Does The Interview have enough gut-busting laughs? Marco Polo sets the table, Rawlings tough as leather on The Shield and Tom explains Clara to Brian.
00:56 – The Interview
07:06 – Marco Polo
13:40 – The Shield
19:23 – Doctor Who
DTNS 2397 – Predictions for 2015
Patrick Beja and Justin Robert Young share their predictions for what to expect in tech in 2015.
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Cordkillers 51 – I’m Not a Reality Show Kinda Guy
The Interview hits online, Netflix says goodbye and hello and 4K apps on Vizio.
CordKillers: Ep. 51 – I’m Not a Reality Show Kinda Guy
Recorded: December 29, 2014
Guest: None
Intro Video
Primary Target
- YouTube, Web channels show Sony’s ‘The Interview’ a day before theaters
- The Interview’ rakes in $15M online in opening weekend
- Apple makes ‘The Interview’ movie available on iTunes
- – The Interview went to willing theaters on Dec. 25
– Went online via MS, Google, and Sony (Seetheinterview.com) 12/24 US and Canada only
– Released on iTunes Sunday 12/28
– Brought in $15 million in first four days (2 million)
– $2.8 million in the same four days in 331 movie theaters
Signal Intelligence
Gear Up
- Vizio brings Amazon’s 4K video to its TVs and fixes an annoying bug
- – Vizio P-Series 4K TVs getting new apps “soon”
– Amazon app w/ 4K support
– 4K UltraFlix and Toon Googles apps
-(Plex, Spotify and 4K Netflix already on Vizio TV)
Front Lines
- Aereo is auctioning its technology as part of bankruptcy.
- -Broadcasters can veto any sale. There are 17 potential bidders for the tech with bids expected Feb. 20.
- Popcorntime.io added an optional VPN service to its desktop app run by VPN.ht.
- -It costs $5 a month though popcorntime users get it for $1 for the first month or prepay a year at $48.
- SyFy show 12 Monkeys premieres Jan. 16 and includes a “light track” that controls Philips Hughes lightbulbs as you watch using the SyFy sync app.
- Mike Furth reordered all scenes from Marvel movies into chronological order. He ended up worth a 12 hour 15 minute cut of phase one.
Under Surveillance
- Netflix is reportedly buying Pee-Wee Herman movie after it was dropped by Universal. Shooting scheduled to start in 2015.
- Brian: The Interview, Doctor Who (some of the marathon), The Profit, Marco Polo (ep 3)
- Tom: The Interview, Doctor Who, Die Hard, Peaky Blinders, Marco Polo (ep. 3), The Shield (404)
2014 Winter Movie Draft
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- Scott: $378,364,906
- Tom: $325,740,292
- Brian: $317,556,820
- Brett: $223,479,164
- John: $133,316,656
- Justin: $74,147,621
Dispatches from the Front
Brian,
I already told you… eBay your jail broken first gen AppleTV. You will get enough money to buy at least two current gen AppleTVs in return. Look on eBay and see for yourself. Get it done, and stop bashing the AppleTV!
David
Hey Brian and Tom,
I just thought you would find this confirmation of the ending of the legend of korra series.
One of your bosses
Rodrigo
Im now saving 136.00 a month I cut the cable tv and phone and just kept internet went from 187.00 down to 51.00. I spent around 200.00 to install a DB8E antenna on the roof with a four way distribution amp. I live about 40 miles from new orleans and mississippi gulf coast so i have one antenna bay pointed to new orleans and the other to the gulf coast and I get all the channels from both markets a total of 41 channels. I have a roku stick on each of the four tv’s and with the antenna and roku’s with amazon, hulu, and netflix im set.
Randy
Hi Brian and Tom,
I have been watching you all for a couple of years now and really like the show. I wanted to let you know about this device I came across the other day, it’s called Brilliant TV. It’s from a small start up company near West Palm Beach, FL where I live. From what I can tell, this device seems to be close to what the old Boxee Box use to offer. It’s a small set top box that runs a version of Android and it’s an aggregate of all on-line content that is available for free. To include TV Shows, Movies, sporting events and foreign television as well.
Again, they are a small company and the device is a little expensive.($500 is what they told me but is says $599 on their web site.) However, these guys seem to have done a pretty good job on the delivery of the product from what I saw in the demonstration.
Take a look at this device and see what you think. You can find it at this URL: http://geekypickers.com/product/brillianttv-set-top/
I look forward to hear what you all have to say about this device.
Keep up the great work Brain and Tom.
Jimmy
[SPOILER TALK] for The Walking Dead
On the last spoilerin’ time I listened to you mentioned that you stopped reading The Walking Dead comics before the Eugene reveal and I realized that you did the exact same thing as me. I read the comic up to the point where Abraham’s crew appeared and stopped, and I watched the show until the disappointment that was the governor and stopped. My roommates continued to watch the show in the living room where I catch glimpses and can tell what part of the story they are in (me being the only one to have read the comics in the house) and they got to the point where Abraham appeared and I thought “Oh no… I don’t want the crappy show version to ruin the comic for me” (though now that I have seen parts of season 4 and 5 I see that they are taking even more liberties with the source material and is at best loosely based on the comics) so I took the plunge and read (renting from the library) the nearly 100 issues I needed to to catch up, it was the best decision I have made in a long time. The most recently completed story arc literally shook the core of my humanity (maybe not so much, but it was really good), so I suggest that you continue the comics.
