Since I've written several times about podcasting, I figured I might as well share the other podcasts I subscribe to. In the tech category, I listen to two: the Engadget podcast and the HDTV and Home Theater Podcast. I'm already swimming in tech information, but I figure why not supplement my tech news intake with some tech audio? Just wallow in it, I say.

I've been reading Engadget since it started publishing, and once the site began doing podcasts, I started listening to those, too. The show is pretty low-key and very conversational in tone, which is one of the things I like about it. I like that they're not overly partisan about one brand or OS or service provider, and I feel like they advocate for the user, too. I like listening to thier podcast as an extension of following the web site; it allows me to get more of a sense of the people behind a blog that I read everyday.

The other techcast I listen to is the HDTV and Home Theater Podcast. It's a lean show, only about 30 minutes long, which is ideal for a narrowly focused topic. The episodes I've listened to have mostly been review-oriented. For example, one show reviewed the new and incredibly desirable Harmony 880 remote and another compared the low-end HDTVs available at Costco.

I don't have an HDTV, but I do have a home theater set-up, and I enjoy discovering new ways to improve it or tweak it. Earlier this year I bought the O'Reilly book Home Theater Hacks, which mixes basic subject information with quick tutorials. I really didn't have a lot of understanding of home theater before reading the book, but by the time I finished it I was annoying my co-workers with earnest lectures on the superior image quality resulting from a properly calibrated TV.

You have calibrated your TV set, haven't you?