But rubber baby, veggie bumpers. Oh, it's okay. Rubber baby, she sells seashells by the seashore. Sally says seashells. Do you actually do you actually do those exercises, Tom? Every day, right before the show, aluminum, linoleum. The the bank robber had oddly shaped feet. Or was it from that one? No, that doesn't come out to say at all. No, that's the one from Ron Burgundy, where he right before he goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, vocal exercises. The bank robber had oddly shaped feet. And then the human lords, the human lords, the human torch applied for a bank load or something. It's really weird. You term is what applied for a bank loan. OK, OK. Yeah, I'm going to just make a hash of that one now. I might. Although it might be a help that you guys all took an attempt at it. It's not that you have pressure, the pressure, but also familiarity that are battling in my head. I have long. I have long made jokes about how, like, that that is an element of all of your success for which, like, I I know I just don't have talent. Is the the, like, let's read off the feature list of the new stories. Like that just not. I have a very high opinion of my talent. That is I feel that I have any kind of a business doing. But it always impresses me that you have a commitment to, like, the full back of the box feature. Well, for good or for ill, we're going to put it to the test again in a moment. Let me hide. OK. And then I will need to have control. Do you have control? I don't think. No, I do not have control. There you go. All right. And I gave Roger the the producer's privilege to interject in our Nintendo conversation if he just can't stop himself, otherwise. But I probably won't because my mic will probably be off. That's right. Exactly. All right. Here we go. Three, two. This show is brought to you by audience members like me, not outside organizations. To find out more, go to daily tech news show dot com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, October 20th. Happy birthday to my brother, Tim, 2016. I'm Tom Merritt joining me today. Mr. Justin Robert Yonko, hosting as he does most Thursdays. How are you, sir? Welcome back. It's good to be back stateside. You know, I'm glad to be out of the clutches of Europe. And I'm glad that there's nothing else European that's followed me back, you know, here to the Daily Tech News Show. USA, USA, USA. Wow. Yeah. I mean, I appreciate that sentiment. And now I feel a little awkward introducing from France and Finland. Patrick Beja joining us again today. Oh, quarantine, quarantine. Close the doors. Close the doors before anything else gets in. You don't listen. You don't have the world yet. So I'm free to come here. And also I was told I was invited here in the capacity of an audience member of a political debate, so I should just sit back and just refrain from applauding or making any sorts of comments. Please remain silent until we ask you to ask your question. Except for right now, as the candidates make their way out. No, we asked Patrick to come back because we're talking about Nintendo's new console, the Nintendo Switch, which we will discuss at length after we get through the rest of the top stories. But just the short version is it's coming in March 2017 and it's a hybrid tablet console. So Patrick has been following Nintendo. He said, would you say an enthusiast? Is that a good choice of words? Yeah, I'm a gaming enthusiast and definitely a Nintendo enthusiast. So we'll talk about that in a bit. Also, Google's Daydream VR headset just went up for pre-order in the UK, Germany and the US. Now here are some more top stories. Razer just announced an update to its 17.3 inch Razer Blade Pro laptop. The line now starts off with a 2.6 gigahertz quad-core Intel Core i7-6700 HQ Skylake processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 desktop card, PCIe M.2 SSD storage, ranging from 512 gigabytes all the way up to two terabytes, if you want. 32 gigabytes of 2113 megahertz DDR4 RAM standard. It starts there.  That's Killer the Brand, not my own description of the NIC. Does 82.11 AC Wi-Fi and gigabit ethernet. USBC Jack that doubles as Thunderbolt 3 so you can get up to 40 gigabits per second bandwidth. The multi-touch display has a 3840 by 2160 Exo panel. It also comes with HDMI ports, three USB 3.0 ports, so we're not going only USB-C, has an SD card reader. And as for the keyboard, the Verge's Vlad Sevaev called pushing the buttons a joy. They really like the keyboard over there. Trackpad sits to the side of the keyboard rather than below, which in the picture is to the right. So left-handers may have an issue with this. I don't know if they'll have different configurations there. All of it fits into a 22.5 millimeter thickness and 7.8 pounds or 3.54 kilograms of weight. The Razer Blade Pro starts shipping in November for a price of $3,699. You got to wonder if that's modular, that you can either like by by factory or even at your house, flip the the configurations. Configure, I would hope so. Yeah, even the keyboard thing, especially. Yeah, yeah. I'll tell you what, it looks like a beast. It is a desktop. I mean, everybody says this is a desktop in a laptop. This is literally a desktop in a laptop. That GeForce card in there is the desktop card. If you didn't, if you missed that part, that is not the 1080 mobile card. It's, you know, these things are transportable. They're the kind of thing that you can take around with you if you move around, if you're a pro gamer, these kinds of things. So calling it a laptop is a little bit misleading, but it's portable.  Technically, yeah, but it's also almost eight pounds.  That we don't see the power supply and I'm suspecting it's not tiny. There's a separate backpack for the power supply that you need. Exactly, no. Listen, the good news is it has a readily available power supply called diesel fuel. Right, you just plug that generator in. Now, this thing is a beast and it's really nice and it's an update to the 17.3 inch Razer Blade Pro and quite an impressive one at that. I'm not going to get one necessarily, mostly because of the price point. But if this is what you need, even honestly, if you're not a gamer, if you just need a portable, high powered computer for, I don't know, AutoCAD or 4K video editing or something, this could be the beast. Well, this is basically the best computer you can buy, desktop or laptop. It's the top of the line components. So that has something. Tesla announced Wednesday that all new cars in production will be equipped with, quote, the hardware needed for full self-driving capability, and quote, including the Model 3. The hardware includes eight surrounded cameras, 360 degree visibility at up to 250 meters, 12 ultrasonic sensors and a forward-facing radar, as well as a more powerful on-board computer. Self-driving will not be active in these cars, but features will be added by software as they are tested. However, the system will collect data on driving conditions to help Tesla develop autonomy. Tesla plans to demonstrate the tech by having a car travel from LA to New York without any driver guidance by the end of the year, which looking at my Apple much, not far away. End of end of 2018, I thought. Oh, end of next year, 2017, sorry. 2017, yeah. End of next year. So year in change to do it. This is obviously going to be something that Tesla wants to make a big deal about. They've gotten certainly battered about this year with a lot of what, you know, they call their autopilot feature. You know, it's going to be we are moving into a more mature area for self-driving cars. I mean, that is something that's kind of beyond conversation at this point. The question is, how do we handle it now that it is real? Do we want to buy it? Do we want to legislate around it? Do we want to make it easier? Do we want to make it tougher, not only here in the US of A, but also in Europe? So and Asia and everywhere else. So, you know, I think it's going to it's going to be it's going to be interesting. But this seems in reading between the lines here, like a Tesla that's kind of learned a very small PR lesson from this year with the. If you look at the way that they launched autopilot, right, where it was, let's call it autopilot. Number one, let's bring a bunch of people, a bunch of tech reporters in and we'll put them on a roller coaster track and effectively try to spook them with how fast it goes without hands on the wheels. This seems like moderate. This seems like a solid step that you would want from a technologically progressive car company like Tesla. And yet it's a big leap to just go ahead and future proof your cars. I mean, there's a couple of risks there. One is raising the cost of manufacturing for a company that still isn't showing a profit. The other is saying these are the sensors. These are the computers. These are the radar that we're going to rely on for several years. So we're going to go ahead and put them in now instead of equipping them after market now granted, Tesla probably prefers to do that because there's supply chain efficiency. So maybe that makes it worth the cost. But you're taking a big risk that these are all going to work with software updates down the line and work well. Well, there's also a couple of things here. Number one, Elon Musk has said that retrofitting with these sensors after the fact is almost as expensive as the car. So the only time it does make sense to put them in from a price capacity is in the manufacturing phase. Obviously, you can't turn around a car in a calendar year. These things are very long in production. But also there's the fact that they move back the delay or they move back the delivery date for the Model 3. That's obviously what they are banking on Tesla going from a luxury brand to something that a more average from from luxury to merely kind of rich. You know, people will be able to buy them and this is what they want to be kind of a standard element that they want people to think. And maybe this is a little bit of explanation of why they want to push things back. Is that, well, hey, look, sure, you're not going to get it when we initially told you to, but look at what's going to be there when you do. Yeah, exactly. And you know that your car will be able to do cooler things with every software update because of that. Airbnb announced Wednesday it will ban users from listing multiple houses for rent in the cities of San Francisco and New York under a policy called one host, one home for a restrictive policy. It has a real snappy name. Airbnb introduced the policy for New York on June 1st, but says it now has technology to enforce it that will go into operation on November 1st. They didn't make clear what that technology was. Airbnb will introduce a three strikes policy for violations as well. A bill that would fine short term rental operators for violating New York state laws, in other words, hitting them with a fine, arrived on Governor Cuomo's desk Wednesday. He hasn't till October 29th to sign or veto the bill, and indications