Cordkillers 508 - The Hill I Will Rest On
Roku's recent update adds motion smoothing with no way to turn it off, frustrating many users; a trailer for "Agatha All Along" debuts on September 18th; Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman may collaborate on a non-superhero movie; Paramount Global will merge with Skydance Media; Fire TV users in the US are now seeing ads before screensavers start; Kevin Bacon disliked using a disguise in public; and the MPA-Canada is challenging a requirement for streamers to pay for local news.
This week on The FULL Experience: The Munsters (114 - "Grandpa Leaves Home")
Next week: The Munsters (232 - "A Visit from the Teacher")
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Supply Run
William Joel has an article on The Verge titled, "Dear Roku, you ruined my TV," discussing a recent update that seemingly added motion smoothing with no way to turn it off. Motion smoothing is disliked by many, especially for non-sports video, as it adds pixels to make motions smoother, which is good for fast action like sports but makes movies look cheap. Roku introduced Roku Smart Picture to automatically improve picture quality dynamically as users stream. However, for many Roku users, it has meant motion smoothing is now always on with no way to turn it off. Roku has not acknowledged the issue, and Joel has not received a substantive response from Roku support. This issue also occurred with some TCL TVs running the Roku OS in 2020. Link: https://www.theverge.com/24188282/roku-tv-update-motion-smoothing-turn-off
Search Party
TRAILER: Agatha All Along debuts on September 18th. Link: https://www.theverge.com/24194262/agatha-all-along-trailer
Reynolds revealed that he and Jackman are potentially working on another movie together "soon" that will be a departure from the superhero genre. "We have one we're looking to do soon," he told Entertainment Weekly. Link: https://deadline.com/2024/07/ryan-reynolds-teases-hugh-jackman-non-superhero-movie-1236002668/
I don't know how reliable Reelgood's streaming charts are but they certainly are interesting. Link: https://blog.reelgood.com/category/top-10
Buried Treasure
Brian: The Bear
Tom: House of the Dragon
Scanning the Horizon
Paramount Global will merge the storied Hollywood company with David Ellison’s Skydance Media, which owns an animation studio, a gaming division, and has a joint venture with the National Football League. Link: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/skydance-vision-new-paramount-redbird-ellison-1236062119/
Fire TV users in the US should now start seeing ads before their screensaver starts. These full-screen ads have first been spotted by Cord Cutter News, and they may appear on all Fire TV devices made in 2016 or newer. "If you leave your Fire TV for too long, a full-screen ad will play for about 30 seconds to a minute before your screensaver starts," Link: https://www.thurrott.com/amazon/305088/fire-tv-users-full-screen-ads-before-screensavers-starts
Kevin Bacon hired a makeup artist to disguise him in public with fake teeth and more, but he hated it: "This sucks. I want to go back to being famous." Bacon said, "People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, 'I love you.' I had to wait in line to, I don't know, buy a fucking coffee or whatever. I was like, 'This sucks. I want to go back to being famous.'" Link: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/kevin-bacon-wore-disguide-hide-in-public-1236060904/
The Motion Picture Association-Canada (MPA-Canada), which represents the likes of Netflix, Paramount, and Disney, has claimed in a court filing that the requirement to pay for local news "is a discriminatory measure that goes far beyond what Parliament intended." Link: https://deadline.com/2024/07/disney-netflix-streamers-want-canada-content-levy-stopped-1236001911/
Chatter
Marc emailed us to suggest Sports Night for the FULL Experience.
Yaru let us know that they're the ONE...the one person using YouTube Premium to keep videos going with their screen off.