Episode 294 - Show Notes

Episode 294

Sunday Feb 24, 2013 (01:31:11)

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This week, Sony talks about its box without showing it, Spotify wants to make your box sing for free and Scott opens up a Pandora's box worth of flames on Google.

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Scott Ertz

Host

Scott is a developer who has worked on projects of varying sizes, including all of the PLUGHITZ Corporation properties. He is also known in the gaming world for his time supporting the rhythm game community, through DDRLover and hosting tournaments throughout the Tampa Bay Area. Currently, when he is not working on software projects or hosting F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Scott can often be found returning to his high school days working with the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), mentoring teams and helping with ROBOTICON Tampa Bay. He has also helped found a student software learning group, the ASCII Warriors, currently housed at AMRoC Fab Lab.

Nicholas DiMeo

Host

With over ten years of audio engineering experience, Nick's addition to PLuGHiTz Corporation is best served when he is behind the mixing board every Sunday night to produce the audio side of F5 Live: Refreshing Technology, Piltch Point and PLuGHiTz Live Night Cap. While mixing live every week, his previous radio show hosting experience gives him the ability to co-host as well, giving each show a unique flare with his slightly off-center, yet still realistic take on all things tech. An integral part of the show, you can find Nick always enveloped in coming up with new (and sometimes crazy) ideas and content for the show and you can always expect the most direct opinion on the stories that he feels need to be shared with the world. During the few hours where Nick isn't sleeping or working on ways to improve the company, he spends his free time going to hockey and football games and playing the latest titles on Xbox 360. Email him for his gamertag and add him today for a fun escape from the normal monotony and annoyance that the Xbox LIVE gaming community can sometimes be!

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PlayStation 4 Revealed

Sony shocked absolutely no one this week by announcing the PlayStation 4 at their PlayStation Meeting 2013 event, announced late last month. There were a couple of oddball theories about the meeting's purpose, but everyone with a brain knew we would see the announcement of the next member of the PS family. So, what do we know? We know one of the first terms used on stage was "prototype hardware" while showing off the garbage-collecting robot game, Knack. At that point we knew we wouldn't see the hardware, but that's okay: we also didn't see the Wii U hardware at announcement. Larry Hyrb, Xbox's Major Nelson, was apparently surprised, tweeting,

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FilmOn and Aero Sue Aereo for Copyright Infringement, Calls Kettle Black

Remember Aereo, the rebel company that chose to go the route of streaming over-the-air broadcasts to out-of-market customers for a monthly rate? Yes, we appreciate the gusto and courage it takes to go head-to-head against all of the broadcast companies at once. So when we heard that Aereo was in another lawsuit, we asked, "who is it now?" Needless to say we were surprised to find out that it actually wasn't a broadcast company trying to sue them this week.

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Spotify Sets Up Talks with Major Record Labels to Lower Rates, Bring Free to Mobile

Spotify, the service I've been following since the beginning, has a couple of key meetings lined up for the next couple of weeks. This could partially be due to their next round of funding coming up, but they also have a bigger picture in mind. Spotify will be talking with the major record labels to renew the licensing agreements in place. Even bigger, they will be looking to ask those record labels for some pretty big price cuts, and will also see if they will be on board to bring free streaming to mobile devices.

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