are he'll probably sign it. You know, it's. So go ahead. No, please, please. I'm only a merely European. I thought the entire last segment. Go, go, go. So it's kind of interesting, these kinds of, you know, Airbnb working with the administration so much. It's I think the curmudgeons are going to say, you can always create multiple accounts and you can fool it. And yes, that is true, but it still makes it inconvenient enough. And it points out the legal questions enough that I think it is going to have an effect. And that's a clever way of trying to appease everyone. So I wonder if they're going to implement these outside of, you know, in other administrative areas, maybe not limited to one, but maybe have one or two or three properties to make sure that people don't actually make this into a full business, which of course is not regarded kindly by the authorities usually. So the funny thing about Airbnb is compare them to Uber. Uber and Airbnb have both had this sort of like hard hat, go to war mentality when it's come to bringing their service into various cities. Now, obviously, Airbnb is a trickier situation in places like San Francisco and New York, where you have a gigantic population density and people tend to own multiple places that they can list on a service like this. However, Uber for as violent as they have been in terms of introducing themselves to markets has actually been very quick to make peace as long as peace falls, you know, short of their terms of negotiation. Right, like that they won't do what Austin's asking them to do. But short of that, sure, they'll put in a way to hail taxi cabs if you have a deal with that union that can't be broken.  It's like every time that you go to a different city with Uber, that menu very often is very different. And a lot of those times, it's because of the city that they've made the deal with to operate there. This, to me, is Airbnb growing up a little bit and saying, you want to know what, just hiring lobbyists and putting up snarky posters and staging your protests ultimately is not going to really be how you grow your business. Once you've broken in and people have understood the value that you can give to them, you've got to make peace with the people that run the city, the state, whatever locality you're trying to be there. And this, to me, is a good sign that Airbnb is growing up a little. And I think the key will be what Patrick pointed out. Will they do this in other administrative regions, especially if those regions don't require it? Right now, they're doing it in San Francisco because there's pressure on them to do it. Right now, they're doing it in New York because it's about to be illegal for them not to do it.  I mean, New York has laws in the books that says New York City has laws in the books anyway, that says certain buildings can't rent out for less than 30 days at a time. And that's going to hit Airbnb where they live if they need to comply with that. So it remains to be seen. Yeah, you know, just one very quick mention about what you were saying, Jerry, for us in France, at least, it's completely reversed. The image we have of Uber and Airbnb. Airbnb has been the relatively conciliatory one. And Uber has been the one that stomps in with their big boots and doesn't want to talk to anyone and just does what they do. So it's funny. I mean, in the past six months, it's changed quite a bit for Uber. But if you asked anyone in France, they would say Airbnb, yeah, whatever. Uber, not a lot of hotel workers burning overturned hotels in front of Airbnb.  Their value proposition is number one. Hey, do you have empty place that you would like to get money from? Cool, OK, that's going to be sunk like just value that you can generate out of nowhere if you have that place to give. But from somebody wants to stay in a hotel, you know, it's not that much cheaper than an average hotel, especially if you're just moving through town and you don't have a lot of the same amenities and things like that. Yeah, in Paris, it is. In Paris, it is significantly cheaper, but Paris is a very touristy city and the hotels, although there are many, are obviously very expensive. If you if you want to say, I'll say what, we actually stayed in Airbnb all throughout London and Edinburgh, and both of them were cheaper than hotels. We very much enjoyed it. But, you know, Uber is a different thing, you know, it's it's you know, I think to to understand Uber's success, you really need to understand how frustrating taxi cabs and taxi cab unions were in in the very diffuse cities of of America. Well, I think it's telling that why it works in Paris and in France and in Europe as well. That that was basically in many cities, the same situation for. I think it's telling that Airbnb is having these issues in cities that have housing crunches where people are complaining that it's unaffordable to live and then they see someone buying up a house and renting it out on Airbnb rather than making it available at a reasonable rent. And it just causes already flaring temperature, tear tempers to flare up higher. That's that's that's a hundred percent the issue here in San Francisco is is that this is very often the fight is not about the fight. This the fight over Airbnb in many ways is not necessarily about Airbnb. If only we could go back to a more simpler time like the 1940s, Justin. Indeed, Kodak. Remember them? Oh, let me hear it from all the Rochester listeners.  We got a Kodak story for you. Kodak's released a smartphone named after its 1940s era. Ektra camera, the second smartphone from Kodak, has a curved bottom like a camera grip and a leatherette back. The Ektra has a large steel rimmed 2.0 F stop aperture. And a twenty six point five millimeter lens, twenty one megapixel camera capable of 4K video and uses a Sony IMX to 30 image sensor. The five inch phone is made for Kodak by Bullet and runs stock Android 6.0 with Adobe Lightroom, Snap Speed, VSCO, Prisma and Kodak's prints apps are installed. The extra will be available in Europe for four hundred and forty nine pounds. That's four hundred ninety nine euros this December. So not coming to the US, Patrick. Here you go. You get one before us. Yeah, that is so exciting. I can barely contain myself. It's an interesting take to be like we're going to take the nostalgia for Kodak's brand and try to package that in a smartphone with a high quality camera. I think they could do it. They could make their, you know, return their brand to the front of people's eyes by saying we're going to build the best damn cameras in any phone you've ever had. The problem is then they go with the 6.0 Android. And it's, you know, for that price, it's probably not going to be the best. I'm guessing, but it's not going to be the best device ever. And we all know that in phones today. The photos are made by in equal parts by the lens and by the software. So I mean, I don't know, maybe it's going to be awesome. And I applaud the idea. I think there's something there. Here's the problem for Kodak. Unfortunately, as smartphones have ripened, the one thing that everybody, and we're talking about the big boys of the industry, Samsung, Google, Apple have all honed in on is people want cameras. They want the highest quality images that you can possibly get. That was two thirds of Apple's selling point for the for the seven, especially when they have a gigantic refresh coming next, reportedly. Same thing with the Pixel, same thing with the Samsung phones that don't explode, cheap shot. I'm sorry. The point near is Kodak needs to create if Kodak wants to recover their brand, they need something that is creating head and shoulders better images than their competitors, because otherwise, why would you want a OK phone experience on a good or great camera? This has to be a phenomenal camera. And I just don't think it will be. At a London event, Google announced Coldline, a new cold storage archival cloud service for data, not cold storage for meats or anything. Coldline will cost seven tenths a cent per gigabyte, stored per month with retrieval. Remember, this is cold storage, retrieval costing you five cents a gigabyte. Google has committed to keeping latency in line with its other cloud storage offerings, similar online cold storage options from places like Amazon, Amazon Glacier, for instance, can have latency measured in hours. So Google is offering up a faster access to your cold storage. It's also offering a switch and save promotion to enterprise customers, giving you 100 petabytes of free storage for several months as an incentive. So don't burn them to disk. Don't put them on tape. Just store them in the Google Coldline cloud and you'll be able to access them really fast. Is a great business for Google to get into. I mean, they have they have the they have the power for it and they need to do something to deflect attention away from Amazon, which is dominating this kind of stuff. I'm curious, how does it work exactly? Is it tape that they store outside of the reader and then they have little robots that go and retrieve the tapes? No, I don't think that's it, but I do want that service now just because I want to watch the camera of the little robots going to get the archival tape. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I mean, it's one of those things that you would have thought if we were to flash back eight years ago, 10 years ago and think about the kind of businesses that Google with its famed expanse of data storage would get into. It would be more of this stuff. It's why it was such a shock that it took them so long to get into drive that took them so long to get into storage in general. But, you know, it makes sense that this absolutely makes sense. The NBA announced that it will stream one game per week in virtual reality throughout the 30 week season, starting October 27th. The streams will be viewable on the next VR app for the Gear VR platform and available to people who pay for NBA League Pass. The broadcast will have multiple cameras and dedicated announcers, NBA and VR, Tom. It's fantastic. I mean, it's so funny.  