Cordkillers Ep. 24 – I don’t give a Ratchet’s Ass

Cordkillers / June 17th, 2014

Sony promises an Internet-only streaming service, so does Dish, but Sony’s got the machines to deliver it. Will that end up working against them?

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CordKillers: Ep. 24 I don’t give a Ratchet’s Ass
Recorded: June 15, 2014
Guest: Justin Robert Young

Intro Video 

Primary Target

Secondary Target

  • Dish’s upcoming internet TV service to target cord cutters and “cord haters”
  • GM of Interactive and Advanced TV Adam Lowy at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco
  • – “Cord cutters, cord nevers and what we call cord haters” will be the target audience of the new service
  • – Fox Network SVP of Distribution Strategy and Development Sherry Brennan said that her company would like to sell its networks through all and any of these new services

Signal Intelligence

  • Netflix receives new logo and subtle website makeover
  • Netflix website got redesign
  • – Includes a slightly transparent top bar and a palette of white and light greys.
  • – Logo changed to simpler version the updated emblem uses flat, red text with minimal embellishment.

Gear Up

Under surveillance

  • Sony formally announces PlayStation original sci-fi series ‘Powers’ 
  • Sony will create an original show for the PlayStation called “Powers”
  • – Adaptation of graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis
  • – Elements of police procedurals, sci-fi, and fantasy, and follows a pair of detectives investigating people with superhero-like powers.
  • – Free first episode to all (with registration) PlayStation Plus get access to whole series.
  • – Ratchet&Clank scheduled for movie release to PlayStation in 2015
  • – More to come

Front Lines

2014 Summer Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv/

  1. DTNS: $462,591,077
  2. TMS: $420,381,999
  3. Amtrekker: $397,100,217
  4. GodsMoneybags: $213,120,477
  5. /Film: $198,386,221
  6. Night Attack: $97,389,035

On Screen

Dispatches from the Front

First of all, love the show, really makes me wish that I had listened to Framerate. I have a small request: from a recent episode of Spoilerin’ Time, I learned that you use the lower third in the video version to identify the show or movie that you’re discussing. But as an audio-listener, I am not privy to this information. I have not yet watched Cosmos or The Shield, so I would prefer to skip those spoilers. But I am a big Game of Thrones fan. I find myself having to spend sometimes several minutes seeking through the episode to find the beginning of the game of thrones discussion, in the process hearing some of the other chatter that I would prefer to postpone. If it is too much effort, I understand, but if there is any way that you can jot down the time when you begin discussing a particular show, and add it to the podcast episode description field, I would be overjoyed.

Keep it up.

Joe

 

 

Hey guys! It’d be great if you made use of podcast chapters in the shows; in the main show it’d help with those faux-“”spoilers”” about Star Wars that people whine about, and in Spoilerin’ Time it’d help people to listen and just skip the sections they’re not caught up with yet. 
Love the show!  

Caleb

 

 

Hey Tom and Brian,
As I am getting ready for the 24hr LeMans, trying to find a place to stream it a week or so before the race. I am completely delighted to find that the good people at LeMans are not only streaming the entire race but also chromecast-able directly from their website. I would like to applaud the LeMans group for their forward thinking of live sport’s on the Internet. Thanks for all both of you do.

Cord cutter since 2007
Jason
Ft Myers Florida 

 

 

As I was watching the Sony E3 press release, I was noticing how they were nudging people in the same direction, although in a much more subtle way than Microsoft. Tom has always been saying that both console manufacturers want these things in the long term.

In particular, the PlayStation feature that lets your friends play in your multi-player game even if they don’t own it seems an awful lot like MS’s library-sharing feature. Every one assumes that it’s going to use Sony’s new streaming service. While that’s probably true, I can also see a time where they use a specific kind of DRM in order to be able to download the game locally to improve performance and decrease load on the servers.

And PlayStation TV is digital only, without fanfare, mainly because it’s only a $100 box. But it plays most Vita games. I’m not sure what “most” means, but based on reviews Vita games seem to be much closer to full console games than phone games. And you can use your PS3 controller so the cost to try it out is small for PS3 owners that haven’t made the jump to PS4 yet.

It’s interesting how this worked out. To me, this seems a lot like Sony learning from its PS3 launch. I remember when PS3 launched, Sony was pushing it as an entertainment center. (Anyone remember PlayStation X?) Xbox was pushing games, especially Halo, of course. That, combined with an earlier release gave the 360 a lead that PS3 could never catch up to. But this time around, the situation seems reversed. And while the release-date lead for PS4 was negligible, the lead in terms of units sold seems to be significant.

Alan

 

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Cordkillers Ep. 23 – Netflix Picks Fights

Cordkillers / June 10th, 2014

While Microsoft proves Brian right about the Ridley Scott series, but Netflix is being a little trolly and Web video becomes a heritage play.

 

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CordKillers: Ep. 23 Netflix Picks Fights
Recorded: June 9, 2014
Guest: None

Intro Video 

Primary Target

Secondary Target

Signal Intelligence

  • Close to half of all U.S. households subscribe to Netflix, Amazon Prime or Hulu Plus
  • Online television watching reaches all-time high — iOS apps surpass web browsers
  • Study from Leichtman Research Group about emerging video services
    – 47% of US households subscribe to one or more of Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime
    – 49% have at least one TV connected to the Internet
    – 49% of Netflix subscribers watch online video once a week compared to 8% of non-Netflix subs. 78% of Netflix subs watch on a TV
    – 34% watch online video every day, 61% every wek
    – 80% of Netflix subs have cable, compared to 88% in 2010.
    – Cord cutters who subscribe to Netflix rose from 16% (2010) to 48%
    – 10% of households think it’s likely they’ll cancel cable in the next 10 months
    – Total without cable 17 million households (of more than 100 million)
  • Adobe TV Everywhere report
    – iOS applications have surpassed desktop browsers as the most popular access point for online TV content, with a 43 percent market share versus a 36 percent share,
    – gaming consoles and other over-the-top devices continue to be the fastest-growing devices for online video overall, with a 123 percent year-over-year increase in online video starts
    – nline video consumption across mobile devices is now at an all-time high of 25 percent, with 57 percent year-over-year growth in the U.S. from Q1 2013 and Q1 2014

