Engadget Podcast 090 - 10.03.2006

Another busy couple of weeks for gadget news in Engadget land: Zune came out swinging with price and release dates, Microsoft launched a lawsuit against Viodentia and whomever else is behind FairUse4WM -- Viodentia responded with a new version of the app -- DVD Jon got back in the mix on FairPlay DRM (but not how you'd think), Mobile ESPN folded, HP bought VoodooPC, batteries were being recalled left and right by Sony, and (almost done!) they also managed to loose the Reader and the SE / Fossil Bluetooth watch upon us. What fun. We've got all the usual commentary, jocular fooling around, and other such banter on Podcast 90!

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Hosts: Peter Rojas and Ryan Block

Producer: Trent Wolbe

Music: Solvent - Instructograph (Ghostly International)

Program:
00:35 - Zune price and date: $249, November 14th
04:05 - Zune wireless: worthless (for now)
08:27 - Microsoft sues Viodentia for copyright infringement
10:45 - DVD Jon's is back to once again make FairPlay fair
14:53 - Slingbox PRO, Slingbox AV, and Slingbox Tuner get official
20:55 - HP buying VoodooPC
23:48 - MobileESPN, R.I.P: 2005 - 2006
29:17 - Sony Ericsson and Fossil team up for Bluetooth watch
32:30 - Sony to begin global "battery replacement" program
32:58 - Over 500,000 IBM / Lenovo laptop batteries subject to recall
33:40 - Upcoming Sony recall could expand to non-laptop gadgets
37:00 - Sony Reader PRS-500 gets launch date, price
44:35 - Boston: thanks for coming to the meetup!
46:54 - Welcome to EngadgetHD!
47:22 - Engadget done right for your cellphone!

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[ipodman715 @ Oct 3rd 2006 5:47PM]

Thanks for posting this!

[JNGold @ Oct 3rd 2006 7:21PM]

Itunes now gives me the m4a version of your podcast. I still want the mp3 version. What gives? I tried unsubscribing and re-subscribing. No dice. Itunes used to give the mp3 version.

[Spanky @ Oct 3rd 2006 11:48PM]

Ditto!

What happened to the .MP3 feed. All I'm getting on the http://podcasts.engadget.com/rss.xml feed are .m4a! No workie on my PSP!

[Greg Mardon @ Oct 3rd 2006 10:02PM]

THANK YOU FOR AAC! Way to go!

What is going on with the reader phone calls for the podcast. Are you guys not doing that anymore?

[Russ @ Oct 4th 2006 11:20PM]

so DVD Jon is going to sell people the format he broke? will his tools break the files that come out of his ITMS-clone?

[Carlos @ Oct 5th 2006 4:47PM]

Engadget folk: You're on the featured banner on the iTunes podcast page. Nice.

[cw @ Oct 5th 2006 6:35PM]

The mp3 file plays at 2x speed on my player. And, it's the previous week's podcast. The ogg file is the previous week's podcast. What gives does anybody do a test download and play?

[Trent Wolbe @ Oct 5th 2006 7:44PM]

CW, just re-checked those files and everything seems to be up and running fine for me...are you talking about the links at bottom, or the feed? Anyone else having similar problems?

Thanks, sorry it's screwy for ya -
Trent

[cw @ Oct 6th 2006 5:56PM]

I'm talking about the links to download the files (ogg and mp3) as opposed to the RSS feeds. I right click to download it and save it to my desktop (using Firefox on a mac and pc), then drag it to an SD card and listen to it on my Palm.