Speaker 1: What's going on.
Speaker 2: Rich Zmuro here, rich on Tech and welcome to rich
Speaker 2: on Tech Live. This is the podcast where I help
Speaker 2: you get the most out of your gadgets, answering your
Speaker 2: tech questions live, talking about some of the cool things
Speaker 2: that happened in technology over the past week. But most importantly,
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Speaker 2: The phone number is three one zero five to nine
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Speaker 2: in just a bit, So think about what you need
Speaker 2: to know when it comes to your tech world. There's
Speaker 2: a lot going on, and this week was all about
Speaker 2: the Samsung Galaxy S nine. All the reviews came out
Speaker 2: for the S nine, and uh, here's the general consensus
Speaker 2: about the Samsung Galaxy S nine. It's a great device.
Speaker 2: They really did a nice job of fixing all the
Speaker 2: problems that anyone had with the S eight, which mainly
Speaker 2: was the fingerprint reader. That was it, and they fix
Speaker 2: that and that's it.
Speaker 1: Story closed. I mean, the book is done.
Speaker 2: It's there's not much more to say about this device.
Speaker 2: Is that if you're looking for an Android device. Ninety
Speaker 2: nine point nine percent of people are going to buy
Speaker 2: the Samsung Galaxy. They're gonna buy the S eight, the
Speaker 2: S seven, D S nine, one of those three phones.
Speaker 2: If you're an Apple person, you're gonna buy the iPhone. Now,
Speaker 2: I will say this will probably be the phone that
Speaker 2: causes some iPhone folks to want to come over and
Speaker 2: jump over to the Android side. And I think that's
Speaker 2: not a bad idea. The problem is people that are
Speaker 2: on iPhone have become accustomed to several things, one of
Speaker 2: those things being FaceTime, which you can get around they all,
Speaker 2: they all, they have these these apps that work on
Speaker 2: both platforms. But I'm just saying people are used to it.
Speaker 2: And the other thing that people are used to is
Speaker 2: really I Message, and I Message of course, only works
Speaker 2: on iOS devices. You don't need I Message. It's nice
Speaker 2: to have, but it's not a necessity. So I think
Speaker 2: that this phone will get the interest of some people
Speaker 2: that are on iPhone. So let me just go through
Speaker 2: some of the headlines that some of the writers had.
Speaker 2: My thought on the phone is that anyone who buys
Speaker 2: this is gonna be very happy. It's snappy, it's fast,
Speaker 2: the camera's really nice. Isn't the best camera in the world. No,
Speaker 2: the Google Pixel has the best camera in the world,
Speaker 2: But does that really matter? Probably not now, I will
Speaker 2: say the only thing I did notice with the camera
Speaker 2: that I was a little unhappy about is when I
Speaker 2: was taking pictures of my kids with this camera, I
Speaker 2: got a lot of blurred movement. And I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what the reason for that is. I don't notice that
Speaker 2: on my other phones. When I take pictures with the
Speaker 2: iPhone ten, I do not notice that, Nor do I
Speaker 2: notice that when I take pictures with the Pixel. It
Speaker 2: only happens on the Samsung right now, and so I'm
Speaker 2: wondering if that's like a software update or if something
Speaker 2: is a little off. I don't know what that is,
Speaker 2: but that's the only thing that concerned me was that
Speaker 2: I was noticing a lot more blurry pictures and a
Speaker 2: lot more blurry parts, like not really blurry pictures, but
Speaker 2: just like this, Like you know, if their hand was
Speaker 2: moving a little bit. On my other phones, it would
Speaker 2: kind of capture that and just be fine, But on
Speaker 2: this you saw a little bit of a blur low light.
Speaker 2: I think the s nine is going to do a
Speaker 2: really nice job. I also my other downside of the
Speaker 2: S nine is really the selfie camera. It's just not
Speaker 2: very good. I notice a lot of blurry pictures on
Speaker 2: that as well, and very your face looks sort of
Speaker 2: blurred out, and I think a lot of people will
Speaker 2: like that because it doesn't show a lot of your
Speaker 2: wrinkles or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But it's just a weird kind of look.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look as natural as the iPhone or the Pixel.
Speaker 2: But other than that, I really have no problem with
Speaker 2: the S nine. I think it is a fantastic device.
Speaker 2: I think that those two things that I'm talking about
Speaker 2: are very nitpicky, and I don't think a lot of
Speaker 2: people will even have a problem with those things.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
Speaker 2: I noticed a little bit of a lag when I
Speaker 2: press the shutter button compared to the Pixel and the iPhone,
Speaker 2: a little bit more blur.
Speaker 1: And on the front facing camera.
Speaker 2: I noticed that it's just a little bit out of focus.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it doesn't kind of snap into focus as fast
Speaker 2: as you'd like. But that's it. Otherwise, I think that
Speaker 2: this is a very solid device. I think that Samsung
Speaker 2: did an amazing job. I will recommend if you purchase
Speaker 2: this phone that you need a case because it's really
Speaker 2: thin on both sides, which makes it kind of tough
Speaker 2: to hold. I found that I love the size. The
Speaker 2: form factor is way better than the pixel, and I
Speaker 2: actually like it better than the iPhone too because it's
Speaker 2: just a little bit bigger.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's not easy to hold.
Speaker 2: They are not easy to I guess grip because it.
Speaker 1: Feels like it's gonna fall out of your hand.
Speaker 2: All right, So some of the reviews that are in
Speaker 2: let's see, let's see what they say. Android Central says
Speaker 2: a fantastic phone for the mass is not an exciting phone.
Speaker 2: This doesn't need to be an exciting phone. It's the
Speaker 2: top device out there for Samsung. They don't need to
Speaker 2: make it crazy. It just needs to do a lot
Speaker 2: of good stuff. Wall Street Journal says it's impressive and infuriating,
Speaker 2: and he's talking about the software. Everyone everyone gets all
Speaker 2: mad about the Samsung software. I don't get that mad
Speaker 2: about it. I think that, yes, there is a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff on there you may not need. But when
Speaker 2: you're talking about the average person, they're not buying a pixel.
