Brian’s Twin Peaks experience takes a turn, Tom sinks into The Shield, A pot dealer on Vimeo is brilliant, Brian finally returns to the walking dead.
00:43 – Twin Peaks
06:07 – The Shield
11:01 – High Maintenance
19:28 – Walking Dead
Cordkillers Ep. 45 – MPA—- Yay?
Sony wins the race to first Internet TV service, MPAA does a great job helping you find things to watch, do you want 5 HDMI signals on one screen?
CordKillers: Ep. MPA—- Yay?
Recorded: November 17, 2014
Guest: Andy Forssell, former CEO of Hulu
Intro Video
Primary Target
- Sony gets ready to launch PlayStation Vue TV service, keeps mum on price
- Sony Network Entertainment International And Sony Computer Entertainment Unveil PlayStation™Vue, A New Cloud-Based TV Service That Pioneers The Future Of Television
- – Live on demand programming around 75 channels
– Launching on PS3 and PS4 to begin, intend to bring to iPad and other devices
– NBC Universal, Fox, Viacom and Scripps, but NOT ABC/Disney or Time Warner’s HBO.
– Launch this month invite-only beta NYC (Chicago, Philly, LA to follow)
– Launch commercially Q1 2015
Signal Intelligence
- WhereToWatch Helps You Find TV Shows and Movies to Stream Legally
- Where to Watch
- – MPAA launched wheretowatch.com
– Service to find where stream or purchase of movies and TV shows online or DVD/Blu-Ray
– Trailers and behind the scenes footage as well
– Amazon, iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, Flixster, Paramount Movies, Bravo Now, CNBC Full Episodes, E! Now, Esquire TV Now, Oxygen Now, Sprout Now, Syfy Now, ABC, ABC Family, Disney Movies Anywhere, Vudu, Xbox Video, Sundance Now, SnagFilms, Fandor, Wolfe on Demand, Target Ticket, Movies On Demand, Reelhouse, IndieFlix.
Gear Up
- SkreensTV Combines 5 HDMI Signals on Your TV
- SkreensTV: The Ultimate Home Entertainment System
- SkreensTV set-top box
– Indiegogo needs 200K by Dec. 13 (Flexible Funding) $399
– Release to all Winter 2015 for $499
– Five separate HDMI signals presented in one image
– Also install HTML5 apps, browser
– Multiple audio can be routed to different bluetooth/WiFi devices
Front Lines
- More apps have added Chromecast support including Showtime Anytime and Starz Play along with several game titles like Wheel of Fortune and Just Dance Now.
- 17 companies have joining together to form the Streaming Video Alliance
- -In order to work on open architecture, defining specifications for network and cloud-based streaming and caching infrastructure; quality of experience; and interoperability. The group intends to propose specs to standards bodies not act as a standards body itself. Among the members are Charter, Comcast, Epix, Fox, MLB and Yahoo but not Netflix and YouTube.
- YouTube is launching a subscription music service called “Music Key” in beta this week.
- -The service offers access to Google Play’s music library, as well as ad-free music videos, background playback capabilities and offline caching on YouTube. for $7.99 a month at first and then $9.99 per month. To sign up for an invite, go to youtube.com/musickey YouTube has already added music videos in a new section that features personalized playlists and soon full albums.
- Google will test and approve each Android TV app before it goes live in the Play Store.
Under Surveillance
- Vimeo’s first original programming series launched.
- -A new season of previously self-funded show High Maintenance released three episodes at $1.99. Three more episodes will come in early 2015 and you can buy the whole season now for $7.99. The show is about a pot dealer in Brooklyn and the lives of his customers.
- Amazon announced 7 pilots in 2015.
- -Cocked (Sam Trammel returns to rural Virginia), Mad Dogs (US version of UK story about people in their 40s reuniting), The Man in the High Castle (Based on Philip K. Dick book about San francisco if Germany won WWII), and Point of Honor (Civil War drama prod by Carlton Cuse), half-hour shows Down Dog (Yoga studio owner breaks up with girlfirend-coowner) and Salem Rogers (Super model after 10 years in rehab), and the half-hour docu-series The New Yorker Presents.
- Netflix’s first UK original is about the Queen called The Crown will be based on a West-end Play called The Audience. 10-episode mini-season in 2016.
