Engadget HD Podcast 297 - 05.01.2012

This week's podcast runs a little longer than normal, but only because we've got so much to discuss. From Ben's review to the new Dish Hopper whole-home DVR to the latest Windows Media Center news from Ceton. There's a little bit of everything also, from talk of high-framerate 3D to Dolby's new Atmos surround sound setups, and even a juicy rumor about where TWC TV will touch down next. Just in case that's not enough, we pause to consider a future full of 145-inch 8K plasma TVs. Press play and come dream along with us.

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Hosts: Ben Drawbaugh (@bjdraw), Richard Lawler (@rjcc)

Producer: Trent Wolbe

00:18:00 - Dish Hopper whole-home DVR review
00:37:30 - Ceton's Media Center mobile apps are for all, app and Echo extender beta signups open now
00:45:15 - Peter Jackson unfazed by 'Hobbit' footage pushback, but will stick to 24 fps for trailers
00:59:00 - Dolby's Atmos technology gives new meaning to surround sound, death from above
01:01:25 - Time Warner Cable is preparing for TWC TV IPTV streaming on Roku boxes
01:03:43 - Reuters: Apple in talks to stream films owned by Epix, no deal expected before September
01:04:50 - DirecTV Everywhere brings streaming movies, TV shows to Android right now, iPhone keeps waiting
01:07:13 - Panasonic teams up with NHK on 145-inch 8K Super Hi-Vision plasma TV
01:10:30 - Samsung's Q1 2012 profits nearly double year-over-year on higher margins for TVs and phones
01:11:00 - LG's Q1 2012 earnings show greater profits on strong TV, phone sales
01:12:43 - Sky considering launching Sky Sports 3D, one channel too small for three dimensions
01:13:50 - Star Trek: The Next Generation Season One Blu-ray beams down July 24th
01:17:50 - Must See HDTV (April 30th - May 6th)

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German court grants Motorola injunction against Windows 7 and Xbox 360 (updated: Microsoft comments)

Microsoft and Motorola continue to duke it out in courts across the world, and it looks like the Google-owned manufacturer has just chalked up a victory in Europe. Based on a pair of patents involved the H.264 video codec, the Mannheim regional court ruled on four lawsuits between the two companies, granting an injunction against the continued distribution of Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and the Xbox 360 in Germany. Microsoft has already upped sticks from the country to reduce the effect of its current legal predicament. FOSS Patents reports that Motorola won't be able to immediately enforce the ruling. The company is still being investigated by the EU over possible antitrust violations related to licensing its patents -- something that could further complicate today's ruling.

Update: Microsoft's just got in touch to comment on the recent ruling -- it doesn't look like it's over just yet:

"This is one step in a long process, and we are confident that Motorola will eventually be held to its promise to make its standard essential patents available on fair and reasonable terms for the benefit of consumers who enjoy video on the web. Motorola is prohibited from acting on today's decision, and our business in Germany will continue as usual while we appeal this decision and pursue the fundamental issue of Motorola's broken promise. "

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Video: Type II diabetes on the rise among children

>>> there's a new stud ay out on the toll type two diabetes is taking on young people in the country. it turns out it progresses more rapidly and is more difficult to control in young patients than in older ones. we get our report tonight from our chief medical editor, dr. nancy snyderman .

>> health experts have been aware for some time that type two diabetes is on the rise for young people , but today's study also claims that children respond much less effective lly than adults to all kinds of treatments.

>> the take-home message is it's better to prevent diabetes in children and adolescents because it's very difficult to treat.

>> of the nearly 700 people between the ages of 10 and 15 tracked in the study, patients taking a single diabetes drug failed to control their diabetes more than half of the time. the same drug plus changed in diet failed as often. even two medications failed for 4 in 10 childrens. whilium legare is a 12-year-old who is trying to control his type two diabetes since he was just 14 years old.

>> i know that my health comes first, so i'm actually watching everything i eat.

>> what's up.

>> the key is a healthier lifestyle before one is overweight, before one has type two diabetes .

>> today's study is frankly depressing, and although it helps some doctors figure out better approaches to helping children with type two diabetes , the bottom line is that it is easier to prevent this than to treat it and all of the problems that come with it, brian, heart disease , stroke, cancer, you name it, this is a sobering report.

>> so many other societal issues wrapped up in there.

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Screens, Networks and Our Imagination

JODI, "LED Puzzled" (all photos by Cary Peppermint unless otherwise noted)

When I visited JODI?s current exhibition,?Street Digital, at the Museum of the Moving Image, I wondered how the notorious duo would take their earlier net art practices into the ?street? (or gallery). Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans of JODI became well-known in the 1990s for upending traditional internet experiences with their online artworks. From wwwwwwwww.jodi.org to http://404.jodi.org/, they presented abstract code and programming glitches as art, bringing the background source of digital works into the foreground. Their work looked more like a crash of your web-browsing program rather than a coherent, readable text.

