Roger Chang's still in for Robert Heron, who promises he's coming back to work someday. When his eyeball no longer makes the Doctor go "Oh... my... that's... uh... improving nicely!" (Just kidding, Rob!)
• The viewer pic o' the week comes from John, who is -extremely- tall, and has quite the aesthetically pleasing computer room. Threre's mood lighting! Not to mention a -lot- of monitors! Thanks for sharing, John!
• Blu-ray and HD DVD playback in one box: LG's BH100 ($800-$1200), aka the "Super Multi Blue Player" is the only act in town. Full review next week, today we show off the menus you get on the HD DVD side of things. They're not quite right.
• Come May, LG should release the GGW-H10N, a combination Blu-ray disc burner/reader, and HD DVD read-only drive that will cost about the same price as the BH100, $1200.
• Speaking of next gen DVD content, Toshiba is releasing a $400 external HD DVD drive, and DL.TV viewers have spotted Toshiba's HD-D1 HD DVD players at Walmart for less than that. (Matter of fact, HP's external HD DVD drive is already for sale at Walmart for $420.)
• Oh.... And the Blu-ray disc association says Blu-ray will replace DVD (and bury HD DVD in three years!
• Will HighDef change the way we see news? Can emerging media be exploited for evil? Dan Rather takes a few minutes to talk to us on how new tech impacts mass media, and how the rules of good reporting shouldn't change much if you're a blogger, or on a big network.
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It's a different kind of video game: Cooking Mama: Cook Off! for the Nintendo Wii. 1UP's Jeremy Parish
• John's got something to say that involves Dan Rather and, uh, fracking... not to worry, John, there's still lots of tech in the show.
• NJ law says you can't toss CF lightbulbs in the trash. Good thing: they contain mercury. Don't want to drive? Glenn, time to fire up your inner activist and get somebody in your town to collect 'em so you don't have waste gas yourself.
• Regarding Roger's lack of pants on the show (See episode 146...) Matt and Brian write in. "Hell yeah!!!: says Brian. Matt concurs. It would appear that Nude Computing is on the rise. Again.
NEWS
• Apple Tries to Plug Holes in Mac OS X Security . We missed this one on the show, but if you're an OS X user, it's time to update.
• Stephen Hawking Says Universe Just Happened... Came from Nowhere. Kind of like my cat, Bandit. Except she never blows up into a universe. Probably a good thing.
• USPTO Suggests File Sharing Threat to Parents and Country. Thought: if you work with secret documents at the office, don't install P2P software.
• Casino Royale on Blu-ray cracks Top 10 at Amazon. The standard def DVD version is number one. Maybe the Blu-ray crew -is- picking up speed.
• 802.11n Crawls Towards Final Spec. It's almost here. Really. Quit laughing Roger, there's only one more draft!
• Aussie Firm: We can print Organic Microchips. Cool. We need to see that!
• Brit Researchers Building Light Based PC.
• 2007 Star Wars Fan Film Challenge is brought to you by Netflix, Lucasfilm and AtomFilms.
• 30% off of all Dummies guides at Borders till April 9th... Great. Roger's laughing again.
• Next Tuesday: Cool tools for your cell phone. And Twitter. And... possibly... the return of Robert.
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