Like this is an experiment. And then they go and they say we put dedicated announcers on this. So it's a high level experiment. Like they're saying we want to make this a service. So we're going to try it out because they can't be expecting high usage right now. I mean, you've got to figure that part of the reason why they're doing this with Samsung as an exclusive partner is because Samsung is subsidizing them to send one crew out to a game per week. That's going to set that up. You know, I'm very curious what a dedicated VR announcer is because I don't know. Like I'd be actually interested in it. I have a Vive so I won't be able to use it because I don't have a Samsung Gear VR. But as a tentative NBA fan, I think I'd be interested in trying it out. But I don't think that at any point I would be saying, oh, man, if only the professional announcers from ESPN or ABC or TNT were out of here, forget you, Marv Albert. I want to hear whoever Samsung has paid to travel to Golden State. Sure. But on the other side, I think this is interesting because what I assumed when I started reading this story for the first time was, OK, so they're going to set up a couple of 360-degree cameras. They'll hire a switcher to go back and forth between them. And then we'll just hear the announcers from ESPN. And maybe it'll make sense. Instead, they're saying, no, what would a virtual reality broadcast look like? They're going to do custom graphics as well. They're saying, let's try to do a native VR broadcast, which means having our own announcers. Now, granted, your point is well-taken. They won't get the top of the line announcers for this. But at least it'll be people who are seeing the same thing that you're able to see and could do things like, folks, look behind you, because that's not something you would say on a normal broadcast. But you can instruct people like, you're going to want to look to the left right there and this replay, stuff like that. Yeah, I mean, my thought is not necessarily that there's a problem with having dedicated announcers. Because I think if this were to become a thing, I would like there to be dedicated announcers in the final form of this. But this, to me, screams, let's just do a mark. I don't know. For whatever reason, it feels to me like this press release is the most exciting part of this entire enterprise. But we'll see. Well, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit and helps us pick the stories of the day. You can submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewsShow.Reddit.com. All right, let's get into the details of the brand new Nintendo Switch. No longer the NX, the Nintendo Switch arrives in March 2017. Console consists of a tablet that sits in a dock. That dock then connects to your TV and it plays like a home console. You've got a controller, you sit on the couch. Everything works as you might expect. Then you can slide the sides off of your handheld controller. Nintendo calls these Joy-Cons and connect those to the tablet, which you can then remove from the dock by the television and take that away and do mobile gameplay of the same game you were playing, I think. I'm pretty sure that's what they're implying here. The Joy-Cons can also be used with the tablet unattached. So they showed a picture in the video they released today of a guy sitting in an airplane, a couple of folks at a table and they're playing some basketball. Games will be distributed on small SD card-like cartridges called Game Cards, kind of similar to what you had for the DS. A custom Nvidia Tegra processor is inside powering the graphics and Nintendo also announced a list of 48 third-party game devs and publishers who say they will develop titles for the Switch. So we don't get a price. We don't get a release date. We don't actually get specs. In fact, ours technicus Kyle Orland did some visual analysis of the photos to find out that it looks like it's a 6.5-inch screen. So this is tinier than your regular 9-inch tablet like an iPad. The controllers seem to be slightly smaller than the NES controllers, but almost the same size if you wanna imagine that. Otherwise, we don't really know anything else about this, but the concept, which is the way Nintendo wants it right now. Patrick, what do you think? There are, you know, we don't know a lot, so we can guess a lot and that's always fun, but we do know a little bit. I can rush to the end immediately and then we can go back and discuss all of the details, but I think the really important part of this console, okay, ultimately it's just a new Nintendo console. We haven't heard anything that is incredible about it. We knew all of the rumors. The thing that did jump at me after a little bit of thought is you can use those two side controllers, which are two halves of a controller, independently to play a two-player game on the console on the tablet that has a kickstand. And I think that is going to be a decisive factor because this is not gonna be primarily aimed at all gamers. It's gonna be just like every portable Nintendo console aimed at teenagers and kids. And when you have one kid who comes to school with their Switch, puts it up on the desk and gives a friend a controller to play together, that is inherently social and shareable. It's a shareable experience that is going to get, to spread like wildfire because I think it's gonna help people want, the people who have one, their friends are gonna want one as well. So that's the one difference, I think, with every other product that's been out there in the gaming space. And then we can discuss everything else, which is a little bit less surprising. Yeah, we don't know if it's got a touchscreen on it. We don't know a lot about it, but we know it's meant for mobile and console. So it kills the Wii U. I don't think any of us are gonna debate on that. What does it do to the DS? So the 3DS is immensely popular right now. I think it's, I can't remember, 50, 60 million consoles installed base. It's, no, maybe that's a little bit too much. It's in the tens of millions for sure. And it's gonna be phased out. The thing is it's ancient technology. The 3D never really mattered, but the capabilities are really, they were old when they put the console out in 2011 or 12. So it's not gonna go away immediately, but I do think that what Nintendo is doing with this is they can't compete against smartphones entirely in the portable space, and they can't really compete against Sony and Microsoft in the home console. So they're taking their two markets, unifying them into one market to make one strong one instead of two weak ones, despite what they're saying officially about the 3DS, which is this is, you know, the Switch is squarely a home console. It has nothing to do with the 3DS. It's not competing with that. That's just not true. It's managing the expectations of the 3DS owners. Can I ask you a question here, Patrick? As you worked in kind of games for a while, and especially in terms of explaining projects and everything as they came along, what is the strategy of announcing something like this now in October for a release in March, which for those of you who do not own a calendar is after Christmas when so many people buy consoles, especially for a youth focused market. Why not hold this off later or why not push it up to release three months earlier? I think ideally any manufacturer would like to release their new device during the holiday period, but in this case it's a case of making sure everything is cooked, everything is ready because they made a grave mistake with the Wii U. They didn't have a, among other issues which are communications-based, nobody knew what the Wii U was when it came out, but it also didn't have enough of a software library. I think they're pushing the release as far as they can to make sure that they have a very furnished, furnished, it's a French word that you use in French to say that, a very well-populated software library, but at the same time they need to make sure that the enthusiasm for that console is drummed up and that people know it's coming out. Usually these consoles are announced way before, you know, maybe a year in advance, at the very least, you know, eight, nine, eight months. So here it's already kind of late and I think they wanted to make sure that people knew it was coming and it's easy for us to know that this is gonna be coming because we're in the tech and gaming world, but they need the parents and the kids to understand that this is coming in March and that takes time, you know, it's gonna take three months for everyone to go through the motions of the PR cycle, first a small announcement, then demonstrations, then you get to the more wide stream outlets, et cetera, et cetera. It takes time. I mean, that is an awkward window though, right?  Like that seems awkward. It definitely is. And again, it's not ideal, but I think they chose the lesser of two evils, which was give themselves time to make sure it's a good release and not a quick release because they couldn't handle, if they released it, you know, even four months early because, you know, for Christmas, you can't release it on December 15th, right? It would need to be November at the latest. And so even giving yourself five extra months to get the quality software you need, it's extremely important. And in this case, especially when the console first comes out, it's gonna, Nintendo doesn't really need to make a lot of, you know, Nintendo can sell consoles no matter what initially. So I think they're gonna live on their brand anyway, so they don't need, it would be better to get it available for Christmas, but it wouldn't kill them. It won't kill them as it would another brand to not have it at Christmas. So they can afford it. Nintendo does this a lot, where they just, they've put things out in the spring before that are surprising. And I think what they realize is we're Nintendo, we do things on our own schedule. We have a lot of fans who will buy it, no matter when we put it out. And all we have to do is have a Mario or Zelda game out at the holidays, and a bunch of people will run to buy not only that game, but the console that it plays on if they don't have it already. I think in this case, they're gonna need a Mario and a Zelda game available not at the holiday season in 2017. They're gonna need to be available when the game, when the thing launches. They can't afford to mess up this one because it's kind of the last one. And as much as I love Nintendo, the Nvidia Tegra chip that they have in this thing is, you know, it's an Nvidia Tegra, which means mobile class device. It's great. It's apparently a 720p resolution, which is great for the portable version. But when you plug it into the TV, 720p is good. But it's coming out now when 4K is sort of becoming popular. That's always the Nintendo knock, right? The Wii was underpowered, the Wii U was underpowered, and let's just leave the Wii U out of it. The Wii was underpowered and people still called it a success. Well, the Wii is kind of an anomaly in Nintendo's history. It is a very strange, you know, success that gamers wouldn't really call the success gaming wise, I think, in many ways. But in this case, they do need to convince gamers and yes, in this day and age, as long as you're HD, you can woo people with style rather than polygon count. And that works to an extent. But when you're talking about the mobile class GPU on a giant TV screen, it does hurt your prospects a little bit, potentially. The key with the Wii was, you know what? It's not the greatest resolution, but we have this crazy motion control which everybody's gonna love. What they seem to be banking on here is, well, we've got this tablet experience that people are gonna love. They're gonna love that flexibility. And Justin, I'm curious, what do you think of this idea of a game console that you can take with you and how well do we actually expect that to work in practice? You know, I mean, Patrick would probably be