Gear Up

Under surveillance

Front Lines

2014 Summer Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv/

  1. DTNS:  $445,420,076
  2. TMS: $351,925,978
  3. Amtrekker: $320,289,130
  4. /Film: $196,350,239
  5. GodsMoneybags: $159,047,975
  6. Night Attack: $65,341,593

On Screen

Dispatches from the Front

Thanks for the show again. Any chance you could section one a week or month where you guys add a show to have people check out. Kind of like book of month from sword and laser. Since your show I have been binge watching and watched all seasons of the shield, archer, and just finished season 1 of arrow. After I watch season 2 of arrow going to start orphan black. Good option would be picking shows on streaming services like I going back to watch the sopranos on amazon prime.

Jack

 

I just tried to watch episode 22 of Cordkillers in the same way I have for the last 5 months, by streaming it on YouTube from my Nexus 5 to my Chromecast. Tonight I got an error saying this video is unavailable on this platform. I was able to stream it from a Chrome tab on my PC to the Chromecast. Did anything change?

Dirk

 

Watching Cosmos. I agree with Tom, I have hated the external views of the “”ship of imagination.”” Clearly someone involved with the production either couldn’t grasp the idea (that if the ship is imaginary, the only image of what it looks like from the outside should exist in the minds of the viewer) or they thought the viewers wouldn’t get it. You can almost see someone rolling their eyes and saying “”oooh-KAY”” as they slapped the lackluster image image in to placate an unimaginative superior.

John

 

I really enjoy the show. Feel like it is hitting it’s stride as of late.

Any chance you guys could keep the Star Wars spoilers off the regular show? Maybe discuss it only in “”It’s Spoiling Time””?

I’m trying to go into Episode VII with as little background as possible and it is hard to do so if you guys are reporting on all of the leaked photos and such.

Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work.

Tim

 

Links

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Dog House Systems Cordkiller box

Cordkillers Ep. 22 – Burnt Fields Policy

Cordkillers / June 3rd, 2014

Justin.TV kills its archive, Why YouTube is still the most popular video source on the Web, and whether DVDs or streaming video are better you. Plus, Tom reviews the Tablo. 

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CordKillers: Ep. 22 – Burnt Fields Policy
Recorded: June 2, 2014 
Guest: Jeff Cannata

Intro Video 

Primary Target

  • Live streaming site Justin.tv removing all archived videos in a week 
  • Justin.TV deleting all archived video starting next week. You have until June 8 to save your videos.
    – More than half of the archived live broadcasts it has have no more than one view. The “vast majority” have fewer than ten total views. After looking at the data, the company decided that “it’s quite clear … viewers come to Justin.tv because they want to consume content and interact with their communities in real-time.” 

Secondary Target

Signal Intelligence

  • Streaming video is better for the environment than DVDs—barely
  • Research paper published at IOP Science
    – Emissions and energy consumption higher altogether for DVDs over streaming, barely
    – DISCS: Transportation of discs, DVD players, Televisions
    – STREAMING: storage servers, transmission equipment, set-top box and TV
    – DVDs rented by mail actually more efficient than streaming.
    – Streaming just above DVDs bought through mail, slightly above sriving to a store and buying, and much better than driving to a store and renting

Gear Up

  • Tom’s take on Tablo
  • Simple.TV’s streaming DVR now sends shows to your Chromecast
  • Tablo
    – Very slow in tuning and finding channels
    – No DVR controls yet
    – Great accessibility and better guide interface than most
    – Really good channel pickup compared to TiVo (in same location)
    – Two tuners For $230….. Not sure. You can get a more powerful 4-tuner TiVo ROAMIO for $170 these days.

Under surveillance

Front Lines

2014 Summer Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv

  1. DTNS: $417,196,751
  2. TMS: $332,104,409
  3. Amtrekker: $195,289,770
  4. /Film: $192,735,902
  5. GodsMoneybags: $154,077,657
  6. Night Attack: $29,350,839

On Screen

Dispatches from the Front

My 89 year old father has been paying $280/month for his and my 69 year old mother’s Comcast account (he’s been paying this amount for about 5 years) – I was recently able to get his bill lowered by about $100/month by adding Comcast Voice to his plan as well as getting them on a “loyalty plan” (they’ve been with Comcast since the late 80’s). Even though the discount will only last for 2 years, my father is ecstatic that his bill has gone down.
 

Matthew

 

I am, and have been a Cordkillers supporter from the beginning and before that a supporter of Frame Rate. I love the show and I am very happy that as time has progressed the video quality has improved.
I am wondering if you could bring out some merchandise to help us promote the show i.e. T-shirts, hats,…etc

 

Thomas

 

 

Hey Guys,
Some spoilerin’ suggestions in no order
Silicon Valley
Venture Brothers (season one is on Netflix)
Black Mirror (good luck)
Brasseye (YouTube)
NATHAN BARLEY is on YouTube and you MUST WATCH it! or RE:watch it
if you watch anything, Nathan Barley, all the episodes should be on YouTube
re watch After Hours or King of Comedy

ok, more later,
spoilerin’ suggesterin’

Richard

 

 

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