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Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show 278

Posted by CmdrTaco from the good-luck-to-you-kevin dept.
Quantum Jim writes "Kevin Rose, one of the famous contributors and co-hosts of The Screen Savers, is leaving this week to concentrate on a new technology howto show called Systm. The Systm will be an internet-only show distributed free (as in beer AND speech) in a number of formats: Theora, Xvid, WMV, H.264, and PSP (what's that?). There will be bittorrent trackers available too! If only I had broadband..."
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Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show More

Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show

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  • Best of luck to him... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by th3space ( 531154 ) <brad@bradfuci o u s . c om> on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:07PM (#12617151) Homepage
    God knows that he and Morgan Webb were the only things worth watching on that sinking ship of a channel...

  • Its about time! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by ghstomahawks ( 847102 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:09PM (#12617163)
    Its due time for the web to get a real TV show! We all know that it's the media of the future!

  • Of course he is leaving... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by forceflow2 ( 843966 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:09PM (#12617164)
    He knows how bad things have gotten (as if they could get any worse...) and is leaving to pursue bigger and better things that everyone knows he can. If only he could call up Leo and Patrick and have them help out...that would be excellent.

  • PSP (Score:1, Informative)

    by Verrou ( 609915 )
    PSP = Play Station Portable - which uses it's own video format.
    • Which uses MPEG4 :)

    • Re:PSP (Score:3, Informative)

      by IANAAC ( 692242 )
      It's not the video format that's messing you up. It's the naming format. Just change the name to whatever.mp4 and you should be able to play it on any other portable, etc.
      • ACtually, it's a bit more strict than "whatever.mp4," which is sad, because even "ga0104.mp4" is easier to decipher into "Grey's Anatomy Season 1, episode 4" than "M4V10030.MP4."

        • If you're not concerned with playback on the PSP, but want to play it on any other mp4 system, you actually can rename it to anything you desire, such as This_First_Epsisode_Of_Systm.mp4, and it will play. I do this all the time with 24 episodes and play them back on my Zaurus.
  • Kevin...don't quit your day job...err wait...


  • he forgot this...! (Score:3)

    by bogaboga ( 793279 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:10PM (#12617189)
    He forgot this [java] technology. I consider it a serious contender based on Java. Slashdotters, point your browsers to http://stream.fluendo.com/demo/office/audiovideo/j ava.php [fluendo.com] to see what I am talking about.
    • Java fanboys notwithstanding, I don't know a single person who likes running Java apps on their system. Slow load times and a huge VM size aren't desirable to most people.

      If it's already available in Theora and Xvid, why on Earth would anybody want to choose a format like Fluendo that is hardly known? A *lot* of people disable Java because along with Javascript it's likely to become the next big attack vector to target browsers cross platform. Unlike Javascript, Java malware is more likely to work cross-br

      • Re:he forgot this...! (Score:5, Informative)

        by labratuk ( 204918 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @07:54PM (#12618764)
        why on Earth would anybody want to choose a format like Fluendo that is hardly known?

        Fluendo is not a codec. Fluendo is a company that builds products using gstreamer. One of their products is an implementation of the theora and vorbis decoders in java. So people can watch live streams without installing anything. If they really want to. The streams themselves are usually just theora streams.

        You've both rather misunderstood what this java player is about.

    • As long as we're handing out Kevin Rose links, someone should mention the broken [thebroken.org], where he has an interview with Free-Kevin, and where he drinks 40's and sets a laptop on fire. You know, in order to protect your data.

      ~Will

  • G4 must suck behind the scenes too (Score:5, Insightful)

    by yotto ( 590067 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:11PM (#12617193) Homepage
    To give up a job to publish free (as in everything) show on the web, that means he's either got cajones the size of bowling balls or his job absolutely sucked.

    I'll give this show a shot, and may even not block the ads (if there are any)
  • Is he taking Sarah Lane with him?

  • Will he (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Only make 3 episodes before giving up, like his last attempt, The Broken?
  • .......one of the famous contributors and co-hosts....
    Arrgh, I just finished reading the previous post... Dont know whether I have "a damage to the prefrontal area" or not!
  • I loved his old bit on cable, but I wouldn't trust that guy with a vowel!

    Remember Soledad O'Brian talking to robots? O.K. - I lied. I don't rember the robots, either... But Soledad O'Brian!

  • Too cool for vowels. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:13PM (#12617215)
    Kevin Rose is too cool for vowels. Pretty soon he'll have his name changed to Kvn Rs. That shit's leet.

