Podcast #1176: Flatten Your Warped Vinyl and Pause Your Streaming Services
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Welcome to the H D T V pod caps features. The H D guys are a dedi, an and braid now the H D T V podcast alone. Welcome to the H D T V and homeless ater podcast. This is episode eleven seventy six, november fifteen and twenty twenty four. Lots of cool stuff to talk about today are how are things going for you?

Things are going well, and we're getting ready for thanksgiving here at the house. We're gonna do a huge thing with lineas family. And I am bringing four try tips to the thanksgiving because I know a lot of people like turkey.

I like turkey too, but I like try to Better. And the when the relatives heard that I was coming and bringing try to, they all got on board. nice.

So that's the the special trip er for thanksgiving. Ving is tried to try tip in turkey. Him well would say that five times faster, right on.

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With its twenty five other donation, you get to shut out. We had two this week. So first one is from Michael mosher, ny. He says it's time for another donation.

I've been a loyal listener since the beginning and always look forward to tune ing into the podcast on my way to work every friday morning. Thank you, Michael and chuck as man truck from thousand oks. That's that truck.

He says goal. Bruins beat rogen every year like clock work. Chuck comes and says that thank you so much, chuck. Now trojans this year are not doing very well. I don't even think they're ranked.

They start the season ranks every year. They go into the season, preseason ranked and then no, and it's always it's going to be our year. It's onna be our year and and IT never really works out.

So you know I mean, fingers to crossed the next year, our year, same thing, but the charges every year and it's like this is going to be our year and you fingers cross, it's gonna en IT never happens. So that's that's what IT takes that. I guess maybe I should stop rooting for these teams and maybe the'd have a great season.

I don't know that is for me. Notice football doing well there in the playoff hunt. At this point, they had one really bad loss, but the they are ranked in the top twenty five and they are, I think, number eight in the playoff drinkings. So if they can win out during the year, this will get some playoff .

action and do a little Better. email. I see our first email is from, uh, J, D, and taxes formally from the valley.

And he says how he from texas and he's helping a friend set up a home theater room in a new house that he's building. The framing is up, but that's all at this point. He's has a very strict aesthetics committee, so he wants in wall and in ceiling speakers as well as a projector. H ng d says, I have no experience with projectors, so i'm asking you for a recommendation as well as an acoustically transparent screen and wondering about black levels from a projector compared to my OLED and then I saw let's do that when first and then he's got a second question that will get into after that or did you give him a recommendation on projectors, uh, as far as black levels, uh uh, for the recommendation .

yeah for me, I like the J V C projectors when i'm talking the traditional type of project or not, the ultra short though. But I said if you have, if you if his friend is budget conscious, he can go with A J V C N Z three b. It's A D L P projector and goes for thirty five hundred dollars.

But if you can step up, I would go with the R S one to eleven. And that would be, my preference is D I A. And IT goes for about six thousand dollars.

So he asked about the acoustically transparent screen. Just go with a ellide screen. They have multiple acoustically transparent a screens.

You could find one that will fit in your friend's house. And so that was my recommendation. I know you are gonna give him an absent recommended.

I would if he wasn't in a dedicated home theatre. I think the J C. Is gna do a great job in the the dedicated room because you can control ambient light. The absent is great because it's a light canon.

So if you can't control ambient light, if it's in a family room or a living room room where there's windows and other things, the absence is going to do a great job. But as I agree with your recommendation, in a dedicated theater room where you can control ambient light is going to do a really good job on black levels. I mean, it's not going to produce what your OLED would produce, but it'll get close, especially if you can control ambient light.

Uh, so next question from J D is he says, have you been to causing m that's, uh, C O S, M. He says, I heard about IT when you two recommended IT after game one of the world series. Do you think that sort of technology can scale down to the home at some point? And he said, I think you and bradin should check that out.

I'm trying to convince my friend to visit the one in dallas with me. And so causin is how would you describe this or it's almost like a mini arena, but it's virtual, it's a screen, but it's a sports bar kind of at the same time, it's it's an immersive video experience, but it's also sports bar where they serve you know food and drink. And I don't know how.

but it's A I think you described IT perfectly. And what's cool about IT is that so it's got a twelve k screens. This is why I don't think it's gona scale down because you need size.

You needed to be like you at the stadium. That's the way I was. So imagine that you are sitting in a box, not the box.

