With only 2 weeks left in the season things are heating up. Shecky has decided to offer some additional regulation props for your betting pleasure. Here’s your week 9 lines and as always Bet Early and Bet Often.
DTNS 2558 – One Range to Rule Them All
Smart kitchens are finally moving past putting Internet connections in a refrigerator. Michael Wolf talks with Tom Merritt and Justin Young about whether tech can help you cook.
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DTNS 2557 – Lenovo always has your back… door access
Twitter needs a permanent CEO. Doresey buys more stock. Twitter needs more monetization. API fpr brands to access tweet archive. Twitter needs more monthly active users. Limit lifted on DMs. What is Twitter good for? Scott Johnson, Anthony Carboni and Tom Merritt discuss.
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time 83
Movie Draft Update, Star Wars Rebels, Sneaky Pete (Pilot) Rick & Morty (203), True Detective (208), The Shield (701), Hot Girls Wanted
00:33 – Movie Draft Update
07:10 – Feedback
10:30 – Star Wars Rebels
14:54 – Sneaky Pete (Pilot)
19:33 – Rick & Morty (203)
24:34 – True Detective (208)
29:05 – The Shield (701)
33:34 – Hot Girls Wanted
DTNS 2556 – CEOs Just Wanna Have Fun
A self-flying quadcopter taxi, the next great hope for smartphones and what Alphabet and Google mean now. Patrick Beja and Tom Merritt break it all down for you.
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Cordkillers 83 – The Last Stage of Denial
Is the pay TV mountain about to crumble, why MLB paying NHL is revolutionary for cord-cutters, and Xbox One gets a DVR.
CordKillers: 83 – The Last Stage of Denial
Recorded: August 10, 2015
Guest: None
Intro Video
Primary Target
- Chart Shows Pay TV Subscribers Shrinking
- Cord-Cutting Weighs on Pay TV
- Sanford C. Bernstein report confirms TV networks are increasing ad stuffing
- Cablevision stems subscriber loss at a cost
- No cord-cutting landslide yet according to Cablevision CEO
– 1. If you want more Interent choices Pay TV has to see you as worth pursuing
– 2. To see you as worth pursuing the traditional Pay TV subscriber business has to be seen as no longer 100% secure
– Last week investors sold off big media companies erasing $50 billion in value
– A chart from MoffettNathanson shows the decline of subscriber growth in pay TV dramatically. No positive growth since Q3 2012
– PAY TV companies can no longer count on steadily rising subscriber fees
– For June through mid-July, the top 30 cable networks were down more than 10% in viewers in prime time and 20% among adults 18-49 compared with the same period a year ago (although ad loads have risen as much as 10% yoy)
– Networks (Disney, Turner, Discovery) all denying this will affect them and projecting no problems in subscriber fee growth. Sound familiar?
– Content producers (CBS, Warner Bros. Disney) have MORE outlets paying them to make shows with the rise of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu so they’re prefeectly happy
Signal Intelligence
- MLBAM gets NHL deal
-MLBAM will PAY the NHL $100 million for a six-year deal with rights to digital subscription products and cable TV property
– First time MLBAM pays to run a service. Will sell ads against games.
