All TWiT.tv Shows (Video)

All TWiT.tv Shows (Video) is less a show than a doorway into the TWiT network, carrying several of its programs in a single video feed. Home Theater Geeks, Hands-On Windows, the Untitled Linux Show and This Week in Space all turn up here. The mix is the point. On Home Theater Geeks, Scott Wilkinson, who calls himself the Home Theater Geek, treats AV questions seriously and with obvious delight. One of his episodes covers a blind test run on the DIYaudio.com forum by a moderator called Pano, who took 30-second clips from recordings in many genres and made four versions of each: the original CD-quality file, one sent through a wire, one through mud and one through a banana. Participants had to work out which was which, and a later version of the test moved online as an ABX comparison using an audio engine developed by AcidTest.io. In a chat room Q&A episode, Scott describes his own separate system, with a Marantz 8802A preamp processor feeding Grimani Systems powered speakers whose amplifiers sit outside the cabinets. He also mentions Anthony Grimani, an acoustician he has had on the show more than once. Hands-On Windows is narrower and more hands-on. It looks at new Windows 11 features against a year that started with a January Patch Tuesday needing two emergency fixes, and at PowerToys version 0.98, which adds no new utilities but gives existing ones major new capabilities. The Untitled Linux Show works as a news roundup with room to wander. One episode lines up a Flatpak update, an expected Linux 7.0, Little Snitch arriving on Linux and Nano reaching 9.0, and detours into what a Series G financing round is after a RISC-V processor company raised one. This Week in Space brings Rod Pyle, who introduces himself as an editor-in-chief, to the Artemis II splashdown and the ten-day mission behind it. The conversation covers seeing the first glimpses of the far side of the moon from a newsroom, and one speaker admits to missing the unscripted Apollo-era exchanges between test pilots and engineers. Scripted commercial launch commentary gets the bluntest verdict. Expect sponsor reads, including ones for security products, plus pitches for Club TWiT membership, one of them voiced by Leo Laporte. Where to start depends on the hobby. For audio curiosity, 'Home Theater Geeks 527: Cables, Bananas, and Mud, Oh My!' is the obvious way in; for spaceflight, 'This Week in Space 205: All About Artemis'. The presenters sound like people who use what they cover, from PowerToys utilities used all the time to the speakers in Scott's own system. It rewards anyone who likes moving between tech beats rather than staying inside one.