Amph Airwaves, Streams, Fibers & Cords: General TV Discussion

Gonna see if I can access it through my Tivo's HBO Go so I can watch stuff in surround sound (ancient receiver, no HDMI so I gotta feed the optical out from my TV). Otherwise I'll have to settle for stereo and use the PS4 like I do for D+.

Probably won't deep dive into the content for another week or two, though- still have one more week left of Criterion Channel so I want to bang out a couple more films off that before I cancel (not everyting on CC is on HBOM, apparently, but some are so those can wait).

EDIT- Apparently WB pulled some kind of (likely very expensive) strings and all of the Harry Potter films are on the service at launch today.

 

Scorsese closes the deal with Apple for his next film, Killers of the Flower Moon- at a budget of $225m and with both De Niro and DiCaprio to star.

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And the reason it has taken so long to get the corrected aspect ratios of The Simpsons on D+ is because they had to re-engineer D+'s architecture to make it capable of delivering multiple versions of the same content while maintaining the other shared resources through a single listing.

 

Gal Godot-starring series about Hedy Lemarr is moving from Showtime to Apple. I wasn't aware of that actress, or her role in communications technology. Sounds interesting.

Cobra Kai Season 3 is being shopped to another streamer. YouTube was going to premiere it but informed Sony they would not be contuning for a fourth season, so Sony asked to have the show released by Google so that they could shop it around to a venue where it could potentially continue. So, the deal would be for exclusive rights to Season 3, options for future seasons and non-exclusive rights to the first two seasons. Currently, Netflix and Hulu are the top contenders.

Good news. I haven't gotten around to watching anything beyond the first episode when it screened in theaters, but was looking forward to making the time for it. Having it on the other platforms would just give me better viewing/presentation quality options through my home theater system than with YT.

 

discovered that hbo max is the new home for the brilliant cnn/hanks documentaries (used to be on netflix, left in february) - the 60s/70s/80s/90s/2000s and my favorite, "the movies."

one of my favorite streaming services thusfar, and if it ever absorbs the film/tv content of the dc universe service, it'll be even better. dcu could still be a standalone service if they bulk their digital comics content, a la marvel unlimited.

 

I hadn't heard about this one, either. I could have sworn there was talk only a few months ago about a film version in development starring RDJ.

 

B99 is more of a workplace comedy that just happens to feature cop work. I'm sure the subject will be brought up there and in other places to one degree or another, but your typical procedural probably isn't going to delve into the subject much.

 

B99 is fantastic. Pilot isn't that great but it's all up hill from there.

 

@B99 is also fantastic. I don't know if he's named after the show.