Cordkillers Ep. 23 – Netflix Picks Fights

Cordkillers / June 10th, 2014

While Microsoft proves Brian right about the Ridley Scott series, but Netflix is being a little trolly and Web video becomes a heritage play.

 

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CordKillers: Ep. 23 Netflix Picks Fights
Recorded: June 9, 2014
Guest: None

Intro Video 

Primary Target

Secondary Target

Signal Intelligence

  • Close to half of all U.S. households subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus
  • Online television watching reaches all-time high — iOS apps surpass web browsers
  • Study from Leichtman Research Group about emerging video services
    – 47% of US households subscribe to one or more of Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime
    – 49% have at least one TV connected to the Internet
    – 49% of Netflix subscribers watch online video once a week compared to 8% of non-Netflix subs. 78% of Netflix subs watch on a TV
    – 34% watch online video every day, 61% every wek
    – 80% of Netflix subs have cable, compared to 88% in 2010.
    – Cord cutters who subscribe to Netflix rose from 16% (2010) to 48%
    – 10% of households think it’s likely they’ll cancel cable in the next 10 months
    – Total without cable 17 million households (of more than 100 million)
  • Adobe TV Everywhere report
    – iOS applications have surpassed desktop browsers as the most popular access point for online TV content, with a 43 percent market share versus a 36 percent share,
    – gaming consoles and other over-the-top devices continue to be the fastest-growing devices for online video overall, with a 123 percent year-over-year increase in online video starts
    – nline video consumption across mobile devices is now at an all-time high of 25 percent, with 57 percent year-over-year growth in the U.S. from Q1 2013 and Q1 2014

Gear Up

Under surveillance

Front Lines

2014 Summer Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv/

  1. DTNS:  $445,420,076
  2. TMS: $351,925,978
  3. Amtrekker: $320,289,130
  4. /Film: $196,350,239
  5. GodsMoneybags: $159,047,975
  6. Night Attack: $65,341,593

On Screen

Dispatches from the Front

Thanks for the show again. Any chance you could section one a week or month where you guys add a show to have people check out. Kind of like book of month from sword and laser. Since your show I have been binge watching and watched all seasons of the shield, archer, and just finished season 1 of arrow. After I watch season 2 of arrow going to start orphan black. Good option would be picking shows on streaming services like I going back to watch the sopranos on amazon prime.

Jack

 

I just tried to watch episode 22 of Cordkillers in the same way I have for the last 5 months, by streaming it on YouTube from my Nexus 5 to my Chromecast. Tonight I got an error saying this video is unavailable on this platform. I was able to stream it from a Chrome tab on my PC to the Chromecast. Did anything change?

Dirk

 

Watching Cosmos. I agree with Tom, I have hated the external views of the “”ship of imagination.”” Clearly someone involved with the production either couldn’t grasp the idea (that if the ship is imaginary, the only image of what it looks like from the outside should exist in the minds of the viewer) or they thought the viewers wouldn’t get it. You can almost see someone rolling their eyes and saying “”oooh-KAY”” as they slapped the lackluster image image in to placate an unimaginative superior.

John

 

I really enjoy the show. Feel like it is hitting it’s stride as of late.

Any chance you guys could keep the Star Wars spoilers off the regular show? Maybe discuss it only in “”It’s Spoiling Time””?

I’m trying to go into Episode VII with as little background as possible and it is hard to do so if you guys are reporting on all of the leaked photos and such.

Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work.

Tim

 

Links

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Cordkillers Ep. 22 – Burnt Fields Policy

Cordkillers / June 3rd, 2014

Justin.TV kills its archive, Why YouTube is still the most popular video source on the Web, and whether DVDs or streaming video are better you. Plus, Tom reviews the Tablo. 

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CordKillers: Ep. 22 – Burnt Fields Policy
Recorded: June 2, 2014 
Guest: Jeff Cannata

Intro Video 

Primary Target

  • Live streaming site Justin.tv removing all archived videos in a week 
  • Justin.TV deleting all archived video starting next week. You have until June 8 to save your videos.
    – More than half of the archived live broadcasts it has have no more than one view. The “vast majority” have fewer than ten total views. After looking at the data, the company decided that “it’s quite clear … viewers come to Justin.tv because they want to consume content and interact with their communities in real-time.” 

