The Screen Savers - On TechLive Set - September 9, 2002 - 90 Min Episode!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Originally aired (I think!) September 9, 2002 on TechTV.
I found this video on, of all places, archive.org (archive.org/det...) I would like to say thank you to the original uploader and on the page was some more information about the video:
This is episode of The screen savers from September 2002. This is also has a full episode of TechLive in it too. This was found on newsbin. Here is what was on the nfo file:
Source:-----------------------VHS tape from analog cable in 2003
Video Codec:------------------XviD
------------------------------NTSC Aspect 4:3
------------------------------29.97 frames per second
------------------------------640x480 frame size
Bitrate:----------------------Approx 2000kbps/sec
Audio Codec:------------------MP3 190kbps 48KHz
Number of AVI files:----------1
AVI file size:----------------2.0GB (approx)
Runtime:----------------------2 hours approximately
RAR Files---------------------39 x 50MB + 1 x 28MB
PAR Files---------------------15%
A 2002 episode of "The Screensavers" and an old episode of
TechLive from same date. I love looking back at these old
tech shows to see where we've been.
I thought others might also find this interesting. How things change in
8 short years! I found it by accident. I'm glad I make it a practice
to quickly scan tapes before I discard them.
Content:
Tech TV show "The Screensavers" (1 episode from year 2002 [approximately Sept 2002])
Tech Live (1 episode from same date)
"The Screensavers" - an episode from 2002:
0. I don't know the exact date it was aired. My VHS recorder
doesn't tag its analog recordings. They speak of the release
of SP1 for WinXP as being available on the day this was recorded
so it could be this was recorded on the SP1 public release date
which was Sept 9, 2002. The included "TechLive" episode recorded
on the same date speaks of the year 2003 in future tense so I know
this was recorded no later than 2002. I'm sticking with Sept 2002
as a really good guess for the recording date.
1. Leo and Patrick announce Service Pack 1 for Windows XP is
a whopping 130MB and is now available for download. It's a
serious burden for most people to download that "massive" file
on dialup.
2. A serious flaw in Windows XP allows web sites to delete files
on your computer. Leo shows how to rename a file to fix it in case
you need to avoid that "massive" and potentially troublesome
service pack for now.
3. A 4 Megapixel camera is now available from a prominent manufacturer.
The show asks: "Do we really need a camera with that many megapixels?"
4. Computers are still beige in 2003!!! The show demonstrates
Microsoft's bold marketing move in the release of a keyboard
with matching mouse in a two tone motif: blue and beige!
5. 5 things to know about Leonard Nimoy elucidated. A clip
shows 1970's Nimoy singing "The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins" for a
kids' show. (Disturbing)
6. Commercials include that taco company's chihuahua.
Reno 911 star, Carlos Alazraqui, did the voice of that chihuahua
named "Gidget." How about that? The taco dog confronts the
insurance gecko in the commercials. Also interesting is
a commercial for a new computer with a 2GHz processor.
On a path that began with DOS from ATT and IBM,
it has taken about 30 years for Microsoft to deliver
an operating system that doesn't crash all the time Finally,
Windows 7 works "pretty well." Periodically, I like to
look back to old tech shows to remember the moans and groans
I uttered along the way.
To me, these old techie/nerdie shows are funny and
overwhelmingly amazing at the same time. I love 'em.
Back before G4/TechTV/ZDTV became all about the
girls' spreads in Playboy/FHM/Maxim, we could actually
watch a TV channel that focused on information rather
than ratings. It served a need.
I wish I had some of the older ZDTV shows like from 1998
and before. Those would be amazing. There are lots of bits and pieces
on UA-cam and such. Those are nice.
(I think in 1998 I was trying to decide if the expensive upgrade
from 4 MB of RAM to 8 MB of RAM was worth it for my
133MHz Intel processor based computer.)
I can’t believe I found this…I miss this era, both in computing and in my life
I miss TechTV so much :/
Still rockin the Microsoft Notebook Mouse in 2023
Ahh the good ol days
Awesome stuff! Love the fact that they left the old ads in as well. Miss tech TV.
Thanks for uploading takes me back to when internet was new and exciting !
Keep these coming!
Pat in 2002: "Be warned! This 360MB download is HUUUGGEEE and will take a long time!
CoD in 2021: "Hold my beer" *60GB update for a game*
146MB a giant file lol, how times have changed
a lot of people had dial up still at the time, downloading 150mb would take like 6 hours or more
I used to watch this when i was in high school learned alot from this show.