Speaker 2: A Google Pixel is for the super duper nerd like
Speaker 2: myself who wants to have the pure Google experience. And
Speaker 2: then add every little feature in that I want. When
Speaker 2: you buy a Samsung or an iPhone, you're getting all
Speaker 2: the features. You don't have to download that much software
Speaker 2: to get a lot of these features. And I think
Speaker 2: that's what these reviewers forget, is that the average person,
Speaker 2: like my mom or just the random Joe, they're not
Speaker 2: sitting there thinking about what markup tool they want to
Speaker 2: use on their photos. They just want to press edit
Speaker 2: and use their finger to write on the picture. They
Speaker 2: don't have to go to the app store and figure
Speaker 2: out which one of these apps is going to be
Speaker 2: best for doing that.
Speaker 1: Now I like to do that.
Speaker 2: They don't want to have to do that same thing
Speaker 2: when you're scanning in a business card or a picture
Speaker 2: of a you know, or a PDF or something like that.
Speaker 2: They don't want to sit there and go through the
Speaker 2: app store and download fifteen different apps like Office Lens
Speaker 2: or Scannable or.
Speaker 1: Google Drive and see which one works the best.
Speaker 2: They just want to go, hey, let me scan a
Speaker 2: document for my phone, and that's it. It works.
Speaker 1: That's the reality of these things.
Speaker 2: So I think these reviewers kind of lose touch just
Speaker 2: a little bit when they talk about what they're doing
Speaker 2: now I feel like i'm because I do TV on
Speaker 2: a very broad level for people that aren't necessarily techies.
Speaker 2: I think that that's why I have a better understanding,
Speaker 2: because I get emails every single day from you guys
Speaker 2: basically asking me questions that are you know, that are
Speaker 2: things that I might take for granted. But I'm like, huh,
Speaker 2: that's interesting. I didn't think of that perspective. Whereas if
Speaker 2: you're writing for Wired or the Wall Street Journal, you're
Speaker 2: just assuming a lot of these people that are reading
Speaker 2: the tech section are very tech savvy and smart about tech,
Speaker 2: which I get it. So that's why you're sort of
Speaker 2: forgetting the fact that there's a whole bunch of people
Speaker 2: out there that just kind of, you know, use their
Speaker 2: gadget and they're not sitting there trying to be crazy
Speaker 2: about it. Let's see what else. Yeah, I mean, all
Speaker 2: the reviews are pretty darn good. People are saying that
Speaker 2: it's not necessarily the best camera in the world, but
Speaker 2: it's definitely an improvement over the S eight and the
Speaker 2: fingerprint readers in the right place. So and by the way,
Speaker 2: it also has a headphone jack, which I really like.
Speaker 2: So I've been talking a lot so I kind of
Speaker 2: missed a lot of what you guys are saying on here.
Speaker 1: But let's see here.
Speaker 2: Catherine says, I've had the Samsung S six the edge.
Speaker 2: Now I'm thinking of S eight or S nine. Catherine,
Speaker 2: I'd probably say go with the S nine if he can.
Speaker 2: I would see how much the trade in is for
Speaker 2: the S six. I think you're gonnaet one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty bucks for that, but definitely checked it out. And
Speaker 2: this thing, just this thing does not you know, next time,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make an hour long one.
Speaker 1: Of these, because this just does not want to repeat.
Speaker 2: It doesn't like my U doesn't like my repeat. So
Speaker 2: let's see what's better, uhat Shrevath Strevrath says, which one
Speaker 2: is better? S nine or S nine plus Samsung camera
Speaker 2: versus iPhone ten. I think the camera on the S nine, well,
Speaker 2: the cameras are the same on the S nine and
Speaker 2: the S nine plus. The big difference that the S
Speaker 2: nine plus has at dual camera setup. So if you
Speaker 2: like zooming in, you know, like getting double the image,
Speaker 2: like double closeness, then go with the S nine plus.
Speaker 2: But otherwise they have the same main camera versus the
Speaker 2: iPhone ten. You know, I think they both have their
Speaker 2: pros and cons. The iPhone ten is a really solid
Speaker 2: camera overall. I find that the Samsung kind of looks
Speaker 2: a little bit more poppy, like the colors are more
Speaker 2: saturated on there. So you know, it really comes down
Speaker 2: to a matter of preference. I find that the iPhone
Speaker 2: ten has a much darker look to all the pictures.
Speaker 2: And if you want to see this, you can go
Speaker 2: on my website rich on tech dot TV. I took
Speaker 2: a bunch of pictures with the iPhone, the Samsung, and
Speaker 2: also the Pixel, so you can compare them and see
Speaker 2: what you think. All right, the phone lines are open
Speaker 2: if you want to call in three one zero five
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Speaker 2: tech questions. Let me know what's going on, and you know,
Speaker 2: we'll get some of your questions answered. Roberto says, I'm
Speaker 2: so happy with my Google Pixel. It is awesome, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree. The Google Pixel is one of my favorite devices.
Speaker 2: Talk about boring though, I mean, it really is a
Speaker 2: boring device, and that's what people love about it. It's
Speaker 2: very simple, it has the base software that Google gives you,
Speaker 2: and then you can add on and do whatever you want.
Speaker 2: And people like that simplicity, especially when you're kind of
Speaker 2: like a super user. You don't want anything extra on
Speaker 2: your device that you have not installed. That's always the
Speaker 2: way I've been with everything, and the iPhone is kind
Speaker 2: of like that as well, except it does have a
Speaker 2: lot of features built in.
Speaker 1: Let's see where else are we going here?
Speaker 2: Every week?
Speaker 1: Oh, MARTA's getting onto.
Speaker 2: MARTA's saying, every week there's an update on the iPhone
Speaker 2: or iOS eleven on the iPad. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Why so many updates?
Speaker 2: And every time I device malfunctions after each update? I agree.
