Cordkillers 414 - New Jersey is the New Hollywood (w/ Hammond Chamberlain)
PlayStation Store users in Germany and Austria are losing titles they paid for--how bad does it look for the future of digital ownership? Plus, Netflix expands its spatial audio offerings to more devices, the Harley Quinn season 3 trailer, and NFL confirms NFL+ is coming and Sunday Ticket will be back. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Hammond Chamberlain ( https://www.jhammondc.com ).
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CordKillers: 414 - New Jersey is the New Hollywood
Recorded: July 11 2020
Guest: J. Hammond Chamberlain
Intro Video
Netflix's upcoming Day Shift
Primary Target
Sony’s PlayStation Store Pulling Access to Purchased Studiocanal Movies Next MonthPlayStation Store removes purchased movies from libraries after service shutdownPlayStation Store to discontinue movie and TV purchases and rentals
- Last year on August 31st, Sony stopped offering TV shows and movies in its PlayStation Store. At the time it wrote that after that day, "users can still access movie and TV content they have purchased through PlayStation Store for on-demand playback on their PS4, PS5 and mobile devices."
- But they didn't say for how long. And as of August 31st this year, customers in Germany and Austria, "will no longer be able to view your previously purchased Studio Canal content and it will be removed from your video library." Variety says that's about 314 titles in Germany and 137 in Austria.
- And most importantly, that includes both Paddington movies and because of licensing deals, it also includes some Lionsgate films like John Wick and Hunger Games.
- We haven't heard whether any refunds would be offered.
How to Watch
Netflix rolls out spatial audio to all devices, available for ‘Stranger Things’ and more
- Netflix has partnered with Sennheiser to implement Sennhesier's Ambeo 2 channel spatial audio system, at least on some of its original programming, most notably Stranger Things, “The Adam Project,” “Red Notice,” “The Witcher,” “Locke & Key,”. Just search for “Spatial Audio." Netflix already offered spatial audio on supported Apple products.... but this runs on anything from cheap TV speakers, to your cell phone, headphones, tablets, laptops, etc. And it's available on all subscription levels too. Sennheiser gave re-recording mixers tools to tweak the rendering.
What to Watch
HBOMax released a trailer for Harley Quinn season 3, including an appearance by James Gunn. Now a Max original, Harley Quinn returns July 28.
‘Stranger Things’ Now Holds Three of Nielsen’s Top 5 Streaming Weeks Ever'Stranger Things' Spinoff Won't Be About Eleven or Dustin
- Nielsen reports that folks streamed 7.2 billion minutes of Stranger Things last week making it the most viewed title in a single week ahead of Tiger King and Ozark. Stranger Things has the next two record-weeks on that list too.
- However, Season 5 will be the last season of Stranger Things according to the Duffer Brothers. So there is talk of spinoffs! The Duffers told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that it will be "1,000% different" than the current Stranger Things, though it will have "connective tissue."
The gang’s all back in Clerks III’s first trailer
- There's a trailer for Clerks III which is about Randal having a heart attack and being inspired to make a movie about their lives. The movie will play in theaters on September 13th and 15th.
Amazon released a 60-second sneak peek of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power which comes to Prime Video September 2.
Amazon Releases ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Sneak Peek to Hype Prime Day
Eyes On
Hammond: Letterkenny and Shoresy, Thor: Love and Thunder
Brian: Burning Earth
Tom: Thor: Love and Thunder, The Orville
On the Lookout: The Offer
Front Lines
Streaming service NFL+ confirmed, NFL will choose a streamer for its Sunday Ticket this fall
- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told CNBC that it will launch its own streaming service called NFL+ and that "Sunday Ticket", which offers access to all out of market games, will be awarded to a streaming service in the autumn.
NVIDIA's new Shield update can stop late-night movies waking up the entire house
- An update to the Nvidia Shield added a "Night Listening" mode that quiets loud noises like explosions, and emphasizes quiet parts like low dialogue so they can still be heard with the volume low. The upgrade, version 9.1, also adds the ability to disable HDR/Dolby Vision and notify if the mic is turned on.
Amazon Prime Video Scores Rights To UK Champions League Football From 2024, Shared With BTAmazon’s Prime Video is catching up to Netflix
- Amazon has obtained the rights to show Champions League soccer int he UK starting in 2024. It will share the rights with BT which will also continue to show games. And new numbers from JustWatch show that Amazon grew its US market share to 20% while Netflix declined to 21% and JustWatch expects Amazon Prime Video to pass Netflix shortly to become the most popular streamer int he US. Apple TV+, Disney+ and HBO Max all raised market share as well.
Roku Channel Adds Eight NBCUniversal Local Stations In A First For The Streaming Platform
- Roku has added 8 local TV stations owned by NBC to the Roku Channel FAST service. They're the first local news stations on the service. You'll be able to get local programming from New York, LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas/Fort Worth, Washington DC, Hartford, CT and South Florida.
