Peace Among Worlds

Peace Among Worlds
Number	86
Broadcast Date	August 31, 2015
Episode Length	59:02
Hosts	Brian Brushwood, Tom Merritt
Guests	Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Nielsen begins to rate Netflix, Netflix cuts out Epix's movies, and Apple TV may become a gaming console.

Guest

• Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ

Intro Video

• Tom Merritt cut the cord

Primary Target

• Nielsen to Measure Netflix Viewing by Middle of This Year

Nielsen will begin rating Netflix and Amazon starting mid-year

Nielsen box listens for shows. Does not work with Netflix Originals.

“Collecting ratings on streaming services is an outdated mode of doing business,” said Cliff Edwards, a Netflix spokesman

• NPD: Half of U.S. homes with Internet now own a connected TV device

NPD survey estimates around half of US Internet homes have a “connected TV device” (46 million +4mm yoy)

“smart TVs, video game consoles, streaming media players, and Blu-ray Disc players that can connect to the Internet”

45 percent of TVs sold in the U.S. in Q2 2015 supported apps.

69 percent of all installed Internet capable TVs were online in Q2 2015

Top TV apss Q2 Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Hulu, HBO (Go/Now) Crackle fell out

Signals Intelligence

• Netflix Ends Five-Year Movie Deal with Epix

Netflix will not renew deal with Epix.

Deal went non-exclusive in 2012

Epix will come to Hulu Oct. 1. Already has deal with Amazon

Ted Sarandos: “Our focus has shifted to provide great movies and TV series for our members that are exclusive to Netflix. Epix focus is to make sure that their movies will be widely available for consumers through a variety of platforms.”

Epix is MGM, Lions Gate Entertainment and Paramount

• Why Netflix losing Epix could be a good thing

“Netflix is a focused passion brand, not a do-everything brand: Starbucks, not 7-Eleven; Southwest, not United; HBO, not Dish,” the company says in its long-term view manifesto.

In the most recent quarter, Netflix subs have streamed an average of 75 million Epix movies per month, according to a source familiar with the pact, which would represent about 1.8 movies per U.S. sub monthly.

Gear Up

• The next Apple TV is reportedly much more expensive
• Apple TV 4: Gaming and Siri will be major focuses, expect Bluetooth game controllers + enhanced wireless

9to5 Mac’s Mark Gurman has sources that say the next Apple TV will be priced between $149 and $199.

Become available in October.

Siri, gesture control on remote, app store, SDK

Current version will stay available at $69

Expected to be announced September 9th

Front Lines

• Cablevision will now resell CBS All access and Showtime to its Internet subscribers. Cablevision now resells Hulu, HBO Now.
• Every week is Shark Week: Discovery launches network for virtual reality video

Discovery launched an all-360-degree video service at discoveryvr.com. You can watch the videos on the Web iOS or Android. The videos can also be viewed through Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift support is coming soon. Videos feature content from Mythbusters, Gold Rush and Survivorman as well as general interest videos.

• Amazon Prime Video joins Netflix in Japan this fall

Amazon Prime Video will launch in Japan this autumn. Amazon says it will feature "thousands of popular Japanese and US movies and TV shows, anime series, music concerts, and variety shows, plus Amazon's own award-winning originals and new Japanese originals."

• Sling TV now has an app available for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets. It's free in the Amazon app store.
• HBO is working on a new anthology series that's just about family drama

HBO is reportedly working on another anthology series called Family Drama which will focus on a different Seattle-area family every season. Apparently he project comes from Lynn Shelton who directed episodes of New Girl, The Mindy Project and Fresh off the Boat.

Under Surveillance

• Galaxy Quest Could Become an Amazon TV Show

Amazon is developing a series based on the movie Galaxy Quest. The film’s co-writer Robert Gordon is writing the pilot and the film’s director Dean Parisot will direct. They’ll both executive produce, along with the original film’s producers, too.

• Thrilled to announce that after months of talking/tests that Sony and Fox are moving forward with a 4K conversion of The Shield.
• Netflix is begging for teen eyeballs with two new movies from YouTube stars
• Mr. Robot postpone
• Brian: 12 Years a Slave (inflight), Second Best Marigold Hotel (inflight), 500 days of Summer (inflight), Rick and Morty, The Shield 704
• Tom: What Happened Miss Simone?, Continuum, The Shield (704), Clone Wars, Star Trek: Voyager (I fell for the Netflix auto-play), Rick and Morty (206)
• Robert: Star Trek : DS9, Nova (Prime), Dr. Who
• Bryce: Knights of Sidonia

Dispatches From The Front

Just now listened to episode 84... I agree with Alison Sheridan that I much prefer the giant, all-you-can-eat model vs. nickel-and-dime-me-to-death model.

And your discussion afterwards felt like listening to an alternate history parallel world. I have the opposite experience. I LOVE my DVR. After I spend a few minutes setting it up, I'm done. I have a hand-tailored video feed that has exactly what I want on it. (Although I do have to fix things when I discover that I'm recording SD.) It shows me new episodes that I haven't seen of my favorite [broadcast/cable] shows, in order, as they become available. I go one place and I see a cornucopia of TV that gets me. If I'm not in the mood for a particular show, I can watch it weeks later without wondering if the license will expire. If a show goes on hiatus, I don't have to know when it is coming back. It just SHOWS UP, all by itself, months later. I don't know what channel, day, or time anything is on. It's just there. There's always something on my DVR that I want to watch. I can binge-watch syndicated marathons of shows while skipping commericials*! On-Demand service makes up for any glitches or oversights. I do have to be careful about too much stuff stacking up, but it seems manageable to me. (And I watch a LOT.)

As for online services, they're not quite there yet. (Content, yes. Manageability, no.) I don't know how many shows I've abandoned because I don't even remember they exist....

- Sara in Sunny Seattle

Hey guys!

I know you both have viewing "to do" lists that are probably a mile long but I wanted to share something unique. The A&E crime drama "Longmire" was cancelled on that network apparently because it wasn't drawing the right demographic. It was A&E's most popular show.

Due in large part to the fan base providing die hard support and some massive social networking outreach by some folks close to the show, it was picked up by Netflix as a new "original". I haven't heard you talk about this particular show prior to it's demise or after the news of it's rebirth on Netflix. I think it's a very interesting look at how one network may have shot itself in the foot because it didn't believe it had the right viewers.

You can watch the three previous seasons on Netflix or catch the new season September 10th. Hope to possibly hear your take on the show.

- Todd

Hey guys, I'm listening to It's Spoilerin' Time 85 where you were discussing the weird ordering for Mr. Robot episode numbers. Just a quick note, I took the numbering as a nod to the hacker/developer community because all array's indexes start at 0. The first item in any array or list is at index 0 so if you intialize an array for 10 items, like the episodes, you will have indexes of 0-9. Just another example the show creators trying to tie more of the hacker/dev aspect to the show. Thanks!

- Jason

Links

• http://www.cordkillers.com/blog/2015/8/31/cordkillers-86-peace-among-worlds
• patreon.com/cordkillers
• 2015 Winter Movie Draft

Preceded by: "Let’s! Do! The Time-Shift Again!"

Peace Among Worlds

Followed by: "Show Us What You Got"