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>> It's Tuesday, January 8th, 2008. I'm Molly Wood.

>> I'm Tom Merritt.

>> I'm Veronica Belmont.

>> Welcome to Buzz Out Loud.

>> And that's [inaudible]

>> CNET broadcast, indeterminate length for this episode 637. And no, you're not hearing things.

>> 637?

>> That, yeah.

>> Holy Moly.

>> You missed it.

>> You missed a lot.

>> Wow. That's awesome.

>> You are not hearing things. We are joined by Veronica Belmont today, but not only Veronica for those who cannot see us, we're also joined by Nate Langston of CNET UK.

>> I'm very happy to be here.

>> Very good.

>> It's a new state. It's all red. It was yellow.

>> It looks really good.

>> It's so much better cooler this year.

>> Hold on. Kelly, did you press record.

>> Oh, we're gonna have to start over. No, I'm pretty sure we're recording every minute of Buzz Out Loud today.

>> Oh, we are.

>> For real. We have a huge studio audience. Yay. Thank you guys for turning out, that's awesome.

>> All right. Nate, do you wanna plug your show on CNET UK before we jump into the news?

>> Before we start?

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. Well, we've got the Creative Podcast on Crave.CNET.UK/podcast and I do a show called Encoders about new music and new bands and all that kind of stuff on the UK version of CNET TV, which is CNETTV.CO.UK.

>> There's a whole difference to CNETTV.

>> I actually can pretend to look hip every once in a while when I hear about something on a show, then I download.

>> Oh yeah.

>> I know all about klanguage.

>> Get all that.

>> Well, Nate is also a little bit of a sweetheart story for CNET, because he was, last year, a blogger, what did we call that? A backstage pass blogger.

>> A backstage pass winner.

>> A winner, and so he won a trip to Vegas to kind of participate in the CNET thing for CES and then ended up getting hired. They freakin' hired him.

>> And now here he is. Totally legit.

>> And we had to get rid of Belmont to make room for him.

>> And then Belmont, yeah, she just wonders in whenever she feels like it.

>> You can plug your show at the end.

>> Okay.

>> All right. To the news. Shall we?

>> Yes. Paramount dropping HD DVD was the big headline this morning according to the financial times. Then Paramount heard about it and said no, no, not currently was the quote. Paramount's current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format until at least next. No, I just added that last in.

>> Because Toshiba can't take any more hits this week. That's just not nice.

>> Yeah. Oh, their press conference was very upsetting.

>> So heartbreaking.

>> It kind of broke my heart. They were very upset about it. They were like, what can we say? You know, this happened. We're just gonna keep moving forward, keep doing the HD DVD thing. We think our product's the best and that's all there is to it.

>> Awww.

>> Now I'm gonna go cry in a corner.

>> I just wanna give them a little hug. Poor little puppies.

>> I know.

>> Where can you send flowers?

>> Anyway, we'll be watching for reports next week that Paramount will indeed drop HD DVD, but they're just saying they're not gonna do it right this second.

>> It's them and Universal now. The last [inaudible] of HD DVD.

>> Well, and you gotta wonder, like how long can they hold out?

>> Not too long, I'm guessing.

>> They're pinned down. They're under fire. They're gonna have to surrender.

>> Blue Ray lobbed the grenade in of the first Blue Ray player to cost less than a PS3, a 350 dollar Phillips BDP7200.

>> Set two in the rising are planned lower the price.

>> That's right. As we call it.

>> Blue Ray players.

>> Not low enough though, right?

>> Not low enough yet, but it's a crack in the wall.

>> I mean, 50 dollars less than a PS3? 50 dollars more and you get all of that added functionality. It's too close, still.

>> That's totally, 350, yeah, 350 for a DVD player, no matter how pretty, is very unpalatable.

>> Well, they're definitely saying it's gonna be sub 200 models coming out sometimes in the very near future.

>> I thought I heard that, too.

>> So once they get to that point, I mean there's really no contest.

>> Yeah. I thought that we might see that, see some kind of surprise, but 350 dollars is as low as it's gone.

>> You know if this comes out in the UK, it'll still only cost like the same amount as a small car.