better to talk about the possibility of what it can be personally, I don't have a whole lot of need or at least I don't think I need necessarily when I'm playing my game of Hearthstone to have it thrown up on my television seamlessly. Now maybe if I had that option, I would like it to do it and maybe there will be other solutions that bring me closer to that. Ultimately though, I think this is a mobile, this is a mobile system with high powered for mobile games that are exclusive to it. And if those are great, which in their, they're very, very well done commercial that they debuted today, they made a point to show off as my colleague, Mr. Beja said, a well furnished lineup of games and titles that ranged from the staples of Nintendo like Mario Kart and Zelda to third party stuff like Skyrim and NBA basketball. I don't know, I started off thinking this is going to be absolutely ridiculous. And then as I watched the commercial more and more, I thought, ah, you wanna know what? Maybe, maybe this makes a little bit of sense but here's my question to Patrick. What is an amazing price for the Nintendo Switch? What is a fair price for the Nintendo Switch and what is a way too expensive price for the Nintendo Switch? Amazing, $199, that's incredible. Fair, $249, I think they could potentially push it to $299 but that would be a little bit too expensive, I think. Above $299, it's dead on arrival. That I don't believe they can make it. The thing is, ultimately it's gonna live on its games and the questions you're asking yourself, Justin, am I interested? I think there is a market for it for sure. Yeah, there is one and it's because they have Nintendo games on it and lots of gamers want it but do they want it enough to pay more than $299? I don't think so. Well, the Nvidia Shield, which everyone's comparing this to. And even I, when I looked at it, was like, oh, it's an Nvidia Shield with a better dock, I guess, is $199. So in people's minds, they're going to be comparing it to that price so I think you absolutely nailed it, Patrick. At $299, you can say, well, I guess I'm paying a Nintendo tax because this is an updated version of the Shield, it's got more storage or it's got a better Tegra processor inside but much farther beyond that, I don't think anybody would tolerate it. I think $199 almost has to be the price because of that comparison. Well, I think ultimately it's going to be $249, hopefully. Yeah, you're just splitting the difference to make yourself safe in your prediction. Well, no, because it's still, $199 would be a killer, killer price. That would be insane, I don't think. And I think as mobile as the device seems and it definitely seems very mobile to everyone, the reason why they're insisting that this is a squarely home console is that the price is not going to be the one we expect for a mobile device. I think it's going to be unfortunately $299, which I think is a little bit too expensive. I actually like what Lynn is saying in the chat room, $199 solo, then like bundled with a controller, maybe it's more expensive, then you have a $249 to $299, et cetera. Because there is that separate controller they have that they're calling the Nintendo Switch Pro, which is your traditional controller that doesn't have the slide-off bits. It won't be included for sure. I think whatever the price is. It'll be a more expensive bundle and sold separately, if that's my guess. Yeah, here's the only question and back to Patrick's original point about its shareability, that you're able to put up the little kickstand and play with your friends.  Number one, how does that network? Because they make a point to show it, not connecting with wires. And number two, how fun or comfortable is it to play with two hands on those controllers? Because they look, even in that commercial, kind of awfully small. Yeah, but those guys have huge hands.  Well, again, I think it's aimed at teenagers and kids ultimately more. And this is the kind of thing, they want a tablet. A tablet is $500, $600, maybe a little bit less, but this is $250, maybe you can give it to them more easily. And, but actually the problem of size, and we all know size doesn't matter, but sometimes it does, here is not necessarily going to be for the controllers. I think the UI is going to be the big problem because it's a much more difficult problem to get your game to work on a big screen and then on a small screen. It has to be a different kind of UI and even a different perspective. When you look at the NBA 2K thing, when they're putting it on the floor and sitting two feet away, you can't really see all that well.  Two feet away, it becomes very small. So I wonder how they're going to tackle that issue as well. And all of this is going to be key also. Yeah, I was just looking at a link that Lynn put in the chat room to a PC advisor story that said Tesco in the UK accidentally published a page before the switch was announced that said the Nintendo NX would sell for 349 pounds. Granted, that's probably not even an official price. That's just a placeholder. And somebody put a guess in there, but it does sort of push me towards thinking this thing might be a little more expensive. You know, sometimes they do this, and I'm not saying that's the case here. Sometimes they do this intentionally to lessen the shock of the price when they actually announced it. 349 pounds though, that would be 400 euros probably. Yeah, I mean, the pounds worth like 20 cents now, Justin. 20 pence above the dollar. Yeah, so almost parody. Well, I think the last thing I want to hit before we get off this topic is I love that Nintendo just announces stuff, gives us a video, they don't make us sit through a dog and pony show for an hour and a half. And I seriously appreciate that. I do think it's interesting that they're doling out the pieces little by little though, so that we're all hungry to hear the next announcement and they'll get a whole other news cycle when they announce that price and release date for sure. You know, what we really want are the games. We want to see the actual games. I think that's that to me is from what they said in that commercial compared to what Nintendo has done in the past. The big difference was, we're going to have a steady drumbeat from now until March about all the rad games that are coming out and they are either going to be available at launch or within, you know, six months of launch, like something that's like very, very, very, very close. All right, let's get a message of the day from Matt the proud patron in Vegas, writing regarding Echo's bicycle, said, I wanted to say sign me up for an Android bicycle. I'm certainly an Android fanboy and also quite in need of a power assisted bicycle. I have a partially severed spinal column from a few years ago and fortunately have maintained some use of my legs but a motorized bicycle is something I've been looking into in order to exercise and keep movement throughout my legs. If I can use a good app for tracking that exercise and movement, it could be extremely useful for someone like me who could perhaps use that data to plot daily pain levels or medication intake. This could be a huge win because the bicycle would be all tied into that. Thank you Matt for that insight and thank you Patrick Beja for dropping in on an off day and sharing the Nintendo insight, super valuable and where can people find more of those sorts of insights on video games and things? You can go listen to Pixels which is a gaming show I do twice a month. It basically summarizes all of the important news from the world of gaming and makes it fun to listen to, hopefully. The last episode we reviewed the PlayStation VR to excruciating details, well, half an hour or so just on the PSVR. So you can find that at Frenchspin.com. And Mr. Justin Robert Young, what do you got going on these days? Well, I'll tell you, I don't know if you guys have heard of this but apparently there is a election going on here in the United States. Now don't worry what I'm not gonna go into, you can listen to politics, politics, politics, my political show if you wanna hear more analysis of what happened. But the contender, the game of presidential debate which we have available at thecontender.us, we have put in our order officially for our Vegas expansion. So all the best quotes from last night can be a part of your game if you go to bit.ly slash Vegas debate. Well, I mean, what are some of the quotes gonna be? I'll tell you what, you don't have to be a nasty woman or a bad ombre to say that I'll leave you in suspense. Check that out folks. It's only gonna make the contender an even more fun game to play. By the way, in all seriousness, as soon as we put in the order and we have how many we have left, these have gone extraordinarily fast. 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Talk to you then. This is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Diamond Club, hope you have enjoyed this program. That was a great conversation. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Yeah. Here's one question that we didn't get to. Do you think this thing, is this gonna have a browser or wireless connectivity? Like, that's another. You mean like, like 4G or? Yeah. Well, the Tegra processors indicate it'll have at least Wi-Fi, if not some kind of LTE service. Oh, Wi-Fi, of course, yeah. But that's another, you know, that's the other big question. I mean, there are a few we didn't get to, but that's a big question because if you have a browser, then I mean, the 3DS has a browser, so I do think it will. But then you sort of turn it into a little bit of a tablet. How tablet-y is it gonna be? Are you gonna have apps? You're obviously gonna have a store. You're gonna have a YouTube app. I can't imagine a thing that kids can use and parents can buy for kids without a YouTube app so they can watch their songs and shows. But how far do they go? Is it a huge question? I have no idea. You know what else is a huge question? What the title is? Tidehulls. Tidehulls. I actually don't, I think the resolution for the switch will be much higher. I don't think it'll be 720. Well, that's what the chip is, right? No, I haven't found anything on the specific. I've heard 720 somewhere, but maybe it can go to 1080. The problem is more gonna be the 3D, you know, the polygon count and that kind of thing. Well, I mean, it's probably the what? The teraflops, how many flops? The NX was this bait and switch. How's that for bait and switch? Technically, a laptop, awesome's razor, merely European, I think they spelled merely wrong, right? A switch in the system. Gamers don't have a switch to scratch. Nintendo switched its name. Nintendo knows switches, which switch, Nintendo knows which way it's heading. It's a bit of a tongue twister. Size doesn't matter, but sometimes it does. I voted for that hand. Which one? Size doesn't matter, but sometimes it does. Oh, jeez. I'm voting for myself. Don't switch to Nintendo. Oh, joy hyphen con. One switch fits all. And there's still a lot of questions. I like awesome's razor. I think it's not a Nintendo. Switchway is up. Switchway is up. Ah! What do you guys like? There's the Joy-Con though. There has to be silly puns with the Joy-Cons. I didn't mention enough how silly I think that name is. Oh yeah. Almost as silly as we. Should we do switchways up? Anybody care? Sure. Awesome's razor is good too, but switchways up works as well. It gets Nintendo in the name. So all I know is it's a Tegra, but it could be the Tegra X2. I think it's gonna be a custom Tegra. It is a custom. Yeah, that was actually said by NVIDIA, but that's all they've said about it. It's gonna be powerful for sure. It's just... Yeah, I don't think the visual... I mean, I'm not as... Maybe not today, but on a big screen in three years.  