- J. J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan’s Westworld pilot, an adaptation of Michael Crichton’s 1973 novel got a full-season order from HBO for next year.
- -Premiere episode directed by Jonathan Nolan. Stars Anthony Hopkins as an inventor who runs a futuristic theme park full of lifelike androids. James Marsden, Evan Rachel Wood, and Thandie Newton will portray the androids and can be killed and replaced frequently, giving everyone a chance to play multiple characters. (The cast reportedly signed multi-year deals.) Ed Harris, Miranda Otto, and Jeffrey Wright will also star in the series.
- Brian: The Walking Dead (x2), Twin Peaks, High Maintenance
- Tom: The Shield (312), Agents of SHIELD, The Walking Dead, Haven, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Arrow, The Flash, Star Wars: Rebels, Once Upon a Time, High Maintenance
- Andy: Game of Thrones (Season 2),
2014 Winter Movie Draft
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- Scott: $207,234,079
- Brian: $36,111,775
- Justin: $25,910,368
- John: $6,471,161
- Tom: $0
- Brett: $0
Dispatches from the Front
That German company you mentioned that’s offering an app to chromecast Amazon Prime videos has had their app shut down. From the Primecast app page (http://primecast-app.com/): “Primecast has been shut down and is no longer available” is all it says. I guess Amazon DID care. So much for “whatever device you please.”
Brian G
Holy cow Brian. Sometimes you go off arguing on the silliest of nitpicky (minor) points. The most recent one of having to go thru a one time setup process for Disney, iTunes and GooglePlay. You have to be one of the laziest employees I have. Seriously, it’s getting old. Knock it off.
Your boss
Kyle in Pittsburgh
Hey guys. You are always talking about how Nielsen is behind the times, but a lot of that is contractual between Nielsen and our Clients. Often we are limited by what we can do because of the push and pull between national and local interests. Few local TV stations are interested in internet video measurement for example, because very little of their content and audience is online. The National networks how ever have their own streaming infrastructure setup.
Check out this article about how Nielsen is trying to evolve the way video ratings are done.
David The Nielsen Guy
Hey guys! I am a freshman in college and my university does not have a deal with any cable company so I had to find another way to watch some shows.
This won’t apply to the vast majority of the audience BUT my parents live in Mexico so I got them cable+internet for around $40 US. The awesome thing is that for an extra $10 a month they get “on demand online” which basically means I get to stream (because I am the one that uses it) every channel they have!. For most channels this is in Spanish (which I do speak) but this also means live events like the emmys, grammys, the world series, football on sundays and monday night, basketball games, all live and online! I know I’m cheating on cutting the cord since I am technically paying for a cable service but still I get to whatch live tv without problems online in HD. I know this seems like something a slingbox could do but this way no TV is being “used” while I watch what I want some 2000 miles away.
Love the show take care!
Charles O
PS. I love Brian’s sing-along the theme song after the credits.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 44 – (Twin Peaks Ep. 5, The Shield 311, Interstellar)
Brian hangs on with Twin Peaks, Tom thinks it’s the best Shield yet, and Interstellar inspires.
00:39 – Twin Peaks
07:08 – The Shield
12:27 – Interstellar
Cordkillers Ep. 44 – Mushy Middle
Who buys digital stuff anymore? IS CBS doing streaming news right? Is Wal-Mart’s Vudu stick useless?
CordKillers: Ep. 44 – Mushy Middle
Recorded: November 10, 2014
Guest: Chad Johnson
Intro Video
Primary Target
- Disney partners with Google to bring its cloud movie locker to Android and Google Play Movies
- Disney Movies Anywhere
- – Disney Movies Anywhere service
– Buy a movie in any (participating) store get access to that movie on any (participating device)
– Addition of Google Play means you can buy a movie on iTunes and watch it on an Android device.
– New DMA Android app supports ChromeCast
– DMA app adds features like chaptering, free short-form content, loyalty program., resume across devices.
Signal Intelligence
- CBS launches 24-hour streaming news channel
- -CBSN – 24 hour news channel with live programming 9-Midnight Eastern
– Some original some borrowed from CBS News and Sports.
– Skip around previous segments, see what segments are next.
– Web, Roku, Fire TV, Windows 8 (Android by end of year)
Gear Up
- Walmart’s got a Chromecast-like dongle for its Vudu video service
- FCC Filing
- -Vudu Spark (leaked from FCC)
– Streams Vudu
– Zigbeee-based RF remote
Front Lines
- Microsoft’s digital TV series called Halo: Nightfall is included in the Master Chief Collection.
