Sep 17 Podcast #1017: Summer Box office Wrap-up and AirPods Pro Review
On this week’s show we wrap up the Summer Box Office numbers with the top ten movies based on ticket sales and we look at two contradicting studies about streaming vs cable. We also have a review of Apple’s AirPod Pro. We also read your email and look at the news of the week.
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Today's Show:
News:
- Sonos - Next Generation of Beam, now with Dolby Atmos available for Preorder
- YouTube TV Expands Its Sports Plus Add-On with New Channels
- Disney says ALL its remaining films this year will open exclusively at theaters
Other:
- Kanopy
- Hoopla
- Direct View LED Home Cinema Display
- 4K 3D 5 Port HDMI Switch Splitter Switcher Selector Hub + IR Remote 5 in 1 out
- Ara's Woodworking
- Join the Flaviar Whisky Club and get a free bottle
Ara and Grace's Bob Ross attempt
This is a link to Ara's Instagram Post of the painting.
Summer Box Office Wraps with $1.75 Billion, It Closes on a High Note
No one expected this summer to be a close comparison to the last pre-pandemic summer and it wasn’t. Total North American box office for the 17-week summer period, including the Labor Day holiday weekend, totaled about $1.75 billion. That’s a little more than 40 percent of the $4.34 billion recorded in 2019, a period that did not include $474 million for the first week of “Avengers: Endgame.” (That opened on the last Friday in April.) Full article here…
Is Roku Right? Has TV Streaming Really 'Passed the Tipping Point'?
Roku's 'Streaming Decade' report describes OTT as the dominant means of viewing video in the American home … despite recent data from Nielsen indicating that it's still somewhat of a niche behavior Full Article Here…
AirPods Pro
The Apple AirPods Pro are wireless earbuds with noise cancelling, water resistance and a customizable fit. Are these the ultimate wireless earbuds everyone is talking about? Braden gives us his take.
Features:
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Active Noise Cancellation
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Transparency mode
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Adaptive EQ
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Vent system for pressure equalization
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Custom high-excursion Apple driver
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Custom high dynamic range amplifier
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Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking
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