Oh, I know.   They could effectively basically ditch certain aspects of the graphics, like what it chooses to render to basically increase the actual resolution, right? They could ditch... Of course. So, I mean, there's a number of ways to do it, but I don't actually see it being the Achilles heel. I think the biggest one is just getting enough software developers on board to kind of crank out games that people actually want to play. Yeah, and we didn't mention this, but they have a lot of third-party developers on board at the moment. They made a point of that as well. Oh, I guess you did. I mentioned it in the setup, but yeah, we didn't talk about it a lot. Well, the other thing is, compared to the Wii U, it's a crazy number of developers. But then, if compared to the Wii or the GameCube, it's not that many more. It's all a question of what games do they actually develop and bring to the platform? And Nintendo, by showing things like Skyrim in that video is trying to imply, no, they're gonna bring their A-game stuff. Well, Skyrim is a game from 2011, so... I mean, the other thing is the Wii had a lot of shovelware. They were publishers, but they were cranking out games that weren't necessarily of even decent quality, like something you would give to someone for Christmas. Have you seen the graphs of the number of consoles sold by Nintendo over the course of their life for the home consoles? I saw one from five years ago. Because it is striking. Basically, it's a downward slope, extremely rough with one spike for the Wii. Every other new console sold less than the previous one. And significantly, it's very, very stark. So I really don't think we should take the Wii as an example of something that is representative of what Nintendo does on the home. Are you saying it's the exception that proves the rule? I'm saying it's an exception. It's an anomaly. It's an anomaly, let's call it an anomaly. Anomaly, is that a French word? Isn't that a French movie? They could also have another GPU, for example, in the dock that could improve the graphics. That's what, yes, I saw that there was some speculation that that's gonna bump things up for the TV. Could be interesting. Maybe. That seems like an awfully expensive way to create a stand that doesn't do anything. I mean, I don't know. I think that would be a pretty risky product move to basically create a dock that is, I'm still trying to figure out how that would even work. Yeah, it's complicated because then you have to have the games that are programmed twice, kind of.  And all of the consoles are PCs now, but this is not a PC architecture. So.  It's more like what the surface does with the pro. You can change the settings. Well, no, I'm talking more about. You have the PS4 pro and the PS4 and the scorepio and the. Well, that I'm sure, but I'm just saying, as they're not modular systems, right? The Scorpio and whatever the PS4 Neo, whatever the heck they called it, pro. They're not modular units. You're not taking a bit of it off and then it reattaching it in order to get that extra graphic capability. It's like Microsoft's continuum or the Android stuff that does that. Or you can. I think they can figure it out too. Yeah. It's just a very inefficient way to do it though.  And it's just, I'm just thinking it's just, I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm not saying it's not possible. I just saying like to go that route is like a huge, huge expansion. If it allows you to get better graphics on the TV, decent graphics on the TV, it might, I mean, we don't know. Maybe they're absolutely not considering it. But at the very least, I'm certain they're going to make the GPU run faster when it's docked. I'm sure. That could very well be. It could actually run at a higher resolution when it's docked because it's the power. But it would need it for a smaller screen. Yeah. I have the power. So many questions. I can't find the installed base for the 3DS. Oh, 60 million. I was right. Damn it. 60 million what? Oh, installs. 3DS, yeah. 3DS available. I mean, install base worldwide. That seemed too big. I do want to play Breath of the Wild on this. Everyone does. Yes, I know. I mean, yeah, they have Breath of the Wild and the difference with the release of the Wii when between the GameCube and the Wii is that very, very few people have a Wii U. So basically it's like they're only releasing it on NX. So it is a launch title for that. And everyone's very excited. There is a new Mario game that was shown for half a second during the video. So there's that. Yeah, there's a Mario Kart. There's a lot of questions about the Wii U backwards compatibility. It seems like it makes sense. Not sure how, but if you have to buy the games again, I'm going to be ticked off, but I'll do it. And I would say to per phrase for radio, no one really does that anymore. Like they did it, but I'm not saying it. Again, I'm not saying that it's not possible. I didn't see what per face for radio. Oh, I'm sorry. He, she said the doc duo was a power book. A line had a faster processor, math co-processor from what I can recall that was built into the doc. So when you attached the laptop, the power book into it, it would basically increase some of the capabilities. But I mean, it's not saying that it can't be done and they've done it with a bunch of other things, but people, engineers generally haven't done it because it's just, it's a very cost intensive thing for a moderate benefit. Like you're spending a lot of money for incremental improvement and experience. You know what I mean? It's not like you're putting on, you know, VR goggles and suddenly you're in the world of Mario 3D. Ooh, the world of Mario 3D. Hey, Nintendo should just open a theme park and then. Well, isn't that the thing, what's the latest on that? What? The Nintendo theme park. That's been kicking around for a while. You get excited when you get to the door and slowly as you go through the experience, you get more and more disappointed. They're doing a plan with Universal. Yeah, no, the rumor was right that that's gonna be where they put, where they currently have Marvel, the Marvel area would be the Nintendo area. So they're hoping to open it in Osaka by 2020. And time for the Olympics. Nice. How was that? I need to take a Nozomi down there, it's pretty quick. Those funky nose trains. Those things are awesome. I love them, they're great. Sonya wants to go back to Japan. I wanna go back to Japan. Hey, everyone, it's a great place. It's like one of those places that like, I actually had fun. Like generally when they get dragged around, it's like you just feel like you're dragged around, but it's fun there. All right, I'm going to go and try to get some sleep. Yes, thank you again.  I sure will. If I don't start dreaming of bad home braids and how... Nasty women. Nasty women. I thought he was talking about that weight, that color stripe that you get at a hairstylist, ombre, like that was, that's what I originally heard. There's some bad ombres here, dude. There's some real bad ombres. Here, all right, so here are all the quotes we got for the expansion. Hi, Patrick. Hi, Patrick. Hi, everyone. We got some bad ombres here. I'll keep you in suspense. I'm very proud to have the endorsement of the NRA, which I think is just a great non sequitur to play if you ever played the game. That was a great pivot. Such a nasty woman. Excuse me, my turn.  I understand the tradition of blank, which it was Hillary Clinton's line, I understand and respect the tradition of gun ownership. That is horrifying. Let me translate that if I can. I was just quoting you. I mean, who does that? And dozens of toddlers injured themselves with a blank. Was this from the debate or just a couple of six-year-olds that were playing around in your house? This is all from the debate to see who gets to run the country, baby. Also two different topics in this expansion. Chinese steel. Chinese steel. And $6 billion, which was what Trump accused Hillary of losing during her tenure at the State Department. $6 billion. What was her snappy comeback? I mean, she had a really good zinger. It's like, wait, $6 billion? Wait, you should know about that. It's like, you just need to open, what, three casinos or something? Or was that from, no, that was Stephen Colbert. Sorry. Because I saw that this morning. He had a really funny line. Yeah, those are different people.  Listen, I'm still a little loopy. You gotta give Roger a break. He just finished the paperwork for his house. So, yeah. Oh, speaking of paperwork, do you mind if I bug you, Justin? Sure, yeah. That's a paperwork. No, just to basically figure out, are there any scheduling things I should be wearing for November, December with you? Let me just take one little look. I don't think so, because I take it forever to export. Sorry about that. It's because those trade barriers. Must be, must be. Must be that bad NAFTA deal, keeping my audacity filed from exporting.  I assume that's probably not the most entertaining thing in the world. Maybe I'm wrong. You tell me, we'll decide tomorrow. Maybe we'll talk scheduling tomorrow with Darren and Lynn. Scheduling with Darren and Lynn. Sounds like a new show.


