WEBVTT - Marriott Hack; 4% Checking Account; Apple Music on Echo 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:08.440 Starwood and Marriott reveal a major data breach. Apple Music 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.959 is coming to the echo. Instagram makes it easier to 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:17.000 share stories with close friends and pay less fools influencers 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.480 or do they what's going on? I'm rich Demiro. This 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.439 is Rich on Tech coming to you with an extended 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.520 version of the podcast. This is the version where I 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.280 talk about all the cool things happening in the tech world, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.400 all the stuff that I think you should know about, 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.199 including some of these top stories like the Starwood and 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.480 Marriott hack. I'm also going to talk a bit about 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.680 recast TV. You guys apparently love the idea of that 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.640 cord cutting DVR. Plus my book one hundred and one 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.440 Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone published as a paperback 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.080 this week, so I'll talk about that a little bit. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.199 But let's get started. First off with star Ward. This 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.920 is really interesting and we're seeing these large scale data 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.000 hacks more and more. Basically, what happened was they had 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.040 an investigation. They determined there was an un authorized access 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.200 to a guest database which contained information relating to reservations 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.640 as Starwood properties on or before September tenth, twenty eighteen. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.680 So you're talking a lot of people staying at these hotels. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.480 They basically got an alert from an internal security tool 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:22.119 regarding an attempt to access this database, and they realized 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.320 that apparently there had been unauthorized access to the Starwood 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.119 network since twenty fourteen, so this went on for quite 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.240 a long time. Not sure why they didn't notice it 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.200 before that time. But here's the deal. They have not 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.840 figured out exactly. They have to kind of clean up 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.760 the database that they found that was kind of taken 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.080 in the hack, but they say they think it contains 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.720 information on approximately up to five hundred million guests who 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.680 made a reservation at a Starwood property, and for three 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.960 hundred and twenty seven million of these guests, that information 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:01.840 includes name, milling address, phone number, email address, passport number, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.640 your star War preferred guest number, which may have changed 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.760 now that they took over with the Marriotte rewards as well. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:13.720 They merged those recently data birth gender, arrival and departure information, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:18.880 reservation date and communications preference. All that stuff not so bad, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.240 with the exception of the passport number. But the one 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:25.320 thing that is bad is the payment card numbers and 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.880 payment card expiration dates. So that was all taken apparently 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.680 as well, but the information used to decrypt all of 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.000 that data on the payment cards, they're not sure that 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.360 that wasn't taken as well. So again, let's say that 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:42.440 they took the database that was encrypted star Woods saying 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.720 that they also might have gotten the key to unlock 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.280 that database as well. So for other guests, information was 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.240 limited to name and other data like the mailing address, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.639 email address, and other information. So what is Marriott doing 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.840 now that this all happened. They've set up a dedicated 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:03.040 call center email notification so they've been starting to send 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.000 emails to affected guests on November thirtieth, so that's the 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.000 first day, so if you haven't gotten an email yet, 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.880 they just started doing that, so it could take a 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.839 couple days for them to do that. And they're also 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:18.400 letting folks enroll in this web Watcher service, and this 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.600 is a service that monitors Internet sites where personal information 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.480 is shared, and you'll get an alert if some of 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.240 your information is shared. And if you're not sure what 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.639 a star War hotel is, if you stayed at a 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:36.360 w hotel A Saint Regis Chreton Weston element a Loft 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.840 luxury collection, Tribute Portfolio Lee Meridian four points and design 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.280 and also their timeshare properties. I have stayed in the 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:49.520 recent years at the w Shareton Weston element Aloft and 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.560 that's about it. So yeah, my information is probably out there. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.120 This is bad. I mean the information that they got 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.160 not so bad. I mean, passport number definitely not something 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.360 you necessarily want random people to have. But it doesn't 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.600 seem like they got passwords, which is good. And if 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.600 you're still reusing your password on various websites, don't do that. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.120 And this is another example of why you don't want 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.040 to do that. This is some big news coming out 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.279 of Apple and Amazon. Who would have thought that these 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.960 two would be playing so nice now? Recently Amazon and 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.320 Apple announced that Apple products would be available for sale 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.760 on Amazon. Now they're taking a step further. Apple Music 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.279 will be available on Echo devices beginning the week of 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.880 December seventeenth, and that's just in time for you to 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.000 enjoy some holiday music on your Echo device if you're 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.760 a subscriber to Apple Music. And it's funny because someone 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.560 was just asking me the other day what the deal 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.360 is with Apple Music, and I was saying, they really 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.520 aren't available on any of these smart speakers except for 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.400 the HomePod obviously and Sonos, but you have to have 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.039 a complex Sonos system for that to work. But now 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.000 here they are on the Echo devices, so you can 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.159 now ask ex A, I'll say, to play Beats one 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.080 to hear Apple's radio station. I've listened to that on 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.719 my run through the Apple Watch. It's okay, it's not 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.680 my thing. I'm sure it's good if you listen to 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.600 maybe some of the shows, and maybe you'll find a 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.320 show in there that you like, but just to listen 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.880 to it as radio. I've kind of gotten beyond that 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.960 with Spotify and kind of all the playlists that I like, 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.239 so it's tough for me to just kind of get 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.400 involved in Beats one, But if you want to start 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.919 listening to that, and of course all the other stuff 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.600 I mean, now you can ask al Exa to stream 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.440 all the stations that they have. You can also ask 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.640 for music by name, so basically anything that you can 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.000 do with Siri on the iPhone, if you have Apple 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.080 Music and calling out your music, you can now do 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.599 on the Echo. And to get started, all you have 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.440 to do is enable the Apple Music skill in the 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.640 al Exa app, and you can link up your account 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.840 and start listening which is really cool and a little 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.040 fun fact they put out on the press release here, 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.320 top Country is the most requested music to wake up too, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.640 So okay, there you go. Instagram is changing things up 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.360 with stories. This is basically the most popular feature of 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.960 Instagram right now, stories, and I love it. I mean, 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.640 everyone loves Instagram Stories right It's just basically showing you 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.200 throughout the day. It's easy, it's simple, it expires after 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.000 twenty four hours. You don't have to put too much 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.760 thought into it, although a lot of people do. And 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.360 it's just a fun way to kind of share what's 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.840 happening in your life in a very casual way. And 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.680 people love looking at these stories. They love posting them. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.680 I personally love posting them. I always forget to do it, 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.120 but when I do it, it's really fun. Well, now 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:43.160 Instagram is letting you make a close friends list on Stories, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.120 so now you can share with just the people you've 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.520 added to close friends. And I'm not a big Snapchat user, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.320 but this kind of reminds me of something that you 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.039 can do on Snapchat with groups of people, and I 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.640 feel like this is something that you used to be 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.760 able to do on Instagram anyway. With groups. Maybe there's 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.120 some kind of difference here, but I'm not sure, but 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.960 it seems like it's just a revamp of groups. But 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:04.960 to add people to your list, you can go to 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.680 your profile and tap on close Friends. In the side 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.440 menu only you can see your close friends list. No 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.640 one can request to be added to this list, so 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.280 you can adjust it at any time. But people do 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.400 kind of know that they're on this list because when 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.280 you share to stories, you'll have an option to share 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.640 just with the people on your close friends list, And 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.320 if someone has added you to their list, you'll see 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.080 a green badge when you're viewing their stories, So that 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.560 little green badge means like, oh, this is super special, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.560 and you'll also see a green ring around their profile 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.800 photo in the stories trey, which is up at the 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.240 top of your Instagram. So it's kind of a fun 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.560 little feature. I immediately think of this as something I 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.720 can do with my family. I've got a huge family 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.120 back east in New Jersey, all my family members, and 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.120 sometimes you just want to share maybe a little bit 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.640 more intimate pictures of your life, your kids, all that 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.560 good stuff, a little bit more personal than what you 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.000 might do on your public So I think This is 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.520 a really cool feet for that, because it just makes 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.400 sense that there are different levels of sharing, and Instagram 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:10.560 is kind of admitting that. Speaking of Instagram this, I 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.400 don't believe this story one way. I don't believe this 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.760 story at all. But it's making the rounds. Payless fools 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.560 influencers with a fake store. That's the CNN headline, and 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.920 I just don't believe it. I don't believe that this 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.520 was real. I don't think that influencers were fooled. But 