Leftover disagreements, Brian gets sucked in by Orphan Black, The Shield gets complex and why we loved GoTG.
00:36 – The Leftovers
09:56 – Orphan Black
14:09 – The Shield
17:48 – Guardians of the Galaxy
Leftover disagreements, Brian gets sucked in by Orphan Black, The Shield gets complex and why we loved GoTG.
00:36 – The Leftovers
09:56 – Orphan Black
14:09 – The Shield
17:48 – Guardians of the Galaxy
Pay TV subscribers dropping but nobody cares. Also why Hulu is getting less annoying.
The Shield explodes, The leftovers leaves out Tom, and why books-based movies should sometimes not have book titles.
00:50 – The Shield
05:58 – The Leftovers
12:43 – Ridley Scott/Bladerunner
16:06 – World War Z
What the Nerdist thinks of YouTube these days, the best trailers from ComicCon and Google may still have bought Twitch.
CordKillers: Ep. 30 – Let’s Speculate Irresponsibly
Recorded: July 27, 2014
Guest: Kristi Kates
Intro Video
Primary Target
Secondary Target
Signal Intelligence
Gear Up
Under surveillance
Front Lines
2014 Summer Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv/
On Screen
Dispatches from the Front
Hi tom and Brian I am one of the reported 250,000 people in Australia who subscrbes to netflix, which as you know isn’t officially available here, so i have to use a VPN. I use unblockus.We never have any problems streaming at full quality even though we are yhe other side of the planet.
I hear that in the USA some people are having problems as their isp is slowing down their streams, i was wondering if they would still have the same problem if they used a vpn service, whats your thoughts? Plus it also gives you the advantage of chosing what Netflix region uou want.
Keep up the good work
Alan
In a recent show you talked about why Nielsen only counts 18-49. Psychologists in the 1960 and 70’s measured Brand Loyalty and found that people over a certain ago become inflexible in the their brand choices. Basically the younger people are then the more effective the advertising. Brand Loyalty is why markets don’t advertise to people over 49, these studies have been shown to be flawed. Also the disposable income difference by age has flipped in the last 40 years with college loans and a stagnant job market reducing youth spending power. But given that markets are still focused on broadcast viewership that has been decimated in the last twenty years they can be the brightest group of company executives.
Mark
Aereo’s next work around… Rent me a 1 square inch apartment in the city. Cram an antenna and slingback like device (and whatever additional tech is needed) in how ever many feet tall apartment. Then they are technically just renting a prefurnished apartment. Totally legal.
David
Hey guys,
I know that we are between Game of Thrones seasons but I wanted to pass on my experience as someone who watched the shows without reading the books first. I love the show and have watched it from the beginning. I have to admit, though, that I would get confused sometimes about who all of the characters are and where the story was going. After the first season I tried to read the first book. At the time I found myself getting bored because I knew what was going to happen. Fast forward to the present and I decided to pick up the books again. After a few years the details of season 1 are a bit fuzzy. I was instantly hooked on the book. Not only that, but I suddenly realized the relations between the characters and why some of them acted the way they do in future seasons. Having knowledge of future events is really making the books enjoyable and I can see the foreshadowing and the mistakes the characters make that lead to their downfall. Of course reading the beginning of book one and seeing the Starks as one big happy family was kind of depressing. My goal is to have all of the books read before the next season starts so I can see what it’s like to be on the other side of the experiment. One book down, 4 to go…
Thanks for the great podcast,
Scott from Houston
Living in South Africa, cord killing is near impossible, as we only have over priced satellite and free terrestrial shit, that is not even HD yet. However I managed to get a Fire TV, and now proudly use Netflix, Hulu plus and Amazon Prime, HBO Go and WatchEspn (via a friends Verizon account). Filling in the blanks with sickbeard, couchpotato and Plex. All this costs me less than $80 a month, including internet. Not bad, compared to what you have to deal with in the USA.
Long live the Cord Killers.
Thanks
John Mac
Links
Things get Tasty on OITNB, The Leftovers gets a doctor, The Shield travels in time.
00:50 – Orange is the New Black
12:15 – The Leftovers
25:34 – The Shield
The bad news is, a strict reading of the Supreme Court is bad news for Aereo, the good news is a strict reading of the supreme court is good news for Dish. Also Marvel movie dates!!!
Are CGI Apes fun? Why can’t Arwen chop down a tree? Is Vic Mackie getting soft?
How Aereo could still change everything and Netflix Emmys it up.
CordKillers: Ep. Aereo’s Hail Mary
Recorded: July 13, 2014
Guest: Anthony Carboni
Intro Video
Primary Target
Signal Intelligence
Gear Up
Under surveillance
Front Lines
2014 Summer Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv
On Screen
Dispatches from the Front
Hey Brian and Tom
I watched the first X-men movie tonight first time in years. I had a DVD copy of it years ago and from memory it looked perfectly fine. Tonight tho I watched it on Blu-ray for the first time and was kinda shocked at how the CGI visual effects just didn’t quite look right.Kinda low res and off colour.
A good practical special effect like the fight over the Death Star in Star Wars A New Hope tends to keep looking good forever. And the practical special effects on the new Blu-ray’s Star Trek The Next Gen look amazing. Do you think we will see movies with older CGI effects that looked fine on DVD start to look dated especially with the move to 4K coming down the pipe?
Nik
Hello Killers:
Listening to the last show I was confused with the comments about chromecast being too many steps to use.
Let’s say I want to watch Rifle Burs on YouTube. If my TV is on at all, I open the app on my phone. Search for the video, hit play and touch the cast button. The Chromecast automatically switches to the correct input for me.
I for one thought that was super convenient. I can have “cord” enabled dumb TV on, look for want I want to watch on the many different apps on my phone and when I find it, it will switch over. No dead air.
Love the show!
Not yet your boss.
Byron
Hey Guys,
I just started watching The Boss on Netflix and WOW! This is a really great show! I think it is even better than House of Cards. I was wondering if you have watched this show and what you thought.
It was originally done for Starz and according to the internet it was not picked up after the 2nd season….can’t imagine why. So is there a way to find out if someone else will pick it up like they did Community and others?
Thanks for your show…I rushed to support you on Patreon when you left TWIT tv.
Sandy
Could Areo come to my house, install a digital antenna on my roof and legally carry on like business as usual?
Ken
All of the people on your show who have tried to ditch cable have gone about it the wrong way. They CALLED the company to cancel. That gives the cable company the advantage. I did it the right way. I had Charter. I unplugged all the cable companies hardware, packed it in a bag and took it all back to the custom service desk at their service center. They didn’t even try to dupe me into anything. All I did was keep internet, and I’m saving $100/month.
Alan
Links
Silicon Valley as a test case for spoilers, The Leftovers not TV, but also not HBO, and The Shield ruins waffles.
06:57 – Silicon Valley
17:04 – The Leftovers
23:10 – The Shield
YouTube names, but do they shame? Also what’s Twitch going to do with the studio they’re building in San Francisco?