Tom and Brian kick off the very first Cordkillers with special guest Justin Robert Young. Netflix is leading the charge for 4K, Hulu has millions but is it enough, and why Atari’s famous ET game failure could help Xbox.

 

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Cord Killers: Beta
Recorded: December 23 2013
Guest: Justin Robert Young

Intro Video

• Holiday Emergency (EXPLICIT) – Christmas Vacation Remix

The Big Story

• 4K Netflix streaming launching next month

Another Big Story

• YouTube channel debuts on the Roku 3 in the US, Canada, UK and Republic of Ireland

SlipStream

• Hulu Plus passes 5 million subscribers, plans to double its original content
• Hulu must face privacy lawsuit, U.S. judge rules

Tube Tops

• Simple.tv, the DVR for cord cutters, releases its Android app
• Simple.tv is bringing its DVR for cord cutters to Ouy

Film Falm

• Xbox Live Documentary Goes Digging for Atari’s Long-Lost E.T. Cartridge

Scan Lines

• AllCast now open to all for streaming local movies, photos from Android
• Stevie now turns any Twitter topic into a social TV channel
• Viki Strikes Deal With Baidu to Bring Crowd-Translated Programming to China
• Now TV app brings Sky Sports to Apple TV in the UK
• ‘Ripper Street’ May Return with Funding from Amazon’s LoveFilm
• Wuaki.tv hits 1m users for its on-demand movie and TV streaming service, 125k from the UK alone

What we’re watching

• Brian: Fascinating interview with Mike Rowe
• Tom: Orange is the New Black, Father Ted
• Justin: Bo Burnham “what“

Winter Movie Draft

1. Justin Robert Young: $483,480,275
2. Fr. Robert Ballecer: $392,813,988
3. Casey McKinnon: $390,058,157
4. Jeff Cannata: $265,369,223
5. Tom Merritt: $182,530,164
6. Brian Brushwood: $119,438,873
    

Premiering this week

• Turbo: F.A.S.T. Dec. 24 on Netflix

Feedback

Gentlemen, in your honor, my wife, Wendy, and I cut the cord with Verizon today. We cancelled our Cable TV, but kept our FiOS internet service, so we still have one cord, but it’s the good one. And Verizon said we’re “welcome” to keep 13 local TV channels for free. Ha, I guess we don’t get to keep the UHF channels. 🙂

Now we’re saving $70 a month. Oops, just found out that we’re only saving $65 a month, because, “dear valued customer,” it’s actually $5 more per month than they said. Oh, and we also have to pay an additional $10 to return our DVR. (I feel like I just made a deal with some guy on Canal Street.)

We will continue to feast from our AppleTV, where we watch Netflix and iTunes… and podcasts, podcasts, podcasts. So we’re ready for your next show!

Happy Holidays to you both. Thanks for all the years of information and inspiration. Excited to see what you guys will do next.

Cheers,
Philip & Wendy Shane
Brooklyn, NY

 

See what you can do when the TV network is NOT in the USA? <sigh> 180 channels, $15/month, 8-day replay period without needing a DVR (they record & store everything), inside home/outside home, looks great if you were an international sports/soccer fan.

Now Playing on Slingbox 500: DishWorld

Jamie

Amber Hewitt sent us this one!  Brilliant!

I don’t know if this is a show logo or not, but it’s amazing and must go somewhere! Well done Chris Brueckner

The amazing Tom Gehrke’s new take.

From the inimitable Andreas Ekberg

So, some folks are a little bugged by a death’s head being used, because it’s also used by pirates. We’ve got a few people working on a different take. Here;s a couple from mrRiffles. What do you think?

 

Quick question:  is it better or worse to not have the crossed coax cables underneath?

Pick your faves, post ’em in the comments:

Still need to post all of our specific rewards, but we’re now officially launching this beast.  Head over to http://www.patreon.com/user?u=60677&alert=1 to join the revolution!

Also, if you pause at the right moment, you can catch a perfect, simultaneous blink:

Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for your freedom? Are you tired of living under the oppression of that snake-like coax cable that insists IT is the true arbiter of what you can watch and when and where you can watch it?

Kill it.

We’ll help.

So many people and things have led up to this moment. The big bang. DNA. Seafaring. Peanut butter. Philo Farnsworth. Walt Disney. Ted Turner. Vint Cerf. Tim Berners-Lee and You.

You hold the power. Previously we’ve framed this movement as something that only rated a cautious approach. Now we’re headed over the top. Join us.

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