– Pending board approval this week, will engage bankers at Evercore and Goldman Sachs to market MLBAM to investors with the intention of spinning out by end of year under name BAM Tech
Gear Up
- Xbox One DVR doesn’t work without external hard drive
- Xbox will get a DVR feature next year
-XBox One will get a DVR feature in a future update in 2016
– Schedule recordings from OneGuide
– Schedule recordings from mobile, download shows and play them on Windows 10 devices
– Need digital TV tuner and an external hard drive to take advantage
Front Lines
- Netflix’s newest original series is a dystopian thriller in Brazil
-Netflix ordered a new series called 3% Produced by Brazilian studio Boutique Filmes and directed by Cesar Charlone (City of God). Everyone has one chance to jump from poverty to decadence but only 3% of applicants succeed. It’s Netflix’s first entirely Brazilian series. - Ultra HD Blu-ray will have 4K discs here in time for the holidays
–The Blu-ray Disc Association announced it will start licensing Ultra HD Blu-ray technology in time for the 2015 holiday season. The standard is 4K with support for 3840 x 2160 video as well as HDR and HFR and a ‘digital bridge’ feature to allow digital copies to be stored on authorized drives. - HBO NOW Adds Support For Google’s Chromecast
-HBO Now added support for Chromecast to its Android and iOS devices. The Travel Channel, Food Newtwork and Pokemon TV apps also added Chromecast support. - Sky News livestream of Republican debate shut down by Fox News copyright claim
–Fox News held and broadcast debates among selected Republican US Presidential candidates last week. Fox News streamed the debate online but only if you logged in with your cable credentials. Sky News which is a UK network owned by the same company that owns Fox News, was streaming the debate worldwide without requiring a login. At least they were until a content ID claim appeared against Sky News’s stream originating from Fox News blocking it. Sky News started a new stream at a new URL and that one stayed up. - Samsung kills Boxee’s secret tablet remote project, lays off staff
-RIP Boxee. Samsung, which bought Boxee two years ago, canceled the group’s next generation remote control project and has laid off much of the team. The project called PX, for perfect experience, would have been a guide to all programming available on a tablet-like device. - PlayStation’s streaming TV service rolls out to Dallas and Miami
–And two quick notes. The PlayStation Vue TV service is now available in the Dallas and Miami areas and Netflix will launch in Japan September 2nd.
Under Surveillance
- Watch HBO’s chilling teaser for the 2016 sci-fi western ‘Westworld’
-HBO released a teaser for the Westworld series coming in 2016. The TV series will the same story as the 1973 film, but from the point of view of the robots. Written and Driected by Jonathan Nolan. - Netflix is reviving Mr. Peabody and Sherman for a new series this October
-Netflix will have the New Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show with Chris Parnell as the voice of Mr. Peabody hosting a latenight comedy show broadcast . 13 episodes Coming October 9. - Sony Dropped a Ton of News About Dark Tower, Spider-Man, Jumanji, More
-Sony announced: The Dark Tower movie is coming January 13, 2017. The new Jumanji arrives December 25, 2016. New live-action Spider-man July 28, 2017, Animated Spider-man July 20, 2018. New Ghostbusters moved yup to July 15. - Brian: Star Wars (despecialized 5 and 6), Star Wars Rebels (6 episodes), Sneaky Pete, Wet Hot American Summer (2 eps), The Shield 701, Mr Robot 4/5, Hot Girls Wanted (netflix), Rick and Morty 203
- Tom: BoJack Horseman (210-212), Mr. Robot (6), Clone Wars, Sneaky Pete, Wet Hot American Summer (Ep. 1) The Shield (701), Mission Impossible, True Detective, Rick and Morty (203)
- Bryce: Difficult People. Wednesdays to Hulu
Dispatches from the Front
Hey Tom and Bryan! My 7 year old daughter is obsessed with YouTube. I trust her well enough to watch videos on my YouTube account because the YouTube kids seems to be geared for too young of an audience for her. … My question is, why does my 7 year old see Budwiser and other adult themed ads in front of these videos? Is it because YouTube assumes I am watching the video because I am logged in? This seems like of short cited of YouTube with all their data they should be able to recognize that those videos are geared for kids and should only show kid appropriate ads. I wish Google would supply more customization for letting children use YouTube other than “kids” which seems for very young children, or all out using your adult account with adult ads.
– Kyle from Jacksonville
Hello Tom, Brian and Bryce –
Its been great to listen to the talk about whether or not to buy physical media or invest in digital media and some of the comments from other cordkillers.
Last year my brother made some terrible, stupid life choices and had to tighten his budget. One of the first bills to go was his internet and TV. Since he had heavily invested in digital content like Steam games and TV/Movies from Amazon, all of that was now of no use to him. …Yes, he could have downloaded the Amazon files and saved them or put Steam in offline mode, but that would only work for so long.