Is the sweets the sweets? That's kind of the way IT is. And they is like you said, but they bring you food. And the twelve k screen makes IT look life like.

Because I remember at one point, you and I went to C, E S, and we were looking at some of the panax onic classmates, and we said, there's really no need for three d if you can have a really clean picture, because IT almost looks life like. And that's kind of what you get at causal. And they have great sound.

You're sitting there with a bunch of people. So if something good happens, you're all cheering or you're all booing, or whatever the excitement builds. I actually think this is a great way to experience these types of events that you Normally wouldn't be able to. Now it's not the same as being at the stadium, that's for sure, but I think it's very close ximena.

Yeah and you you buy ticket so you get like you actually purchase a seat and you don't just like show up like this is a sports bar and find a seat, you grab something that open.

It's uh reserved seating um and my brother in law was trying to get me in our other brother in law to get seats to go see a primarily game there because it's a whole lot less expensive to go up to L A and watch a game that that would be to fly to england and watch a game and you get very close, like you were saying, a very close approximation to being at the game. It's almost life like the screen is huge and you know you get food and everything would be a fun experience. I haven't been yet, but if we do get a chance to get up there, i'll be able to talk about IT.

This seems like a lot of fun, but along those lines, just a quick little story. Time aside, over the weekend, the wife and I flew out to lost vegas, and we were able to catch the eagles in concert atmosphere. And IT was unreal.

IT was absolutely the best concert I have ever seen in my entire life. The the sound is. And at one point the eagle said, you know, part of the reason that we wanted to do this is we think this is the best sound system on earth.

They said there's a one hundred and sixty four thousand speakers inside the fear so that everyone inside the building has the same audio experiences no matter if you're like up in the nose bleed or all the way down next to the band. It's not like they have a whole rack of amps behind them. And if you're sitting close, it's too loud.

If you're sitting far, you can hear IT. And because it's the eagles and everyone knows the songs, everyone for some reason thinks that you went to hear them singing IT instead of the eagle seeing IT. But because there are so many speakers and you're hearing the band so well, IT drowns out the fact that everyone else is singing long and you can hear the band incredibly well.

Uh, the the audio experience was fantastic in the graphics that they did along with the music that the visual experience was just, I mean, that was unbelievable. IT was fantastic. The tickets were ridiculous, expensive. They're making a body load of money. I don't know who's making all the money.

If the eagles are making the money, the fears making the money, somebody is making a turn of money because I was sold out, they're sell in out every show and I think they said I was like seventeen thousand people fit in there or something like that. Um it's ridiculous the amount of money they're making on the show. But IT was a wonderful concert and they played all of the songs that everybody wanted to hear, right?

All of the hits, the eagles greatest hits album, the greatest, its volume to they didn't play anything that you didn't know. So everybody was singing along to every song they played a couple of. Joe walsh is, uh, a solo tracks because joe also was there and of course, glen fries is not there but that they had his son there and he saying a couple of glen fries songs IT was a great concert and the overall experience.

Uh was something I would highly recommend if you have the opportunity to get there and see the concert or see any concert, right? I mean, the eagle telegram with geographics, but i'm sure that anybody that doesn't show there, we do A A great job. So I can point h sorry.

I I saw video with the guy who does the effects in whatever for youtube and he was explaining pretty much what you were just saying. One thing he said, I wanted to ask you if this was the case. He says the singers voice sounds like it's right in front of you no matter where you're sitting. Did you kind of get that same feeling?

Yeah, I mean, I felt like you were. I mean, you could not have gotten a Better audio experience. I don't think you felt like no matter where you were, I mean, our seats sounded perfect and we were not like dead set in the in the middle of the theater.

You know we didn't buy the most expensive seats. Obviously, we try to get me a good value for the that we were spending. Uh, we weren't right in the middle, weren't they won the best seats in the house? But IT sounded great.

And you know, everything sounded fantastic. And because of the size of the screen, you could see all of the graphics. You could see everything that was going on all around you at certain points.

They were putting video of you, the singers or whoever was playing guitar up on the very top of the screen, like floating in the sky. So my wife was watching what was going on in front of her. And I had kind of elbow ur and say, look straight up and there were stuff going on straight up above you.

The overall experience was was crazy. IT was wild, but IT was a very fun show. And you know, I know we talked about whether or not that would be worth seeing to show there because of how expensive that was going to be in and what a production IT was going to be.