Speaker 2: I was just talking to my mom about this and
Speaker 2: she agrees. She's like, why is there have to be
Speaker 2: an update every single day for all this stuff? I mean,
Speaker 2: really do we need this many updates? And the answer
Speaker 2: is yeah, apparently you do because they're always fixing little
Speaker 2: things like the software, the the viruses, like all these
Speaker 2: little bugs that they find they just fix and that's
Speaker 2: why we have all these updates now. I will say
Speaker 2: that iPhone used to have updates very few and far between,
Speaker 2: especially when it was between iOS launches. It was like
Speaker 2: maybe once a year. Or twice a year. Now, it's like,
Speaker 2: literally just so many times. It's kind of insane how
Speaker 2: many times. Let's see here, man, we have a lot
Speaker 2: of Melanireene says for us simple minded folks, what is
Speaker 2: the best phone for the book? A more all around simple,
Speaker 2: yet reliable. Uh. If I was gonna say what the
Speaker 2: best phone is for you guys that don't really care
Speaker 2: about all the craziness, I'm gonna go with the Moto
Speaker 2: G five plus. And the reason why I like this
Speaker 2: device is because, first off, it's unlocked, so you can
Speaker 2: buy it right from Amazon. And it's one hundred and
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what they do they got rid of it?
Speaker 2: Oh no? Uh oh, I guess that means a new
Speaker 2: one's coming out. Oh shoot, they must have I think
Speaker 2: they got rid of that. Or they guess they're coming
Speaker 2: out with some new phones. So oh, here we go.
Speaker 2: Here it is Moto G five plus. I guess they
Speaker 2: came up with the wrong one, but here it is
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty nine bucks and it's a lot cheaper. Oh,
Speaker 2: if you're Amazon Prime, it's two fifty nine sixty four gigabyte.
Speaker 2: You can get a thirty two gigabyte for a lot
Speaker 2: cheaper two hundred and four bucks, So two hundred and
Speaker 2: five dollars for the Moto G Plus, and it has
Speaker 2: everything you need. Plus it's unlocked, so that means all
Speaker 2: you have to do is bring it to your carrier.
Speaker 2: It's right here, it says you can see it says
Speaker 2: AT and T, T Mobile, Sprint and Verizon fully compatible.
Speaker 2: And I like this phone because there's not a lot
Speaker 2: of junk installed on it. Now, the camera's not gonna
Speaker 2: be the best in the world. It's not gonna be
Speaker 2: like an iPhone camera, but it's gonna be a nice
Speaker 2: little device that just sort of works. And you can
Speaker 2: get your calls, you can take calls, you can send
Speaker 2: your text. It runs a nice version of Android. So
Speaker 2: you're gonna be just fine with this and you're talking,
Speaker 2: you're out the door. Two hundred and five dollars. That's
Speaker 2: a pretty good deal. And it's got a fingerprint sensor
Speaker 2: as well, so that to me is a very high quality,
Speaker 2: kind of good all around device if you're looking for
Speaker 2: something like that. So a good question, because I always
Speaker 2: I always get that question. I always recommend that phone. Now,
Speaker 2: if you want to take a little step up, I
Speaker 2: would recommend this the one plus five T, but this
Speaker 2: is going to be a little bit more expensive, and
Speaker 2: the one plus five T is a really nice device,
Speaker 2: but it's five hundred bucks, so now you're getting kind
Speaker 2: of like half the price of one of these main phones.
Speaker 1: But this is like, this is a serious device.
Speaker 2: This is really really nice, and you're gonna get a
Speaker 2: very high quality device. There three one zero five nine
Speaker 2: four three zero zero three three one zero five nine
Speaker 2: four three zero zero three.
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Speaker 2: You're on with Rich Really Wow, Hello.
Speaker 3: Hi Rich, this is Michael. I'm from Seamy Valley.
Speaker 1: Michael, what's going on?
Speaker 3: You picked up really quick, so I was like thrown off.
Speaker 3: I was expecting to hear dead music or something.
Speaker 2: No, it's just me.
Speaker 1: It's a one man show, so it's just pick.
Speaker 2: It up and you're on.
Speaker 3: Great. Well, I have a couple of ques sincetoria. First
Speaker 3: of all, I just dumped direct TV, cut the chord,
Speaker 3: I guess, and got DirecTV. Now, okay, congrat which for
Speaker 3: the most part, I'm happy with a couple of questions
Speaker 3: about that, Sure, First of all, I'm kind of upset
Speaker 3: that they don't make it very clear that it does
Speaker 3: not output any kind of five point one sound. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: and that's kind of a drag, because there's some great
Speaker 3: shows on that. You know, this surround is a great
Speaker 3: effect to that. Do you know of any live TV
Speaker 3: services that do output five point one?
Speaker 2: You know, it's not something you hear about very often.
Speaker 2: I have not heard that. Let's see now, so I'm
Speaker 2: looking at I'm looking at an article. It looks like
Speaker 2: it is five point one on certain channels with DirecTV Now.
Speaker 2: So there's a great website called chord Cutter's News, and
Speaker 2: they I think they're based actually in LA I always
Speaker 2: follow them.
Speaker 1: But let's see.
Speaker 2: According to some readers who are beta testers for DirecTV Now,
Speaker 2: five point one audio is being offered on some channels,
Speaker 2: including MTV, but not all channels, so so, I mean,
Speaker 2: unless you're watching a lot of MTV. But so, I
Speaker 2: think it sounds like it's on a case by case basis.
Speaker 2: I think what's happening, Michael, with all these services is
Speaker 2: there they're still very much in their infancy, you know,
Speaker 2: they're just trying to get the basics down right, now,
Speaker 2: which when I go on DirecTV Now, which I have,
Speaker 2: I've had it since day one, by the way, and
Speaker 2: it's still it's still not there all the time, Like
Speaker 2: there are times that I'm watching, like the other night
Speaker 2: when I was watching the what was on the oscars,
Speaker 2: I actually had to switch to my antenna because I
Speaker 2: was getting a lot of kind of like the picture
Speaker 2: was going in and out kind of thing. And so
Speaker 2: I find that that happens now. I switched my mom
Speaker 2: to it as well. She loves it. She cut the cord.
