Comments on: Rebel FM Episode 65 – 06/25/10

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By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:05:31 +0000

Tyler has changed

http://www.viewclips.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Letters-to-God-2010.jpg

By: Mr.

Mr. — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:35:13 +0000

Arthur, you need to investigate uncompressed audio a bit more. You mention 360′s audio capabilities and DTS and such. All that is the past.

Uncompressed audio means 6 or 8 discrete channels of audio. No need to compress it just to squeeze it on a single wire (or optical cable) to send it 6 feet to your amp and decompress it.

360 doesn’t support uncompressed audio (except for 2 channel) so what happens internally is games produce a 6 channel audio (from compressed source data usually) then it is mixed and fed into the real-time Dolby Digital (5.1) encoder (360 doesn’t support DTS for games, only DD) and then sent to the amp. This encoder is lossy since it is squeezing 3.9mbps of audio into about 384-512kbps of stream (Dolby Digital Plus supports 1.5mbps streams, but I don’t think 360 uses it outside of HD-DVDs). This compression is also inferior to a good compression you’d do on material like a DVD because since it is required to be real time and low latency, it can’t spend a lot of time thinking about how to best compress it or “look ahead” at data that is coming (because that would increase latency).

On a PS3 with discrete uncompressed audio output once those channels are created, they are just sent to the amp, no compression. Since there is no compression, there’s no Dolby Digital, no DTS, no nothing. It’s just (PCM) audio.

So if a game has good source material and you have a decent surround system (5.1 is okay, you don’t need 7.1 to get the advantage) with HDMI uncompressed audio, then uncompressed audio can make a difference.

360 doesn’t support uncompressed audio, it can only output the same audio over HDMI that it outputs over the optical audio out, and since optical audio out can’t carry uncompressed audio, that means no uncompressed audio (except 2 channel) on 360.

By: Vexrog

Vexrog — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:50:02 +0000

Wow with each passing ‘cast Robert is becoming more of a badass.

By: Feanor

Feanor — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:19:03 +0000

Have to admit I was half-wrong. Arthur (and Anthony) did indeed rip Gamespot for their review.

By: Wreckless_4485

Wreckless_4485 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:48:19 +0000

Hitler? Are you serious? Do you really think comparing Hitler and the Holocaust to just some dude named Arthur and a review he wrote of a Transformers video gamer isn’t a tad over the top? I don’t want to call you an jackass, or someone who’s just not right in the head, but perhaps forgot your meds?

Your “point” is more than a little inane, and has now offically become a waste of time and effort – especially on your behalf.

By: Jesse bass

Jesse bass — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:48:15 +0000

Dam those reviewers actually put opinions in their reviewers.

By: ElGuapo

ElGuapo — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:28:19 +0000

I want different opinions. But this guy shits on anyone elses opinion besides for his own.

ps. I respect your opinion

By: Gert

Gert — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:03:16 +0000

Old man Tyler…
Time for a beard?http://images.starpulse.com/news/media/Joaquin-Phoenix-beard-4.jpg

By: Gert

Gert — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:57:39 +0000

insightful, cool, funny hipster

“DOES NOT COMPUTE”

By: CrossXhunteR

CrossXhunteR — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:49:54 +0000

To Arthur. I would like to point out that the second Half Life 2 Game Club episode is not appearing in the iTunes feed or the RSS feed.

By: Wreckless_4485

Wreckless_4485 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:37:20 +0000

“As long as Arthur grants that War for Cybertron is a ‘legitimate’ 6 in the minds of many I think we can hold back on writing to our local congressman.”

Why would he do that if he thinks it’s a 9? No sense in stating an opinion if your so willing to go back on it.

“I only get annoyed when the review seems to think it’s THE definitive measure of a game.”

No reader should think any review is “definitive,” so what would it matter what the reviewer thinks of his own review?

By: Anand

Anand — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:31:49 +0000

Wouldn’t this podcast be boring if everyone had the same opinion as you?

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:26:44 +0000

Sadly I have to agree. I saw him at PAX East and tried to defend Playstation, even though I own both systems, but apparently I failed. )))

By: Nionanmalop

Nionanmalop — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:39:10 +0000

Okay so this might be an odd question that has been answered but what happened to game club? I don’t think I’ve heard anything on the regular podcast it just seems to have disappeared. I understand that with everyone actually having jobs they may not have time to play the games but some kind of official “we’re done” statement would have been nice.

By: ElGuapo

ElGuapo — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:11:53 +0000

Love how every episode Aurthur becomes more and more of a douche. Has this guy ever admitted he was wrong about something? He talks as if he is the one and only center of gaming knowledge. And to say Microsoft had a better E3 than Sony? Wow, I thought he was a a bit of a fanboy before, but fuck, this is getting sad. Anthony and Tyler are awesome though.

By: Feanor

Feanor — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:14:01 +0000

So did Gamespot (6.5/10) and Giant Bomb (3/5), but I doubt Arthur will rip them they way he rips foreign websites when they give games scores that he doesn’t agree with.