Secondary Target

Signal Intelligence

  • Streaming video is better for the environment than DVDs—barely
  • Research paper published at IOP Science
    – Emissions and energy consumption higher altogether for DVDs over streaming, barely
    – DISCS: Transportation of discs, DVD players, Televisions
    – STREAMING: storage servers, transmission equipment, set-top box and TV
    – DVDs rented by mail actually more efficient than streaming.
    – Streaming just above DVDs bought through mail, slightly above sriving to a store and buying, and much better than driving to a store and renting

Gear Up

  • Tom’s take on Tablo
  • Simple.TV’s streaming DVR now sends shows to your Chromecast
  • Tablo
    – Very slow in tuning and finding channels
    – No DVR controls yet
    – Great accessibility and better guide interface than most
    – Really good channel pickup compared to TiVo (in same location)
    – Two tuners For $230….. Not sure. You can get a more powerful 4-tuner TiVo ROAMIO for $170 these days.

Under surveillance

Front Lines

2014 Summer Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv

  1. DTNS: $417,196,751
  2. TMS: $332,104,409
  3. Amtrekker: $195,289,770
  4. /Film: $192,735,902
  5. GodsMoneybags: $154,077,657
  6. Night Attack: $29,350,839

On Screen

Dispatches from the Front

My 89 year old father has been paying $280/month for his and my 69 year old mother’s Comcast account (he’s been paying this amount for about 5 years) – I was recently able to get his bill lowered by about $100/month by adding Comcast Voice to his plan as well as getting them on a “loyalty plan” (they’ve been with Comcast since the late 80’s). Even though the discount will only last for 2 years, my father is ecstatic that his bill has gone down.
 

Matthew

 

I am, and have been a Cordkillers supporter from the beginning and before that a supporter of Frame Rate. I love the show and I am very happy that as time has progressed the video quality has improved.
I am wondering if you could bring out some merchandise to help us promote the show i.e. T-shirts, hats,…etc

 

Thomas

 

 

Hey Guys,
Some spoilerin’ suggestions in no order
Silicon Valley
Venture Brothers (season one is on Netflix)
Black Mirror (good luck)
Brasseye (YouTube)
NATHAN BARLEY is on YouTube and you MUST WATCH it! or RE:watch it
if you watch anything, Nathan Barley, all the episodes should be on YouTube
re watch After Hours or King of Comedy

ok, more later,
spoilerin’ suggesterin’

Richard

 

 

Links

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Dog House Systems Cordkiller box

Cordkillers Ep. 19 – Only Nielsen Wins

Cordkillers / May 13th, 2014

Ratings for online shows is complicated and almost nobody gets everything they want out of it except the ratings company. Also why net neutrality matters to Cord-cutters.

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CordKillers: Ep.  19 – Only Nielsen Wins
Recorded: May 12, 2014
Guest: Eklund

Intro Video 

Primary Target

  • Nielsen’s Plan to Count TV Viewers Across Screens Faces Obstacles
  •  Starting with this fall’s new programming season, Nielsen, will begin reporting TV ratings that will finally include viewership on just about everything, including mobile devices.
    – TV viewership on mobile devices will only be credited toward overall television ratings if the digital version of an episode carries the exact same ads in the exact same time slots
    – That means commercials that don’t have online rights will screw up those ratings
    – Tos programs will be counted separately under Nielsen’s digital ratings 

Secondary Target

Signal Intelligence

  • Google’s YouTube quality reports will help ISPs “upsell” customers
  • Google rolled out a Video Quality Report for Canada as demonstrated by Keith McCallion at the COntent Delivery Summit in New York.
    – Google data shows the throughput that at least 90 percent of users receive based upon a month’s worth of data and billions of measurements per day.
    – Google will then upsell you to a faster package if it’s available that would allow better streaming.