Speaker 2: But I again, I think that these five point one
Speaker 2: and this kind of stuff, the four K video is
Speaker 2: really like maybe down the line because DirecTV Now doesn't
Speaker 2: even have a DVR fund yet, so they're still trying
Speaker 2: to work on that, and they've promised a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: I saw something today that it looks like they're working
Speaker 3: on something as far as the DVR.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been working on it for a long time.
Speaker 2: They promised it a long time ago, and it's just
Speaker 2: it's been I don't know what the problem is if
Speaker 2: they're just having a lot of issues with it, but
Speaker 2: I know I'm trying to get on the beta testing list,
Speaker 2: but they won't put me on because I'm a journalist
Speaker 2: and they don't want me kind of seeing it before
Speaker 2: TV because I asked them they don't want Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: But that's the big thing. So what uh, what I mean,
Speaker 2: what have you noticed? What's the biggest difference between direct
Speaker 2: TV now and kind.
Speaker 1: Of your your old cable. What did you have before
Speaker 1: you had direct TV?
Speaker 3: I had regular direct TV?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's not that much difference.
Speaker 3: Well, no, and actually it looks great for the most part,
Speaker 3: but I did not this last night. You know, some
Speaker 3: shimmering going on, you know, that digital kind of effect
Speaker 3: that that isn't so pretty. It's especially noticeable on my
Speaker 3: sixty inch LCD. I have a thirty two inch LCD
Speaker 3: in the kitchen that uses Roku. And yeah, so I've
Speaker 3: got Roku and Firestick and Apple TV in the house now,
Speaker 3: so yeah.
Speaker 2: You've got more s than I do.
Speaker 3: But uh, what was I saying? Oh, on the sixty
Speaker 3: inches it's really noticeable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and that's that's a good point you bring
Speaker 2: up when people are like, why do we need? People
Speaker 2: keep asking, you know, you hear about four K and
Speaker 2: then you hear about eight K, and people keep asking
Speaker 2: why do we need these clear you know, four K,
Speaker 2: eight K kind of stuff. Like DVDs were just fine.
Speaker 2: HD is great. But the difference is and this is
Speaker 2: what you kind of noticed, is that when you get
Speaker 2: into those bigger screen sizes, that's when you start to
Speaker 2: notice the quality of the picture going down.
Speaker 1: Because well, especially like if you.
Speaker 2: Look at a DVD quality, you know, four to eighty
Speaker 2: on a sixty inch TV, you it looks it looked terrible.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of what we're realizing is people keep
Speaker 2: upgrading their TVs. Right now, the sweet spot is about
Speaker 2: fifty five inches, but now people are pushing into that
Speaker 2: sixty sixty five because prices are coming down, and you're
Speaker 2: going to notice that. You will notice a slight difference
Speaker 2: in HD on a sixty inch versus you know, a
Speaker 2: forty inch that we all started.
Speaker 3: Out well, most definitely the imperfections become more noticeable the
Speaker 3: bigger they get. Yeah, most definitely. Yeah. I go to
Speaker 3: seeees every year or so, Oh you do I seen
Speaker 3: I've seen AK. I thought AKS five six years ago.
Speaker 3: Sharp was showing it and you know on an eighty
Speaker 3: inch screen and you can get you can put your
Speaker 3: face right up to it and you can see the
Speaker 3: details and the little tiny bricks and in the streets
Speaker 3: and everything.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: It's really amazing. I think that the four K and
Speaker 2: the eight K is going to take a lot longer
Speaker 2: to kind of come down the line, just because broadcasters
Speaker 2: paid so much to upgrade to HD just recently. You
Speaker 2: know how many how many years ago was that ten whatever?
Speaker 2: I know, So I think they're all kind of in
Speaker 2: a they're like just holding out as long as humanly
Speaker 2: possible for the four K stuff. And you know, now
Speaker 2: with these streaming services, you know they're really I mean
Speaker 2: the four K on there. I mean you're talking much
Speaker 2: more bandwidth, many more issues with people saying like, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm paying for four K, but I'm not getting it
Speaker 2: because my internet's not fast enough. So all these services,
Speaker 2: I mean Netflix obviously and and Amazon have a lot
Speaker 2: of four K content. I mean Netflix, all the new
Speaker 2: shows are in four K. And it does look pretty
Speaker 2: good if you have a.
Speaker 3: Four really good. So I do, and it looks really
Speaker 3: really good. I have one other question for sir. I'm
Speaker 3: in seeing you now. I'll go with my direct TV now,
Speaker 3: So how do I get short of mirroring. You know,
Speaker 3: I can stream it on my phone and mirror it
Speaker 3: to my Apple TV, but I don't have Apple TV
Speaker 3: in the kitchen where I'm at at five o'clock in
Speaker 3: the morning, so.
Speaker 1: I know it's it's a problem.
Speaker 2: I had to get an antenna to see because I
Speaker 2: cord cut as well, so I have an antenna that
Speaker 2: does the channel five KTLA is the only channel just
Speaker 2: for the folks watching and listening that's not on any
Speaker 2: of these streaming services right now. Now, do I think
Speaker 2: that's gonna change? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Do I know when?
Speaker 2: No, But I think if I had to guess, I
Speaker 2: think that we're gonna be there, like just literally it
Speaker 2: will happen overnight. It'll just be like I mean, they're
Speaker 2: working on it, I think because they know they understand
Speaker 2: that we're not there. But these things take time for
Speaker 2: our company, you know, we're you know, the other companies,
Speaker 2: a lot of them are like the Fox affiliates, the
Speaker 2: NBC affiliates, the CBS affiliates. They do sort of a
Speaker 2: package deal with like NBC to say, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have all of our affiliates. We're different because we're independent
Speaker 2: and we're not an NBC or CBS affiliate. So that's
Speaker 2: why it's kind of taken a little bit longer, I think,
Speaker 2: but we're gonna be there.
