AV Rant #268: Shoutlin Monk
Liz has a big announcement that she starts the podcast with. It’s a doosy and may mean big changes for AV Rant. Stay tuned to future episodes for further details. Tom answers questions from Jason, Jonathan, and Andrew this week. Did you know AOL is still alive (though their site looks more like a blog) and, apparently, they are providing content to Sony? Who knew? We skipped the thing about batteries but here it is. Tom is getting a new phone and can’t wait to talk about it. SOPA is dead. You’re welcome. Tom wants a new printer, Liz will take one too (check out this Thingiverse for plans). They are split on this new ebook lighting solution from Flex. This week in Netflix – a comparison of services that Tom doesn’t think is fair and a conclusion he doesn’t agree with. Liz got a Boxee Box. Expect more on that in the future. Thanks for listening and don’t forget to vote for us at Podcast Alley! To see our (mostly) complete collection of show videos, click here. Download Tom’s FREE ebook Bob Moore: No Hero which is pretty much available everywhere. You can also check out Tom’s new book, Bob Moore: Desperate Times on Amazon, iTunes, Nook, and pretty much everywhere else. Friend Tom and Liz on Google+ to join in on one of our hangouts.
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First, thanks for mentioning TNL.net on your podcast (and thanks for podcasting 🙂 ) As you mentioned, all box office winners make it on DVD eventually. This weekend, I’ll have details on what happened to last years’ list.
On the netflix comment you make, I agree with you that Netflix is running into too much opposition to make it. However, while customers would like to be on a subscription-model but the studios will not let that happen.
On the comment regarding Hulu, you might want to check out the following week’s entry (my most recent one) and you’ll see that the difference between Hulu and Netflix still exists on the TV end of content.
Thanks Tristan. I’ll check out the article. That was good work by the way. I’ve definitely added your blog to my “check every week for podcast material” list. 🙂
Just to be clear, the point of 3-D printers is not to engineer replacement parts yourself, but to order them without involving UPS or material costs at the supplier. If the plastic part that broke off can be made by a 3D printer, then the company selling you the part need merely send you the print file. This saves inventory costs, shipping costs, return costs, etc. etc. In equilibrium, there is an optimal split of the savings between the company and the consumer. UPS, FedEx and Amazon are disintermediated. Going the other way is the fact that the consumer will almost surely have higher raw material and printing costs since he or she works in such small quantities. There will have to be some sort of DRM requirements on the print file, of course, to prevent resale, which will complicate things a bit.
I thought Steez was a type of tea? I swear I’ve heard of Steez tea.
So I take it this boombox from Pioneer isn’t your cup of tea, Tom?
Liz, did you get the Boxee Box Live TV dongle yet?
The Boxee is my preferred media player since messing with different Netgear’s, WD TV Live’s and AppleTVs (Gen1). I hoping to make an AV Rant App so I can keep up with the podcast better.
@bsanf3 No, we haven’t. Do you know if it’s available for Live TV in the UK? We are getting the rest of our stuff on Wednesday this week, so should have everything set up in two podcasts from now and can let you know if that’s something we’re looking at.
Let us know if you do make an AV Rant App– we’d love to mention it on the podcast so other listeners can use it!