New TWiT Schedule for 2014

We will be making some changes to the TWiT schedule for 2014. This will affect both the times that some shows are recorded live, as well as the days on which certain shows publish.

Here's the new schedule, which starts on January 6th, 2014.

Monday

10:00AM - Tech News Today

11:00AM - iPad Today

  1:00PM - Triangulation

  2:30PM - This Week in Enterprise Tech

  4:00PM - Tech News 2Night (starts 1/13)

Tuesday

10:00AM - Tech News Today

11:00AM - MacBreak Weekly

  1:00PM - Security Now

  3:00PM - Before You Buy

  4:00PM - Tech News 2Night

  5:00PM - All About Android

  7:00PM - NSFW

Wednesday

  8:30AM - FLOSS Weekly

10:00AM - Tech News Today

11:00AM - Windows Weekly

  1:00PM - This Week in Google

  3:00PM - iFive for the iPhone

  4:00PM - Tech News 2Night

  4:30PM - The Giz Wiz

  6:00PM - Ham Nation

Thursday

10:00AM - Tech News Today

11:00AM - The Social Hour

12:30PM - Know How...

  1:30PM - Coding 101 (starts 1/23)

  2:30PM - Home Theater Geeks

  4:00PM - Tech News 2Night

  5:00PM - OMGcraft

  6:00PM - This Week in Computer Hardware

Friday

10:00AM - Tech News Today

11:00AM - This Week in Law

  4:00PM - Tech News 2Night

Saturday

11:00AM - The Tech Guy

Sunday

11:00AM - The Tech Guy

  3:00PM - This Week in Tech

(All times PST, GMT -8:00)

Samsung Unpacked Coverage: Weds 9/4 10AM

Please join Tom Merritt, Gina Trapani, Jason Howell, Aaron Newcomb, and Rachel Metz on Wednesday (September 4th) at 10AM for our live coverage of Samsung’s IFA keynote address from Berlin.

Samsung is expected to unveil its Galaxy Note 3 phablet and Galaxy Gear smartwatch.

You can watch and listen at http://live.twit.tv/

Please note: Tech News Today will record an hour earlier that day, at 9AM.

(All Times PDT, GMT -7:00)

Live Streaming Improvements

Hello TWiT Fans,

 

On Thursday, August 29th around 8PM PDT, we will be implementing some streaming changes.

 

We have been making some optimizations to streaming profiles on our Elemental Live streaming system and are ready to roll them out to production streams for feedback.

 

All of our streams will now be in the H.264 "Main profile," which will improve visual quality at the same bitrate. Previously only Flosoft HLS was Main profile.

 

We will also be increasing the bitrate of some of the streams, and adding a few resolutions to our Flosoft HLS Stream. Hopefully this will result in an improved viewing experience for the vast majority of you.

 

If your bandwidth is limited, you may need to watch a lower quality version than you used to.

UStream and Justin.tv will be making transcodes at lower resolutions and bitrates but these will look better than they did previously. Flosoft streams will also have lower bitrate options built in the HLS manifest.

 

If you have an old device, you may have to watch using Ustream or Justin instead of BitGravity. If it is even older you may have issues watching any stream.

 

If this is the case let us know as we may change the BitGravity Low stream back to "Baseline profile" if necessary.

  

For the Flosoft streams, some of our TWiT App developers or users with VLC/Quicktime shortcuts will need to make changes to the app if they hard linked our previous stream names instead of using our manifest file.  Please see the Developer Guide for more details.

 

If you're in to geeking out with specs, there is also a full PDF of the previous and new settings available to download. You can also check out the updated TWiT Live page on the TWiT Wiki.

 

Thanks and we appreciate your feedback,

 

TWiT Engineering

TWiT on Samsung SMART TVs and Blu-Ray Players

Great news for owners of Samsung SMART TVs and Blu-Ray players:

There’s a new TWiT app that allows you to watch all of your favorite TWiT shows live and on demand.

Download it for free in the Samsung Appstore, or you can find out more information via this link.

Thanks to Brian Cadge (aka Brizzz) and selectiveblur software!

TWiT shows "bring the funny"

This is nothing new to those of you who are long time viewers/listeners. However, I'm still a n00b and honestly had no idea that many of the hosts constantly "bring the funny"! Take your pick: pre, post or during the show. Whatever the time, there is almost always something funny shared.

It's a new goal of mine to take excerpts from the livestream and post them - specifically pre or post show. Here are some of my picks from the last week:

Gina's Tip of the week, The Facebook Condom:

Windows Weekly - the scissors incident:

iPad Today, Sarah needs a barber:

I'll try and post interesting and funny clips when I see them. If you have suggestions, let me know! In the meantime, subscribe to our YouTube channel to be the first to see the funny!