TL;DR Continue the walking dead comics!
William
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DTNS 2396 – Predictions Results Show
Iyaz Akhtar joins the show to look back at our predictions for 2014. How well did we do? Listen and find out.
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Show Notes
DTNS 2395 – Best DTNS Moments of 2014
Producer Jennie Josephson and editor Katie Best put together some of the best moments of the show from 2014 based on your suggestions.
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East Meets West 329 – For the Children
A bit about punkin chunkin, when your hobby becomes your job, starting children on a career path, it can take a village sometimes.
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DTNS 2394 – Boss co-host show
We talk with a couple listeners/bosses of the show about why they are interested in tech and what they do with tech themselves.
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Show Notes
It’s Spoilerin’ Time Episode 50 – Legend of Korra, BoJack Horseman Christmas Special, Marco Polo, The Shield (403)
Brian is fascinated by the Korra ending, the best Christmas ever for a horse, Marco gets a partial Polo and The Shield overperforms for Tom.
00:35 – Legend of Korra
03:35 – Bojack Horseman Christmas Special
10:36 – Marco Polo
18:39 – The Shield
DTNS 2393 – New in 2014
Lamarr Wilson, Roberto Villegas and Richard Stroffolino join Tom to talk about new things in tech that came along in 2014. Turns out these folks had their own new things too!
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Show Notes
DTNS 2392 – Holiday all-stars
Patrick Beja is on our last live show of the year and we’ll try to avoid talking about Sony too much but The Interview IS coming out after all. Plus the dangers of ignoring 2FA rear their ugly head. And Len Peralta will illustrate the show!
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Today’s guest: Patrick Beja and the DTNS Holiday All Stars!
Headlines
Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton says The Interview will show in a a number of theaters on Dec. 25 and that company is trying, “to secure more platforms and more theaters so that this movie reaches the largest possible audience.” Sources tell Hollywood Reporter Sony will offer the movie as video on demand the same day it is in theaters. The Plaza Theater in Atlanta and The Alamo Drafthouse in Dallas/Fort Worth have both stated that they will show the film.
In related news, chubby_cheese submitted a link to the subreddit advertising for a new job at Sony Corporation of America in Washington DC called Director of Vulnerability Management.
Recode reports North Korea’s Internet connection suffered a second day of trouble. DYN Research reported the country experienced another outage for an hour earlier today. North Korea’s four links to the Internet are supplied by a joint venture called Star JV with connectivity supplied by China Unicom.
habichuelacondulce submitted the NYTimes post that the attack against JPMOrgan Chase’s network earlier this year was a result of a misconfigured server. People who have been briefed on internal and outside investigations into the attack, say one network server had not been upgraded to require two-factor authentication. Attackers had stolen an employee’s login credentials but a second-factor scheme would have thwarted that approach.
OS X users were greeted with a new kind of security update yesterday. Apple pushed out its first automatic security update which does not require any interaction from the users. The patch fixed a vulnerability in the network time protocol common to all Unix-based systems. Apple added the ability to do automatic patches two years ago— but this is the first time the company has used it.
Mac Rumors points out patent consortium Rockstar has sold more than 4,000 telecommunicatiosn patents to RPX. An RPX subsidiary, RPX Clearinghouse will license the patents to a syndicate of tech companies including Cisco and Google. Rockstar had been suing companies, including Google and Cisco, prior to selling the patents to RPX. Google and Cisco recently settled their disputes. Rockstar has agreed to drop its existing suits against Samsung, LG and HTC.RPX will license the patents on FRAND terms.
CNET reports that that Anouk Wipprecht has updated her personal space defensice Spider Dress with Intel Edison processors and some new 3D printed elements. The dress features spider-legg-like epaulettes connected to sensors. When respiration increases or proximity sensors detect a nearby body, the legs react.
PC Mag reports the FCC has paused the process for consideration of a proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Communications. Time Warner had withheld 7,000 requested documents and another 31,000 allegedly went missing. The FCC wants the extra time to review the new material. The pause will last until Jan. 12.
News From You
diggsalot submitted the Phandroid article letting us know that Disney World is activating Apple Pay Wednesday Dec. 24th which has the side benefit of supporting Google Wallet as well. Restaurants and shops will get it first with portable payment terminals to be upgraded later. DisneyLAND expects to get Apple Pay sometime in 2015.
And habichuelcondulce pointed out the Business Insider story that Global Music Rights is demanding YouTube remove thousands of songs for not having performance rights. YouTube is covered by ASCAP/BMI licenses for many musical performances but Global Music Rights performers are not covered under those forganizations any longer. Google claims YouTube does have license covering the performance rights and that Global Music Rights can file DMCA claims if they disagree. Artists like Pharrell, the Eagles Chris Cornell and Smokey Robinson are part of Global Music Rights.
Discussion Links: Who are all these holiday people?!?
Happy Holidays and New Years! We’ll be back on Sunday January 4th, 2015 (!) with a live CES Preview Show