Speaker 1: But antenda.
Speaker 2: The only other thing I can say, Michael, is the
Speaker 2: other kind of hack you can do is you can
Speaker 2: watch the live stream on Apple on a fire TV
Speaker 2: through the web browser. So that's what a lot of
Speaker 2: people have been doing a video on my face.
Speaker 1: Page about that.
Speaker 2: So it's not perfect, but it's there, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, I Michigan, hopefully it'll come to
Speaker 3: But funny thing is, you guys were the first ones
Speaker 3: to broadcast in HD when you did the Rose Parade
Speaker 3: way back when.
Speaker 2: I know, the first and the first and HD. But
Speaker 2: then you know, it's one of these things. Believe me,
Speaker 2: I'm in I'm in the office every day asking so
Speaker 2: I am. I am always like when are we? When
Speaker 2: are we going to be on? Because that's I get
Speaker 2: the most emails every single It used to be the
Speaker 2: number one email I got was what cell phone do
Speaker 2: I get? And now it's when is KTLA going to
Speaker 2: be on the streaming services? And I really don't have
Speaker 2: an answer. I ask every day and I don't think
Speaker 2: that anyone's going to know until it happens. So all right, Michael,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for calling in. Enjoy that direct TV now,
Speaker 2: thank you, all right, have a good day. Uh, there
Speaker 2: you have it. Three one zero five nine four three
Speaker 2: zero zero three. So Jill says on that line, which
Speaker 2: antenna to get? And I'm actually going to do a
Speaker 2: segment on these. But the one that I like the best,
Speaker 2: and I feel like I've mentioned this before is the
Speaker 2: Moho Leaf Glide. So the Mohu Leaf is pretty simple.
Speaker 2: That's a really cheap one. I think it starts at
Speaker 2: like forty bucks. But the Glide is going to give
Speaker 2: you a better, better signal for sure, but it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a little bit more expensive. You're talking ninety dollars. Now,
Speaker 2: that's expensive. But let me just see how much it
Speaker 2: is on Amazon. I'm curious. Maybe it's the same price,
Speaker 2: maybe it's a little cheaper. The Glide is eighty seven
Speaker 2: eighty seven bucks, and let me just see how much
Speaker 2: the leaf is. The Mohu Leaf is eighteen bucks. If
Speaker 2: you want to get the premium on just just look
Speaker 2: at Mohumhu and see what antennas they have. They all
Speaker 2: their antennas are really phenomenal. They just really are. They
Speaker 2: do a really nice job, and they kind of are
Speaker 2: inside your house as well.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see who else do we have here.
Speaker 2: Duke looks like he's back to the question of the
Speaker 2: Samsung S eight versus the Note eight. I think that
Speaker 2: they're basically the same when it comes to the camera.
Speaker 2: The Say Plus supposedly it's a little bit better due
Speaker 2: to the memory and the software, but the Note eight
Speaker 2: kind of has the same camera setup. So if you
Speaker 2: want the big phone with the stylist, go at the essay.
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna work. Colin says, Oh, Michael says,
Speaker 2: I forgot to mention we can't get any signal in
Speaker 2: Seemi Valley.
Speaker 1: Oh well, then that's a problem.
Speaker 2: You're gonna yeah, that's this. Someone's got to come up
Speaker 2: with a solution for this whole KTLA thing not being on.
Speaker 2: Colin says, I worked on test shoots with four K
Speaker 2: cameras about twelve years ago.
Speaker 1: It will probably be another six to twelve.
Speaker 2: Years before everything is broadcasted in four K. Wow, so
Speaker 2: that's a yeah, six to twelve years, So I would agree.
Speaker 2: I bet you it's probably gonna be at least five
Speaker 2: years before four K takes off on the broadcast level
Speaker 2: three one zero five.
Speaker 1: Nine four three zero zero three. So I'm going green.
Speaker 2: By the way, with my iPad here, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: I usually print out all the stories I want to
Speaker 2: talk about, but this time I put them all on
Speaker 2: my iPad so I can not have to waste all
Speaker 2: this paper. So let's see which one that I want
Speaker 2: to talk about next. Let's talk about Netflix. So Netflix,
Speaker 2: this is an interesting little study. I guess. They revealed
Speaker 2: some data to journalists and at recode they talked about
Speaker 2: people watching Netflix. So and this is not really it's
Speaker 2: not stuff that you wouldn't think basically, it's kind of
Speaker 2: a no brainer. But basically what they're saying is most
Speaker 2: people sign up for Netflix from their computer, Okay forty
Speaker 2: percent of sign ups, and then the phone is thirty percent.
Speaker 2: But guess where they end up watching Netflix the most?
Speaker 1: Their TV?
Speaker 2: Seventy percent of streams end up on connected TVs instead
Speaker 2: of phones, tablets, or PCs.
Speaker 1: And why is this interesting? Well, it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Because the whole point of Netflix and all these kind
Speaker 2: of services that work everywhere on all your devices is
Speaker 2: that at the end of the day, people are still
Speaker 2: sitting down on their couch in their living room and
Speaker 2: they're watching Netflix on the best screen in the house.
Speaker 2: So seventy percent of Netflix is consumed on TV screens.
Speaker 1: And you might find that kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: With all the people out there with smartphones and tablets
Speaker 2: and travelers and this and that and all to talk
Speaker 2: about having TV everywhere, at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: people still just want their TV on their TV, even
Speaker 2: with Netflix, where you can watch on literally anything. Now,
Speaker 2: do I think it's awesome that you can use Netflix everywhere? Yes,
Speaker 2: And that's part of the reason why I cut the cord.
Speaker 2: It wasn't about the money I was paying to Direct
Speaker 2: TV and before that at and T, but it was
Speaker 2: really about the flexibility of my signal. I can watch
Speaker 2: direct TV now from anywhere I want, and that is
Speaker 2: what I think is really cool about it. And I
Speaker 2: think that's cool about all the services like Sling TV
Speaker 2: and YouTube TV, is that you get TV on your terms.