?Untitled Game? is the work in Street Digital that best represents JODI?s 1990s aesthetic. It captures code dysfunctions in the video game Quake and recombines them to create a visual and sonic field of explosions, mechanical gasps and falling patterns. Within four scrims, the player is presented with joysticks to interact with the nonsensical bursts of sound and light. The experience is uncanny: You are literally immersed in the ?game.? You are part and parcel of an attractive glitch.

JODI, still from "GEO GOO" (click to enlarge)

?GEO GOO,? a 2008 net art work exhibited on three screens, scrambles Google Maps so that the familiar images we?re used to seeing become abstract, rendering any sense of direction useless. As with ?Untitled Game,? ?GEO GOO? disassembles, dissects and rearranges individual parts of a new media experience. I was struck by how well the work illustrated what I try to teach my undergraduate students every semester: that we navigate space surrounded by the arbitrary colors, animations and shapes designed by a single corporate entity, that our grasp of the world is anchored by someone else?s construction.

JODI?s disruption of mapping and video games reminded me of Situationist artist Guy Debord?s calls for a ?renovated cartography.? For Debord, when we blindly follow the same directions over and over, using the easiest paths, we get stuck relating to the world in ?functional? ways and imagination withers. Debord wanted people to use the wrong map in the wrong place ? to get lost in order that we might see our surroundings anew. Similarly, JODI strips away the usual instrumental goals of our engagements with digital media ? to win a game, to communicate information, to navigate quickly. What we are left with is a bare awareness of the random components of our digital lives and a glimpse at the other possibilities for technology.

JODI, still from "YTCY (Folksomy)"

In ?YTCT (Folksomy),? JODI edits and manipulates a series of YouTube videos of people violating technology, exhibiting them in a quadrant display. Kids and adults stab glowing desktop screens, throw laptops against houses, ax them into pieces and set once-valuable software and hardware on fire. Males are responsible for most of the destruction, sometimes even beating each other with keyboards. It?s interesting to note that when females do appear, they tend to violate their machines by dominating them in sexually suggestive ways. One woman lifts her skirt and sits on top of her computer. Another steps on her cell phone gently with gold high-heeled sandals and polished toenails, another does so assertively with sparkling silver stripper heels. Yet another does serious damage with the spike heels of her thigh-high boots.

The world of digital art is rife with artists reappropriating found materials, as JODI does here with user-generated YouTube videos. But this practice can conceptually short-circuit. Artists are often smitten with wonder at emerging tools and technologies, and they cut and paste without a vision. In contrast, JODI shows how this strategy can be used to study a transnational historical moment. Treating YouTube as an archive of cultural data, ?YTCT? documents computers? shift from scarce, precious technologies to obsolete, ubiquitous objects, too worthless to be respected. When my family got its first computer in the 1980s, we bought a special desk for it. My siblings and I weren?t allowed to eat or drink near it, and we fought with each other for sacred ?computer time.? ?YTCT? shows that our twentieth-century veneration of powerful machines has turned into a mass of e-waste. With JODI?s intervention, we see how YouTube users can act out this transformation for us dramatically.

JODI, ?SK8MONKEYS ON TWITTER? (click to enlarge)

Street Digital includes ?ZYX,? an iPhone app that directs users to perform a series of movements, and ?SK8MONKEYS ON TWITTER,? through which participants stand on a keyboard-skateboard to type with their feet. I never got a chance to engage either of these decidedly more simple works: a group of kids was so excited to be playing with them that they wouldn?t share. But both projects read as minimalist jabs at the ?feature bloat? of mobile operating systems and software: one pairs down apps to primitive body gestures, the other tweets gibberish.

Lastly, ?LED Puzzled,? JODI?s newest work: Curator Michael Connor describes this piece as akin to ?the giant screens in Times Square run amok,? though ?LED Puzzled? lacks the language of advertising. There is no product, no discernable image, no lifestyle being sold. We are presented with only an accumulating trash heap of cheap and ubiquitous consumer technologies. ?LED Puzzled? displaces the disorientation performed cognitively by ?GEO GOO? onto the senses. Its blue and white lights blink so brightly and chaotically that you must, at once, somehow both stare and look away, looking for meaning ? much in the same way that one is drawn to play ?Untitled Game? even though it leads nowhere.

JODI, "LED Puzzled"

In the two decades since JODI arrived on the digital art scene, a lot has changed, technologically and culturally. Street Digital continues JODI?s signature practice of exposing the behind-the-scenes workings of our daily interactions with computers while performing updates that respond to Web 2.0 and mobile computing. However, JODI does not only shift technologies, moving from yesterday?s desktops to today?s handheld devices and social media; the duo also examines the hidden assumptions and psychic transformations that the ubiquitous screens and networks in our lives have imprinted on our imagination. JODI plays with new media but not without awareness about the way it plays us.

Street Digital runs through May 20 at the Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria, Queens).

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Apple rolls out iTunes Match in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Austria and Slovenia

Apple has quietly continued the roll out of its iTunes Match service by launching it in five more countries. iTunes Match is now available in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Austria and Slovenia.

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