Brian hangs on with Twin Peaks, Tom thinks it’s the best Shield yet, and Interstellar inspires.
00:39 – Twin Peaks
07:08 – The Shield
12:27 – Interstellar
Cordkillers Ep. 44 – Mushy Middle
Who buys digital stuff anymore? IS CBS doing streaming news right? Is Wal-Mart’s Vudu stick useless?
CordKillers: Ep. 44 – Mushy Middle
Recorded: November 10, 2014
Guest: Chad Johnson
Intro Video
Primary Target
- Disney partners with Google to bring its cloud movie locker to Android and Google Play Movies
- Disney Movies Anywhere
- – Disney Movies Anywhere service
– Buy a movie in any (participating) store get access to that movie on any (participating device)
– Addition of Google Play means you can buy a movie on iTunes and watch it on an Android device.
– New DMA Android app supports ChromeCast
– DMA app adds features like chaptering, free short-form content, loyalty program., resume across devices.
Signal Intelligence
- CBS launches 24-hour streaming news channel
- -CBSN – 24 hour news channel with live programming 9-Midnight Eastern
– Some original some borrowed from CBS News and Sports.
– Skip around previous segments, see what segments are next.
– Web, Roku, Fire TV, Windows 8 (Android by end of year)
Gear Up
- Walmart’s got a Chromecast-like dongle for its Vudu video service
- FCC Filing
- -Vudu Spark (leaked from FCC)
– Streams Vudu
– Zigbeee-based RF remote
Front Lines
- Microsoft’s digital TV series called Halo: Nightfall is included in the Master Chief Collection.
- -Five 25-minute episodes will be released weekly to owners of the collection as well as on the Halo Channel on Xbox.
- Forrester Research published a report predicting Internet advertising spending will pass TV by 2016 in the US.
- -By 2019 Forrester estimates Internet spending will make up 36% of all ad spending compared to TV’s 30%.
- Two German developers are selling an app in the Play store for $2.99 that gives you access to Amazon Prime Instant video and allows you to Chromecast it.
- Netflix has hired marketing agencies for a big promotional push in Australia in 2015
- -Presumably to go along with a launch of the service there.
- Crash Course creators John and Hank Green have struck a partnership with PBS Digital Studios.
- -The vlogbrothers distribute their educational video library through PBS’s YouTube network as well as into the classroom.
- Shipping dates for Fire TV stick have slipped to Jan. 15.
- -Meaning if you want one for a December gift you’ll have to find one at retail shops Best Buy and Staples.
Under Surveillance
- BBC News – New Star Wars film title revealed
- Netflix Is Adapting A Series Of Unfortunate Events As A TV Series
- Mark Wahlberg will star as the significantly more expensive ‘Six Billion Dollar Man’ in a film directed by Peter Berg
- HBO Will Make Asimov’s Foundation With Interstellar’s Jonathan Nolan
- Brian: Twin Peaks (S01 E05), Interstellar, Trailer Park Boys (season 1 and half of 2)
- Tom: The Shield (311) Interstellar, The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Warcraft Trailer
2014 Winter Movie Draft
draft.diamondclub.tv
- Scott: $105,877,702
- Justin: $19,618,437
- Brian: $0
- Tom: $0
- John: $0
- Brett: $0
Dispatches from the Front
My boss and I had tried to do something very similar to the movie but it never panned out. I love that you guys have kept it going and seems like it’s growing among all the listeners. For those of you have played Fantasy football, Yahoo likes to do a grade system after the draft to add some flair and post draft analyst. Although a week late, Here you guys go!
Mulango Akpo-Esambe
Hi Tom, Brian and guest. Just a note about the Atari Game Over documentary coming to Xbox Live. On this weeks Major Nelson Podcast which is made by a bunch of Xbox employees Jeff Rubenstein from the Xbox community team mentioned that the documentary is available to both Gold and Silver members. Meaning that you don’t have to be paying for Xbox Live to see the documentary.
From your boss, Nik.
I have a roku 2 xs, and chromecast. Thinking of dropping directv and would move roku 2 to bedroom tv as it has composite out as that tv does not have hdmi. What do you recommend in addition to the chromecast to get amazon prime instant and why? A new roku, a roku stick, or amazon firestick, this is just so I can get prime on the TV chromecast works great for netflix, hulu, and hbogo.