Speaker 2: And that's really kind of what's going on here, and
Speaker 2: it's kind of funny. The ironic part is that most
Speaker 2: people are just watching Netflix on their regular TV. Let
Speaker 2: me talk about this. This is another thing related to Netflix,
Speaker 2: they have more parntal controls now, so they basically made
Speaker 2: it so that you can control what your kids are
Speaker 2: watching on the TV. Now here's the deal. Netflix is
Speaker 2: not very good when it comes to all these printal controls.
Speaker 2: I feel like they're just stumbling their way through, like
Speaker 2: all their growth, but they are realizing that parents want
Speaker 2: a little bit more control. I did a blog post
Speaker 2: about how I wanted to turn off auto play for
Speaker 2: the next episode for my kids. I turned it off
Speaker 2: from my account because it gives me so much stress
Speaker 2: when I don't binge watch. So I'm sitting there watching
Speaker 2: a show and next thing you know, it's like counting
Speaker 2: down ten seconds, and I feel like the time for
Speaker 2: between shows has gotten so short. It's like it used
Speaker 2: to be like thirty seconds. Now it's like eight seconds
Speaker 2: before the next one just starts playing. I don't want that.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm in the minority here because a lot
Speaker 2: of you commented on my Facebook page that you know
Speaker 2: you like that, so you can binge watch stuff I
Speaker 2: don't personally, so I figured out how to turn it
Speaker 2: off for myself. Then when I went to look for
Speaker 2: my kids, I was like, this is not very easy.
Speaker 2: So it took me a little slew thing, but I
Speaker 2: figured it out. And the deal is, I wrote the whole.
Speaker 2: I wrote the whole like blog post. But the bottom
Speaker 2: line is you basically have to go into your profiles,
Speaker 2: edit them, turn off your kids profile so it basically
Speaker 2: becomes an adult profile for a little bit, go into
Speaker 2: their account, turn off auto play, and then turn it
Speaker 2: back into a kid's profile.
Speaker 1: I know, who lots of work to do that.
Speaker 2: Netflix, Come on, we got to have like a master
Speaker 2: thing where I can change all the profiles. One other
Speaker 2: thing they added that's kind of cool too with the
Speaker 2: pin is that you can now block specific titles. So
Speaker 2: for a long time, I would not let my kid
Speaker 2: watch SpongeBob. That's all he wanted to watch, even as
Speaker 2: like a two year old, and I was like, no,
Speaker 2: you're not watching this. I don't even know anything about
Speaker 2: this show. So I want to make sure that this
Speaker 2: show is okay. Well, now, but every time you'd see
Speaker 2: it on Netflix, you click it. Well, now you can
Speaker 2: go in and take certain titles out, so it will
Speaker 2: literally not let your kid play those titles. And one
Speaker 2: more thing, and this I think is actually brilliant on
Speaker 2: Netflix's part. They are now showing you the rating of
Speaker 2: a program when you press the play button. So that
Speaker 2: means that, like every time my kids were watching like
Speaker 2: a new show on Netflix, I'm like, what is this show?
Speaker 1: How'd you find it?
Speaker 2: What's the rating on it? And I have to go
Speaker 2: back like eight screens to find the rating. Now, when
Speaker 2: you press the play button, it will show you the
Speaker 2: rating right off the bat. And now it doesn't say
Speaker 2: exactly if like you pause the show and you press
Speaker 2: play again, if it shows the rating again. I hope
Speaker 2: that's how they did it, because that would make it
Speaker 2: much easier for parents and say, hey, let me see something. Pause,
Speaker 2: see the rating, press play and the rating comes up,
Speaker 2: and then you can let their kids be on their
Speaker 2: merry way. So yeah, there you go. Three one zero
Speaker 2: five nine four three zero zero three. Don't be shy
Speaker 2: three one zero five to nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 2: If you have a question for me, go ahead and
Speaker 2: let me know what your question is. And Nicole says,
Speaker 2: that has been there for at least the past two years.
Speaker 2: I've had a pin up my kids stuff for the
Speaker 2: last two years. Yes, that is true, has been there,
Speaker 2: but now they give you much more finer control with
Speaker 2: that pin, so you can actually, you know, like I said,
Speaker 2: do the blocking of specific shows, and you can also
Speaker 2: block certain maturity levels which you couldn't do before. So yes,
Speaker 2: the pin has been there, but they did do some
Speaker 2: more work with that as well. Let's see here, Mel says,
Speaker 2: do you know if there's gonna be anything with our
Speaker 2: technology that promotes youth to go to their local libraries
Speaker 2: and pick up a book?
Speaker 1: You know, that's a that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I mean do they have to? I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm all into technology and I still love my books,
Speaker 2: So I think that really comes down to personal preference. Now,
Speaker 2: with kids and the Internet and Wikipedia and all that
Speaker 2: good stuff, do they need to go to the library
Speaker 2: to do as much research?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I mean it's I think that we've been in this
Speaker 2: technology stuff for so short right now that we don't
Speaker 2: know what the effect is, and I think that's all
Speaker 2: kind of evolving.
Speaker 1: Six sund with Rich.
Speaker 4: Hi, Rich, this is Laura calling from Pasadena.
Speaker 1: Hey Laura, how are you doing good?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? What's on your mind?
Speaker 4: Watch you every day?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Because I went to take advantage of the new battery
Speaker 4: for the iPhone the offer, and my existing battery was
Speaker 4: at eighty percent and they said it was time to
Speaker 4: replace it.
Speaker 5: Is that true?
Speaker 1: I mean it's well, what phone do you have?
Speaker 5: Six s?
Speaker 2: Okay, you have the success I would probably replace it.
Speaker 2: I mean, eighty percent is actually pretty good for a
Speaker 2: phone that's you know, you're talking what three to two
Speaker 2: and a half two years old? Two and a half
Speaker 2: years old?
Speaker 3: Yees?
Speaker 4: Two years old?
Speaker 1: So two years old. I mean I don't think you.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a Have you noticed that your
Speaker 2: phone's slowing down a lot?