And I really enjoyed IT. I really, really did. Now I don't know that i'd be able to see a lot of shows there because of how expensive IT was, but IT was IT was a fun experience for sure.

All right. And the next email is from glen windham, new hampshire. He says, I think this might be a good comparison for your show.

Costco has two L G, O. leds. And i'm comparison, comparison shopping right now for black friday. First one is the seventy seven inch sea four that's two thousand two hundred dollars on the other one is the eighty three inch before for two thousand five hundred dollars ratings says the sea four is just a little bit Better than the b four.

It's nine point vers eight point nine for mixed news, nine point one versus nine point over HDR movies as far as i'm concerned, those are identical. And he says, so here's a question, is three hundred dollars more for a slightly worse T, V, that is a slightly bigger screen size worth IT? How important is the extra sixteen percent of screen real state i'm inclined to get the smaller sea for and save money.

This would be replacing a very nice fifty five and SONY OLED. That's a little bit too small. And again, that was from glidin. I want to ask you, brain, and what would you do in the situation?

Uh, I think in this, oh, man, it's a tough one because going from a fifty five when you're getting a massive upgrade in size, either way, going from a fifty five to seventy, a war from a fifty five, two and eighty three, I think my god would tell me you go with the eighty three because once you get him home, you're not really going to be able to tell the difference in quality between the c four and the before. But you do save a little bit of money going on with the seventy save. I go eighty three, I think I go ready three.

I would do the exact same thing because realised they are identical. I mean, the reason ratings can give you nine point over the eight point nine is they're using instrumentation to measure things. They're not just looking at something and say that point that's at eight point.

So the human eye, I don't think, is going to be able to design the difference. Now with that said, he made a comment glenday that it's sixteen percent of screen real state. Again, that's on a diagonal.

Al, when he went to costco to see these two in person, he is like, wow, the before was massive compared to you, because I would never thought that six cents difference would make such a difference. But he thought, he said, I want the bigger screen as long as that fits. And IT did. So he went .

with that before. Yeah, yeah. Think that's all right. Next email is from horny and he says he's got a super quick email about a very creepy situation with the a lady says, I got a pretty developed, smart home using home assistant as primary tech, but also hooked up to a lady for voice convenience.

I know amazon and all that the tech giants are adding more AI into their services, but this morning got a bit freaky. Early in the am, on a lazy sunday, my wife and I got a notification on our cellphones from a lady reading a lady turned off eating kitchen in quotes last night, followed by a lady had a hunch that you were asleep, and the light is usually off at this time in quotes. Eating kitchen is the name of the light on my, in my eating kitchen is controlled by the homework sist, and using za wave, a lady is connected to home assistant, so IT quote sees all of my smart home devices.

I knew I was, this was not ideal from a privacy standpoint, but sure is convenient to be able to manage the smart home using voice. I also went into the a lady APP, and IT shows that the a lady had been doing this for a while. IT calls them hunches. IT has a set up process to set up punches that I never saw before or was never aware of. Thus, IT took the liberty of setting IT up by default.

I understood that amazon and the a lady team are trying to provide more value, but it's a scary reminder of the information in control that we, the consumers, may be providing to an AI that no one is sure is entirely under the control of but h, no one, but the A I itself. Actually, i'm sure no human is checking what the a lady is doing automatically. And by the way, there is a few youtube videos out there of people connecting their home assistant to ChatGPT and freaking out after IT started making its own decisions about what should happen in your home. It's fun to watch for us geeks at something. I haven't had a chance to what could be at ora to watch the youtube videos about ChatGPT taken over your house uh he says keep up the great works guys I was also retired by my former employer after twenty three years and think that IT may be um maybe IT for me and that's from her hey uh I have not had an opportunity like I said, to watch the youtube videos about chat P, T, maybe called hell these days taking over your home but might be interesting to see what I would decide to do if you let IT make those hunch decisions on what should happen.

Could you imagine britain you go out to go get the tail or something and the door closes and you can get back in and then your house sells you. I took the liberty to change your code because you've been a bad point. And i'm i'll lit you back in this house until you apologized to me. That would be really freaky, but I don't think you would do that. But maybe someday, who knows?

You know, I mean, I was freaked out at first when google would start opening documents for me. I opened my google dogs. And I would say you usually open this document at this time, but open documents for me and I was like, man, and I had the blue that predictable.