Thanks for the insight.
Lance
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 43 – (Twin Peaks Ep. 4, The Shield 310, Transparent 7-10)
An academic approach to Twin Peaks, A total Vic move on The Shield and the rest of Transparent.
01:01 – Twin Peaks
10:28 – The Shield
15:15 – Transparent
Cordkillers Ep. 43 – Gear Three Ways
Starz joins the party and YouTube tries to become the next HBO. Also why Roku is NOT winning the set-top box race.
It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 42 – Twin Peaks Ep. 1, Transparent Ep. 4, The Shield (Ep. 308), Fargo (Ep. 8 & 9)
Why Brian hates everyone in Twin Peaks, Is Transparent the best show of the year, The Shield puts Tom back on the Money Train and Fargo Finale talk!
00:47 – Twin Peaks
07:22 – The Shield
12:47 – Transparent
17:28 – Fargo
It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 42 – Twin Peaks Ep. 2, Transparent Ep. 5,6 The Shield (Ep. 310),
Why Brian hates everyone in Twin Peaks, Is Transparent the best show of the year, The Shield puts Tom back on the Money Train and Fargo Finale talk!
00:47 – Twin Peaks
07:22 – The Shield
12:47 – Transparent
17:28 – Fargo
Cordkillers Special: WINTER MOVIE DRAFT 2014
Gather around your podcasting viewer of choice and watch as our league of movie draft legends compete for dominance in the 2014 Winter Movie Draft. Starring Tom Merritt, Brian Brushwood, John Teasdale, Justin Robert Young, Brett Rounsaville, and Scott Johnson.
Be sure to play along at home by visiting http://draft.diamondclub.tv/form
Cordkillers Ep. 42 – Gore Porn
Amazon’s crazy cheap Firestick, Netflix made Coach Taylor do something bad, Roku wants some money.
CordKillers: Ep. 42 – Gore Porn
Recorded: October 27, 2014
Guest: Scott Johnson
Intro Video
Primary Target
- Amazon Fire TV stick
- Amazon takes on Chromecast with Fire TV Stick
- The mixed-up math of Amazon’s Fire TV Stick discounts
- Fire TV Stick coming Nov. 19th available for preorder. Ships Nov. 19
– Coming to UK and Australia soon
– For first two days of preorder $19 for Prime members
– Free month of Prime for non-mebers
– Dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage
– Netflix, Hulu Plus, Plex, YouTube, TWitch, Spotify, Vevo A&E etc.
-(Chromecast is $35/ Roku stick $50)
Signal Intelligence
- Netflix has two more TV shows for 2015: ‘Bloodline’ and ‘F is for Family’
- Two new Netflix originals
– Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman, who were the creators of Damages.
– Coach Taylor says “We’re not bad people, but we did a bad thing.”
– 13-episode original, with the plot focusing around “a family of adult siblings whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother returns home.”
– March 2015 - F is for Family
– Animated by Bill Burr, EP with Vince Vaughn set in the 1970s
– Voices from Laura Dern and Justin Long
– Burr will premiere his new stand-up special I’m Sorry You Feel That Way on Netflix December 5th, 2015
Gear Up
- U.S. TV startup Roku to confidentially file for IPO: WSJ
- Roku Seeking Secretive IPO: Report
- Roku planning to file for an IPO in the US – selected bankers
– Companies with less than $1 billion annual gross revenues can keep confidential
– Last month, the company announced the Roku Powered program, an initiative aimed at helping Roku strike up direct partnerships with pay-TV providers. (BBC, Dish etc)
– The Information reported Roku pulled in $190 million in revenue in 2013.
– Says it is near profitability
-Could Roku be the box to unify two worlds?
Front Lines
- Comcast lost 81,000 video customers in Q3, its best result in 7 years.
- -A year ago Comcast lost 127,000 video customers. The company ALSO added 315,000 broadband subscribers bringing it close to parity with 22.38 million video subs and 21.59 million broadband subs. The company increased overall customers by 82,000.
- Nielsen, and Adobe are launching a measurement system across Internet-connected devices.
