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hey everyone I'm Molly would welcome to the cnet mailbag the show where we take your feedback and answer your questions about the stuff we're doing here at seen it let's get right into your email shall we first up I have a little update for you on our HD encoding and Apple TV a lot of you wrote in when we went to HD and you said you couldn't watch the downloaded HD video on Apple TV I wanted to let you know that it's fixed but in fixing the problem we did have to lower our high high standards just a little bit the problem with that Apple TV only supports video up to 24 frames per second and our video was encoded at 30 frames per second so we made it look worse so that you could watch it on your Apple TVs maybe you could email Apple though and tell them step it up a little bit all right now on to this week's burning question Deepak and many many others wrote in to say this I love scene at TV and everyone's shows there you guys rock one concern though is that iphone cnet com needs a major facelift and i often find a lot of latest videos unplayable and the individual section unobtainium on the iPhone and also make sure it's updated on the go and others wrote in to say that the last buzz report on iphone doubt cnet.com is over a month old and tons of you wrote in to say that you hated and you wanted to be better and I get it I get the message and I've been talking to the one guy who created it in his spare time to see if he can you know find some more time to improve it and I also hear rumors that CBS interactive is working on an iphone app trying to get a little more information about that I will find out and I will let you all know next week because I know I want it to be cool to a little correction now for Mark and Australia who wrote last week about whether he should buy a tivo to get our scene at tebow show LM Morton have seen it Australia wrote in and said just got to tell you one thing before your aussie fan shells out the seven hundred clams for a tivo downloadable content is not yet available our tivos were launched in July with severely hobbled features and will only record free-to-air channels we've been denied a heap of things including recording from cable channels that there second skip and tivo to go at least for now bogus at the moment the broadband connection is only used to download EP jeez but downloadable video is supposed to be arriving in the next few months so scenic content should become available but it might not be until two thousand nine hopefully the mailbag devotees can hold out until then Thank You Ella and also that is intensely lame and to all of you Ozzy's I am really sorry wow that is no way to live a little note from Tommy who says memo to brian Tong please keep your shirt on while doing prizefight shows thanks hold Tommy I think some folks would disagree with you on that one but I'll pass it along next up ap wrote in and said I'm only 14 but i like this show a lot i do have three questions though one is there any way to request videos on a product that has been out but no video made on it like the nokia n93 I to does cnet offer internships I would really like to work there three why does kent german look serious all the time thanks again and keep up the great work ap here are your answers 1 you can request a video sure I'll talk to some people too we do offer internships but I think you might be too young but next time we're looking I'll let you know and keep an eye on craigslist three why is kent german so serious all the time because cell phone reviewing is serious business mp3 players not so much that's why Donald Bell looks so happy all the time you'll learn this stuff once you come work here moving right along mando says dear Molly cool hostess woods my friend wanted to buy a smartphone so he asked me what's the best and coolest smartphone out there I assured him that the iphone 3g is the best smartphone out there so i went on to cnet and navigated to cell phones best cell phones best smartphone and guess what no i phone on the list what the hell is going on with cnet i demand you put the iphone on the list now PS i didn't check my spelling nor my grammar well mando asked Bonnie cha why the iphone 3g isn't on the best smartphone list and she said what i thought she'd say which is that the iphone 3g is not one of the best 5 smartphones it's email options are limited and its corporate security is weak it's just not ready for business time as much as the other phones on the list but it is the top of the list for best mp3 phones and best AT&T phones it's not like we hate it we just understand its limitations that's our job PS you should really check your spelling and grammar dear Molly would I really love your show and Brian coolies car tech videos they're fun but where is he in the coverage of the 2008 paris auto show was your boss too cheap to buy him a flight to paris or does he just not like France anyway would have been great to see him actually being there and not just reading out press statements to other folks video materials greetings from germany Thaddeus well Thaddius it is kind of a down economy right now and yeah our boss was kind of too cheap to send him to Paris and also I think he doesn't really like France but we did send our camera guy Jim and that's it for this week everyone keep that feedback coming mailbag at cnet com or send me a postcard to 35 second street san francisco california 94 105 see you next week