  • Screensavers podcast (Score:5, Informative)

    by slapout ( 93640 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:14PM (#12617228)
    Fans of the old TechTV show "The ScreenSavers" might want to check out Leo Laporte's podcasts. He makes his radio show available. He has also gotten together with some people from the old show and they do a podcast called This Week in Tech.

    http://www.leoville.com/ [leoville.com]
    http://thisweekintech.com/ [thisweekintech.com]

    also see Dan Huard's take on TechTV:
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/01/172523 0&tid=129 [slashdot.org]

  • Kevin Rose a TWIT (Score:2, Informative)

    by mbrewthx ( 693182 )
    Kevin is also doing a pod cast along Leo and some of the other guys from the old TEchTV.
    You can get it at www.thisweekintech.com
    they call it TWIT, very good. Looking forward the relase of Systm tonight. systm.org

  • ThisWeekInTech (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ARRRLovin ( 807926 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:18PM (#12617290)
    If you like the old Screensavers, you'll love the "This Week In Tech" podcast. It's all the old TSS folk talking about what they like to talk about. No more lame "which broadband router is the best blah blah" crap. Just good ol' fashioned geeks talkin about cool shit.

    www.twit.tv

  • Leo Laporte (Score:5, Informative)

    by Teja ( 826685 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:21PM (#12617317) Journal
    I liked Kevin quite a bit, but Leo used to be my favorite. You can download quite a few of Call For Help episodes via bittorent over here [cfhtracker.info]. I'm off to download. :)
    • I attended a taping of TSS back in dec. 2003. back when it was still in san fran. great time!

      I thought the 'adults' (leo and pat) were the heart of the show. the 'kids' (sarah, kevin, etc) were ok, but they were ancillary to the main show.

      then G4 bought them out and moved them down to the highly NON-TECH LA area. feh! the show became mostly gaming and eye-candy with no real tech at all. even the live audience got shown the door and was removed from the format.

      odd that kevin/sarah were annoying when

  • techno (Score:5, Funny)

    by LinkDJ ( 163960 ) * <linkdjNO@SPAMlinkdj.net> on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:22PM (#12617325) Homepage
    the systm.. is down..
    the systm.. is down..
    • That's funny. Actually, I think the Systm was never up.

      He announced it on This week in Tech a couple weeks ago and all that was there so far was a logo.

      Give him time, he hasn't even really started on it yet.

      For once this is a case of slashdot linking to a page that's already not there, rather than taking it down with a massive slashdotting.

  • Latest Dialogue with Kevin's mom. (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:30PM (#12617405)
    Mom: So kevin, how's your job at the Sceensavers?

    K: I don't work there any more?

    Mom: What?

    K: I'm doing something new!

    Mom: What's that?

    K: I'm a PODCASTER!

    Mom: A Broadcaster? That's nice.

    K: NO.. POD caster.. POD as in iPod!

    Mom: You sell ipods?

    K: No..

    Mom: What's it got to do with Ipods?

    K: well, they can listen to my new show on ipods.

    Mom: Oh.. that's nice.
    Does it pay more?

    K: It's a new venture, I expect to generate revenue from ads.

    Mom: So, you have advertisers lined up?

    k: Um..

    Mom: Are you making any money yet?

    k: Um...

    Mom: what's with all the stuff you moved into my basement? You're not moving in there are you?

    K: Um..

    Mom: And what's with that microphone? Could you get it out of my face, I'm trying to talk to you?

    k: *runs* OK peeps, stay tuned to my next podcast, brought to you buy Redbull, Vodka, and our biggest sponsor.. Mom!

  • Hopefully Sarah Lane stays behind... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Z-Knight ( 862716 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:35PM (#12617445)
    I'm hoping she doesn't follow ... those two need to get a damn hotel room and get their frustrations out once and for all, instead of flirting continuously on-air...geez

    Here's also hoping that the new show is actually is actually any good...the last few months of The ScreenSavers/Attack of the Crappy Show have had about 3 minutes of actual computer related stuff covered in them. Thanks to all of the geniuses at G4...good job on getting rid of Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton, they obviously were too good so you replaced them with the obviously "better" (NOT!) younger hosts that did nothing but waste my hour!

    • A lot of the former Screen Savers hosts now do This Week in Tech [www.twit.tv], a weekly podcast about the state of technology.
    • I used to be a faithful watcher of TechTV esp. TSS. I don't care for video games and sure as hell don't have any interest in watching other people play games on TV. I curse G4 for buying out TechTV--only to kill it all (I just don't get why they even bothered). Not to mention, at least in my market, they really screwed the pooch on the channel they got. At least for my Time Warner cable, TechTV was channel 44, G4 was 143. For a little while after the merger, they had both channels but after a bit, G4/T

  • Hmm (Score:2, Offtopic)

    by pHatidic ( 163975 )
    show distributed free (as in beer AND speech)

    So in other words, the show is Free, as in with a capital F.