Barbara Broccoli Says Next James Bond Film Is Two Years Away From Production: “We’re Reinventing Him”
‘Hocus Pocus 2’ Trailer: The Sanderson Sisters Are Back Again
‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Sequel to Hit Theaters in December 2023
‘Only Murders in the Building’ Renewed for Season 3 at HuluField Of Dreams’: Peacock Drops TV Reboot From Mike Schur; Universal TV Eyes New Buyers
‘Death In Paradise’ Spin-Off ‘Beyond Paradise’ Greenlit By BBC & BritBox; Kris Marshall To Star
Millie Bobby Brown to star in Netflix sci-fi movie directed by the Russo brothers
‘Who’s the Boss?’ Sequel Lands at Amazon’s Freevee
- And a few other notes, producer Barbara Broccoli says they will reinvent James Bond for the next series of films, which are expected to take a t least two years to return.
- A sequel to the film Hocus Pcous, called Hocus Pocus 2, has a trailer out and will arrive on Disney+September 30.
- Jason Reitman will direct a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife to come to theaters December 20, 2023.
- Hulu's Only Murders int he Building has been renewed for a third season.
- Michael Schur's series adaptation of Field of Dreams has been dropped from Peacock and Universal Television is now shopping it to other platforms.
- A BritBox original spinoff of Death in Paradise, called Beyond Paradise will bring back Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman following what happens after he returns to the UK.
- Netflix has cast Millie Bobbie Brown in a Russo Brothers film called The Electric State about a woman a robot and a drifter looking for her lost brother in the American west.
- Amazon's Freevee will bring back Who's the Boss? Alyssa Milano will return as Samantha Micelli living with her retired Dad Tony (Danza) in the house she grew up in.
Dispatches from the Front
I'm sorry if Brian is sinking deeper into 3DD.
A few days ago I received an email from Patreon telling me my credit card had expired. Since then, I have tried updating the card and adding other cards every day. None of them workThese cards all continue to work at Amazon and other on-line vendors.
Given Patreon has a message about improvements to the website, and the help page comes back with a 404, I'm guessing the problem is on their end. In the meantime: Brian should take an aspirin, force fluids and get some bed rest.
I'll keep trying until something works.
Thanks,
- George
Please follow the “CordKillers Style Guide” when referring to “Netflix with ads” as “Netflix minus”
Your boss
- Joe
Hey Killers,
...I really don't like the idea of banner ads covering up the bottom third of the program or even scrolling across the bottom like some broadcast stations have done: creators make their content so we can see what's going on everywhere in the frame. I don't want a banner ad covering up something crucial, or entertaining, or whatever else in the frame the director or set designer or actor planned it to be. ...
Give me ads at the beginning and end of every episode. Give me ads on the home screen where I select content - like Roku does. Heck, put a banner ad on the bottom of the home screen and another ad on the side like Roku - just don't put a banner ad over the programming. I'll even take ad breaks within the programming to avoid a banner ad covering the content.
Thanks for listening to me ramble.
- Kev
I canceled Netflix YEARS ago. Something I think they could do to get some of us "lost users" back is to allow us to login and at least SEE what is available on Netflix without signing up. ...
I've never understood why they hide their library behind "you must pay us first!"
Entice us, Netflix! Entice us!
Later!
- Michael
Hey Bryce, Tom and Brian
I watch baseball, but only occasionally, and primarily the Yankees. I live in CT which is geofenced to be Yankee territory and I've cut the cord since 2013 (no YES network). I was thrilled to see Apple+ was going to have Friday night games, and Amazon has Yankee games when it was going to be broadcasted on WOR-9 in NY (far too far away for my mohu leaf antenna to catch though). [[BUT]] The promise of the Apple+ Big Inning was supposed to be that you get the best of every game being played on the other nights that they aren't showing a full game, but I get whiplash and confused as to which game is playing and is it live or is it replay from moments ago. ...
- Sean
So I have a 6 year old, a 13 year old and an HBO Max account on my Roku TV.
Tell me I'm stupid and I am missing something obvious. It seems to me that HBO Max only lets you set a PIN for your child's account so that they can't leave their account.
I can't find a way to put a PIN on the Parents account. So when my kids open HBO Max on the Roku TV they are presented a screen of accounts and they can select theirs but then I have to put in a PIN for them, or they can select daddy's account and watch Westworld, Game of Thrones, The Suicide Squad, etc.
How do I keep my 6 year old from watching "Human Centipede" by accident? I checked Human Centipede isn't on HBO Max right now but I think you see my point.
Love the Show.
Your Boss
- Matt
Keep kids from switching profiles
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