Watching this happen has made me stick with physical media in all aspects. You never know what’s going to happen in your life and I want to be sure that if I make some dumb choices I’m not stuck watching the only a single channel that comes in on my antenna.
Thanks for the great show!
– Dominic
Quick money saving tip if you pay for Showtime and/or HBO through Apple. We buy $100 gift cards at Costco or Sam’s Club for $80 on sale. Load those up into iTunes Store and save 20%. Over a year if you subscribe to both you’d save about $60. Enough to buy some other shows or support Cordkillers on Patreon!
– Rob
Links
DTNS 2555 – And You Thought Google Was a Stupid Name
How many more ‘Uber-like’ services can we stand, and do they actually make your life better? Plus Google changes its name mid-show! Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt discuss.
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Weekly Tech Views Blog – 4 (August 8, 2015)
Weekly Tech Views Blog – “Real Tech News. Really Shaky Analysis.”
For the week of August 3 – 7, 2015
Another week, and the tech news keeps coming. But not, I’m proud to say, any faster than I can ruin it.
More Things Got Hacked
In other news:
Philadelphia Delinquent Apologizes for Killing Robot: “I Thought It Was Human”
Hitchbot, the hitchhiking robot that traversed Canada via the kindness of passing motorists, had less luck in the U.S., its travels coming to a violent end in Philadelphia, the town known for hundreds of years as The City of Brotherly Throwing of Ice Balls at Santa Claus During Eagles Games, at the hand of local thug Brucie Peterson.
“I was really drunk,” said Mr. Peterson. “I saw this little dude standing on the corner, and I asked if he had a smoke. He ignored me, like he was better’n me, so I beat the crap out of him with the tire iron I carry. But, I swear, if I’d known it wasn’t alive, I wouldn’t have did it. I’m not a monster.”
Facebook: Facilitating Dialogue Between You and the One You Hold Dear–Your Department Store
Facebook is adding a Send Message button to ads, allowing you to contact the business directly. Businesses that reply to messages within five minutes will get a badge declaring them “Very Responsive to Messages.” You may be familiar with an earlier incarnation of the Very Responsive badge known as the “Tramp Stamp.”
Apple Says You Probably Shouldn’t Text and Drive, But if You Do, They Can Help
Reports surfaced that Apple is testing a service in which Siri transcribes your voice mail and sends it to you as a text. Critics claim that Siri’s combo of sending texts while simultaneously providing turn-by-turn driving directions makes her a texting-while-driving enabler. “Not at all,” claims Bill Furman, an Apple spokesman. “Would you call Ford and Chevy enablers? Can’t text and drive without a car, can you? Huh? Well, can you?” Mr. Furman paused here for approximately ninety seconds. “We are innovating for the responsible user. We can’t control everyone. We could attach a rat trap to iPhones that crushed your fingers if you tried to text while driving, and the weak-minded losers who fear that their friends will abandon them if they don’t instantly acknowledge the most trivial of messages will still find a way to do it. Let there be no doubt, we here at Apple take safe driving… Siri-ously.”
Then he shouted, “See what I did there?” and performed five rapid fist pumps before being triumphantly escorted from the room on the shoulders of the entire PR team.
Braille Watch Provides Visually-Impaired Further Opportunity to Awe
The technology behind Dot–a smartwatch that uses Braille to provide much of the functionality of other smartwatches–is impressive, but the ability of the wearer to actually read Braille borders on freaking magical. As a kid, our teacher gave us a card with the Braille alphabet on it, and told us to try and identify the letters. I may as well have been trying to read coarse sandpaper. Or the bottom of my shoe. There were bumps, but how many? Was that two, then one? Or was it three? And even if I had been confident in what I was feeling, I’m then supposed to, what, memorize 26 subtly different patterns? Can’t I just check the reference card? Oh, wait, it’s in Braille!