And you know that even that which is, you know, I was actually kind of helpful because I was a document that I typically open. IT was some of the stuff that we used to collaborate on the show, but even that was like, kind of weird. No, I can open my own documents.

Thanks for opening this for me. But know, I had a hunch you wanted to open this thing, but taking over my house and saying, you know, I had a hunch that you wanted to turn this light off or turn this device off, or I had a hunch that you needed the to make this happen. IT starts to get a little bit freaky. yeah. And I had a hunch you want to to change your your doorknob code and lock yourself out of the house .

well and I get s lady saying OK is fifteen minutes to costco on tuesdays and then on sunday we go to my mom house is, uh, you know, this is how long is going to take you to get to their and i'm thinking, man, we are that predictable. It's not that hard after you've done IT like five times IT goes, okay, every sunday these guys drive up to the valley. So let me tell them, take this road instead of that one because of traffic.

But yeah, we are we lose a little bit privacy. I don't know how much of that is being shared. And at some point they can say, well, these guys are out of the house for this much time on this day, typically every tuesday or wednesday, yor, whatever. And if somebody at apple was sharing that information with somebody like a crime ring, they can get in to your house and do something yeah.

or they could alert you if that door was unlocked when they thought that you weren't supposed to be home, right? So you know could be used for for good purposes or I could be used for nefer ious purposes.

Or at our last emails from Nelson and he sent us, it's an exposed but I think I saw a new story come out about IT as well. LG has developed the world world's first stretched display that can expand by by fifty percent and is a prototype. It's got a twelve inch micro o LED screen that stretches up to eighteen inch, and it's got hundred pixel per inch R, G, B color and IT could be repeatedly stretched over ten thousand times, maintaining a clear image quality.

I don't care about the multiple kinds stretching, but I think this could be kind of cool if they can get IT to the point where now you can put IT in your house, you have curved surfaces and you can have some truly fun things you could do with IT. Because you don't necessarily have to use IT as A T V. You could find a spot like a post or something inside your house if you got one, and you could rap IT with this.

And you could have messages and all kinds of need, things kind of like if you were at a sporting event and you know how, like on some of the levels, they would have these things run around the stadium. You could have that kind of information running around the house. He could be kind of call carvable.

bendable, flexible, I get. But what what do you need to? Where would you use stretches? Like why do you need? Would that distort the display? Or would IT just make IT so that IT goes from from like wide screen to ultra wide screen as you stretch IT IT?

Probably would the reason I think the stretch able possibly you're going to put IT on clothing or something that moves, you could have an A, A screen on there. I think its makes sense in that regard. But in the home of the rest .

of kids are fighting over, they did just stretch instead of break.

Maybe yeah, I like that like strong.

Our right self jump over dual news. Zmp has booked up its retail ambitions ahead of the holidays with word that the comcast charter streaming joint venture has inked to deal to sell smart tvs at target dot com and nearly two thousand target stores nationwide here in the united states. Under the agreement, target initially will sell a pair of hype s made four k capable zoom o tvs.

They'll Carry a fifty five inches model for two hundred and forty nine dollars and a sixty five inch model for three hundred and fifty nine dollars. The zoom O T V models will run comcast entertainment O S platform and a zoom o official confirmed that the joint ventures new retail partnership with target does not include the zoom o stream box that a streaming media player that is being sold directly via zoo dot com. And if you go to the zoo docomo, you won a pick up the streaming idea player. It'll cost you sixty dollars. The connectivity standards .

alliance just released matter one point four, which supports more device types and offers new capabilities to make using matter connected devices more seamless than ever. The new release offers in hands support for motives, access points and set top boxes. These devices can be designed to function as wifi access points and thread border routers, providing more functionality to matter based smart homes.

While many devices features enhancements in the one point for release, already support matter features have been limited. The current release adds more automation capabilities and gives users more control over their smart home devices through matter. I've got a couple matter devices in this house and they're just simple plugs at this point.

There's really not much that I see for matter that I was excited that I able to use some other products, but those products have not come on on, for instance, like I would like to use ring door bills with matter, and I don't think they are available yet. Maybe one point for IT will allow that to happen. So far, matter is just at the very ground level, and I don't see any benefit yet.

Was funny as I was written through this new story. IT says that enhance support for modems and for a second of modems. Who uses modems? And then I were all cable modems that took me a second to, man, I haven't used the modems since the nineties, alright.