- This includes desktops, smartphones, tablets, game consoles and over-the-top boxes. The system will launch in 2015 with ESPN, Turner Broadcasting, Sony’s Crackle, Viacom and Univision already signed up. It’s called Nielsen’s Digital Content Ratings, Powered by Adobe and uses Adobe Analytics and Adobe’s ‘Primetime’ TV delivery platform.
Under Surveillance
- Brian: Legend of Korra season 3, Twin Peaks to ep 3, Transparent, Fargo ep 10
- Tom: Fargo (Ep. 10), Haven, Agents of SHIELD, Star Wars Rebels, Arrow, The Flash, Transparent, The Shield (309), Continuum
- Scott: The Sopranos, Arrow
Dispatches from the Front
What do you mean by “all the spectrum” if you look at the swath of spectrum actually being used for OTA (uhf and vhf) there is very little actually being used when compared to other technologies like Lte, wimax and wifi.
I am looking at it from a wireless engineer / networking side as such that trying to reuse what is there for another purpose.
There is more spectrum that is licensed and used for the private sector than any other form. Direct TV, dish, xm radio, airline cell carriers just to name a few own more spectrum combined than those that are used for public OTA TV services.
So in a way yes I’m saying that for quality of service and sheer reach of consumption OTA is as good as it gets. Now sure we can transition to mpeg4 OTA and get better use of it but to say that we could replace the spectrum in favor of an on demand solution for everyone just could not happen with the limited bandwidth that uhf and vhf have combined.
Thanks for the reply,
Josh
If we end up paying a-la-carte for our programming, then our money will be going directly to the channels we care about instead of being divided across the hundreds of channels that we don’t care about. I wonder if that will make better programming or less commercials. Thoughts?
David
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It’s Spoilerin’ Time: Episode 41 – Twin Peaks Ep. 1, Transparent Ep. 4, The Shield (Ep. 308), Fargo (Ep. 8 & 9)
Twin Peaks softly lulls Brian, Transparent may be the most real show this year, The Shield shows cracks in the strike team, Fargo takes big turn.
01:27 – Twin Peaks (Ep 1)
12:30 – Transparent (Ep 4)
20:12 – The Shield (Ep 308)
24:10 – Fargo (Ep 8 & 9)
Cordkillers Ep. 41 – You would steal a policeman’s helmet
HBO will do some kind of Internet service next year. People say Yay! CBS will do one now. People say boo. Google unveils Nexus player. People sort of notice!
CordKillers: Ep. 41 – You would steal a policeman’s helmet
Recorded: October 20, 2014
Guest: Kristi Kates
Intro Video
Primary Target
- TV’s Move to the Web Can Strengthen Its Cable Business
- HBO Says It’s Going to Start Selling on the Web Next Year
- -HBO CEO Richard Plepler said at Time Warner investor presentation
-“in 2015, we will launch a stand-alone, over-the-top, HBO service in the United States. We will work with our current partners. And, we will explore models with new partners. All in, there are 80 million homes that do not have HBO and we will use all means at our disposal to go after them.”
-Martin Peers of “The Information” reports $15/ mo.
– Diffusion group survey 6% moderately or highly likely to sign up - HBO’s Online Pricing Trap
- CBS launches its own TV subscription platform for $6 a month
- -CBS launched $6 mo. streaming service.
– 6500 classic episodes
– 15 shows day after air
– Live TV in 14 markets with more to come
– No NFL - Never say never: why TV networks are suddenly ready to unbundle
- Lions Gate to offer streaming movie service in 2015
- -LionsGate: The service, Tribeca Short List, will offer movies such as the dystopian teen hit “The Hunger Games” beginning next year, according to the studio.
Signal Intelligence
- Netflix’s growth slows down just as HBO joins the streaming fight
- Netflix’s U.S. growth slows, shares plunge
- -Netflix earnings
– US growth slowed to 980K customers, down from 1.29 million a year ago (had predicted 1.33 million)
– Netflix’s international subscribers grew 72 percent to 15.84 million from a year earlier.
– Net income rose to $59.3 million, or 96 cents per share, from $31.8 million, or 52 cents per share, in the year-ago period.
