I like the relaunched Revision3; I really do. Kevin Rose has great ideas and seems like he has his act together when implementing those ideas. Hell, at the end of TechTV’s life, he was the only on-air personality with any tech cred. However, I’m not one of those 17 year-old fanboys who thinks that Kevin’s farts sound like angels singing songs of joy. So I’ll mention a couple of oopsies that I’ve noticed.
How do you launch your IPTV service with no support for RSS? An oversight or a bug? Perhaps. That’s what QA is for. Revision3/digg does have a QA team, right? I think this is a case of taking the cookies out of the oven before they’re fully baked because they look so damn tasty and you just can’t wait. At any rate, as of last night, I still didn’t see the RSS feeds but I was able to find the new shows on iTMS‘ Podcast Directory. Indeed, the feeds still exist, but aren’t displayed on the Revision3 website for whatever reason. I subscribed to Mysteries of Science and Web Drifter via iTunes. Once the episodes were downloaded, I tried to sync them with my iPod and received this error:
The Diggnation videos have always been playable on my iPod and still are, and all the videos are MOVs. So why are the new Revision3 shows encoded with some freaky iPod-unfriendly codec?