Expert who is tvs parent company firmed up its plans to launch its first smart tvs powered by the tvo Operating system at the Taylor of this year's holiday buying season. T vos O, S, powered smart tvs are destined for the U. S.

market. They're expected to interjection in the late november and emerge at retail around the end of the year. Tvo has yet to offer very much detail on specific TV models or pricing or even the retail partners it'll lean on for its entry into the us.

Is a very competitive market that includes samsung, LG, visio, roku, amazon and google, among others. Hot off a new retail deal with target zoom o, the comcast charter streaming to adventure is also trying to make its mark in the U. S.

Connected TV sector. All right. So you've got some thoughts are on this crowded, smart TV market.

Do you remember that T, V, that was for free, you'd get IT for free, but you had to watch ad, and that was like a secondary screen that just had ads running on IT all the time. And the T, V, I think, was free. I think that i've not heard much about that.

And I IT may still be working and going strong, but i've not heard a lot about IT. I think what's gna happen is eventually you're going na get a free T V that has T O or the zoom o or something like that. And you will to get into anything on your T V, you have to go through their landing page that's gonna have ads.

It's just gonna serve ads to you. And in order to have IT free, you have to sit or maybe watch a couple of ads. But if you pay a reduced rate, maybe you don't watch s that are forced on you, but maybe they'll be in the landing pages and that kind of thing.

I think that's what these tvs are going because the Price is now are so low because the companies are making their money on these fast services or other things where they are serving ads to you. It's going come to the point where it's gonna like cell phones. They're essentially free if you sign up for like a two year service. I think that was going happening with these TV. You're going to get free TV as as long as you sign up for like a to your service or something long those lines.

how sustainable is this? I mean, how recyclable are these tvs if they're they're cranking out this many smart tvs and they essentially, like you said, get to wear. They're free so you can just go down pickle and up as long as you're watching ads.

How do we deal with all of the tvs that everyone has had or are getting rid up so they can get new ones? Are these, are they somewhat recyclable? Are the part somewhat reusable? Or where do all of the old TV go? Where is the junk y yard for .

all the old stuff? Well, I know here in orange county, or at least where I live, if I call them up and I say I have some e waste, don't come and pick IT up, and they will take apart the pieces that they can use. The glass gets recycled, the plastic probably goes into a lenfield.

But the a lot of the chips are reusable, or at least the circuit boards, and they find a way to do something with them. So I think that's what ends up happening to IT. But IT is a pain to get rid of IT.

And I the member, when I bought my SONY, I just put on crisis free. T V doesn't work, but if you can repair IT, it's yours. And I had people calling me immediately.

And the T, V was picked up a few hours later, and IT was gone. I didn't have to deal with this. So somebody wanted IT to try to repair IT. Maybe that's how we do IT. I don't know.

Yeah well, on the other handle, when I had the rear projection T V um L C O S or whatever IT was not wants to get rid of that. I didn't even give IT away and I couldn't even donate IT. No one even wanted IT.

Um so it's just it's it's a worrisome that we're creating so much of this stuff and and people want IT, right? So there's gonna keep creating IT, but you know at some point we're going to need something. It's going to have to be like biodegradable or something. So you can just need to put water on IT. And there is all or something I don't know so was going have to come out is right for innovation in this technology so that they can you can bury him in the backyard in grassle, grow instead, something.

Well, I think the problem is worse now than when we were kids, because most houses had one or two televisions in this house. Well, this house, i've got two tvs and I got a projector. So I I don't know. Maybe it's the same.

no. But I mean, you had one, two televisions, but those televisions lasted for ten, fifteen and twenty years. You weren't getting new tvs every few years. And IT seems like the the cycle now is much, much shorter. How quickly we're getting new TV. And especially like you're talking about, if you know the TV is essentially get down to free because you're watching ads, then you know people are going to be getting new tvs much .

more frequently because you can yeah I don't know how often people are replacing their tvs in this since we've had the whole high definition T V in this house, I have had six tvs, and we're talking all the way back to two thousand and five. I've had a two D L P. War projections.

I had A L C D that I bought from costco, and then I had a samsung L, C. D. And now i've got too old.

And that's, well, you know what? I had a plastic too, but I gave out to my brother. So maybe six tvs, and that in twenty something years. And I believe I buy tvs more frequently, because I want to have the different technology for the podcast. I don't know that I would replaced my plasma if IT wasn't for the show, to be honest with yeah.