The ability to learn Braille, or for the deaf, to read lips (which I’ve also tried by turning the TV down–everyone on Arrested Development looked to me like fish gasping for breath), amazes me. The amount of work that must go into that is beyond my comprehension. Partially because I have the laser-like focus of a month-old beagle–this green squeaky ball is great, I’m going to play with it forev–a red squeaky ball! who thought of this! my favorite thing in the–hey, what do you got in your crotch there?–but mostly because it’s just got to be a really hard thing to do.
So when technology gets it right and helps put those hard-earned skills to use, you hold out some hope for society. It almost makes up for fart apps.
Company Old-Timers Welcome Fantasy Sales Game With Violent Head-Banging Against Break Room Wall
Microsoft has acquired Fantasy Sales Team, a program that gamifies the productivity of a company’s sales force, a la fantasy football. Many veteran salespeople, like Vern Dobson, are not impressed.
“It’s bad enough I have to listen to these snot-nosed punks go on about their pretend football teams,” Mr. Dobson stated. “At least that didn’t affect me. But this,” he waved toward the front of the office, where a cluster of twenty-something’s chattered excitedly around a computer, “does, damn it. Hey, here’s an idea: how about–like we’ve done since caveman times–whoever makes the most money, wins? That’s sales. Sure, we made side bets–what’s the most extravagant thing we could sneak through on our expense accounts–but nothing topped sales.”
“Alec Baldwin had it right in Glenngary Glen–” Mr. Dobson suddenly turned and yelled, “Hey–my team is Coffee For Closers!”
Robots 1 Humans 0
The Robocup World Championship, a tournament featuring autonomous soccer-playing robots, was won 3-1 by New South Wales. Unsurprisingly, robot soccer immediately surpassed human soccer in popularity amongst American sports fans, based on the robots scoring four times the goals of the average human soccer match, while containing 100% fewer faked injuries.
Epson Employees Split Over New Printer
Just hours after announcing their new EcoTank printers, which hold two years worth of ink, members of Epson’s printer division returned from lunch to find their offices had been egged. They shook their heads and said, “Inkers.”
“The Ink division is upset because they won’t be the golden boys any more,” said Sarah Goodwin. “We always did the hard work, designing and innovating the printers, while the Inkers sold replacement cartridges at ridiculous prices and got all the glory. They couldn’t do anything without us, but they strut around here in their We’re Ink-credible t-shirts, bragging about how they can sell an ink cartridge for as much as we charge for some printers, how the country screams at the thought of four-dollar-a-gallon gas but barely bats an eye at $5,000-a-gallon ink. So now they’re a little mad. Plus, we hung a sign in their office suggesting they use some of that ink for new resumes.”
U.S. Commerce Department Puts Hands in Pockets, Whistles, and Slowly Backs Away From Internet Naming Responsibility
Handing over control to ICANN and an oversight committee, the U.S. Commerce Department breathed a sigh of relief after divesting themselves of the stress of dealing with internet naming conventions. “There are only so many viable names, and, apparently, everybody who can reach a keyboard has to have half a dozen websites these days, so we add .biz and .info and .me and probably .kardashian soon, but it’s all just delaying the inevitable, and we don’t want to be around when the world starts to burn,” said Paula Schwarz. Prompted for details on the internet Armageddon she foresees, Ms. Schwarz blurted, “Emojis! Do you want to live in a world where www.pawprints-thumbsup-hourglass-musicalnote-smilingfacewithheartshapedeyes.com exists? Well it’s coming! And we won’t be held responsible!”
That’s another week of news the liberal/conservative/libertarian media has been hiding from you. Your welcome.
Mike Range
@MovieLeagueMike
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FSL Tonight Week 8 – All the Ties
4 teams clinch ties, 3 teams hang on to hope, And Coruscant just Ewoks right up and ties Cheyenne for first.
DTNS 2554 – Fanmail Friday (Now with Less Suggestive Typos)
It’s Fanmail Friday. +Lamarr Wilson and +Tom Merritt will read selected great message from the week including the possibility of ever verifying software is bug-free before it’s released.
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