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 NBS-Review EP15: The Fashion of Bags, Sound, Internets and Gaming. [42:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode Topics:

PS3 launch delay

Wii release + Wii jokes

PA versus Joystick

Zune

Apple iTunes 7, new Nano (Mino?) and Shuffles

PC-World says MySpace is the worlds worst internet site.

Manbags!

Semi-nude Flickr community!

Episode Notes:

H editing this week and doing it a new way: intro-music-straight into conversation. We’re trying it out to see how it is received by our lovely listeners.

Audio:

Powergramo, again failed to record. It saved, then crashed, then deleted the 800meg temp file as I reopened it. “What a delightfully designed program“, I was heard to remark as this happened. H’s backup recording in Hotrecorder was our saving grace, but it’s 24KHz medium-fidelity, not uberific 48KHz.

We’re a little late with the release we recorded the Saturday before last but we’ve all been real busy with the usual thing called life we have no choice but to partake in. If someone has a remote with a pause button relating to the general flow of time and the earth moving, please, send me an email indicating where I can get a hold of one.

The Wii WONT be region free, unlike stated, and boy am I an unhappy bunny. My pre-order on play.com is now £300 for 2 games, Wii and extra controller + nunchuck. In comparison my Xbox 360 premium with 5 games, vga lead and extra wireless controller was £260 second hand! Bah the expensive Wii, but I need Zelda in order to correctly function as a human.

Article on Wired about Sony:

Zune, now due to cost $229.

Big-up to our guest, Wil from Bit-tech for his time on a Saturday afternoon. Cheers bud

Will recommends Prison Break for $2 in 640×480. Gogogogo. Surfing CDs by cover art? and RSS season passes for series content?

Interesting MySpace read at ValleyWag.com

£430 expanding foam brain massaging headphones; “We can bung a link in later..” No we can’t we still haven’t found it. Sorry.

As soon as Wil mentioned nude chicks and tech I dropped everything and abandoned my audio responsibilities to look at female body parts. Apart from owning an ultra stylish manbag with my life in it, my need for pics of chicks bits is still high.
- Richard

Apologies for the delay, real life got in the way. Also Powergamo is worse program ever created.

It’s still a good listen even if it’s a tad dated, music is from Auto Assualt Soundtrack which is now free.

Both me and Richard do own man-bags, and yes I really do use it to protect my lunch.
-Hiren

Some wierd stuff people have searched for and get routed to our site, include:

Swearing problem - Brett, I imagine.

Amateures Spanish Feet - No clue and I don’t want to ask.

New hand baggage restricitions - Since we’re obviously the first place to discuss this

Reheating pie - Hiren to answer for.

knights of the old republic 1 - nude bastila mod, kotor nude bastila mod, bastila naked mod - Someone REALLY wanted to see some naked Jedi!

- Richard

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 NBS Review EP14: Long ago in a land of Chips, Disks and Moving Pictures [39:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode Topics:

Goodbye to the Pentium processor;

50 years of harddisk technology;

TV videogames shows, nbs-games-review? and the new Xbox 360 mod chip;

Episode Notes;

A short episode this week for you. One you listen to over breakfast, nipping to the shops or whilst on the John, perhaps. We aim for convenience to fill those otherwise quiet spots in your day.

If no one believes me that even the latest Core2’s are loosely based on the old Pentium Pro’s read the Wiki!

12:30: “Just increase the speed and add more stuff on to it”. Honestly, what the hell was I on about?? If you know where I was going with that or any of this episodes rants drop me an email or leave a comment because I clearly don’t have a clue what is up from down.

The first two episode topics are more of a reportive style rather than a discussion on an issue. In future we are looking to do more of the latter and hopefully get more ‘industry guests’ on.

Clearly we care little about not offending women by referring to you as “all just playing The Sims”, which is about as much as we care for factual accuracy. When you do something, don’t do it by halves. Brett also snuck in more PS3 talk into this episode despite H’s adamant stance that we’ve talked about consoles enough.

Noise other than ourselves this week is provided by the incredible Chris Kline with his Necronomicon for the intro and Final Fantasy II Prelude fantracks as end. You’ll have to Google for his work since I found these weeks ago and as usual I haven’t bookmarked the link to his work, to provide for you. For my inadequacies, I apologise.

- Richard