  • I've always been a fan of the screen savers but some of the newer people on the show are complete idiots. I'm glad to see he is going out on his own.

    My favorite segment had to be the dark tips where Kevin would show how to hack XBOX, sniff network data, ect. Now that this segment will no longer be FCC controlled, I would imagine the segments may be much more interesting.

    He may not be far off by going on his own either - MSNBC [msn.com] has an article linked from the msn.com homepage on the proliferation of Intern
    • Since when is G4 "FCC controlled"?
    • My favorite segment had to be the dark tips where Kevin would show how to hack XBOX, sniff network data, ect. Now that this segment will no longer be FCC controlled, I would imagine the segments may be much more interesting.

      I could agree with you, but he only did stuff like this once there was some oh-so-1337 script-kiddie approach to it. Once the "real" security and hacking (hacking as in modding) scenes laid the groundwork and then made some nice t001z to use, then he'd be on the screen showing how 133

  • Termination of Contract (Score:3, Interesting)

    by SphericalCrusher ( 739397 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @05:54PM (#12617619) Journal
    Well, actually he was fired, he just didn't up and leave. But still, even though this was not too surprising, it's really wierd what Comcast has done to the once TechTV. Damn them.
  • So: when we say it's going to be a "how to" show, are we talking a show about how to understand computer technology, evaluate tech you're interested in, make your tech all work together happily, and get more out of life with your tech... ... or how to close down your brain, open your wallet, and buy the swanky new shiny thing?

    No fooling. Just curious.
  • and bring back Ramzi for the "leet hackar biatches" and show them how to download bonzi buddy once again!
  • A while ago I made a comment on Slashdot about Kevin Rose that was, shall we say, not so nice. At the time he was new on The Screen Savers and I saw him as a Microsoft fanboy and I even thought that perhaps he was part of G4's inspiration to steal and destroy TechTV.

    These days he's much more open to Linux and OS X and is acting like a true professional. He finally fits in along Laporte and company now that he's on TWiT. I'm not a "fan" of Kevin Rose, but I do take back the bad things I've said about him, a

  • IRC Channel (Score:2, Informative)

    by MHobbit ( 830388 )
    Now that the site's apparently back up for the time being, at 8:00PM PST, the first episode of Systm will be released... the IRC channel that you may want to join is located on the irc.dslextreme.com server, in the #systm channel.

  • Thanks a lot, Slashdot. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Guspaz ( 556486 ) on Monday May 23, 2005 @10:07PM (#12619658)
    Gee, thanks for posting about this on the front page of Slashdot. Whereas before, those of us who cared enough to be on the mailing list were going to download the first episode tonight. Now that it's slashdotted, nobody is going to get the first episode tonight.

    Slashdot didn't even have the courtesy to run their links through the Coral CDN. Nice.
    • Agreed. Thank you. You should get every mod point in the world.

      --riney
  • Just got this mail from Systm:

    --------------------
    thebroken newsletter
    --------------------

    Systm release tonight!
    From the creators of thebroken comes a new downloadable tech show: "Systm" (pronounced system). While Systm is a general interest HOW-TO show, thebroken will continue to have 40'z and hacking ;)

    Episode #1 will be released tonight at 8:00PM PST! To celebrate, we will be throwing a house party starting at 6:00PM. We'll fire up our live webcam of the festivities along with an IRC chat room. Chat
  • I just finished watching the first episode of Systm. Although I'm not really that interested in war spying, the show wasn't bad. Especially for something being done by a group of people without corporate backing, and then put out for free.

    I can only think of two possible criticisms.

    Dan Huard is not really comfortable yet being in front of a camera, and it shows. That will pass with more experience.

    The other one would be that while viewing the large xvid version the audio is out of sync with the video.
  • It's 9:35 PM PST, I go to their web site. Nothing about downloading a video. In fact it's still advertising the fact that it will be available at 8PM PST Monday. In fact nothing about what the show is about or what happened or anything.

    I guess those guys don't "get" the internet. Tell me again why I should bother with this?
  • War spying is not a new topic for them. Do not regurgitate the same old stories in a new format. Myself having a 2 year associate's degree in electronics and working as a network engineer for the last 8 years I am not impressed. (not that I have bragging rights for that!)

    Shoot higher. Intelligent leaders surround themselves with those that are smarter than themselves. As journalists, use your talents to search out people with skills higher than your own in the topics you are covering and use your jour

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