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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

150: Things You Plug Into Your TV

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

Technology, Tech, Android, Ios, Google, Society & Culture, Electric Car, Smart Phone, Apple, Microsoft, Videogame, Space, Phone, Techpod, Tesla, Science, Video Game, Smartphone, Tech Pod, Games, Amazon

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

We're thinking a lot about the ways you receive and watch TV this week, with a look back at the last 20-ish years of set-top boxes beginning with the venerable TiVo. Remember paying a monthly fee for TV listings, or hacking your old Xbox to run an open-source media player? How frustrating is it that content has become so balkanized, just when all the apps are finally available everywhere? Are built-in TV apps ever going to be good enough to replace the boxes entirely? We consider these and a bunch of other subjects. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0

I just want to point out that directly prior to recording this podcast, you used one digital

0:05.2

agents to deal with another digital agent?

0:08.7

No.

0:09.5

No, that's not what I did.

0:11.4

Well, okay, there were a few steps in between, but I'm just going to suggest that perhaps

0:15.0

there are too many robots listening in your house.

0:16.9

Look, you're just because you think that the voice is listening to you as a problem and I

0:21.3

embrace the late stage capital as night where that we all inhabit every day, um, I, look, my, my,

0:27.4

my wife who I love dearly likes to use the timers on Alexa in the living room for certain things.

0:32.9

And she's not here right now. So when the timer at 345 went off, instead of me yelling, getting up and walking to the other

0:41.5

room and telling Alexa to turn off the timer, I just yelled from my desk through a couple of

0:45.8

walls.

0:46.6

And it worked because technology is awesome.

0:49.0

It did.

0:49.5

I just want to point out that, I mean, the net effect of this whole situation is that not 30

0:53.7

seconds after that,

0:54.6

you were then, Hey, Siriing a text message to your wife. I did, Hey, Siri to tell her that her timer

0:59.3

went off, which is literally the least efficient way to do a timer. I'm just going to tell you,

1:03.6

I mean, look, objective third party assessment here. Look, watching you talk to one robot and then

1:08.5

another robot in the space of a minute. Like it was a little eye opening.

1:11.5

I have,

1:12.1

I have desperately tried to change the usage patterns of the folks that live in my house with me.

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