>> Totally worth it though, right?

>> So true.

>> Well, maybe.

>> Nah.

>> Just come here and buy one.

>> Yeah. Maybe.

>> And then just cart them back.

>> His carryon bag is gonna be stuffed full of gadgets. Like trying to take it through customs, like I don't know.

>> What are you talking about?

>> Can you get Wii here?

>> No.

>> Not anymore.

>> Only bundles. Although a bundle is cheap to you, so you might as well.

>> True. True. Make a good present.

>> Just put a little more money down at the tables.

>> So the [inaudible] are hard to get in the UK? They're that impossible to get there, too?

>> Yeah. It's, gold dust are actually easier to get than a Wii.

>> Really?

>> Yeah. Wii's.

>> Gold dust in the streets there?

>> Have you been [inaudible].

>> See, America, America should just change our currency to Wii's. It would be worth way more money that way.

>> That is so true.

>> The American Wii. Right?

>> The American Wii. The Wii is strong. [ Laughter ]

>> I think we should lobby the presidential candidates in New Hampshire today. Are you in favor of the Wii standard?

>> There you go.

>> Of course, our CES coverage at CES.CNET.com. There's more [inaudible] than we can possibly talk about in one day. There's a video with R2D2 on it up there right now. All kinds of blog postings. So go check that out. If you wanna relive all the best of CES throughout the week. Apple made a CES timed announcement today.

>> How convenient.

>> Aren't they clever?

>> Before the start of Mac World. They released an update to the high end Mac Pro Desktop and a new server. The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel's new 45 nanometer quad core Zion 5400 processors. And that's why they made the announcement. Because Intel announced those processors, so I think they felt like we have to say, hey, we've got those in our boxes.

>> Yeah.

>> And it starts at 2800 bucks.

>> It starts.

>> Youch.

>> Wow.

>> You could pay more.

>> That's like a real.

>> But they're not, yeah, they're saying like this is.

>> Hardcore model.

>> This is the machine in the drool-o-rama.

>> You got that again.

>> Like it is. Absolutely.

>> This isn't just your home, the iMac is for your home desktop.

>> Yeah.

>> This is like I need to do some serious video editing. My wife is weeping right now, actually.

>> I have to say.

>> Didn't she just buy a Mac Pro?

>> Yeah, sorry Ilene. Yeah.

>> Awww.

>> And he has this really sweet picture of her like hugging her new Mac Pro like just so, like learning over the box and loving it. And now it's all he's gonna show us. And now it's all over. It looks so sad.

>> There it is. Look at that. Can you see it?

>> You broke her little heart. Thanks a lot, Apple.

>> As usual.

>> Big jerks.

>> Breaking the hearts of people all over the world.

>> I have to admit, I've been going into the [inaudible] and eyeballing that HP, the Blackbird 002 gaming machine.

>> Yeah, the gaming. The gaming, yeah.

>> That thing is just, it is beautiful. I kinda can't take my eyes off of it. It's so pretty.

>> You can't take, you can stop.

>> It's pricey, too, though.

>> Going and, you know.

>> Yeah.

>> It's up there.

>> Yeah. Oh, it's easily a four or five thousand dollar PC, right?

>> Yeah. I think.

>> Yeah.

>> If you get that and then pair it up with the Alienware curve, the monitor, the curved monitor that's the equivalent of two 24 inch monitors put together.

>> It's like an iMac screen on your desktop.

>> You would never leave your freaking room.

>> You wouldn't need to. You'd have the whole world.

>> I mean, I don't anyway, but I'm just saying.

>> Does it have, make you a little motion sick, the Curve? Do you get that like iMac sort of dizziness? Like okay, too many, too much screen play.

>> Vertigo.

>> You could just live in a virtual world.

>> We already do, dude.

>> That's true.

>> Pay attention.

>> Comcast had their keynote address this morning and made a bunch of announcements. One of my favorites was fancast.com, which I was really skeptical about.

>> Yeah.

>> I was like oh, they're gonna have a video portal, who cares?

>> Tom told me about it. I was like, is it TV guide? No. Is it TV.com? No. I was skeptical, too. But I think maybe I'm with them.

