Frame Rate 80

Frame Rate Episode 80

Intro Video

• The Wire: The Musical

The Big Story

2:50

• HBO won't be offering a cable-free HBO Go option 'for now'
• Take My Money, HBO!
• How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO GO Subscription? About $12 A Month

Another Big Story

10:05

• Intel Can’t Break TV’s Bundles

Yet Another Big Story

15:35

• Dish chief defends commercial-skipping feature, calling it a 'necessary' response to online TV
• DirecTV sitting on TV commercial-skipping technology

4th Big Story

18:57

• Broadcast moves beyond the TV set as 17% of consumers get network content on multiple screens

Slip Stream

23:06

• YouTube signs music licensing deal with BMG and eight other publishers
• HBO Go launches for Kindle Fire but continues to avoid other Android tablets
• Disney implements 28-day waiting period for rental DVDs
• Celluloid no more: distribution of film to cease by 2013 in the US

Tube Tops

• Netgear's NeoTV Pro adds WiDi, makes any TV smart
• WD TV Live, Live Hub get an official iOS remote app, Vudu streaming and more
• WD TV adds streaming options, tunes televisions near and far to your Slingbox
• Upcoming Google TV set-top box will play movie streams from Android phones and tablets
• TiVo and PayPal let you buy stuff using your remote, hopes you swing past the shopping channel
• SmartKey TV HDMI dongle gives ICS brains to any boob tube

Film Falm

36:35

• 'Game of Thrones' tops list of most-pirated TV shows
• Watch these: Over 500 full-length movies you can stream for free

Summer Movie Draft

40:05

• Movie Draft - Summer 2012
• Madagascar 3 out-grosses Prometheus

What We're Watching

43:40

• Tom Merritt: Prometheus, Mad Men, True Blood, Eureka
• Brian Brushwood: Prometheus

Extras

48:10

• FunnyJunk threatening lawsuit against The Oatmeal
• Donate to WWF and Cancer Research campaign

Feedback

51:30

• Can we use a 'Smart TV' to browse a channel's Web site to watch content?
• 4K content in movie theatres but usually only showing 2K
• Next season of Game of Thrones will only cover half the first book
• MVPD definitions for the Web
• Who are the big 3 providers?

Spoiler Zone

1:00:21

• Prometheus

Sponsors

• Pond5.com
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• audiblepodcast.com/framerate
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Picks

Wild Cards I by George R. R. Martin (editor) , Walter John Williams , Melinda Snodgrass , Carrie Vaughn , David Levine , Walter Jon Williams , Lewis Shiner , Howard Waldrop (UNABRIDGED) Narrated by Luke Daniels

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