I my plasma and my brother and I made IT his problem he had to give IT of. So I did the same thing.

All right, last new, sorry, apple seem set to make a splash in the smart home. Work was not one, but two new devices. These are rumor editions. The rumor editions are a wall mounted smart display and a security camera. So remember, we were talking last week about the dedicated controller.

So this is something that they're talking about doing with apple, hopefully is a smaller and they see the first potential new arrival is a smart display designed to be a command center for the home. A device that has been in the rumor mill for a while now is said to resemble a sleek square ipad mounted on the wall. The device is code named j four ninety and is expected to arrive as early as march, according to industry insiders beyond the hub.

The second intriguing trigen rumor and involves an apple branded smart security camera likely to to begin production in twenty twenty six. Apple is planning to integrate this camera deeply with its other devices, leveraging s lady and apple intelligence for a seamless connectivity. So I think they're making a push and am all for IT. I would love to have a dedicated controller that's not an ipad and hopefully it's smaller and I can mount IT on or in the wall and they give you brackets that allow you to do IT and the maybe that will last the battery will last long enough to wear when the battery dies. You just unplug IT and charge IT up, but otherwise it'll last for quite some time.

The only issue will be that the well mount for IT .

will cost like two thousand dollars. exactly. Are a couple of episodes ago, we talked about a turntable that uses section to make warp records flat. And I joked at the time about taking a blood fire and heating up the record and then just unwarped IT. Well, IT turns out there's a product that essentially does this, one of our listeners, Matthew drop, to pointed us to a product that will flatten your .

the record pie and we will have a link to IT at the website. Cost two hundred and seventy five dollars, the vinal flattening. It's an innovative solution tailored for fixing warp to final records, features a pattern pending integrated system comprising of three essential components, the record pie of ice, record pie temperature controller and record pie heating case and that pie spelled P I, um and the record pie device is engineered using premium steel alloy, ensuring an even distribution of heat while securely holding the record to apply uniform flattening pressure with heavy metal alloy plates and protective groove guards. The temperature controller offers precise temperature regulation within one degree fairing height, eight of the target range of one hundred degrees to one hundred and forty five degrees fair height, allowing users to remotely adjust settings via internet connectivity using either google, android or apple IOS devices provided a compatible wifi router is available.

and the record pie hitting case not only warms the device during use, but IT also serves as a practical storage solution when not in Operation. The product comes with the thirty day money back guarantee, with the buyer covering return shipping and a two year limited warranty confidence in its durability and effectiveness. Weighing sixteen pounds, record pie is designed for U.

S. Standard voltage of one hundred and ten ten volt book can be used internationally with the appropriate voltage converter, ensuring versatility and vital enthuses. Final enthusiast everywhere. So these were their words are the record pie words.

I have no experience with that, but the concept is kind of cool, because when you have a really warped record, that needle is going up and down. And I believe IT changes the force on the needle, and that can affect how the music sounds. So having a flattened record is an important thing.

Is IT something that you could use? britain? Yeah, this is something that.

as soon as I saw you, put this into the notes of something that kind of call my attention, make IT out of my Christmas list this year. My family always complains that is difficult to find something to buy. Form me for Christmas is typically i'll just buy stuff for myself.

Same here. Um so this might make IT on of my Christmas list because this is a cool device and I do have some records that are pretty warped. Uh and usually I can get decent sound out of him if I have the the tone ARM baLanced well.

But I think that IT also ages the the needle um premature ally when you have the record kind of wiggin IT worse than I should um so this is I think it's pretty cool actually a well or hot depending on how you describe IT. Um so yeah I think it's an interesting device if I get a hold D A one i'll certainly you put some records in IT see how that works and how IT does and report back on IT. But if IT will make IT into a wish list, I think for for senator bring a put into the tree for me and I thought .

IT was kind of interesting where they're saying the ranges between one hundred and one, one hundred and forty five degrees. I wondered if he has something to do with the thickness of the record and maybe there's some sort of, uh, measuring devices the come with IT and says, okay, based on the thickness or or the amount of warm, this is the temperature you're gna need. I think that's how they would do IT because otherwise wouldn't one temperature kindly work for all of them?

