Cordkillers 189 – Space Babies (w/ Nicole Lee)

Cordkillers / October 3rd, 2017

Who has the best streaming service and Roku’s new lineup of boxes and dongles. With special guest Nicole Lee.

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CordKillers: Ep. 189 – Space Babies
Recorded: October 2 2017
Guest: Nicole Lee.

Intro Video

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Primary Target

  • DirecTV Now, Sling TV, Hulu TV: Best Internet TV Channel Deal
    – TiVo studied survey data of the most desirable TV channels among US and Canada viewers with the current offerings from major Internet-only services.
    – The survey showed the 4 broadcast networks led the way followed by Discovery then History then FX.
    – The survey determined 27 channels that most consumers wanted.
    – TiVo’s analysis showed the best coverage per dollar spent
    – DirecTV Now’s “Just Right” bundle $50/mo. covered 85%
    – DirecTV Now “Live a little” bundle $35/mo. – 82%
    – Sling TV combined $40/mo. 67%
    – Hulu TV $40 63%
    – PSVUe $39 59%
    – Sling blue 56% Orange 44%
    – YouTube TV $35 37%
  • TiVo’s Q2 2017 Video Trends Report

How to Watch

  • Roku rolls out Roku OS 8, refreshes TV hardware with 4K and faster processors
    – Roku just announced updates to five of its streaming devices. Roku’s $50 streaming stick gets a 50% faster processor and support for voice control. The $70 Roku Streaming Stick Plus has 4K and better wifi range with the wireless module built into the cable. The $30 Roku Express and $40 Roku Express Plus get faster processors and the Express Plus keeps its composite ports. The Roku Ultra isn’t being changed but the price did drop from $130 to $100. Roku OS 8 is also out for all supported boxes. It can integrate OTA programming and adds single sign-on.

What to Watch

What We’re Watching

Front Lines

Dispatches from the Front

I was listening to you talk about the new Trek when I had the following thoughts: I enjoy Cordkillers. I enjoy it enough that I give money through Patreon for content I could get for free. I also enjoy Star Trek. I view CBS All Access as a racket though. I won’t be giving money to their success and will instead wait for Trek on some other platform. On the one hand I pay for free content and on the other hand I want paid content for free. I can’t explain it. Go figure. Anyhow, you guys are worth the dough. Keep up the good work.

– Roy

 

 

 

I couldn’t believe what I heard today. After listening to my favorite podcast my app automatically starting playing my 3rd favorite. While putting in a hard day’s work looking busy and trying not to get caught playing on my phone. It happened. I thought somehow Trump invaded my air waves but It didn’t sound like the person was holding his hand in the air when he talked. How could you hate the big bang theory. It’s my favorite show of all time. So I decided I will donate $1 an episode but you must confess your love for the show.

– Kevin

 

 

 

Dear Tom and Brian,

I have long felt 2 things are true about CBS:
They are the home of many of my favorite shows
They are very stingy about rebroadcast rights for their shows, to the point of being greedy. Examples:
I was a fan of The Mentalist but I had to watch it live because it wasn’t available On Demand on our cable system like most other shows.
Their new show, Seal Team, is not listed in my cable company’s On Demand library; I guess if you don’t catch it live you have to watch it on CBS All Access.
As Tom has said, they often only allow a few episodes of a season to be available On Demand at any given time.
Contrast that with these examples from NBC:
· The entire first season of This is Us is available On Demand.
· All 8 seasons of Will and Grace appear to be available on my cable system’s On Demand library.
· You’d think they actually want to give people the opportunity to get caught up on these shows if they missed them when they first aired!

I feel like CBS believes they have such great and popular content that people will put up with their shenanigans and pay whatever they ask in order to watch it. I guess it remains to be seen whether this is true.

I do intend to sign up for CBS All Access. I tried it before and didn’t have very good luck with it. I intend to quit the subscription as soon as the Star Trek show is over.

Did you know they’re going to have a break starting November 5, restarting sometime in January? I bet they’ll get a lot of people cancelling in between . . .

Your Boss,
– Beelissa

 

 

 

I am considering CBS all access. I watched Star Trek Discovery and liked it enough to start the consideration. I am going away for a large part of December and can foresee some DVR shortages creeping up and CBS All Access could help, that is if I can watch the past five episodes or more of some of there current shows. I did some searching to see if I could find a chart of what shows have Full access and which have partial access, like your Supergirl example. Do you know of any such chart or site with information like that.

Thanks for any help,

– Mike

Links

2017 Winter Movie Draft
patreon.com/cordkillers