Speaker 4: It did slow It was slowing down.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, here's the thing. You could do two things.
Speaker 2: So there's gonna be an update for for iOS coming
Speaker 2: out in the next type probably say six months, if
Speaker 2: not earlier, iOS eleven point three. That's going to give
Speaker 2: you the ability to turn off the slowdown on your iPhone,
Speaker 2: so even though your battery has been degrading. And this
Speaker 2: whole thing for people that are listening is that Apple said, look,
Speaker 2: we know that batteries go bad over the years, So
Speaker 2: what we want to do is we kind of throttle
Speaker 2: your phone back a little bit. So that the battery
Speaker 2: doesn't shut off the phone unexpectedly, or you don't get
Speaker 2: an unexpected restart, or apps don't crash, So we slow
Speaker 2: your phone down just a little bit because we want
Speaker 2: to make sure the battery can handle that speed. So
Speaker 2: what they're saying is in the next version of iOS,
Speaker 2: they're going to give that option to the user to say,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'll deal with the occasional crash, the
Speaker 2: occasional app not working, but I'd rather have my full
Speaker 2: speed phone even if my battery is kind of degraded.
Speaker 2: So you can wait for that and kind of go
Speaker 2: through that. But it's I mean, how.
Speaker 1: Much do they ask you for the battery to be replaced?
Speaker 2: Thirty bucks?
Speaker 4: Yeah, thirty bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So if you just want to do it, because
Speaker 2: this is a time where you know, they don't usually
Speaker 2: offer that. Usually it's eighty dollars to do this, and
Speaker 2: you have the thirty dollars and it makes you feel better,
Speaker 2: then maybe do it and you you will see an
Speaker 2: improvement in your phone.
Speaker 1: But again, you could wait for that software too.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks a lot. I appreciate it, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Laura, that's good word.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Thanks for watching.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it all right.
Speaker 2: Uh five oh nine.
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Hi, Rich, This is Glenda.
Speaker 1: Glenda, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Where are you calling from Washington? Oh? My gosh, I
Speaker 2: used to live up in Yakama.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, what's going on?
Speaker 6: So we ordered my husband ordered the Galaxy S nine plus. Okay,
Speaker 6: so work, I'm excited to get it.
Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna love it?
Speaker 6: Really, no, I think.
Speaker 2: So what do you want right now?
Speaker 6: The S eight plus?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, so you're you're already doing the upgrade.
Speaker 1: That's a You've got a great husband.
Speaker 6: That's like, uh, well I didn't get anything for Valentine's
Speaker 6: Day and our anniversary, our seventeen anniversary is coming up.
Speaker 2: So okay, well that's a good gift I have that.
Speaker 2: That's uh, that's a quick upgrade. Now what are you
Speaker 2: gonna do with the old phone? You're trading it in?
Speaker 1: What's happening with that?
Speaker 6: Trading in?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So trading it in? So what can I help you with?
Speaker 6: So are there anything that you can tell me that
Speaker 6: is going to be more than the S eight plus?
Speaker 6: And then what cases do you recommend?
Speaker 2: Okay? So the S eight plus versus the S nine plus.
Speaker 2: You're gonna you're not going to see a huge difference.
Speaker 2: You're gonna you're gonna be like, Okay, this is great. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the software is going to be newer. You have a new,
Speaker 2: you know, new version of Android on there. The you know,
Speaker 2: everything got kind of a little tiny makeover with the
Speaker 2: soft for you know this little refinements here and there.
Speaker 2: The camera has been improved with the software and some
Speaker 2: of the extra processing they do on it. So this
Speaker 2: camera's going to take more pictures, especially in low light,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna make them look better. So your low
Speaker 2: light pictures, you're definitely gonna notice a difference. You're also
Speaker 2: gonna notice they added this gets a little bit crazy,
Speaker 2: but in low light it lets a lot more it
Speaker 2: lets a lot more light in, and so that's something
Speaker 2: they've added as well. And then they've also added new
Speaker 2: dual speakers, so you're gonna have stereo sound for the
Speaker 2: first time through your phone. So it's gonna just sound better, louder, clear,
Speaker 2: But the screen's gonna look great.
Speaker 1: It's gonna kind of be similar to what you have.
Speaker 1: The other thing.
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna notice that you're really gonna like
Speaker 2: is the the fingerprint reader is in a much easier
Speaker 2: to access place. And I'm sure if you've been using
Speaker 2: the say Plus over the past year, you've kind of
Speaker 2: gotten used to where the fingerprint reader is. But I
Speaker 2: think you're gonna realize that this is in a much
Speaker 2: better place and it's going to be so much easier
Speaker 2: to sort of unlock. So I think you're really gonna
Speaker 2: like it. And I think that it's a it's I mean,
Speaker 2: it's one of the best Android phones out there. There's
Speaker 2: not really a better Android phone. The pixel might take
Speaker 2: better pictures in certain circumstances, but I think overall, this
Speaker 2: is probably this is the device I'll be recommending most
Speaker 2: to people that want the best Android device out there.
Speaker 2: So you did a good job. The other thing is
Speaker 2: you asked about a case, So.
Speaker 1: It's tough. I think a case is a very personal thing.
Speaker 2: Do do you want something that offers a lot of
Speaker 2: protection on the phone or something that looks good or something.
Speaker 6: That's thin, protection and fashion?
Speaker 2: Okay, protection and fashion. So I'll tell you the number
Speaker 2: one selling case in the world is this one. It's
Speaker 2: a let's see, it's like the gosh, it's the cell
Speaker 2: iris like sparkle case, which I think you've probably seen
Speaker 2: a lot of people have. I'm trying to find it,
Speaker 2: but it's just the funny. It's like literally the it's
Speaker 2: the case that has like the liquid in the back
Speaker 2: with the little sparkles and I'm trying to find a picture. Okay,
Speaker 2: but that's like I went into the Verizon store when
Speaker 2: I was doing a segment with them, and I said, Hey,
Speaker 2: what's the top selling you know case overall, And that's
Speaker 2: the one. They said, let's see. I'm just there we go. Casemate.