- -Five 25-minute episodes will be released weekly to owners of the collection as well as on the Halo Channel on Xbox.
- Forrester Research published a report predicting Internet advertising spending will pass TV by 2016 in the US.
- -By 2019 Forrester estimates Internet spending will make up 36% of all ad spending compared to TV’s 30%.
- Two German developers are selling an app in the Play store for $2.99 that gives you access to Amazon Prime Instant video and allows you to Chromecast it.
- Netflix has hired marketing agencies for a big promotional push in Australia in 2015
- -Presumably to go along with a launch of the service there.
- Crash Course creators John and Hank Green have struck a partnership with PBS Digital Studios.
- -The vlogbrothers distribute their educational video library through PBS’s YouTube network as well as into the classroom.
- Shipping dates for Fire TV stick have slipped to Jan. 15.
- -Meaning if you want one for a December gift you’ll have to find one at retail shops Best Buy and Staples.
Under Surveillance
- BBC News – New Star Wars film title revealed
- Netflix Is Adapting A Series Of Unfortunate Events As A TV Series
- Mark Wahlberg will star as the significantly more expensive ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ in a film directed by Peter Berg
- HBO Will Make Asimov’s Foundation With Interstellar’s Jonathan Nolan
- Brian: Twin Peaks (S01 E05), Interstellar, Trailer Park Boys (season 1 and half of 2)
- Tom: The Shield (311) Interstellar, The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Warcraft Trailer
2014 Winter Movie Draft
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- Scott: $105,877,702
- Justin: $19,618,437
- Brian: $0
- Tom: $0
- John: $0
- Brett: $0
Dispatches from the Front
My boss and I had tried to do something very similar to the movie but it never panned out. I love that you guys have kept it going and seems like it’s growing among all the listeners. For those of you have played Fantasy football, Yahoo likes to do a grade system after the draft to add some flair and post draft analyst. Although a week late, Here you guys go!
Mulango Akpo-Esambe
Hi Tom, Brian and guest. Just a note about the Atari Game Over documentary coming to Xbox Live. On this weeks Major Nelson Podcast which is made by a bunch of Xbox employees Jeff Rubenstein from the Xbox community team mentioned that the documentary is available to both Gold and Silver members. Meaning that you don’t have to be paying for Xbox Live to see the documentary.
From your boss, Nik.
I have a roku 2 xs, and chromecast. Thinking of dropping directv and would move roku 2 to bedroom tv as it has composite out as that tv does not have hdmi. What do you recommend in addition to the chromecast to get amazon prime instant and why? A new roku, a roku stick, or amazon firestick, this is just so I can get prime on the TV chromecast works great for netflix, hulu, and hbogo.
Thanks for the insight.
Lance
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 43 – (Twin Peaks Ep. 4, The Shield 310, Transparent 7-10)
An academic approach to Twin Peaks, A total Vic move on The Shield and the rest of Transparent.
01:01 – Twin Peaks
10:28 – The Shield
15:15 – Transparent
Cordkillers Ep. 43 – Gear Three Ways
Starz joins the party and YouTube tries to become the next HBO. Also why Roku is NOT winning the set-top box race.
It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 42 – Twin Peaks Ep. 1, Transparent Ep. 4, The Shield (Ep. 308), Fargo (Ep. 8 & 9)
Why Brian hates everyone in Twin Peaks, Is Transparent the best show of the year, The Shield puts Tom back on the Money Train and Fargo Finale talk!
00:47 – Twin Peaks
07:22 – The Shield
12:47 – Transparent
17:28 – Fargo
It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 42 – Twin Peaks Ep. 2, Transparent Ep. 5,6 The Shield (Ep. 310),
Why Brian hates everyone in Twin Peaks, Is Transparent the best show of the year, The Shield puts Tom back on the Money Train and Fargo Finale talk!
00:47 – Twin Peaks
07:22 – The Shield
12:47 – Transparent
17:28 – Fargo
Cordkillers Special: WINTER MOVIE DRAFT 2014
Gather around your podcasting viewer of choice and watch as our league of movie draft legends compete for dominance in the 2014 Winter Movie Draft. Starring Tom Merritt, Brian Brushwood, John Teasdale, Justin Robert Young, Brett Rounsaville, and Scott Johnson.
