Episode 1: 1: Dream Crusher
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2011
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the sad state of TV technology, why the TV situation is worse than music and even phones, why Apple has decided it can't solve this particular problem right now, why TiVo sucks (but is still better than all the other alternatives), and which box, of the ten connected to your TV, is the best one to use to watch Netflix.
Links for this episode:
- John Siracusa's articles at Ars Technica
- Apple's Trouble with TV
- AirPlay as Apple's Backdoor Strategy
- Steve Jobs on Television [Video]
- John Siracusa on The Pipeline
- AppleTV
- TiVo
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number one of Hypercritical. |
| 0:03.6 | The show is hosted by John Syracusea and Dan Benjamin, that's me. |
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| 0:46.8 | This is the first episode of hypercritical, right? |
| 0:49.6 | You're John Syracuse, people know you're writing from Ars Technica and maybe some other places too. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Dan Benjamin, we're going to start talking about things. |
| 1:01.6 | Technology maybe, Apple a little bit, things that we love and |
| 1:05.0 | we love and hate. |
| 1:07.0 | You're gonna be more of the hater, |
| 1:10.0 | I'll be more of a lover, I guess. |
| 1:12.0 | You hate plenty of things too. We'll find that out I think through |
| 1:14.8 | the show. Yes. But this is a new show. I interviewed you on the pipeline and ever since then I said |
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