Doctor Who Is Slave Leia

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Doctor Who Is Slave Leia
Number 45
Broadcast Date October 4, 2011
Episode Length 57:50
Hosts Tom Merritt, Brian Brushwood, Avner Ronen

Boxee CEO Avner Ronen, Amazon vs Netflix, new episodes of Arrested Development, and more.

Contents

Opening Video

Son's reaction to 'Empire Strikes Back' reveal!!!!

The Big Story

The boys have Boxee CEO Avner Ronen on the show to talk about Boxee and the direction they are heading in.

Another Big Story

Amazon announces the Kindle Fire.

Film Falm

  • Sony to stop paying for movie theater 3D glasses, theater owners fire back.
  • Apple TV owners lost legal movie playback this weekend.

Tube Tops

  • Yahoo teams with ABC News for original news video on the web, debuting with an interview of the President of the US.
  • Hulu allows swapping of ads.
  • Netflix's Chief Operating Officer, Ted Sarandos, mentioned 50-60% of viewing on Netflix is TV (as opposed to films) at Mipcom in Cannes, France.
  • Showtime launched their Anytime streaming portal and iPad app.
  • Star Trek TNG soon to be released on Blu-ray.
  • Arrested Development announced to be coming back to TV and the movie is confirmed (again).

What We're Watching

Tom

  • saw and enjoyed Drive
  • loved the Doctor Who finale
  • souring on Person of Interest
  • Ringer exceeded his expectations
  • found New Girl surprisingly funny
  • Haven had a fantastic finale

Brian

  • excited about Boardwalk Empire and Breaking Bad

Avner

  • watched Game of Thrones and Weeds
  • watched The Reef (an Australian movie)

Interferon

  • Warner Brothers to premiere a 'Social Series' "Aim High" on Facebook.
  • Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht are officially closing Diggnation in late 2011, not to be confused with their plans in 2010 to either end or fundamentally change the direction of Diggnation (a matter left largely unresolved until this announcement).

Feedback

  • A viewer wants to know where to start in the vast sea of content that is Doctor Who.
  • Simon fears that a shift in cloud-stored content could result in a loss of original versions of content.

Great Quotes

Fun Facts

  • Brian is in studio for this episode.

YouTube

Links


Preceded by:
"Fake And Old"
Doctor Who Is Slave Leia
Followed by:
"Death To Qwikster"