Oh how I miss the WHOLE TechTV channel. The Screen Savers being the most missed. Sure we have RevisionTV, but I would rather have a channel dedicated to all things tech and computer related. It might have been ahead of it's time.
Hi Rich, Go check out twit.tv. This is what Leo started after leaving techtv/G4. Is essentially a much better version where previous segments ideas are now entire series of shows :)
Weird to think that now we have Vtubers and its commonplace. That whole thespian segment was a trip.
Right? Was about to comment on how eerily accurate that whole segment was to how vtubing works. Crazy to think it happened less than twenty years later (Hololive started gaining traction in 2018)
Wow, i cant beleve how much tehnolgy has come in less than 20 years.
28:56 You can see one of the studio lights burst behind the plasma TV.
Omg 4mp camera!! Lol haha this episode keeps getting better and better.
Loved this all so much. My wife bought me my first pc in 1994 and Ive never bought another one. I ve built or upgraded my own since that first one. Never bought another full pc.
I am looking for the episode where they made a 1TB drive on Windows XP by hooking a bunch of smaller drives together. I can remember Leo mentioning how it showed up as 1TB in XP and that they were ready for big drives. He also said you can tell your grandkids that you saw the first terrabyte drive on the Screen Snickers. lol I've never forgotten that but haven't seen it since it originally aired. I'd love to find it. I even went as far to tweet Leo and ask if he remembered it but didn't get a response.
I miss the show and the channel. At least we can still hear Leo Laporte on his radio show and podcasts.
28:58 Light behind the TV burned out, ha!
Asking about buying your last PC.... At the time of this airing my family had a Dell PC from 2000(that we still have gathering dust), I then got a Macbook in 2007 and used that for nearly a decade(one hard drive died and upgraded ram), then got a Chromebook in 2016 after the fan stopped working properly on the old Macbook, replaced the Chromebook with another one(battery died and wanted something larger) in 2019, and now I'm building a PC for gaming old school games... Kind of fun to think about how I would have answered then and now. Then I would have known with college and life I'd have at least two more lol... Now, I think component upgrades to the PC will happen for a long time and Chromebooks will come and go as they wear out.
i want them back :'( this channel needs to make a comeback!
Anyone else remember when TechTV was called ZDTV?
Unfortunately I do....damn I'm old after G4 it all went to shit.
Shon C yes I actually only remember it as zdtv, I didn't have cable anymore when they switched to techtv
yes
Damn! I remember this episode like it was not long ago... It's 19yrs ago?
NEW THINGS TURN US ON! hahahahaha how did I not notice that slogan back in the day
when Leo Yells Yikes when he hears because XP update is 146MB lmao . i nearly sprayed milk out of my nose Laughing lol thats cute today ha ha
Lordy Erica Hill was such a babe back then. She was my favorite tech news girl.
Kurzweil! So cool he got featured on the show.
By the time this episode aired I was building my own PCs and have been ever since. It's cheaper and I don't get a bunch of preloaded crap.
I'd love to see the screen savers episode when windows xp was release. They even talked about the hard too open packaging.
I remember them building the first Terabyte (raided) drive I ever saw to see if XP would list it a 1TB or 1024GB.
Year 2020: UGH THIS GAME IS 152GB. GOTTA WAIT AN HOUR TO PLAY WIEHJT YOUU
tech from the good old days..
good days when a 133 megabyte download was insane
yes I have bought my last pc. I just bought a Mac Pro
Something wasn’t right with that Outlook Express tip…
Lol at the dude predicting synthesipian relationships on the future. Haha. I think we call them Avatars now though if I'm not mistaken.
The vulnerability could fix the vulnerability.
What oh wow it's Erica Hill from NBC! 1:05:37
Given what Ray Kurzweil said at 17:29, I wonder what he might have thought of the Xbox Kinect. Perhaps, "(Whoomp!) There it is."
The technology was used in the 90s already, and for a video game nonetheless. Perhaps archaic but the idea was the same. I think he was just talking about the application uses as the cpu power increases in computing.
19:24 The beginnings of the degenerate philosophy that ultimately led to drag queen story hour at libraries.
spot on
come back
Yes, please do
who needs 3 ghz !! lol
Today was the *17* year anniversary of when this episode aired on TV. 🤓
Lol@the caller bitching about a 100mb file to download. 100 mb files are standard today!
CDubs HasIt this was 15 years ago
Commenting in 2024 just to say that 100MB downloads are non existent these days. It's more like 1GB downloads for updates are bog standard.