Is This the Revolution?

	Is This the Revolution?
Number	137
Broadcast Date	August 19, 2013
Episode Length	1:19:17
Hosts	Brian Brushwood, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Iyaz Akhtar

Sony and Viacom agree in principle to stream cable TV, Barnes & Noble releases video apps, a baffling trailer from J.J. Abrams, and more.

Show Segments

Opening Video

Honest Trailers - Breaking Bad

The Big Story

Netflix and Amazon don’t have enough content to replace cable TV. ^[1]
What happens to TV when Netflix streams live events? ^[2]
Viacom-Sony TV is a big deal. It’s also the same deal we already have. ^[3]

Another Big Story

Why Apple TV is a cord-cutter’s gateway drug. ^[4]

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Slipstream

Eastlink signals demise of digital theme packs. ^[5]
Aereo can turn a profit with fewer than a million users, says CEO. ^[6]
Barnes & Noble releases video apps for iOS, Android, Roku and its own soon-to-be-dead tablets. ^[7]

Tube Tops

Roku hotter than Apple TV, report says. ^[8]
Apple reportedly acquires video discovery service Matcha.tv. ^[9]
NFL Sunday Ticket won't be on PlayStation this season. ^[10]

Film Falm

What could this baffling new trailer from J.J. Abrams possibly mean? ^[11]
Al Jazeera promises 'in-depth news' with new US cable network launching August 20th. ^[12]
Microsoft is remaking Blake's 7 for the Xbox. ^[13]

Scan Lines

Surreal horror film shot in Disney theme parks without permission gets theatrical and VOD release date. ^[14]

EXTENDED BY BRIAN

Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation brings eight rare films to Hulu. ^[15]
Com Hem launches TiVo IPTV test, asks participants to blog their experience. ^[16]
Google Fiber has Vudu integration on its set-top boxes, Android app. ^[17]
AMC is thriving by breaking the rules of legacy TV. ^[18]
Syfy Now app streams full episodes to iOS today, Android next month. ^[19]

Summer Movie Draft

(1) Brian = $970,411,225
(2) Justin = $691,573,409
(4) Sarah = $650,633,668
(3) Tom = $642,544,494
(5) Cargill = $438,274,275
(6) Scott = $415,706,000

The World's End premieres this week.

Feedback

Zach writes in asking for advice in transitioning primarily to digital movie downloads.

Hi guys,
First Frame Rate is one of the top 3 shows on TWiT. Love it!
OK I have a topic for you. Digital Movie Downloads
I am one of those who have always purchased the DVD or Blueray but now am thinking I want to transition to just keeping movies on an external hard drive.
Q1: Where is the best place to buy a digital copy of a movie?
Amazon says you need to download their app to playback.
Google Plus is confusing onto if you can actually play it not on an Android device or move it to an SD card or external drive.
I and most of us just want a digital copy I can play on any PC I plug my external drive into.
Q2: Burning my original DVD's and Movies.
What's the easiest way to do it?
In Adobe Master Suite CS6 which program to use. (this Q is just more for me)
AWESOME Thanks for creating great content each week :)
Fellow cord cutter for 2yrs. Was using Roku, now Chromecast and ProXPN. - Zach

Nicky is trying to figure out Ultraviolet.

Hi,
I'm trying to figure out this Ultraviolet thing. It seems very buggy. I have myself, my sister, my sister-in law and my daughter all with accounts. I have linked my Vudu, Flixster and Cinema Now Accounts, Just recently, it seems that when movies I've add and my sister has added aren't going into the system properly. Ex: I added Oblivion, through my vudu account and it's not showing up on Ultraviolet at all.
Also submitting movies through some of the other accounts on a different computer are a nightmare. Do you think you could give a ""Best Practice"" of maybe what to do and what not to do? Personally I think linking any of these services to face book is a bad ideas, because if I'm at my husbands computer its a painful to get into each account because I'd have to sign out of everything from his and sign back in.
Thanks for any help
Nicky M.
Omaha

Matt speaks up to defend the Tivo user against Tom.

So, Tom offended every Tivo owner on last week's show, saying it's ""the device the old fashioned can't let go.""
Wow, that's pretty insulting.
I love my Tivo because it does something that none of the services you talk about on Framerate are capable of: record every show I want to watch and present all the new episodes to me in one easy to use interface.
With Tivo, I don't have to spend a single second thinking about which service a show is available on, what day a new episode comes out, or keep track of which episodes I've watched.
Brian has often said on the show something like ""I wish I didn't have to know what channel something was on."" This makes me laugh every time I hear it, because if you named any show I watch, I wouldn't be able to tell you the channel number or time of day the show airs. I'd even be pressed to name the day of the week it comes on. All I know is whether a show pops up in my single repository of new shows.
So there you are. I don't care if I'm ""old fashioned."" I have a wonderful viewing experience, and for someone like me who watches a ton of TV, there's not a single better way to do it. YET. - Matt

Join the Frame Rate Chicken Challenge. Tell your story! ^[20]

The Spoiler Zone (Breaking Bad)

This week Brian and Tom talk Breaking Bad: Season 5b, Episode 9 - Blood Money and Episode 10 - Buried.

Great Quotes

"You know what, Jason? I think it's time for a little feedback." -beat- "Nope? All right." -Tom (54:29)
"All kidding aside, Brian Brushwood, I missed the crap out of you. I'm so glad you're back." --Tom (1:04:20)
- "Well, I wish you missed the rest of me. But I'm glad that at least some part of me was missed." -Brian
- "Just take what you can get, Brian." -Jason
- "I missed the crap OUT of you. I cleansed you, is what I'm trying to say." -Tom
- "Thank you, good." -Brian
- "I hope you're feeling better now." -Tom

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