Accidental Tech Podcast

47: Better Pixels

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  • Follow-up: IBM AS/400 (aka System i) and single-level store.
  • Marco's Retina theory.
  • PS4 and Xbone sales.
  • Trying to care about CES.
  • Who "needs" the Mac Pro? Justifying toys and improving quality of life with smart purchases.
  • Panasonic’s new LCD TVs compared to great TVs of the past.
  • 4K on Fox Sports, 4K's color space, and the chances of 4K catching on quickly.
  • A Steam Box (its controller) as a replacement for a gaming PC.
  • Three old men reminiscing about their teenage gaming years:
    • Null-modem cables, modems, and special networking software.
  • Modem initialization strings and SLIP.
  • What killed LAN parties? Perhaps it was great 4-player N64 games.
  • Three Moves Ahead Podcast.
  • Voodoo 3D cards, their silly cables, and Sound Blasters.

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      Accidental Tech PodcastBy Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa