Cosmos proves divisive, Game of Thrones mostly pleases, Godzilla stomps through a classic and The Shield is a riot.
Time Codes:
01:12 – Cosmos
11:26 – Game of Thrones
24:18 – Godzilla
42:58 – The Shield (Ep. 12)
Cosmos proves divisive, Game of Thrones mostly pleases, Godzilla stomps through a classic and The Shield is a riot.
Time Codes:
01:12 – Cosmos
11:26 – Game of Thrones
24:18 – Godzilla
42:58 – The Shield (Ep. 12)
YouTube might buy Twitch. AT&T definitely wants to buy DirecTV. What does this mean for cord-cutters. There is some good news in there.
Was Cosmos electric or did it short out? Game of Thrones gets more thrones, less game, Her impresses Brian and The Shield gets a good formula.
Ratings for online shows is complicated and almost nobody gets everything they want out of it except the ratings company. Also why net neutrality matters to Cord-cutters.
YAHOO! Pipe with NO SPOILER ZONE!!
CordKillers: Ep. 19 – Only Nielsen Wins
Recorded: May 12, 2014
Guest: Eklund
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
Brian,Giving up on AdultSwim.com? Say it’s not so. I’m the Technology Director for Adult Swim Digital and the site operations fall under my watch. A friend forwarded your show to me with the time code where you called out a few of the problems you’re having. Usually it doesn’t take a popular Youtube channel mention to get my attention on something so serious like an interruption in video playback, but that’s how it happened this time around. However, since that’s how our paths crossed let me know how I can help. Can you tell me a little bit more about the problem you experienced? Do you recall the name of the episode in question? Going by the name of your show, I’m going to jump out on limb and say you weren’t looking at an episode premiere authenticated through a cable subscription login, but knowing for sure will help me track down the problem. Auth/Free episodes are deployed differently through our CMS. Glad to help where I can, and I’m also a big fan of your previous work on Scam School.
Best,
Win Adult Swim Digital and Games
Hi Tom & Brian,
I am 36 years old and I have never lived in a house with a cable TV. My parents didn’t have cable and I have never gotten cable myself. I have a Windows Media Center PC and a nice antenna from Antennas Direct with some HD Homerun tuners. Me and my wife record most of our TV from the major broadcast networks and everything else we get online.
I support what Aereo is doing, particularly for areas that broadcast TV is difficult to get with an antenna. However if Aereo winning means the OTA broadcasts get nerfed then I hope they lose. I depend on the high quality content being broadcast freely and I don’t want to have to start paying for channels that have been free for decades.
My household is probably in the minority, particularly among tech enthusiasts but as such my opinion differs greatly from those you have expressed on your show regarding Aereo. I couldn’t stay silent any longer. I felt I had to speak for us, I assume to be few, who are under 40 and still depend on broadcast TV.
Thanks. Love the show.
Rob
I discovered Yahoo Pipes is still working and I made a feed sans Spoilerin Time. In case you care to share it with anyone else:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=f04d6e1e41448aed4833857d77b84e80&_render=rss
Tony Bullard
Hey guys love the show. Thanks for the state of the cordkillers address thing. I’m a audio only listener via the RSS feed using PocketCasts (which supports Chromecast FYI) Ive had absolutely zero issues with the hosting being on archive.org for what it’s worth. Downloads seem fast when I grab spoilerin’ time early and I never notice the show because it just shows up in the morning.I liked the ‘how-to’ special and would like to see more…I think I’ll film myself setting up my Plex server/Chromecast and maybe a walkthru on my Harmony remote. Also, if I ever do watch the video, I have zero issues with the chat in the lower third. Kinda like it even.
I prefer the combined feed for the main show and spoilerin’ time. My ‘workflow’ consists of checking what you spoil in the patreon email, if I’m caught up I download it myself from archive.org. if I still have to watch Game of Thrones then I wait for it in the RSS feed. I like the update on kids shows by the way Brian 🙂 my kids are burning through bubble guppies and Clifford and who knows. By the way barbie’s dream house adventures is packed with nerd references like star wars and indiana Jones. If you use a DNS service for your Netflix by the way you can greatly vary what kids shows are available on Netflix since the nickolodean deal only ran out for the USA but Dora/Diego and lots more are still on UK and Canadian Netflix.
Lastly, I loved the bookclub like review of The Shield as I’ve just watched the first season roughly in line with Toms viewing.
Thanks guys. Love the content.
Joel
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Cosmos gets to the bottom of humanity, Game of Thrones makes Cersei different suddenly, and The Shield confuses Tom a little.
Hulu’s letting more folks watch shows on mobile without paying. Is that a good thing? Also AOL and Nielsen are teaming up to save Internet TV.
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Hulu’s letting more folks watch shows on mobile without paying. Is that a good thing? Also AOL and Nielsen are teaming up to save Internet TV.
CordKillers: Ep. 18 – Does Hulu Make Sense Now
Recorded: May 6 2014
Guest: Derrick Chen
Intro Video
Primary Target
Secondary Target
Signal Intelligence
Gear Up
Under surveillance
Front Lines
2014 Summer Movie Draft
http://draft.diamondclub.tv/
On Screen
Dispatches from the Front
This is a little old news since Youtube has now been out on Roku for a couple of weeks now, but I just wanted to say that this has pretty much killed the Chromecast for me. The addition of DIAL means that now my Roku does all the great things it always did and now adds the easy casting ability that made Chromecast so attractive and really starts to edge out the AppleTV in terms of features. If I can just find a Chromecast-type Chrome plugin that works with DIAL-based devices so I could do full screen sharing, Roku would really become the top of the streaming device heap.
Alex
While I was watching Cosmos tonight, our station, WVUE Fox 8 in New Orleans, cut to commercial during the discussion of monkeys developing the ability to walk and did not return until Jupiter appeared on screen.
It could be coincidence (I always try to err on the side of technical malfunction). Twitter searches lead me to find it happened at an affiliate in Mississippi and Indiana, as well as Green Bay, Wisconsin, but that Wisconsin station put out a message online saying there were technical problems. I’ve yet to see the other stations post similar explanations.
I’ve only seen WVUE do this once in the past with the Malcolm in the Middle series finale, but that was practically a decade ago, and this just never happens on their station to my knowledge.
Thought you might find this interesting.
Sherman
Was wondering why you haven’t been watching “Continuum”? It’s one of my favorite sci-fi shows and they are currently airing the third season on SyFy. It’s a Canadian science fiction show (yes I said Canadian) that stars the eye catching Rachel Nichols as a law enforcement officer from the year 2077 who gets involuntarily transported back to 2012 with a group of freedom fighters known as “Liber8”. There she tries to stop them from changing the future and to try to get back home to 2077 to be with her family. The first two seasons are on Netflix streaming (23 episodes up there) so you should go and check it out. Oh, and by the way, one of the guest stars on the show is William B. Davis (aka The Smoking Man from The X-Files). Curious to hear your thoughts on it.
Thanks,
Corey
I agree, the outcome is murky, but here’s why Aereo will WIN. In the very first question, the attorney for the broadcasters agreed that Aereo was NOT a cable company. That would appear to take public performance licensing off the table. Additionally, Aereo appears to be following the letter of the law. A conservative jurist may say it’s OK to follow the letter of the law, even if it violates the spirit of the law, no matter who it angers. With that view, it should not be the court’s job to fix the problem. Remember, the VCR case is also precedent; we are allowed to make recordings of shows with our private equipment. Does the location of that equipment matter? Also, the attorney for the Justice Department admitted that Aereo fell somewhere between a cable company and a private antenna. I felt the justices asked hard questions to both sides. I do think Aereo has a fair shot at winning. I will want to read the opinion if it does not.
Chris
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Cosmos makes us into stars, The Shield treads water, and Game of Thrones keeps killing it. Literally.
Cable subs are stable are on the rise. Aereo looks like it might lose in court. So what’s the good news? Netflix might go peer-to-peer? Ah, Dish might bring an Internet-only TV service by the end of the summer!
CordKillers: Ep. 17 – What channel is YouTube on?
Recorded: April 28 2014
Guest: Philip Shane, Documetary filmmaker
Intro Video
Primary Target
Secondary Target
Signal Intellegence
Gear Up
IN THE UK
– Project Ethan (according to Telegraph)
– all of Sky’s programming is available through the cloud, letting you pause TV and — if you like — resume it on a smartphone
Under surveillance
Front Lines
2014 Summer Movie Draft
http://draft.diamondclub.tv/
On Screen
Dispatches from the Front
Hey guys, loyal patron here. I wanted to let you know that if you don’t already listen to or watch star talk radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson, his last episode was really great. It’s titled A cosmos conversation with Steven Soter. He is one of the original writers of the original cosmos and they cover a lot of things that you talk about such as the animation. I have not yet listened to the most recent It’s spoilering time so please forgive me if somehow you covered this already.
I love the show keep up the good work. And I love seeing my name in the credits.
Adam
Actually, most of the advertising on Detroit tv does take into account canadians. Many canadians cross the border to do their shopping, as food and other products are cheaper here than in Ontario. I live on the border in a small town, and a good portion of groceries are sold to people who do not live in the us. Many retailers here benefit, such as clothiers, grocery, and other businesses that are not restricted in some way due to duty fees when those products are taken through customs. So the advertisers on local Detroit stations are fully aware and are sold on advertising with people in Ontario.
ltsiver
An Aero opinion,I’m conflicted about the case. I want to root for them, yet since I have a windows media center setup with my own antenna I fear the over the air business model dying. I cut the cord years ago, but I fear the Aero fight might unintentionally push me back to comcast if the broadcasters pull their shows off the air.
Josh
Hi Tom and Brian, Given how you keep us up to date with What We’re Watching, it would be neat should you guys use a service like trakt.tv so your fans can easily track what you are watching and, more importantly, how you rated the material.
Love the show, etc, etc.
Gabe
Hey Tom Merritt and Brian Brushwood, don’t throw those first-gen AppleTVs away… They are worth a lot of money! I jailbroke mine and sold it on eBay for over $190 just two months ago! I used that money to buy two refurbished AppleTV 3’s.
David
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Cosmos takes on big oil, Game of Thrones gets icky, and The Shield grows human emotions.