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.320 I'll tell you the story, and I'll tell you why 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.600 I think that. So Payless you obviously know them. They 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.560 have Payless shoe stores. They opened up a fake pop 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.160 up store called pay Lessie in a Santa Monica I 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.960 guess it was somewhere in Santa Monica, maybe on the promenade, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.439 And they invited influencers to a grand opening, and they 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.439 had all these Payless shoes there, but they had prices, 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.920 you know, four or five hundred, six hundred dollars. Really 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.640 the shoes were twenty bucks, right, So they fooled, or 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.560 they said they fooled all these people. They of course 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.040 did this stunt. They recorded the whole thing. They made 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.280 a whole bunch of ads getting a lot of press 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.480 and a lot of play out of this. And according 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.280 to the CNN article, it says that shut up, are 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.160 you serious? One of the shoppers says when she heard 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:16.199 that the shoes were twenty dollars. It says over eighty 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.959 influencers attended over two nights. According to Payless, they shelled 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.320 out a total of three thousand dollars. One shopper spent 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.480 six hundred and forty dollars for a pair of boots, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:30.640 which represents a eighteen hundred percent markup Payless. However, he 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.240 turned their money and let them keep the shoes. They said. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.000 The influencers were paid a small stipend to a tend 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.840 So let me tell you why this story's bogus, because 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.920 number one, influencers do not spend any money when they 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.840 go to events. Okay, I've never been to an influencer event, 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.240 and believe me, I get invited to a lot of 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.760 these things where you are expected to spend any money whatsoever. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.959 And I'm talking big electronics events where they're giving out 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:55.760 a gift bag at the end of the thing where 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.720 it might have a high value piece of electronics. For 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:03.080 these influencers. I'm talking clothes, shoes, there is There's never 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.920 been an influencer event I've ever been to where someone 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:10.160 is expected to shell out cash. Okay, in fact, I 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.840 don't think I've ever seen that. Usually there's an open bar, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:16.800 there's you know, food, there are little you know, things 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.840 that you can take home, you know. So that's number one. 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:25.880 So if any influencer was at this event spending four 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.720 or five hundred dollars or six hundred and forty dollars 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.000 for a pair of boots, that's got to be bogus 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.160 because that just doesn't happen at an influencer event. So 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.760 clearly whoever was going to this event knew that there 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.480 was something more going on here, especially when they got 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.440 paid a small stipend to attend. That tells me that 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.840 these were not influencers, but they were actors that were 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.000 sort of told that this would be happening. You know, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:51.960 we want you to act natural, We want you to 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.840 maybe purchase some stuff, but don't worry. We're you know, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.559 you can purchase it, but we're going to reimburse you 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.520 at the end. Whatever. I think that this was all 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.679 highly set up. I'm sorry, but no one on. None 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.839 of these influencers are spending six hundred and forty dollars 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.440 on a pair of shoes at an event. It just 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.040 doesn't happen. They're getting these shoes gifted if they are 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.080 an influencer of any worth. That's number one. Number two. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.520 I kind of looked up the tag on these, the 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.920 hashtag pay lessie on Instagram, and guess what, there's almost 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.719 zero posts. Okay, so if they had real influencers at 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.400 this event, there would have been a bunch of posts 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.760 on Instagram about this event. The only posts that I 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.160 saw that were on Instagram were from the people that 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.320 actually set up this event, the advertising agency and the 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.480 event marketing company that set up the whole quote unquote 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:45.720 bogus Payless storefront right, pay Less e storefront. So again, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:48.640 I think that this is all kind of bogus. It's 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.880 all marketing scheme by Payless. It's fun, Don't get me wrong. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.120 I'm not pooh poohing the whole you know idea that 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.520 people can be tricked, And yes, we live in a 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:02.800 society where people are influenced by marketing and they're influenced 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:04.839 by price. You put two bottles of wine in front 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.960 of someone in a brown bag. I can tell the difference. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.920 I can tell you which one's the cheap one. Not 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.160 everyone can. And sometimes I might be tricked and think 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.000 that a ten dollars bottle of wine actually tastes better. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.240 But I'm not gonna think it's an eighty dollars bottle 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.400 of wine most of the time. But yes, you can 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.960 brown bag stuff and fool people. It's human nature. If 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.280 you are treated a certain way and something is presented 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.280 to you in a certain way, you're gonna feel better 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.440 about it. And that's not a bad thing. I mean, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.200 you spend ten dollars for a bottle of water inside 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.560 a five star hotel. That bottle of water is literally 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.840 twenty five cents at Costco and you're spending ten dollars 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.160 on it. Why because you're in a five star hotel. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:44.959 That's what you expect to pay when you're in a 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.440 five star hotel. Now, personally, I will stay away from 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:51.040 that water by all means possible if I can, unless 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:56.400 I am so thirsty I'm about to faint from hydration dehydration. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.000 But the reality is we have these kind of idea 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.120 is in our mind of what we expect to pay 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.480 and how things are presented. And if you're in a 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.520 store that's called pay less and it looks like a 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.680 high end store, you're not expecting to be tricked, even 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.760 though yes you can be. So I just thought that 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.360 was an interesting little story. It's getting a lot of 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.040 play in the media, but I just wanted to give 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.200 you kind of my thoughts on that stuff. One story 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.240 we did on KTLA that was got a lot of 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:26.520 play for real was the Amazon Fire TV recast. And 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.560 you guys love this thing. This is a DVR for 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.400 cord cutters. It lets you connect an antenna to this 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.720 little box and then watch live TV on your TV. 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.960 I know, what a concept, but also record that TV 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.719 and it reminds me of TVO back in the day. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.520 I got super excited about that. I was a big 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.920 TV fan. But the cool thing about this is that 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.200 we are getting away from DVRs because we're so into 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.040 streaming and on demand right so all of our shows 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.240 are on demand and every major network has an app 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.400 for on demand. But I'll tell you why DVRs are 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.360 still more interesting to me, and that's because the DVR 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.480 actually lets you skip those commercials when you're watching on 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.560 demand on Hulu and all these different services out there, 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.840 you're not able to skip those commercials. So these big 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.840 media companies actually like the fact that we're all moving 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.240 to on demand because guess what, they now control that 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.880 experience again, and I get it. I work for a 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.480 place that's free over the air, and I would love 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.040 for you to watch commercials. I'd love for you to 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.120 listen to the commercials in this podcast and others. But 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.240 the reality is people have that control, and we have 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.600 technology to give you that control, and it's kind of 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.720 nice to have that control. And now, if it's a 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.040 good commercial, I like to stop and watch it. Other 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:37.760 people like to stop and watch it, and that's part 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.520 of the marketers to figure that stuff out, but it's 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.760 kind of cool. So anyway, the Recast TV also has 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.720 no monthly fees, which is really nice as well, and 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.040 that's a huge part of it, so you don't have 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.120 to pay any monthly fees. The device is two hundred 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.280 and thirty dollars. Let you record seventy five hours of TV. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:56.520 If you want, you can spend a little bit more 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.520 and record I think it's one hundred and fifty hours 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.240 of TV. I've been using this thing at home. It 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:06.480 is fantastic. The integration with fireTV is just amazing because 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.200 I can go from watching a show on Netflix right 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.040 next to it, it says, hey, KTLA Morning News is streaming, 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.440 or sorry is on live, and I can flip right 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.640 to that, or I can flip right to a show 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.680 that I DVRD, like Jimmy Fallon and watch that. And 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.600 it's really really cool to have that all on one screen. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.160 And you might be thinking, Rich, come on, we've had antenna. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.880 You can connect an antenna to a TV forever. Well, yeah, 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.320 but now it's all on the same screen. It's all 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.880 on the fireTV screen. And yes, you do need a 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.160 fireTV to make this all happen. Now, you don't necessarily 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.560 have to have a fireTV. You can actually use this 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.480 thing and set it up independently of a fireTV, but 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.200 to really get the most use out of it, you 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.520 do have to have a fireTV because that's really the 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.440 only way that you can set recordings. As far as 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.240 I can tell, you can view your recordings from the app, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.680 and you can watch live TV from an app on 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.720 your tablet or your iPhone or your Andrew, But as 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.600 far as I can tell, the only way to actually 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.880 set those recordings and to kind of manage everything is 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.960 to go through the actual fireTV interface. Now that may 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.480 change in the future. Also, at this point there is 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:17.440 no support for third party streaming boxes like the Apple TV, 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.520 like Rouke Roku. That may come in the future, and 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.880 I do think that Amazon will eventually build some of 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.120 that stuff in, but right now that's not there. So 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.680 you have to have, let's say, a fireTV stick. I 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.640 really like the fireTV four K, the brand new one. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:35.120 That is fantastic because the remote control has universal volume 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.600 and mute buttons and power buttons on it, which is 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.280 really nice because now you can have literally one remote 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.720 control to control your entire interface and home theater setup, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.200 and one interface on your TV screen to not only 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.480 watch streaming stuff, but also to watch your live over 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.480 the air channels and your DVR stuff. And again, this 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.480 does not work with cable. So I got a lot 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.600 of emails yesterday folks saying, hey, Rich, what if I 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.280 want to watch Bravo, what if I want to watch 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.680 Fox Sports? What if I want to watch this? No, 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.280 none of that is included in over the air. These 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:11.520 are local channels, Channel two, Channel four, Channel five, Channel seven, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:15.600 Channel nine, Channel thirteen, Channel eleven here in Los Angeles, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.919 and very similar channels where you live. You have to 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.879 have an antenna to get those channels. Bravo is not 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.280 delivered over an antenna, so if you want something like Bravo, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.640 or if you want CNN or some of these cable channels, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.240 you would have to supplement this setup with a subscription 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.760 to some sort of streaming service like DirectTV Now or 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.480 Sling TV. Those will work. And again, the other flip 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.840 side of that is that those services have a lot 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.160 of the local channels included in them, but not PBS, 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.119 not KTLA. If you're in Los Angeles and maybe in 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.679 your market, they may have other local channels that you like, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.240 especially some international ones that they just don't offer on 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.480 the direct TV Now or the Sling TV or the 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.520 YouTube TV. So long story short, this is a not 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.800 a perfect solution, but it's a really nice solution if 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.639 theoretically you wanted to cut the cord, stop paying for 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.399 cable TV, still have to pay for cable internet, some 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.639 sort of high speed internet, and also have all your 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.680 local channels for free DVR, all that content, all those 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.160 network shows that you know that air like Modern Family, 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.480 and I was gonna say Letterman in Leno, but there 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.880 is no more Letterman in Leno. But you know Fallon 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.080 and Jimmy Kimmel. You can record that stuff. You can 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.680 record your local news, all the sports that air locally, 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.520 and that's a lot of programming. There's a lot of 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.840 good stuff there. You can have all that for free 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.000 over the air with this device. And then you can 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.520 have let's say Netflix, because you pay fourteen bucks a 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.840 month for that, you can have that. And then you 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:51.679 can also have you know, Amazon Prime Video if you 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.320 have an Amazon Prime membership. So just those three things alone, 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.000 all the over the air stuff plus your Netflix plus 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.000 your Prime's that's a large amount of content. I don't 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:02.879 know if you need much more than that. So if 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.600 you like some of these cable channels, though, you will 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.840 have to have a subscription for that. So some of 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.040 you may know that my book one hundred and one 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.120 Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone came out as a paperback. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.560 This is very exciting because I published the ebook over 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.360 the summer. It did very well. Thank you so much 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.080 for supporting the book. I did it as a PDF 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.840 and also as an e book, and also on the Kindle, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.679 and the number one question I got was Rich, I 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.240 want to read this thing as a paperback, And I'll 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.879 be honest, what happened with the first book is I 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.480 had every intention of making it up. Well, actually I didn't. 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:37.680 When I to be honest, I actually wasn't going to 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.320 make it a paperback at all. But when I started 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.280 to kind of tease it a little bit, people were saying, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.960 you know, when can I buy this as a paperback? 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:45.120 And I was like, all right, well, I guess maybe 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.520 I'll make it a paperback. The problem was that formatting 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.680 for a paperback was so different than formatting for an ebook. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.520 I didn't realize that, and I couldn't go back. By 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.320 the time it was published, it was just not There 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.320 was no time to actually go back and make it 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.640 a paperback. So I said, I'll take everything I learned 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.800 from here and when I do my next book, especially 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.080 with all the emails I got, I will make this 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:10.640 thing a paperback because that's what people want. And I did. 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.800 I started this second version of the book, which was 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.639 updated for iOS twelve, as a paperback in mind, and 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:18.600 when you do a paperback you have to think about 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.439 different things, most specifically the formatting of the book, the 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.159 way it looks. The pictures. They have to be a 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.159