Played - Episode 8
Published by Mark October 16th, 2006 in Main Page.
EPIC PODCAST! EPICAST! HA! Since we were delayed in getting a podcast recorded last week, we decided to combind the two so strap yourself in! 
Also, we’re now using M4A as our primary distrobution format. This means that you will now be able to see the chapters and pictures in iTunes and your iPod.
In Episode 8 we talk about Activision’s recent game releases on Valve’s digital distrobution service “Steam”, Capcom’s recent decision to desolve Clover Studios (Okami, God Hand, Viewtiful Joe), Judge Ronald Friedman of the Third District Court of Appeals watched a representative from “Bully” publisher Take Two Interactive and its subsidiary Rockstar play through the game’s schoolyard settings to determine if it’s suitable for release under its current ESRB rating of “T for Teen”, also according to the study by Los Angeles based Interpret -8.9 million U.S consumers are willing to purchase a Playstation 3 and only 800,000 are willing to purchase an Xbox 360….hrm, and will the news group Reuters to start appearing in the MMO “Second Life”?
Elizabeth’s always enjoyable gadgetry (wait till you hear this one) is back again. Also, we announce the winners of our 2Kgames contest and read their rants on the air for everyone to enjoy, We read some viewer mail to answer some questions you guys had for us, and (of course) what we’re currently playing, and much much more!
Per listeners request we’ll be linking any applicable links discussed in the podcast here:
Elizabeth’s Gadget of the Week
Played - Episode 8 [119:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (675)
Played - Episode 8 [119:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (622)
I am aware of the issue with playing the MP3 via the flash player on the main page (making us sound like chipmunks which some people might think is an improvement :P). I know how to fix that but it’s going to have to wait a few more hours until I get home.
As far as the M4A goes -I tried to make this our primary format for the RSS feed -but it looks like iTunes freaked out and wouldnt download the file correctly. I’m still scratching my head on this one. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why it’s doing this? I’ll probably post in the Podpress forum to see if anyone knows whats going on there.
Anyway, it’s back to the MP3 format for iTunes uers until we can get this fixed. I still plan on working on lowering the bit rate as long was I can get it to sound of good quality.
Hope everyone is enjoying this weeks Megacast.
Ok, the MP3 “chipmunk” issue has been fixed by changing the rate to 22.050 khz. I’ve also reduced the bit rate and the MP3 size is now down to 34MB. A big improvement over the 81MB that it use to be.
La La La chatting with myself!