The Screen Savers Reunited 191
HABITcky writes "Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and Robert Heron have gotten together and recorded their first podcast of The Return Of The Screen Savers (ROTSS) It's a 56kbps MP3Pro file weighing in at around 14MB. Join them for 34 minutes of Skyping fun as they discuss driving in the dust, cell phones, Kevin's new webcast, Systm, and the demise of TechTV. They plan to make this a weekly broadcast."
Ummmm... (Score:5, Informative)
In TFA it's called Revenge of the Screen Savers.
The Site (Score:3, Informative)
In those days the motto for The News with Brian Williams was "It's not your father's news program". Then before you knew it, MSNBC was too conservative to be your father's news channel.
Re:Cool, I've missed them (Score:5, Informative)
Soko
TheSite was even better than TSS (Score:3, Informative)
TheSite was one of the first shows on MSNBC when it first came on the air. Unlike the other shows on the network, it was produced by ZDTV (long before they had their own channel). It was more classy, more professional, and yet seemed more interesting than anything on ZDTV/TechTV/G4.
Too bad it was canceled 2.5 years later, before most people had even heard of MSNBC, let alone the show itself.
Torrent... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:TheSite was even better than TSS (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Who are these people... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I LOVED TSS (Score:2, Informative)
It's cutscenes, FMV, trailers, and whatever else from old games, new games, upcoming games, etc. Mostly cutscenes and intros. Not many trailers.
That's not to say any of it is actually GOOD, because damn little of it IS good. It's just that it's not merely trailers for upcoming games. Nitpicking.
Yes, Arena is the show where you watch other people play games. Arena is a microcosm of what's wrong with G4: anyone who plays video games or computer games would most likely prefer to PLAY the games themselves rather than watch SOMEBODY ELSE play the games.
If they have time or the desire to sit there and watch other people play, either they're too broke to buy games (great advertising demo: the poor and broke!) or they lost the TV remote and can't change the channel, OR they're stuck in a hospital bed with broken limbs and can't change the channel.
I deliberately configured my office so I cannot see the TV when I am working at my computer. I used to leave Tech TV on just as background noise all day long. Can't do that with G4 because it's too boring. Instead I tend to leave the Science channel (whoo! Slightly better than G4 anyway), NWI (bye), or my DVD player screensaver running.
Geeks talking about Tech - Intelligent Talk (Score:3, Informative)
Kat (Score:2, Informative)