Before there was TWiT, there was Screen Savers. YouTube has a collection of them for you to watch in the comfort of your own home. Just what the world needed. Old TV. So where is Silicon SPin?
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Yawn, now find the lost nude Sumi Das videos, and you’ll have something worth watching!
Many Silicon Spin episodes (along with just about everything else that was good on Tech/ZDTV) can be found in this monster (43 GB+) torrent that sombody put together here.
http://slapapple.com/techtv/
Leo’s been selling old CFH’s at Google Video. This just may piss him off?
now this is what TV should be I miss you
Sarah Lane seems like a real deuchebag. You’ve got to wonder about the brilliant minds that traded the TWiT cast of characters for Sarah Lane.
They bought in the girls for obvious market appeal. They worked cheap and jumped at the chance to be on TV. Basically they worked their asses off with the promise that it was great experience for their future. The network blew through capital with the ill fated Techlive, and was on life support after that. At least that’s what’s been publicly repeated by those involved. These interns/producers/talent shouldn’t be confused with the professional talent the network hired. I still miss that great smile of Michella’s.
Oh how I miss TTS, call for help and any other pure tech show that was out there.
I enjoyed The Screen Savers and Silicon Spin, as much for the humour and wit as for the technical insights offered, but watching reruns would be a bit over the top. After all, these are tech shows, and we all know the shelf lives of tech topics.
What we need is for someone to put together a salable package similar to the old TechTV and hawk it, hell, anywhere. You could put it on Ja-Zeera, and who cares if anyone watches, think season DVD sales. Or maybe half season, it is, after all, a tech show.
These episodes are too recent to be very interesting. I would prefer to see episodes going all the way back to the ZDTV days with Leo and Kate Botello. Now those would be interesting to see again. I wish I would have recorded some of these episodes.
There used to be some real babes on ZDTV. My favorite tech news presenters were Victoria Recaño and Jennifer London. The newer girls didn’t come close to the original crew. It used to be quite a professional operation during the tech bubble.
I still have my ZDTV Silicon Spin coffee mug to remember the good old days by. The running gag was these used to be quite valuable on eBay. I got mine the old fashioned way. I sent in a comment and the producers we kind enough to send me one.
I remember ZDTV. Keep trying to get comcast to carry it in my area. They finaly did when it became G4 which at that point it was hardly worth it.
I too miss the old ZDTV days. Martin, Leo, Kate and that whole crowd. I followed Silicon Spin pretty closely, also. all those YouTube videos are too recent for me to flash back to.
As much as I like the idea of reconstructing ZDTV/TechTV through a bunch of podcasts, etc, (and I listen to TWiT every week) it just is not the same.
Doug (#11) got it right on the head.
Can one of the former ZDTV/TechTV guys just go that one step further an put together a single ‘channel’ site that links up all these various video casts and podcasts? That would be awesome, and i’d make that my homepage – how cool would it be – finally – a true ‘channel’ made of up off all the cool tech content that we want (sound familiar?)
Please make it so!
Silicon Spin? Not on YouTube? And here I thought everything was on the Internet…
#12. if it happens, count me in!
#9 Victoria Recaño and Jennifer London were in fact pretty girls…
But I’ll take Cat, Megan, Katy, or in fact any of the women who graced TechTV’s later time… Those women were not only sexy, but they had real geek appeal. After all, the only measurement that really matters is IQ.
I want an old ZDTV coffee mug. I wanted one way back when you did Silicon Spin. I submitted many questions and some of them quite good. But they all got passed over and I never got a mug. I want one now. So, does anyone know where I can get one?