4K getting more OK

4K getting more OK
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Broadcast Date	December 23, 2013
Episode Length	56:50
Hosts	Brian Brushwood, Tom Merritt
Guests	Justin Robert Young

Tom and Brian kick off the very first Cordkillers with special guest Justin Robert Young. Netflix is leading the charge for 4K, Hulu has millions but is it enough, and why Atari's famous ET game failure could help Xbox.

Guest

• Justin Robert Young

Opening Video

• Holiday Emergency (EXPLICIT) - Christmas Vacation Remix

The Big Story

• 4K Netflix streaming launching next month

Another Big Story

• YouTube channel debuts on the Roku 3 in the US, Canada, UK and Republic of Ireland

Sponsor

Go Home Santa, You're Drunk

Slipstream

• Hulu Plus passes 5 million subscribers, plans to double its original content
• Hulu must face privacy lawsuit, U.S. judge rules

Tube Tops

• Simple.tv, the DVR for cord cutters, releases its Android app
• Simple.tv is bringing its DVR for cord cutters to Ouy

Film Falm

• Xbox Live Documentary Goes Digging for Atari’s Long-Lost E.T. Cartridge

Scan Lines

• AllCast now open to all for streaming local movies, photos from Android
• Stevie now turns any Twitter topic into a social TV channel
• Viki Strikes Deal With Baidu to Bring Crowd-Translated Programming to China
• Now TV app brings Sky Sports to Apple TV in the UK
• ‘Ripper Street’ May Return with Funding from Amazon’s LoveFilm
• Wuaki.tv hits 1m users for its on-demand movie and TV streaming service, 125k from the UK alone

What We're Watching

• Tom: Orange is the New Black (episode 8), Father Ted
• Brian:Interview with Mike Rowe at Reason.tv
• Justin: Bo Burnham's "what."

2013 Winter Movie Draft

1. Justin - $483,480,275
2. Fr. Robert - $392,813,988
3. Casey - $390,058,157
4. Jeff - $265,369,223
5. Tom - $182,530,164
6. Brian - $119,438,873

Premiering This Week

• Turbo: F.A.S.T. Dec. 24 on Netflix

Feedback

Gentlemen, in your honor, my wife, Wendy, and I cut the cord with Verizon today. We cancelled our Cable TV, but kept our FiOS internet service, so we still have one cord, but it's the good one. And Verizon said we're "welcome" to keep 13 local TV channels for free. Ha, I guess we don't get to keep the UHF channels. :-)

Now we're saving $70 a month. Oops, just found out that we're only saving $65 a month, because, "dear valued customer," it's actually $5 more per month than they said. Oh, and we also have to pay an additional $10 to return our DVR. (I feel like I just made a deal with some guy on Canal Street.)

We will continue to feast from our AppleTV, where we watch Netflix and iTunes... and podcasts, podcasts, podcasts. So we're ready for your next show!

Happy Holidays to you both. Thanks for all the years of information and inspiration. Excited to see what you guys will do next.

Cheers,

Philip & Wendy

Brooklyn, NY

See what you can do when the TV network is NOT in the USA? <sigh> 180 channels, $15/month, 8-day replay period without needing a DVR (they record & store everything), inside home/outside home, looks great if you were an international sports/soccer fan.

Now Playing on Slingbox 500: DishWorld

Jamie

Credits

$5 contributors were listed

Fun Facts

• This is the first episode of Cordkillers. It was recorded one week after the final episode of Frame Rate and following the exact same format with the same segment names. This apparently did not please Leo, who (on air) accused Tom of "stealing the show".
• Everything that Tom, Brian, and Justin watched this week was online-only content.

Links

• Cordkillers episode guide

Preceded by: "The Final Frame"

4K getting more OK

Followed by: "Ear love"