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Robert Heron was a laboratory correspondent on the TechTV show The Screen Savers. He is one of the regular panel members on This Week in Tech, a podcast released every Sunday night. He is a High Definition Television Analyst for PC Magazine. Heron is a regular guest on the Extremetech podcast hosted by Loyd Case. He currently appears alongside Patrick Norton as a host of the IPTV show DL.TV. Heron has also been recently doing web video projects with friends from TechTV, including recent appearances on technology based internet video programs CrankyGeeks and From The Shadows.
TechTV Heron has appeared on The Screen Savers several times. He is an expert tweaker, and, at the 2004 Intel Developers Forum, Heron beat 40 other system engineers and won with almost 630 Frames per second on Quake 3. He is a master of tweaking the BIOS of a computer and he did the tweaking on UGM 8.0 on 2-24-2004. Heron was a long time TechTV laboratory correspondent, and has said on DL.TV that he misses working for TechTV. Trivia Heron refuses to put anti-virus software onto his computer despite recently being infected by spyware. However, he did remove it quite easily by using Trend Micro (an online virus scanner) before it could do any significant damage. Despite being a HDTV analyst for PC Magazine, his home TV is a 24" Sony Trinitron CRT. He claims that the last thing he wants to do when he gets home is to watch TV. Instead, he uses the TV content he records at home on his TiVo, as well as movies, to test HDTVs. He has repeatedly expressed his grudge against the Apple Quicktime Player, because of the way the player takes over all files even though you uncheck the box that says not to do so during the installation. He frequently expresses his distrust of Disk Defragmention programs, saying they are a waste of time. Heron loves talking about how he paid for an 8 Mb broadband connection and gets just 4 Mb. He is actually older than Patrick Norton by a few years. Biography Born August 14th | ||||||||
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