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
The Big Story
Another Big Story
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
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
- Justin Robert Young: $483,480,275
- Fr. Robert Ballecer: $392,813,988
- Casey McKinnon: $390,058,157
- Jeff Cannata: $265,369,223
- Tom Merritt: $182,530,164
- Brian Brushwood: $119,438,873
Premiering this week
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
Have you asked Leo if you could use the name FrameRate? You call the segments the same as FR.
Any way I can subscribe to this in iTunes? So glad to see the podcast live on.
Yep! Go to cordkillers.com, click on the ‘Subscribe to audio’ link at the top and then look for the link that says iTunes.