Everybody forced here. We're on to case number for 2022 NT baseball hobby random team style Check out the results anytime at late in sports cards calm and there's a Lincoln chat as well If you want to check him out if you're watching now Let's get started. Here we go. I Want to see one of those six years 200 mil I think my agent doesn't negotiate a deal like that for me Make sure they do my physicals It's crazy that it was something that he had repaired when he was 19 and now like teams. Yeah, I didn't know you had like a Reconfigured like ankle when he was like 19 Richard get rich would owe money to the twins Insurance is not even covering this All right We're adding 75 cents to it Jersey's that gallon D-backs to 99 Colossal Jersey. Whoa Now, what is this relic? It looks like an old timey relic, but it's a large new bar rookie jumbo patch That's when they wore carpet that one Yeah What I don't know what that is Player used carpet. I want to touch it, but I'm not gonna obviously I just want to know what it is It looks like you got it from a pool table Sweater and there's like a piece of a One of you know what it might be it could be like a spring training hoodie Something like that Yeah, hoodie that was made 60 years ago Car mat rally it could be that litter of my sweatshirt could literally be that relic You can tell the materials like a felt kind of though Retro materials see this looks newer than that does Wade Boggs to 49 red socks Blish Blake tell us what it is. There should be chicken grease on that There's not it must have put in the wash Car mat felt they took a tide stick to that before they put in the thing Got a twins out of here Trevor Larnack to 99 on card signature I like the look of the next one. That's a sharp looking card. Yeah, he's Really good looking the future auto thick you to is Tyler Salter strum 5 out at 25 dude That's nice looking. I like that I wonder if football a few the futures are gonna look like that. I think they did this year I'm saying 22 For 22 might be a 240 point top loader. Dang. I think it's big Yeah, I'll pass that one off to you Blake. Thanks. Oh, here we go Bat relic auto with the acetate Rafael Devers six of ten red socks. I Okay, so I like that. I like the window over the relic with the auto on. Yeah We had a duran one earlier and it was sweet. That's really cool looking That is like the only player that's gonna be in the Red Sox lineup this year at this point He's hitting one through nine. He's a yeah, he's hitting over and over Go strong. They just put ghost runners on these Boston's using ghost runners RPA Diamondbacks Jake McCarthy with a four-color patch 18 of 25. I got can play my car You back sneaky good in this Game use towel game use game use steel wool. He was doing dishes in the dugout Acetate might might not might not have Jersey auto jack lighter Rangers 39 of 99 What is coming up next here They always have like the biggest hit second to last it seems like all right It doesn't have a name so we got legendary material signatures triples one of five. What is that? It's gonna get pirates book. I would say oh Baby, it's Willie's stardew Big hit Pittsburgh pops. Oh Man that is nasty Congrats pirates game-worn triple jersey auto cut auto book. I don't know what I'm saying anymore Willie's stardew. Oh my goodness Yeah, that's really cool That's fire again. This is number two five One of five. That's really cool that dude could mash Think he was the oldest MVP winner of all time, right Jersey auto Cole Franklin cubs to 99 Yeah, I think what stardew one MVP man is like 39 years old or something like that Yeah, one of five, I didn't know what to expect That's sick. We pulled a goose. We have a goose cut auto. We got the stardew cut auto so far today Matt pulled two bud ceilings today so far. I Hope everyone was in chat booing you have to be with the commissioner no matter what Again guys Matt is live in the baseball channel with PYT's. He still has spots left We're totally full today. It might be some random spots still available tonight with Sam Random so fast guys blue jays colossal jersey you say kukuchi. This feels like a good random product to 99 Rookie jumbo Jersey Braves Kyle Muller bookended 99 of 99 next one's nice. Oh That's very nice Red Sox having a really nice break nice game worn game one. Yeah game warrants head Williams Jersey car 33 of 49 The splendid splinters. Yeah, that's how that's why we're so good at hitting use three bats the whole time That's every time that's why he hit so many. That's why he hit 400 that one year. Yeah That's probably why they only use one bat nowadays He warmed up with like 12 pitchers were complaining. I bet and then he cut it down to three for the actual I bet Commissioners like it's not the rules. You can use out of any warrants the biggest forums of all time That's a cool Blue jays rookie auto auto Lopez to 99 More on card than I remember this is all auto. Yeah, there's like way more on there's like four There's like 15 cards a box now for 25 minutes. I was like, oh, we'll have plenty of time 17 hits a box now. You got a rookie auto Mets Patrick Mazzica 65 and 99 Mazzica virus It's not a good nickname. I hope I hope that's not his nickname you gave it to him I hope it doesn't say if he does have it. It's your fault. It's on the internet forever now Wanya Paz rookie auto Cardinal 76 and 99 apprentice Inc Mother on card. There's another on card after that. Yeah, I think most most of it seems to be This is an RPA Pirates, Roanzee Contreras 61 of 99 look at that patch Patches NT baseball are sick guys It's like a full bottom part of a letter. They are sick. Oh Good prospect hit here for the Mariners noel v. Marta Jersey auto on card. That's another on card Yeah clutch factor. Good. God go Mariners Reds prospect now part of the Castillo trade and Jumbo material signature book Atlanta Andrew Jones 3 of 10 Man, I hope he makes the Hall of Fame this year. I'm not a big fan of the relic window on that Yeah, it's just a bit odd. It's like a piece of gum It's better than sometimes they put like the little tiny one Still nice hit for the Braves crazy design here I saw this thing and it was if you put Andrew Jones stats next to Mike Trout at the same point in their career I'm like Trout is right now He's better wow how he's not the Hall of Fame I don't understand the first like you're saying the first 10 years of his career We're like really Jones is close. He'll get it and just because like the rest of his career was kind of averaged. They're like, yeah So Josh was kind of wild He'll get in the foil pop on these is crazy I want to see it's probably like what is it one insert a case it seems like so it's like non-hit inserts this year That are super cool looking though I'm telling you there's more hits 30 cards a box now. Yeah, I don't know 25 minutes is not enough for NT Apparently tonight nine Jersey card McKenna for the Orioles 140 hits of case I'll just start going faster through some of these relics guys bat relic Zimmerman Nationals to 49 Zim that's cool That's legend. Yeah, do you not see enough hits of him?  I want to bet. Yeah, that's how they did it back then dugout right before the Went up the bad you can't smoke out here and he's like Puts it out. He's like it might have been the umpire cigarette. That's back then could have been anybody cigarette. Yeah a Colt Tucker d-backs on it to 99 legacy signatures kind of stinks. That's not in the frame there. It's not centered Yeah, I'm solving earlier that was But then again the acetate piece is probably bigger than the frame itself. It is he backs there. Oh, that's pretty Dicut material signatures Reese Nair for the Padres. That's pretty cool They're getting bolder with their designs NT I like it though to 25 San Diego San Diego Dicut three color patch 17 autos a box Bubba Chandler nice Bubba I've got to go back for Bubba So 99 Jersey auto hits Berg RPA Guardians Eli Morgan 97 and 99 a big Morgan the piano the tea and Morgan. I wonder what that is Oh, this is there's gotta be a red Wow, this is really nice Dodgers field pass Freddy Freeman auto. Yeah, that translates pretty well to baseball 24 of 25 that's a mag right there That is sick. Yeah, that's really nice Dodgers Freeman to that'll do well That's a cool card Dual mem signatures 15 of 99 What is that is Jake Meyers Astros dual mem signatures freaking cool. Those are some of the inserts look like that Astros and Treasured stats Tigers tie cob that card is awesome 98 of 99 I Wore that yesterday. You wore that same outfit same pants Rinch went rich went to the saloon. Yeah, this is baggy pants. I did did All my pants come down to my knees and he went to the general store All of my pants are as wide as they are long They're all squares Square pants. Yeah, then he went to the world's fair after that and Cob is missing two of his bats. Yeah, I don't know. That's probably why he didn't hit better I'm all 366 he could have hit he could have hit for you to hit 400 I could be wrong I think he did for his career first career. Yeah, probably really then again Ty Cobb never fought in two wars Jordan Montgomery Jersey card Cardinals in 99 during the prime of his career Yeah, he came back and hit 406. Yeah, it's like I almost died 30 times as a pilot with the I'll just go ahead 400 now Jersey card Braves William Contreras to 99 Colossal Jersey Hey guys all the current players seem to all be player-worn so far White Sox Tim Anderson Colossal Jersey to 99 as well rookie signatures Reds Nixon's L The only stickers are like vets. Yeah, even then there's not many Reds there a steel city die-cut Jersey Auto Pirates where ones you can trar us to 99 Steel City Looking good Die-cut Jersey Auto Giants gonna be Louise Gonzalez 12 out of 49 It's a San Fran ribbon a new Louise Gonzalez Yeah, yeah Another one next year new Louise Gonzalez dropped RPA Roman Gonzalez to 49 We have another Roman Gonzalez so many Go that's the RPA design by the way guys that is the RPA White Sox. Oh, and not I did not that that one kept up. Wow. Is that on card? show is Yankees Aaron judge signatures 13 of 49 Is that from last year all rise? That is 2022 NT. Yeah, it's the design is very similar if not the same dude on card judge Are you kidding me? We pulled a judge book earlier. I was on card to it's crazy Second judge of the day Yankees Jonathan B. Congrats on that that guy's fairly good at baseball Legacy signatures of a sale Garcia 99 of 99 Marlins crazy auto Yeah, it's huge auto and Hall of Fame materials Reggie Jackson angels six of ten.  We'll start with that I guess and then uh Let's check out this real quick against we can get it all taken care of I can get a picture of it Pirates with arguably the hit of the break here Legendary material signatures triples willy star Joel. Yeah, that's cool That is awesome pirates. Congrats. We'll drop the insurance link in a second here or someone could just command it Okay, that'd be great Get a photo of that. That is so awesome, man Quick photo. We'll do the rest of the recap Holy moly that is cool.  We're pulling heat Hope everyone's enjoying the stream. 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Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and Iggish Fjontek is pulled out of the event next week in Berlin. One of the big warm-up events for Wimbledon, which is happening in a couple of weeks, due to a shoulder problem which is a big concern because she is the favorite for Wimbledon and she's on such a big win streak. This is the statement that she bought out only a couple hours ago. So this is the statement that Iggah put out on Twitter saying due to a reconcurrent discomfort I'm feeling in my shoulder. Unfortunately, I needed withdraw from the bet one open in Berlin. I'm sorry I will not be able to play there. I will focus on recovery and rest in order to be ready for Wimbledon. So there you have it. Iggish Fjontek not playing in Berlin next week and she joins a lot of players that are actually not playing in Berlin next week. It was supposed to be a big tournament next week, but she also joins players like Padasa, Conservate, Pagula. They will put out of the event next week as well. So it's turned into a little bit more of a proper WTA 500, but she does join some players that are not playing warm-up events going into Wimbledon going straight from the clay to the grass with no warm-ups in between, including Rafa, of course. We expect him to play Wimbledon. Hopefully he plays Djokovic not playing any warm-up events. Alka-Rez another one not playing any warm-up events. So let me know down in the comments below. Do you think this is going to hurt her chances of extending the streak and more importantly, winning Wimbledon for the first time? She's definitely the favorite, obviously the clear favorite. She's the best player on the planet and second is far, far away. So let me know down in the comments below. Do you think she can win Wimbledon having not played any grass court tournaments going in to the third slam of the year?