>> It's IMDB, Hooloo, Blockbuster, Netflix, a TV guide and the ability to program your Tivo DVR all from one site.

>> It's really impressive that they got Blockbuster and Netflix on the same ticket.

>> Yeah.

>> That's pretty insane.

>> And what you do is you go in and you can search for a show, and it says okay, you can put in your zip code, right, and it says do you wanna watch it on TV, and if you wanna program it on your DVR, or would you rather watch it on one of these services, or you can download it from Amazon unboxed. It's like how do you wanna watch it? Here it is. And it's just taking all of those different ways of watching the video that we've been scrambling around trying to choose and putting them in one, easy to use, kind of web tool glorified interface. Pretty smart.

>> That's their plan, right? Like it sounds to me like not all of those deals are signed right now. It's sort of part of their, they're calling it project infinity, which is trying to get all of those deals signed. It sounds like right now.

>> All the ones that I mentioned are listed on, if you go to fancast.com right now.

>> As partners?

>> Netflix, Amazon, Blockbuster, Fandango, iTunes, all have icons.

>> Oh, project infinity is a content initiative. An attempt to bring, now this, this is actually in my wish list [inaudible] device, the one box that can do it all. It's their attempt to bring every piece of content to the set top box.

>> Yeah. So in other words, fancast is just on the web, but they wanna take fancast and put it on your box. And that's project infinity.

>> Well they have, they have the new hardware box. It's a Panasonic.

>> Project infinity is a little over dramatic.

>> Because they had the new DVR and the new DVR slash DVD player.

>> Like the portable DVR, the one you can take with you, which has the true two way.

>> True two way, yeah.

>> Which is the open cable standard.

>> TRU.

>> It's kind of the next generation of cable card. It's cable abs way of making things interoperable between different cable systems.

>> Their way. Not the cable card way.

>> Well, but it's cable labs. Cable labs make cable card. This is the new way. Although it is just cable companies.

>> Without that TRU two way kind of ability then, isn't the portable DVR just kind of like another box that you have to carry around and play DVD's on? Like why wouldn't you just rip your DVD to your Zune or your iPod and?

>> Yeah. Good question.

>> I've never really gotten that.

>> I've never really gotten into the whole portable DVD player thing. It's really popular though with people with kids, I think, because they can take it with them and watch it at the airport or.

>> I actually, this is kind of horrible, but some people had a restaurant and they had a portable DVD player and their kid was in the high chair and they were like eating sushi.

>> Here kid, watch this.

>> That's a good idea. Horrible. It's horrible. Such bad parenting.

>> What an excellent horrible idea.

>> To do that.

>> Two years from now, Molly, you'll be that girl.

>> I know. I'll have the TV in the minivan. I'll be like I'm doing it. I don't care.

>> A somewhat softer announcement. Comcast said they're gonna have four minute HD movie download service by the end of the 08.

>> Four minutes?

>> Four minute.

>> So that's four minutes for the download?

>> Four minute movie.

>> Four minute downloads of HD content.

>> It would take, like a movie could download in four minutes. But a smart question.

>> Yeah. It's part of project infinity.

>> Yeah. It's part of project infinity. It's Doxus 3.0, so to be using four channels to really suck down the bandwidth. 100 megabits per second, I think. This is one that strikes me a lot like the Tivo integration announcement where they say we'll roll it out in small areas first. So small you can't find them in some ways.

>> Yeah. Exactly. And then three years later some body has it. Although, again, it's sort of like what we were talking about yesterday, if they get it out the door and they're doing it right, then again with the format war, what's the point?

>> Exactly. That's what I've been saying. Are we, you've all been saying all along. Is this gonna go straight to HD downloads instead of like hard media. Why do we even need to deal with discs at this point when speeds are going so fast and downloads are faster and everything's available that way, why bother? I really like that a lot of TVs now you just have to stick an Ethernet cable into it. You don't even have to deal with a set top box.

>> Yeah.

>> Like that's really gonna be the wave of the future. Like maybe even hard drives built right into the TVs so you download your HD movie, watch it that way, and move on.

>> That's probably the way that HP i

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