Gear Up
- Here comes the Nexus Player: Google and Asus release first Android TV device
- Pre-order page
- Nexus Player
– Available for preorder US and Canda
-$99 (Game pad sold sep. for $40)
– Bluetooth remote, voice search
– 28 apps (Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Plex, Pluto.tv, YouTube)
– Compatible with GoogleCast
Front Lines
- Aereo Asks FCC to Change Definition of Video Distributor
- – Aereo Chief Executive Officer Chet Kanojia met with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and other officials on Oct. 8 to advocate for online programming to be added to the definition of an MPVD.
– This would be a big victory for any company attempting to create an online multichannel TV service
9 Remeber Discovery refused to let Sky Angel carry its channel online. It could not flat out refuse in this scenario)
– if a programmer has a stake in a distribution service, then it is required to sell its programming to MPVDs. - Good News, TV Guys: ComScore Found Your Missing TV Watchers
- – Comscore survey says the younger a viewer is the less likely they watch on a TV
– Millennials say they spend a third of their TV-watching time watching TV on computers, tablets and phones
– 24 percent of 18-to-34-year-olds say they’re not subscribing to pay TV. — 13 percent say they’ve cut the cord, 11 percent never had a cord. - Amazon’s Instant Video app now shows your homemade movies
- –Upgraded Amazon Instant Video apps for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and certain TVs from LG and Samsung can show photos and videos stored in Amazon Cloud Drive for users in Germany the US and UK.
Under Surveillance
- Netflix’s next original series is a collaboration with Canada’s Rogers
- –Netflix is co-producing a series with Shomi, a VOD service from Canadian TV channel City and telco Rogers. Between is a six-episode series that follows the story of a strange disease in a small town that has abolished everyone under 21 years old. Created by Michael McGowan, director of Still Mine and One Week.
- Last week Netflix announced every episode of Friends is coming to Netflix January 1.
- MST3K’s Joel And Dr. Forrester Reunite On Paul Feig’s New Webseries
- – Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu will reunite on Freaks and Geeks’ creator Paul Feig’s new webseries on Yahoo. Other Space is “a journey in unknown space set in the early 22nd century, when the human race has mapped most of the known universe, failed to find alien life, and frankly gotten a little tired of the whole thing.”
- WB Announces A Ton Of New DC Movies, Including Who’s Playing The Flash
- –WB Announced the lineup of DC Movies: Suicide Squad will be the next DC movie released after Batman V. Superman in 2016. In 2017 you get a standalone Wonder Woman along with a Justice League movie directed by Zack Snyder. In 2018 a Flash movie starring Ezra Miller and Aquaman starring Jason Momoa. In 2019 is Shazam (Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam) and Justice League 2. Then in 2020 a Cyborg movie and a new Green Lantern.
- Brian: Legend of Korra, rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender, playing Far Cry 3, Fargo, Transparent, Twin Peaks
- Tom: The Shield (308) Transparent, Doctor Who
- Kristi: Agents of SHIELD, Firefly fan film “The Verse,” Warehouse 13, bit of Doctor Who
Dispatches from the Front
Tom and Brian,
Quick note: Quit watching The Walking Dead mid-season 2. Tried last season, quit. Brother tells me to watch current season’s premier. Holy crap! I think I’m in.
Fred in Pooler, GA
Do you have an explanation for why movies take so long to be available to rent? It is so frustrating to see DVDs to buy but not to rent. I want to rent Catching Fire, which was released in 2013 and it is only available to buy. Grrrrrr!
Pam
Hi,
Thanks for your show, we cut the cord about 3 years ago and finding new shows has probably been the hardest part to get used to! Your show has helped me in this regard quite a few times. I wanted to pass along a show I stumbled upon in Netflix that I am in love with! It’s called An Idiot Abroad, I’d love to hear your thoughts on it because know one in my immediate circle seems to love it as much as I do, I want to see if I’m weird, if Brian likes it then I’m legit!
Take care,
Melanie
You guys have to give Manhattan (on WGN America, Hulu, iTunes) a try. Wife and I love this show. Fascinating drama about the time period and the science with the A bomb. Purchased the season on iTunes and look forward to it every Monday. Just got renewed for a second season.
Jon
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