lecture on the topic the radiance reaching the sensor. Last lecture we started discussing about what are the different paths in which radiance can reach the sensor like we saw 5 different paths as given here in this slide. We just went through what are these 5 paths in which energy can reach the sensor. Then we neglected to what of it and we started to look at 3 major components of energy that will reach the sensor especially in the shorter wavelength domain that is lambda less than 3 micrometers. Then we started calculating each and every path separately we started with path 1 that is the energy from the sun interacting with the terrain reaching the sensor. There we calculated the energy coming in from the sun as 3 different steps like first we calculated using Planck's law what is the energy emitted by sun within that particular wavelength. Then we calculated how much of the energy will reach the top of atmosphere using inverse square law. After that we apply that we apply the atmospheric transmissivity to the radiance top of atmosphere for calculating the irradiance at the earth surface. We saw what fraction of energy will reach the earth surface after it we also saw why this cos theta term is there if the solar radiation is not normal to the surface if it is coming in at an angle we need to multiply with the theta cos theta where theta is the angle of incidence at what angle solar radiation is coming in with respect to normal to the surface. So, that is the total energy that reaches the sensor sorry surface from sun. Then we multiply that particular energy from sun with respect to sorry with reflectance from the surface rho and then divided by pi in order to correct it for radiance. Assuming a lambertian surface we have now converted the radiant flux density from the sun into radiance reaching the earth surface. When it reaches the sensor it has to again go through the atmosphere there is one more transmissivity that came in. So, this is the final equation for path 1 that reaches the sensor. Now we are going to proceed and look at path 2 and path 3. Let us first talk about reflectance of the surface from diffuse skylight component. So, diffuse skylight it is just a scattered light that remains in the atmosphere which travels towards the sensor and also towards the earth surface. So, essentially there is we can measure diffuse radiance using what is known as instrument called shaded pyronometer. We can measure diffuse radiance that is diffuse energy coming in or we can model it using various atmospheric and radiative transfer models. So, here we are not going to derive it because there are not actual derivations to account for how to do it. But we are just going to assume we have some measurement or some model output of how much diffuse radiation is present ok. Because direct solar radiation it is easy for us to calculate everything is fixed. But diffuse radiation it is not fixed it will vary with time with cloudiness, where sun is located etc etc. So, we assume some measurement is available to us right now or some model output is available assuming this. So, this is the radiant flux density from diffuse component the diffuse skylight component units of watt per meter square per micrometer ok. So, this is what is emanating effectively from the atmosphere itself that is reaching the surface. So, assume we have a instrument called shaded pyronometer here and we are measuring it. There is we are not going to go in detail and derive what factors are using it we are just going to assume we have that measurement. So, once we have that measurement so skylight is coming in getting reflected back. So, again we are using the reflectance term here. So, again we are using the reflectance of the surface. So, this is the radiant flux density multiplied by reflectance of the surface. Again we are dividing it by pi assuming a Lambertian surface in order to convert radiant flux density to radians with a unit of watt per meter square per stradian per micrometer. This pi is to account for that. So, this diffuse skylight component the incoming energy we know by some measurements let us assume. Multiply it with reflectance of surface divided by pi which will give us the radians leaving the surface due to diffuse skylight component. Now, this radians leaving the surface has to travel entire atmosphere again. So, when it reach the earth surface that is fine because the radians can start from any point in the atmosphere. So, we have not taken into account atmospheric transmissivity because it is that is the atmospheric components only is what is creating this diffuse skylight. But once it reflects with the object it has to travel back to other sensor. So, this energy will be again absorbed will beginning to be absorbed or scattered by atmospheric components. There we have to use this transmissivity term between earth and sensor. So, here we are using tau v where tau v is the transmissivity towards earth and sensor. So, this is effectively the radians reaching the sensor due to diffuse skylight component. What is this f part? f part is to account for the fraction of sky. So, maybe I am not going to explain it in detail. Let us assume the surface is completely free from any obstacles whatever the surface we are talking about is not covered by any feature surrounding it. So, f will be 1 I am not for the sake of simplicity I am just going to neglect this. Assume f as 1. So, E lambda D is the radiant flux density due to diffuse skylight component multiplied with rho divided by tau to calculate the radians leaving the surface multiplied with tau v to get radians reaching the sensor. So, now we have calculated two parts. One is reflectance from the surface due to direct sunlight component, parts 2 reflectance from the surface due to diffuse skylight component. Third component is the path radians what energy scattered energy that directly reaches the sensor. Again we have to model the path radians somehow like we have to use what is known as radiative transfer models to calculate it how much is the path radians at a given time with the given atmospheric conditions temperature pressure cloud fraction and everything what is the diffuse radiation that is going towards the sensor that is path radians we have we cannot measure it actually we have to model it. Let us assume we also have that model there is no defined equations for us to derive here. If we assume that value is available to us so we get what is known as L lambda sp. So, this is the radians due to path or diffuse component. So, this is the total lambda or sorry total radians that will reach the sensor from earth surface. If you look at this this signal about the earth surface is present in two components. One is the direct sunlight component this is the direct sunlight component this is the diffuse skylight component in this term and this is the path radians component. So, this will effectively tell us what is the radians that reaches the sensor in visible NIR and SWIR wavelengths. Next we are going to see what is the radians that reaches the sensor in thermal infrared wavelengths or mid wave infrared wavelengths. First we will talk about thermal infrared wavelength. Okay what will happen in thermal infrared wavelength that is lambda between 8 to 14 micrometers what we call it as thermal infrared region. Already we discussed that in this particular wavelengths solar incoming radiation is almost zero and whatever the energy that reaches the sensor is purely because of energy emitted by features on the earth surface and atmosphere. So, it is effectively due to earths own temperature that is what is going to reach the sensor. So, again here we have three paths path one is direct surface emitted component that is earth certain temperature let us say this is like 300 Kelvin. Due to this temperature this will emit a radiation again using Planck's law we can calculate. So, this is thing. So, these sensors will essentially operate at this wavelength not at shorter wavelength most likely let us say 10.2 to 11.2 micrometer and so on. This will be like the wavelength range at which thermal infrared sensors will operate. So, similar to calculating the energy from sun apply the same principle here use Planck's law substitute earth's temperature of 300 Kelvin if it is so most likely substitute the wavelength range 10.2 to 11.2 example for example say if you integrate Planck's law we will be calculating what is the radiant flux density from earth. So, this is the direct emitted component. Second thing atmosphere also has certain temperature that will also emit some energy and when it emits it will emit in upward direction and also in downward direction. So, whatever is coming towards the ground a fraction of it will be reflected by the surface that will reach the sensor. So, this is the surface reflected down emitted radiance. So, this is very similar to the if we compare it with shorter wavelengths shorter wavelengths what we discussed we discussed that diffuse radiation will be there that will come towards the surface will be reflected back same thing. But instead of diffuse radiation here we have emission due to atmosphere atmosphere also has certain temperature air will have certain temperature it will emit energy in these wavelengths. So, that particular energy will come down towards the surface and a fraction of it will be reflected back that is it. And third thing is the direct atmospheric emission reaching the sensor we call it as path emitted component. So, in thermal infrared wavelengths the energy reaching the sensor will have again 3 paths. First path is the direct emitted component. Second thing is surface reflected atmospheric emitted energy and third thing is path emitted energy. These 2 paths carry some signals about the surface and this is entirely unwanted energy which reaches the sensor. If it is thermal infrared wavelength only emitted components will be there. If it is not thermal infrared if it is MWIR that is between 3 micrometers to 5 micrometers wavelength or 3 up to 5 micrometers wavelength especially during daytime the energy containing or energy reaching the sensor will have both reflection components and also emission components. Because at 3 to 5 micrometer