ABC: Amazon Overnight, Buckets of Data, Cable a la Carte

ABC

Those last 49 episodes went by like a flash, didn’t they? For our over the hill 50th episode celebration we go three ways and take you through Amazon’s same day shipping, navigating family share data plans, and ask if you really need all those cable channels.

Episode 50 Hangout: http://youtu.be/1vUIWq2pcGA

Show Notes
AMC vs. Dish, Viacom vs. DirecTV: Brawling satellite providers and cable companies take different tactics” | The Washington Post
Jon Stewart Mocks DirecTV-Viacom Dispute (VIDEO)” | The Huffington Post
AT&T’s New Shared Data Plans Won’t Deliver ROI for Most” | Wired
AT&T CEO doesn’t deny FaceTime 3G data packages, says ‘it’s too early to talk about pricing’ | The Verge
I Want It Now: How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail. | Slate
The Upward Trajectory of Podcast Lengths” | Curious Rat

We’ll Show You Consumer Electronics

Lean back, lean back, and find your remote: on this second 2012 episode of inThirty we talk television. With the Consumer Electronics Show in full swing and its 35 footballs fields of floorspace teaming with gadgets, we want to know if any of them can score a touch down in the living room. We discuss whether innovation in the TV hardware front, pixels and bezels and remotes, is what’ll win the living room, or whether content is king and cable providers days are numbered. What does it take to make a 10 foot interface work, will Apple TV revolutionize the market, what’s Chaim’s favorite guilty pleasure (hint, it’s on the Disney channel), listen to find out.

Show Notes
My Take on the Future Apple TV | Curious Rat
TiVo iPad app | iTunes
Haier Transparent LED TV hands on | The Verge
Boxee Live TV hands-on pictures | The Verge
Nuance Beats Apple To Voice-Controlled TV | Cult of Mac
Samsung Smart TVs | Samsung.com