Sorry About the Piracy, eh

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Sorry About the Piracy, eh
Number 120
Broadcast Date April 15, 2013
Episode Length 56:38
Hosts Brian Brushwood, Tom Merritt, Steve Saylor, Lamarr Wilson

CBS, Fox, considers subscription-only model, Dish bids on Sprint, YouTube iOS update, Roku hits 5 million sales, and more.

Show Segments

Opening Video

Brian and Tom acknowledge events in Boston, direct to resources and news coverage.

The Big Story

  • CBS joins Fox in considering subscription-only model. [1]
  • Fox affiliates 'on board' with plan to move to pay TV amid dispute with Aereo. [2]
  • Who’s paying Aereo to watch free TV? [3]

Another Big Story

Dish makes bid to buy Sprint. [4] [5]

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Slipstream

  • YouTube for iOS gets access to live streams, My Subscriptions feed, video queuing for TV playback, and more. [6]
  • Comcast confirms that they’re encrypting basic cable now. [7]
  • Judge to halt broadcast streaming service. [8]

Tube Tops

  • Boxee CEO dishes on Aereo, Apple and talks up cloud DVR. [9]
  • Boxee re-brands new device as Cloud DVR, tones down cord cutting rhetoric. [10]
  • Microsoft's next Xbox will take over your TV, interact with your cable box. [11]
  • Roku hits 5M streaming players sold in the U.S., has streamed 8B videos and music tracks. [12]
  • Roku shutting down VideoBuzz channel for streaming YouTube on the sly. [13]
  • 8% of Canadians are cable cutters. [14]

Film Falm

  • First tiny but awesome look at the heroes of Japan's live-action Gatchaman movie! [15]
  • Syfy announces Childhood's End and Ringworld miniseries. [16]

Summer Movie Draft

Oblivion premieres this week.

What We're Watching

Brian

  • Doctor Who
  • Game of Thrones
  • The "ship my pants" ad for Kmart (on repeat)

Tom

  • Doctor Who
  • Game of Thrones
  • Archer
  • Orphan Black
  • Mad Men

Steve

  • Doctor Who
  • Game of Thrones
  • Elementary
  • Everything or Nothing

Lamarr

  • Revolution
  • The Following
  • Once Upon a Time
  • Psych

Feedback

  • Matthew writes in defending the 4k experience.

Let me try and explain my excitement over 4k. I have a 47"" 1080 Tv. When I watch a blu-ray I pull my easy chair to approximately 7' from the screen. I could sit a little closer before being too close.
I want a 70"" 4k TV and I'd like to sit 10' or so from the screen and feel like I'm at the movie theater.
As you know, the point of 4k is being able to sit closer to a bigger TV, hopefully a movie theater like experience.

  • Eric outlines the problem with 4k TVs.

The problem with "4K" TV is that it's still at a 16:9 aspect ratio. You're STILL going to see bars at the top and bottom when watching a movie with the aspect ratio of 2.40:1 (or anything higher than 1.77:1). Unless TVs start being produced in a higher aspect ratio, 4KTVs are worthless.

  • Andy describes how he would use a 4k screen for a desktop monitor.

Brian, I am a programmer, and I use this as a way to way to justify my monitor addiction. I would totally go for a 4k screen, then put my two larger monitors on the sides of it in portrait mode for a little extra desktop space so things don't feel so cramped. My vote is firmly in team 4k computer monitor.
Further down the road I can picture homes with 8k or higher video walls to function as a hub for all the information you want to see, as seen in Back to the Future. "Show me ESPN, HBO, the weather, my Twitter feed and place a video call to my mother." All on one huge screen.

  • David totally wants a 4k screen for his abnormally large home entertainment setup.

In response to your question about whether anyone really cares about the idea of 4K, I would say that the answer for me is yes, but I recognize I have a somewhat unique set up. I have a 135" screen in my home theater with a Digital Projection 3-chip projector. It does 1080p today, which clearly looks better than 720p and 1080i, especially on a well mastered BD. While I don't know this for sure, I expect that on 135" I will see improvement with 4K. I am somewhat more skeptical when it comes to my 65" plasma.

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Preceded by:
"Fox Takes its Ball Home" 		Sorry About the Piracy, eh
 Followed by:
"Take Off Your Pants And Grab Your Pitchfork"
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