 1/60 second
• When talking about 1080i or 1080p, you are talking about input/output
• Only a few 1080p sources
• Broadcast TV is either 720p or 1080i
• Hard to see difference between 1080p and 1080i sources
  • In theory 1080p should look better
    • But only if you look very closely
• Vizio does actually make very good TVs
• Excellent quality
• Best selling LCD and Plasma are both best sellers
• All HDTVs look great with HD content
• Need to see how HDTVs deal with standard definition content
  • Vizios do a great job with that

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Apple was showing off the Panasonic HDC-SD5 HD camcorder. This camcorder uses a new AVCHD format to record straight to flash cards, it has 3 CCD ships with 10x optical image stabilization to prevent blurriness and shaking. It will record 1080p video at 4gb per hour.

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Leo’s entire podcast network was put into jeopardy when Skype experienced an outage for one and a half days. The outage was blamed on a, “deficiency in an algorithm.”

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Scott Wilkinson

DTS HD Audio and Dolby TrueHD

Saturday 18 August 2007

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