Yeah, good question. If you get IT too hot and IT melt your record versus, you know, if it's not hot enough and IT won't fix the warp I don't, I don't get really know, but i'll tell you if I melt any records, no, don't get IT this hot that you do well.

you know what I would. If you got this, I would go to record storm by the cheapest warped record you could find as a practice and get a dial in before you start using IT on your good final.

I have a couple of records that I have two of the same record, so I could probably just one of the the one that's more work or more scratched of the two, see how that goes.

No, right. Well, I think if anybody wants to get breaking a Christmas present, this is what it's gonna be alright. Right now we found an article over at the stream able dot com appointing about what consumers streaming services due to keep customers from pausing their subscriptions. So what kind kind of go through and summarize the article. But we've got some thoughts on this as well.

So one thing that the market has noticed is that as streaming services in the U. S. Approach market saturation, a lot of the focus has shifted from acquiring new customers to trying to retain the current ones.

Recent data has revealed a significant rise in viewers pausing their subscriptions. It's increased from twenty nine point eight percent and twenty twenty two up to thirty four point two percent early this year to in twenty twenty four. Many consumers are not dissatisfied with their service. They just find IT hard to justify the cost until new desirable content is available. To address this issue.

streaming providers are expLoring various strategies. Current efforts include enhancing bungling options as services indicate that bungled services can significantly decrease cancellations. Recent bundles such as disney plus hou max combination aiim to encourage user loyalty.

By the way, next week we've got a listener who had a an email about this bundle that will talk about next week. I didn't have space for IT in this week. Put a pin in this so we can talk IT a little bit more about IT next week.

yeah. And they have some strategy too. So other strategies couldn't evolve, allowing customers to temporarily pause their subscriptions while keeping their accounts active. For example, who you could offer a one time thirty day pause option at a lower rate, such as an ad on that supported plan to keep users engaged without full financial commitment. Overall, creative retention strategies beyond simple discounts may be essential for preventing people from doing full subscription pauses.

So here's my question to you, brain. Is this something that they're just gonna have to deal with? Because maybe we've reached a point or we watched everything that we want to watch because when streaming first started, there is a huge backlog of television shows back from the eighties, ninety two thousands, or things that you never watched that was concurrent with what's on now, but you just didn't think you had time to watch IT last summer comes around. There's nothing on T, V, so you watch them. Is that possible that we're at a point where everyone is just watch what they want to watch so they decide i'm not gonna pay have these services?

I mean, I think it's yeah as far as catalog content, definitely, but I think really is still comes down to new content and new compelling content and enough new content coming out consistently that you can't say OK. I'm going to pause this and leave a pause for three months.

And even if new content comes out over the course of that three months, when I earn pause, I can just binge through all that stuff that I missed for three months and catch up, you know, because I think there could be a decent strategy that says i'm in a pause and you know everything that comes out on all these services that I have pause when I earn pause or binge that stuff and then pause again. And then i'll on pause another service bench, all that stuff and pause again. Then on pause another service bench and pause again and essentially just have one service active at any given time and watch all the content that is on that service.

But if there's enough new content coming out consistently that you want to watch consistently, then you wouldn't have the opportunity really to pause. So yeah, I agree with you. I think that, that we're kind of through all of the cat og content at this point, not unless you you really like going back and retouching. I have friends who love watching sign field and no, go back and watch sign field over and over and over again. And so unless you really like watching a certain show repeatedly over and over again, I think you we're kind of threw the catalog content at this point, and it's a battle to see who can get the best new content.

yeah. And back in the day when you would have the water cooler talk that is disappeared, either people aren't going into the office or they're just not talking about you. So so often because everybody is is watching different stuff at different times times.

So IT doesn't make sense on wednesday morning to talk about that. Shall you watched on tuesday night? You don't need to have that kind of continuity.

You can watch IT whenever you want, is my point. So now a lot of people say so you should go watch game thrones. Well, that's available. And like you, if I want to stream max, not this month, maybe next month, I put that on my list of things that I want to binge when its max is turned in my streaming rotation. This way you could save money because to stream all these company, all these services, you're spending sixty, seventy, eighty dollars a month. But if you only spend, say, twenty five dollars a months and you have two services at a time, you can kind of line up that shows that you want to watch. And then once you've watch the cancel or pause and then move under the next one.

And it's also how you you defeat the episodic weekly episode format that a lot of the streamers are are using now that they try to use to keep you interested from week to week in that if there isn't like you're talking about, if there isn't that kind of water cooler or a reason to have to watch IT on a particular day because you know everyone's gonna discussing IT on that particular day, you you can watch this sort of whenever, if you you can just way wait till the whole seasons done, all the episodes are available, turn that service on bins, the whole series, and then you're done.

