Cord-cutting Gets Real

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Cord-cutting Gets Real
Number 136
Broadcast Date August 12, 2013
Episode Length 1:00:11
Hosts Tom Merritt, Nicole Spagnuolo

Pace of Cord Cutting Quickens, Dish reports decline in pay-TV subscribers, New 'Breaking Bad' episode now available on Netflix UK just hours after US premiere, and more.

Show Segments

Opening Video

Breaking Bad Theme - played with meth lab equipment.

The Big Story

  • Pay TV analyst: 'Pace of Cord Cutting Quickens.' [1]
  • Cord cutting used to be a myth. It isn’t anymore. [2]
  • Dish reports net loss, decline in pay-TV subscribers. [3]

Another Big Story

Vidcon 2013: What this year says about what’s happening on YouTube. [4]

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Slipstream

  • New 'Breaking Bad' episode now available on Netflix UK just hours after US premiere. [5]
  • Aereo expands south and west: TV streaming service announces new launch dates. [6]
  • New cable brand takes page from Netflix, uses data to suggest what you watch. [7]

Tube Tops

  • Time Warner CEO says having Game of Thrones as 'most pirated' is 'better than an Emmy'. [8]
  • Vevo app planned for Apple TV this month. [9]
  • TiVo Mini DVR extenders suddenly add Netflix streaming, Amazon coming soon? [10]

Film Falm

  • Joaquin Phoenix finds real love with artificial intelligence in Spike Jonze's 'Her'. [11]
  • Netflix releases trailer for Ricky Gervais' Derek, streaming begins September 12th. [12]
  • Netflix said to land 'Marco Polo' in quest for original content. [13]

Scan Lines

  • Apple tops in content streaming, beating Netflix, HBO GO. [14]
  • Roku's iOS app updated with user video streaming. [15]
  • Redbox Instant video service arrives on Roku. [16]
  • CBS blackout sparks rise in TV show piracy. [17]
  • Netflix SuperHD, 3D streaming options pop up on Comcast, Verizon (update: gone). [18]
  • Comcast tests cloud DVR app for iOS, brings live TV and recordings to mobiles. [19]

Summer Movie Draft

Kickass 2 premieres this week.

What We're Watching

Tom

  • Breaking Bad
  • Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  • Continuum
  • Under the Dome
  • Top Chef Masters
  • Family Tree
  • True Blood
  • Anchor Man

Nicole

  • Hell on Wheels
  • Better off Ted
  • Orange is the New Black
  • Gavin & Stacey

Feedback

  • A viewer sent in an NFL tip for cord cutters.

Don't know if you saw this, but you can get NFL Sunday ticket streaming (great for cord cutters) for $100 with this offer and you also get the new Madden game. If you don't want the game, sell it and NFL streaming is even cheaper. It says no subscription to Directv is required in the FAQ.

  • Mike (and a few others) wrote in about the renewal of Under the Dome.

Hi guys,
I have been watching Under the Dome, looking forward to the book being represented in a 13 episode mini-series.
I have heard that they announced a season two for Under the Dome, and I am not sure that this makes me happy.
It seems that they will have to really stretch out the book or keep making story changes just to keep it alive.
Do you two have any feelings on this.
I am one that read the book first, as I read it when it first came out.
Thanks,
Mike in NC

  • Frame Rate Chicken Challenge now has a community on G+. [20]
  • A viewer recounts his cord cutting experiences from 2003.

Hello guys,
Here is my personal historical two cents.
I’m from Montreal. I cut the cord in 2003!!! That same year I also cut my phone at home for obvious reason for a then bachelor. I was a party go-er, a-never-home-r and disliked the shows pushed here in Canadia in general…
Born and raised in the radio / music world, TV had an fair appeal but meh… - remember back then “realicheese” shows were everywhere!
The only way to reach different content – sometimes on the fringe of things - was to hop on the interwebs locomotive/wagon.
Since 2003, YouTube came up, Vimeo, TwiT got waaaaay bigger et cetera et cetera… [and a wee lil’ thing called Netflix.ca] There are tons of choices of what people call NetCasts out there. Adding podcasts & video podcast to the equation and boy o’ boy I was set!!!
Like any other man I love my footie & my football. But a man had to make a choice. Slowly erasing sports entertainment out of my life and saving gazillions of $$ was worth it. Once I realized I was addicted, I slowly worked on it and I am clean now! Hehe
Even if the ISP here in Canadia are greedy mutha efflers, it was still cheaper to have the biggest and fastest interwebs access than cable + weak/slow interwebs package.
There is no better feeling than picking MY content wherever & whenever I WANT! #freedom - Warioda

  • Dave got a nice deal calling TWC's bluff.

Brian and Tom,
Thanks for the great work on the show! The show is easily my favorite show on the TWIT network.
Last Friday I called Time Warner Cable will full intention to cancel cable. The customer support representative didn't not make any offers to get me to stay and I didn't ask for any. She was pleasant to deal with. My bill is now set to go down from $148 to $52.
Monday following I received a call from customer loyalty. They wanted me to stay with Time Warner Cable and offered me Basic cable (ch1-18, mostly OTA channels) and upgraded Internet. From 15mb/2mb to 20mb/3mb. New price now $47 a month.
I wanted to turn it down for spite because now they can count me as a subscription and get carriage fees from the networks but upgraded Internet for a few bucks less is a deal hard to ignore. I took the deal and I am now writing this email while waiting in line to return my 2 cable cards, 2 tuning adapters, and cable box.
Thanks for the show it has been a huge help in my efforts to cut the cord.
Dave Kilpatrick

  • SnakeyDave talks about his cord cutting experience last year.

Hey guys I the cord with ATT uverse about a year ago. When I called to cancel they didnt do anything to try to keep me. I set up my huge OTA antenna on a 12ft pole on my roof, bought a channel master and never looked back. I signed up with cox cable internet only and just last month they called me up and told me that they were ""having a special"" on my street (theres only about 10 homes on my street) where they would offer me a very basic cable package of about 30 channels for free for ONE Year. No cable box rental or anything. I just plug in the coax and I get all my network channels, even espn 2 and others. The network channels are up-scaled to HD when I plug it into my channel master as well. I'm guessing they're just trying to get their subscription numbers up so they can charge higher carriage fees to the networks. Win Win for both of us.
I know for a fact that the channels were blocked before. I switched to cox because i was hoping I would be getting some free unblocked channels but I only got a fuzzy CNBC and maybe 2 other crap channels.
-SnakeyDave
San Diego

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Preceded by:
"Scott Johnson's Last Show" 		Cord-cutting Gets Real
 Followed by:
"Is This the Revolution?"
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