wavelength the energy coming in the sun coming from the sun cannot be neglected. Similarly, energy emitted by the earth also cannot be neglected both will be there during daytime. So, that is why remote sensing in mid-wave infrared band between 3 to 5 micrometers especially during daytime is a bit complex process. It has 6 different paths now. 3 paths for surface reflected component, 3 paths for surface emitted component. But if it is purely thermal only like between 8 to 14 micrometers only emitted part will be there. If it is less than 3 micrometers only solar reflected part will be there. In this portion 3 to 5 both will be there especially during daytime. At night time reflected part will not be there because sun is absent also only emitted part is there. This please make it clear and based on time availability we will see microwave infrared portion also how remote sensing can be done in mid-wave infrared portion later in the course. Right now we will focus on calculating the emitted components. So, how to calculate the emitted energy? I already said in the last slide that this is calculating the energy emitted by the sunness very similar to how we did it for sun like calculating energy from earth is very similar to how we did it for sun. Say let us say our sensor is sensing between 10.2 to 11.2 micrometers. This is Planck's law. So, let us assume the earth is at 300 Kelvin temperature. So, if you substitute this 300 Kelvin integrate Planck's law between whatever wavelength the sensor is observing we will get the energy emitted by earth this part. Here there is a new term called epsilon. What is this? This is called surface emissivity. What surface emissivity is whenever we discussed about Planck's law Stephen Boltzmann law and everything not all objects will obey those laws. That is those laws are defined for objects what are known as black bodies. What black bodies are? Black bodies are can radiate energy can emit energy with its full efficiency that is. So, Planck's law Stephen Boltzmann law are kind of like the peak energy that can be emitted maximum limit that is the maximum energy an object can emit at a given wavelength at a given temperature. But not all objects will obey that law or will emit radiation with that maximum efficiency I will say. Like if I say like maximum there can be 100 units of energy emission that is the limit. But certain objects cannot emit at that particular efficiency. Say if I can like let us assume like I am having 100 rupees.  I am having 100 spending 100. But I have 100 rupees there is some limitation on me that I can spend only 90 rupees I cannot spend the 10 rupees somehow something is stopping me from doing it. So, my efficiency of spending there is 0.9 same thing here there is some energy content within an object. It can radiate energy as prescribed by Planck's law. But there is something that is stopping it is it cannot radiate with its maximum efficiency something that is stopping it from radiating with maximum efficiency. And hence it is emitting energy only a fraction of what is described by Planck's law. Say Planck's law tells this object at a given temperature can emit 100 units of energy. But if the object has an efficiency of let us say only 0.9 it can emit only 90% of what is prescribed by Planck's law. This term what I am calling it as efficiency is actually known as emissivity. We will describe in detail about emissivity when we discuss about thermal infrared remote sensing. But here you just know that emissivity is kind of like a efficiency with what efficiency objects can emit radiation. Certain objects like water bodies deep water bodies have an emissivity of 0.98, 0.99 and so on. For vegetation emissivity will be 0.9 to 0.99. For some man-made objects concrete and all efficiency is somewhat lower. Highly polished metallic surfaces steel highly polished steel surfaces or highly polished mirrors which can reflect a lot for them efficiency will be much lower say 0.8, 0.85 and so on. So we have to account for it how much with what efficiency an object can emit that fraction is known as emissivity. That is what we are using here. So here it is to account for say the earth surface features cannot radiate energy as prescribed by Planck's law. It can radiate only a fraction of energy and that fraction is emissivity. See this is the object some vegetation is there. Let us say it can emit only 90% of Planck's law what Planck's law says. So it is emissivity is 0.9 multiplied with what is given by Planck's law that will give you the energy emitted by it. So again this is in radiant flux density you are dividing it by pi in order to convert it into radiance. So this is the energy emitted by the surface or radiance emitted by the surface. Now this radiance from the surface that is emitted by this feature has to travel through sensor and hence there is an atmosphere in between. Similarly we have an atmospheric transmissivity term tau. So if you multiply the energy emitted by the object with atmospheric transmissivity we will get the radiance reaching the sensor from the object of interest. So this is how we have to calculate it. And this law one just one more information reflectance will be is equal to 1- emissivity for most of the objects. This is known as Kirchhoff's law just for your information I am posting it here. I will explain this in detail in later classes when we discuss thermal remote. Now the second term down emitted surface reflected component. So atmosphere has some temperature that is also emitting some energy. So this is essentially emissivity of atmosphere multiplied by Planck's law at whatever wavelengths we need at atmospheric temperature. So again we are applying Planck's law multiplying with emissivity of atmosphere and getting this that will reach the earth surface. Here we are using reflectance of surface okay that is at this particular wavelength. So let us say like 10.2 to 11.2 this is the example we are seeing at this particular wavelength what is the reflectance for surface. Reflectance is equal to 1- emissivity that also I told you. If you do this that is the fraction of energy that will be reflected back to the space multiply with tau v transmissivity divided by lambda sorry divided by pi you will get the radiance reaching the sensor due to down emitted surface reflected component. The third component is path emitted component that is what fraction of energy that is emitted by atmosphere reaching the sensor. But again we have to model it using radiative transfer models we cannot have a measure for it or measure it from the ground we have to model it from the sensor. So the final equation of the radiance reaching the sensor in thermal infrared band comprises again three components where this first component is essentially the surface emitted. This is of real interest to us what is energy emitted by surface. The second component is surface reflected atmosphere emitted component this is kind of like noise we do not need this basically we have to correct for this effect. And third thing is path radiance again we have to correct for it. So why we discussed all these things in detail the major reason is the signal received by remote sensing sensor is not simple or direct lot of energy components come in and have a kind of a mixed energy only will be reaching the sensor. What we need what we do not need for what things we need to correct all these things we should be very clear when we do remote sensing say for example when we do remote sensing either in wavelength less than 3 micrometers or in 8 to 14 micrometers path radiance is unwanted term it is kind of like a noise that is getting added into the system we have to remove it. Similarly if you look at thermal infrared band there is a small surface reflected component which we do not need because whatever is emitted by the surface is of real interest to us we do not need this surface reflection in those wavelengths we have to remove that effect. So all these things we should know why this energy component is coming in due to which it is there whether we should remove it or not we have to clearly understand it and work according to it and I will give a very good example for what will happen especially in shorter wavelengths in this particular slide. This is the spectral reflectance curve of vegetation this dotted line. So I described what is meant by spectral reflectance curve in the last class so that is at different wavelengths objects will have different different reflectance values if we plot them together that is known as a spectral reflectance curve and this spectral reflectance curve is actually will be helpful for us to identify the object if the curve is having a certain pattern we call it okay this is vegetation if the curve has a certain pattern we call it okay this is a water body like this the spectral reflectance curve will help us to identify features that is why sometimes we call this spectral reflectance curve as spectral signatures but this is true only when the signal we have is pure without any contamination. We are taking all the measurements in controlled lab environment in a ground means it is fine directly we can measure spectral reflectance use it for object identification in remote sensing images but as I just described in these two lectures the remote sensing signals that reaches the sensor not only has signals about the target of our interest it also has signals from various other objects like atmosphere, neighboring pixels lot of those things. So finally if you look at the if you process the signals you got from the sensor and try to calculate reflectance from it we may have something like this what is given in the slide. What we need is these dotted lines what we may get is this dark black line actually so this black line is the accents are radiance this is how the shape will look whereas the shape essentially should look like how this reflectance features is unless we get this proper reflectance curve we would not be able to classify this. So what this accents are radiance has this accents are radiance has atmospheric effect effect from neighboring pixels and so on. So the accents are radiance must be corrected for atmospheric solar like solar radiation can vary I said like if the solar radiation is not perpendicular to the surface we need to multiply with some cross-seater terms if the surface is not flat if it is slope there may be other errors and all those things. So the accents are radiance whatever energy that reach the sensor must be corrected for atmospheric solar and topographic effects before we compare them with spectral libraries that is before we compare them with spectral reflectance curve. See unless we correct this dark black curve the radiance curve for all these effects we would not get this proper spectral reflectance curve for us to do object matching. So in the next set of lectures we will be discussing some simple strategies to correct these effects and calculating surface reflectance especially in the wavelengths less than 3 micrometers. Thank you very much.