Giving Up on Being a Completionist

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Giving Up on Being a Completionist
Number 233
Broadcast Date August 20, 2018
Episode Length 59:49
Hosts Brian Brushwood, Tom Merritt

Amazon theaters, Verizon 5G rollout, and a new Star Wars trailer. All this and more on Cordkillers!

Guests

  • None

Intro Video

Primary Target

Amazon is in the running to buy Landmark Theaters, sources tell Bloomberg. Landmark, which is owned by Wagner/Cuban, which is backed by billionaire Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, is reportedly considering mulitple offers from other companies. Amazon acquiring Landmark would give Amazon a theater chain showing independent and foreign films with more than 50 theaters in 27 markets like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cuban and Wagner also own Magnolia Pictures, the production company 2929 Productions, and the networks AXS TV and HDNet Movies.

How to Watch

Verizon plans to launch its 5G service later this year in Indianapolis, Houston, Sacramento and Los Angeles. Early adopters can choose a free subscription to YouTube TV or a free Apple TV 4K device, as well as NFL, NBA and news content from Verizon's Oath.
Research company Magid says people age 22-36 are the most likely to share their streaming service passwords.
42% Gen Y (up to age 21)
35% of Millennials
19% Gen X
13% Baby Boomers
Previous surveys from other companies show 10% overall in 2015 and 12% in July 2017.

What to Watch

CBS All Access does have more than Star Trek and Good Wife spinoffs. A trailer is out for One Dollar starring singer Sturgill Simpson as a former steel mill worker swept up in class and culture wars that ignite after a strange multiple murder. The series follows a single dollar bill through the town. It premiers August 30.
A trailer is out for Next Gen starring John Krasinski as the voice of a killer robot who teams up with a young girl to save the world. It comes to Netflix September 7.
The Break With Michelle Wolf and The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale will not get a second season. Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter say it's because of a lack of viewers. Next up to try to succesd at talk shows on Netflix is Norm Macdonald Has A Show, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, and panel-style talk show The Fix starring Jimmy Carr, Katherine Ryan, and D.L. Hughley.
HBO announced Daman Lindeloff's Watchmen series will launch in 2019. Jeremy Irons and Regina King will headline the series, along with Don Johnson, Frances Fisher and Louis Gossett Jr. Lindeloff previously wrote that they will not adapt the comic but remix it, calling the comic the old testament to the series' new testament. But it's not a sequel, it's a contemporary take on a new original story.
Hulu announced Castle Rock will get a second season that will follow a new storyline, though each season's storyline will intersect with others while remaining self-contained. Hulu says season one is its most successful first-season original launch.

What We're Watching

Front Lines

ComScore reports US households watching streaming services has risen 58% in the last year. Comscore defines them as pureplay vMVPDs which stands for virtual multichannel video programming distributors. That means Sling TV, DirecTV Now, Playstation Vue, fuboTV, and Philo. "pure-play” streaming services made up 10% of all the time spent streaming shows and movies in April 2018. Up 53% from last year. They also show more older viewers signing up.
Bloomberg has sources who say Amazon has worked on a DVR that records live TV and can stream to smartphones and Fire devices. Amazon has not decided to release the DVR. The project's internal name at Amazon is "Frank."
Netflix confirmed to TechCrunch that it's testing playing promotions in between episodes. The promotions are chosen based on the kinds of shows and movies Netflix would suggest to the user. The promos replace the preview info for the next episode. The promos can be skipped but it apparently confused a few people how to do it.
Cordcutter news notes that Facebook has banned users from promoting "the sale or use of streaming devices with KODI installed." KODI is a legal piece of software for media management. Some people use add-ons to enable copyright infringing uses of KODI. But KODI itself does not enable infringement nor does it encourage it.
Netflix turned off the ability top post user reviews to its site on July 30 and now all the reviews have been deleted. Netflix said it removed the feature because of "declining use." We reported on this depreciation about a month ago on episode 227.
Amazon has added the ability to get CBS all Access's cheaper tier as an add-on channel to prime video. Earlier this year Amazon added the $10 a month commercial free version but now you can also choose to add the $6 a month version of CBS All Access that includes commercials. CBS says there are more than 2.5 million CBS All Access subscribers and Digiday estimates 25-45% of them come through Amazon.

Dispatches From The Front

Hi guys,

I am not sure how I found this but this Friday, August 24th, selected Imax theaters will be showing the greatest science fiction film of all time, 2001: A Space Odyssey. There has not been a lot of promotion of this that I can tell, and it is one day only, so if you snooze, you will lose. I imagine the Imax experience will be as close as the numerous times I have seen this on the huge Cinerama screen at the Uptown theater in DC, where the film had it's world premiere 50 years ago. I realize this isn't a true cord killing event, but it is a rare chance to see this great film in all it's big screen glory.

- Dave




I grew up in the country without cable TV and always envied the other kids in school who had it. When I got married, I got my MTV and I was hooked like it was heroin. Now 28 years later and 2 years of showing my wife how cable TV can be replaced with over the top services, I proudly walked into the cable store last week and turned in two cables boxes. It was like saying goodbye to an old friend.

I am now free. Looking forward to having an extra $102 each month (after paying for DirectTV Now) to save or pay for other services. I am proudly using the Roku methadone for DirectTV Now and Netflix.

Keep fighting the good fight for what you want, when you want, and whatever damn device you want!

- Jim




Hey CK crew,
I recently cut the cord and moved to PS Vue for my TV. I knew I'd be giving up my local baseball, basketball and hockey teams, but thought I'd be able to keep the local NFL team, Denver, since they are on CBS, which is broadcast live through Vue.
Now I'm not so sure. I tried to watch the Broncos pre-season game last Saturday through Vue on the NFL Network, but it was blacked out. I was finally able to access through the NFL app, authenticating with my Vue account.
As the regular season fast approaches, I'm concerned I'll have the same problem, with no solution since NFL network doesn't show Sunday games.
Do you know....does the NFL and/or Vue black out regular season games on network? If so, other than an antenna, are there any other streaming options for in-market NFL games?
Love the show, and thanks for your help!
- Pat M.




It seems we are now entering an era where existing networks are holding their “premium” properties back in order to prop up their new streaming services. So now CBS gets my money TWO ways, through my DirecTV for their broadcast channel and $10/mo for their Star Trek channel. Same goes for Disney when they role out their streaming service. ... This is on top of Prime, Netflix, HBO, etc. And we even have Hulu, which is owned by broadcast networks, making Handmaid’s Tale and Castle Rock…

Lots of great things to watch but WHEN DOES THIS END?! That’s like $60 a month just in streaming services, and that’s not counting something to get you live TV! I am ready for Brian’s concierge service that automatically unsubscribes me from things once I am done with the shows I like! There’s only so much dough to go around! Am I gonna end up paying MORE after the dust settles?

Keep up the good work, fellas!

- Evan


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