You can pause again. There's no reason to have IT on for know the two months or three months or whatever takes for all the episodes to come out. Just wait for all to come out, watch IT all in a week or two and be done with IT.

You know, back in the day, like you were saying when I was all everything was available over the air and you had to wait till next week for the news twenty four epsom to come out and then everybody would get to work the next day and and talk about the new episode twenty four and the new Cliff anger that happened and know did you did you know jack was gona die again or did you know kim was going to get kidda p again or whatever? Um that doesn't happen anymore. No one's in the office anymore to talk about IT and no, it's not like you're jump on on a zoom call to talk about the new episode to twenty four. So you know it's another way that you can essentially defeat that whole that whole model of episodic content. Um and I don't think that that way that the episode content model is going to keep people interested and keep them from from pausing their subscriptions either.

I agree with you, the only thing our inie that they can do is continually release new compelling content. And maybe instead of dropping ten shows at a time, maybe you just drop two shows and then next month, drop another two different shows. I mean, the entire series is not just two episodes.

So this way that, oh, you know what I wanted to watch at all and i'll keep the subscription going because that's a pretty cool show otherwise. And even if you do that, I think some people may just do what you said, just let me let them all just kind of build up. And then all three mamo one time.

So maybe there is nothing they can do. Brain, maybe i've just talked myself out of that thinking, even if they were to give me great new content every month, I may just sit and not watch IT for two or three months, then binged all and then move on something else. There's always something good to watch. Now it's not like the old days.

Yeah that's I mean, unless you've got tough to watch, right? If you have nothing to watch and you know that they're something waiting for you on one of those streamers that you've got paused, you're on positive to watch. So it's going to be the one that has the most compelling content for you to on pause and watch.

Um so yeah, I think they're still going to be the opportunity for them to say, you know we have the most compelling content for you to on pause because you know you're sitting around looking for some to watch. You can't find anything you know there the ones that you have on pause right now or kind of the epithetic from that there. There's no new epsom available, so you're waiting for something. And on netflix, you've been batching a bunch of stuff up and they have the best stuff that you're batching a waiting force of last one, you're going to unpausing. So I think there are still is opportunity, but they're going to have to produce the most compelling content for you to want to own pause because if someone else has Better content that you're batching up, you're going to uncaught that other service and you're still going to let netflix, you know, batch up until a few months from now when you you're done with everything else.

And then you can oppose the content always when you know who has an advantage. Prime video, because IT just comes along if you get prime shipping from amazon. So there's no reason a is on positive just there. Unfortunately for me, that's what I watched ed the least.

Yeah I mean, everyone's others some good stuff on prime. But yeah.

there is. But jack Richard .

stuff is pretty good. The jack ryan stuff is pretty good every once. Well, they have some good stuff, but it's kind of few and far between. And maybe they know that people can't really are aren't really going to pause.

The video side is like you said, it's just kind of bonus is the Cherry on top because they're getting IT for the shipping and not for the streaming, so they don't necessarily have to fight for streaming subscribers. Um but there's some good stuff on there. Everyone so long yeah uh so what about free content? You think people are going to pause and then just say, okay, I don't need on place because I can just watch free stuff on on .

youtube will definitely the Younger people that all they watch, it's amazing how much they watch on tiktok. And now tiktok allows them to go longer form. And then if you thrown on youtube, I think that's where a lot of the competition is, and that doesn't cost anything. So they these people probably don't even have to pause because they've never even paid for thanks or something like that.

Yeah and I could be I mean, that might be where people start and there's all the fast services coming out too. So maybe you're pausing a bunch of services, letting a bunch of stuff batch up. And so instead of saying, okay, i've got enough to watch some an unpaid service, you just leave on pause, let you want to stuff batch up and then flip over to a fast service or the youtube and see what's on on a free service for a little while, for a month, two while stuff batching up. So yeah, maybe i've talked myself back into the fact that there's nothing they can do to get chat on part.

Yes, exactly.

It's going to be a tough one. It's going to be a tough one. But I know i've still got all my services and none of them are paused.

So yes, same here. Same here.

I'm still a sucker, I guess. Alright, is that IT for today? Ara.

that is IT.

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