Gear Up

  • Why your iOS device may be a better cable box than the Apple TV
  • – Gigaom story by Geoffrey Goetz, pointing out you can get more streaming video on an iPad or iPhone than on Apple TV
    – on average each cable provider can only access content on six of the 10 of the most watched networks’ apps.
    – Includes chart of what cable cos support what channel apps

Under surveillance

  • The masked men and women of ‘Star Wars’ tell their stories in ‘Elstree 1976’
  • Kickstarter for a documentary called “Elstree 1976”
    – Follows 10 people who appeared in Star Wars at Elstree studios in North London and wore some kind of face-obscuring mask or helmet
    – The £30,000 goal covers the costs of editing, clearing the rights to old footage, DVD production, and promotion.
    – Will be released online and on Disc.

Front Lines

2014 Summer Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv/

  1. DTNS: $245,539,157
  2. /Film: $148,456,086
  3. GodsMoneybags: $135,783,034
  4. The Morning Stream: $81,302,137
  5. Amtrekker: $62,804,550
  6. Night Attack: $0

On Screen

Dispatches from the Front

Brian,Giving up on AdultSwim.com? Say it’s not so. I’m the Technology Director for Adult Swim Digital and the site operations fall under my watch.  A friend forwarded your show to me with the time code where you called out a few of the problems you’re having. Usually it doesn’t take a popular Youtube channel mention to get my attention on something so serious like an interruption in video playback, but that’s how it happened this time around. However, since that’s how our paths crossed let me know how I can help. Can you tell me a little bit more about the problem you experienced? Do you recall the name of the episode in question? Going by the name of your show, I’m going to jump out on limb and say you weren’t looking at an episode premiere authenticated through a cable subscription login, but knowing for sure will help me track down the problem. Auth/Free episodes are deployed differently through our CMS.  Glad to help where I can, and I’m also a big fan of your previous work on Scam School. 

Best,
Win Adult Swim Digital and Games

 

Hi Tom & Brian,

I am 36 years old and I have never lived in a house with a cable TV. My parents didn’t have cable and I have never gotten cable myself. I have a Windows Media Center PC and a nice antenna from Antennas Direct with some HD Homerun tuners. Me and my wife record most of our TV from the major broadcast networks and everything else we get online.

I support what Aereo is doing, particularly for areas that broadcast TV is difficult to get with an antenna. However if Aereo winning means the OTA broadcasts get nerfed then I hope they lose. I depend on the high quality content being broadcast freely and I don’t want to have to start paying for channels that have been free for decades.

My household is probably in the minority, particularly among tech enthusiasts but as such my opinion differs greatly from those you have expressed on your show regarding Aereo. I couldn’t stay silent any longer. I felt I had to speak for us, I assume to be few, who are under 40 and still depend on broadcast TV.

Thanks. Love the show.

Rob

 

 

I discovered Yahoo Pipes is still working and I made a feed sans Spoilerin Time. In case you care to share it with anyone else: 

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=f04d6e1e41448aed4833857d77b84e80&_render=rss

Tony Bullard

 

Hey guys love the show. Thanks for the state of the cordkillers address thing. I’m a audio only listener via the RSS feed using PocketCasts (which supports Chromecast FYI) Ive had absolutely zero issues with the hosting being on archive.org for what it’s worth. Downloads seem fast when I grab spoilerin’ time early and I never notice the show because it just shows up in the morning.I liked the ‘how-to’ special and would like to see more…I think I’ll film myself setting up my Plex server/Chromecast and maybe a walkthru on my Harmony remote. Also, if I ever do watch the video, I have zero issues with the chat in the lower third. Kinda like it even.

I prefer the combined feed for the main show and spoilerin’ time. My ‘workflow’ consists of checking what you spoil in the patreon email, if I’m caught up I download it myself from archive.org. if I still have to watch Game of Thrones then I wait for it in the RSS feed. I like the update on kids shows by the way Brian 🙂 my kids are burning through bubble guppies and Clifford and who knows. By the way barbie’s dream house adventures is packed with nerd references like star wars and indiana Jones. If you use a DNS service for your Netflix by the way you can greatly vary what kids shows are available on Netflix since the nickolodean deal only ran out for the USA but Dora/Diego and lots more are still on UK and Canadian Netflix.

Lastly, I loved the bookclub like review of The Shield as I’ve just watched the first season roughly in line with Toms viewing.

Thanks guys. Love the content.

Joel

 

Links

www.patreon.com/cordkillers
Dog House Systems Cordkiller box