Be sure to play along at home by visiting http://draft.diamondclub.tv/form
Cordkillers Ep. 42 – Gore Porn
Amazon’s crazy cheap Firestick, Netflix made Coach Taylor do something bad, Roku wants some money.
CordKillers: Ep. 42 – Gore Porn
Recorded: October 27, 2014
Guest: Scott Johnson
Intro Video
Primary Target
- Amazon Fire TV stick
- Amazon takes on Chromecast with Fire TV Stick
- The mixed-up math of Amazon’s Fire TV Stick discounts
- Fire TV Stick coming Nov. 19th available for preorder. Ships Nov. 19
– Coming to UK and Australia soon
– For first two days of preorder $19 for Prime members
– Free month of Prime for non-mebers
– Dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage
– Netflix, Hulu Plus, Plex, YouTube, TWitch, Spotify, Vevo A&E etc.
-(Chromecast is $35/ Roku stick $50)
Signal Intelligence
- Netflix has two more TV shows for 2015: ‘Bloodline’ and ‘F is for Family’
- Two new Netflix originals
– Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman, who were the creators of Damages.
– Coach Taylor says “We’re not bad people, but we did a bad thing.”
– 13-episode original, with the plot focusing around “a family of adult siblings whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother returns home.”
– March 2015 - F is for Family
– Animated by Bill Burr, EP with Vince Vaughn set in the 1970s
– Voices from Laura Dern and Justin Long
– Burr will premiere his new stand-up special I’m Sorry You Feel That Way on Netflix December 5th, 2015
Gear Up
- U.S. TV startup Roku to confidentially file for IPO: WSJ
- Roku Seeking Secretive IPO: Report
- Roku planning to file for an IPO in the US – selected bankers
– Companies with less than $1 billion annual gross revenues can keep confidential
– Last month, the company announced the Roku Powered program, an initiative aimed at helping Roku strike up direct partnerships with pay-TV providers. (BBC, Dish etc)
– The Information reported Roku pulled in $190 million in revenue in 2013.
– Says it is near profitability
-Could Roku be the box to unify two worlds?
Front Lines
- Comcast lost 81,000 video customers in Q3, its best result in 7 years.
- -A year ago Comcast lost 127,000 video customers. The company ALSO added 315,000 broadband subscribers bringing it close to parity with 22.38 million video subs and 21.59 million broadband subs. The company increased overall customers by 82,000.
- Nielsen, and Adobe are launching a measurement system across Internet-connected devices.
- This includes desktops, smartphones, tablets, game consoles and over-the-top boxes. The system will launch in 2015 with ESPN, Turner Broadcasting, Sony’s Crackle, Viacom and Univision already signed up. It’s called Nielsen’s Digital Content Ratings, Powered by Adobe and uses Adobe Analytics and Adobe’s ‘Primetime’ TV delivery platform.
Under Surveillance
- Brian: Legend of Korra season 3, Twin Peaks to ep 3, Transparent, Fargo ep 10
- Tom: Fargo (Ep. 10), Haven, Agents of SHIELD, Star Wars Rebels, Arrow, The Flash, Transparent, The Shield (309), Continuum
- Scott: The Sopranos, Arrow
Dispatches from the Front
What do you mean by “all the spectrum” if you look at the swath of spectrum actually being used for OTA (uhf and vhf) there is very little actually being used when compared to other technologies like Lte, wimax and wifi.
I am looking at it from a wireless engineer / networking side as such that trying to reuse what is there for another purpose.
There is more spectrum that is licensed and used for the private sector than any other form. Direct TV, dish, xm radio, airline cell carriers just to name a few own more spectrum combined than those that are used for public OTA TV services.
So in a way yes I’m saying that for quality of service and sheer reach of consumption OTA is as good as it gets. Now sure we can transition to mpeg4 OTA and get better use of it but to say that we could replace the spectrum in favor of an on demand solution for everyone just could not happen with the limited bandwidth that uhf and vhf have combined.
Thanks for the reply,
Josh
If we end up paying a-la-carte for our programming, then our money will be going directly to the channels we care about instead of being divided across the hundreds of channels that we don’t care about. I wonder if that will make better programming or less commercials. Thoughts?
David
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