Speaker 2: That's it, Casemate sparkle case. Oh there it is, Okay,
Speaker 2: let me show you guys on the live stream. So
Speaker 2: this is it. This is the top selling case in America. Basically,
Speaker 2: this is it. So it's got like the liquid in
Speaker 2: the back and the little sparkles that move around. It's
Speaker 2: called the Casemate. I don't know if they say with
Speaker 2: the like specific name, but there's a rhinestone version and
Speaker 2: then there's a sparkle version. But those are the ones
Speaker 2: that people love. Yeah, it's a glitter in the back,
Speaker 2: someone's saying on the live chat. Now, my personal favorite
Speaker 2: case overall is this case, which is the spec Presidio
Speaker 2: grip and this case I think is just fantastic. So
Speaker 2: it's a it's been they've been making it forever. Speck
Speaker 2: kind of made their brand name on this case, and
Speaker 2: it's just it's the most standard case they make. It's
Speaker 2: got these great grips. You will never drop your phone
Speaker 2: with this case on it. But it's it's bulky. It's
Speaker 2: gotten less bulky because they made it about twenty percent
Speaker 2: thinner this time around. But it's a big case. But
Speaker 2: I think that's the case. If I was getting a
Speaker 2: case for the SS nine plus, that's the case I
Speaker 2: would get because I really like it. And it comes
Speaker 2: to a bunch of different colors you can get. You
Speaker 2: don't have to get black like I would get. You
Speaker 2: can get some other more fun colors as well. But
Speaker 2: those are my two. The other cases I would look
Speaker 2: at are Tech twenty one. I really like that brand.
Speaker 2: I think they make some really fantastic cases and that's
Speaker 2: kind of my picks that I have now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Tech twenty one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if you like that, I mean, what
Speaker 2: do you think of that one?
Speaker 6: I've had it for a little almost well quite a year,
Speaker 6: and I haven't changed cases. My other one I had,
Speaker 6: I had like, oh.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're you're as bad as me.
Speaker 2: I'm like changing cases every day now if if you
Speaker 2: really want to get crazy now and don't. I don't
Speaker 2: recommend this for most people, but this is my One
Speaker 2: of my favorite cases is called Peel, and this is.
Speaker 1: Basically super duper thin.
Speaker 2: It's like almost like putting a like plastic wrap on
Speaker 2: your phone, that's how thin it is. It's just a
Speaker 2: tiny sleeve you put on there and it only prevents
Speaker 2: scratches on your phone, like when you put it on
Speaker 2: the table or something like that. Yeah, that's uh, that's
Speaker 2: a really thin case. I always buy one of those
Speaker 2: from my phones because they look they do not protect
Speaker 2: your phone at all. But I'm just telling you about
Speaker 2: different cases. Peel is one of my favorites as well,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people are chiming in on on
Speaker 2: the the chat saying about all the cases they like,
Speaker 2: and Peter says, or there's some super cheap but good
Speaker 2: cases out there. Yes, the one that I always order
Speaker 2: that's super cheap is Speagan uh S P I G
Speaker 2: E N. And those you can get on Amazon for
Speaker 2: like less than ten bucks, and they're they're pretty cheap,
Speaker 2: but they're good. They're good quality, so I like those
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 1: So does that answer your question, Glinda?
Speaker 6: It definitely does.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you will what's.
Speaker 6: That, I'll be able to watch this act so I
Speaker 6: can look at what cases you recommended.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, this will be once the show is over.
Speaker 2: There's like a live replay. You can watch that or
Speaker 2: you can download the podcast, subscribe in your podcasting app
Speaker 2: and you can listen that way.
Speaker 1: So either way, all right, all right, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for calling in.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Enjoy the new phone.
Speaker 6: All right, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Bye bye. All right, six sixth one, you're on with
Speaker 2: Rich sixty sixth one. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hello, Oh who's this?
Speaker 2: This is Ah. This is Triman Travis. What's up, Travis.
Speaker 2: I'm fantastic. Where are you calling from?
Speaker 4: Quartz Hill?
Speaker 1: Quartz Hill?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'd be lying if I said I know where
Speaker 2: that is, but I assume that's somewhere in Los Angeles. Rights, Lancaster, Okay,
Speaker 2: got it, Lancaster.
Speaker 1: All right, awesome, So what's what question?
Speaker 2: Is your mom? Your mom is too embarrassed to go
Speaker 2: on the live show, so you're calling in for I
Speaker 2: love it. Okay, she's driving. Okay, well, in that case,
Speaker 2: I love it even more because she's being safe and
Speaker 2: that is smart, so awesome. So what what's the question?
Speaker 5: Her question is she's trying to divorce our cable company,
Speaker 5: and she was wondering, what's.
Speaker 2: Our best options for an internet provider? Oh, what's the
Speaker 2: best option for internet? Now you're in Lancaster, you probably
Speaker 2: don't have that many options. That's the problem, and that's
Speaker 2: the problem for pretty much everyone in America.
Speaker 1: Is that we usually have one to two choices.
Speaker 2: For internet in our homes and our apartments as are
Speaker 2: sometimes even worse, sometimes you only have one choice.
Speaker 1: So that's the problem. Who do you have right now?
Speaker 2: Yes, Spectrum? Okay?
Speaker 1: And what don't you like about Spectrum?
Speaker 2: Are you trying to get rid of cable or cable
Speaker 2: internet or both? Pretty much?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Pretty much everything?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are getting expensive. Here's the thing. Okay, So
Speaker 2: the website, I recommend you got to look up this
Speaker 2: website to see what's available in your area.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's the first thing you have to do.
Speaker 2: And the website is called all connect dot com A
Speaker 2: L L C O N N E C T Allconnect
Speaker 2: dot com You pop in your address and it will
Speaker 2: tell you all the providers that are in your area,
Speaker 2: or most of them. It's not always perfect, but most
Speaker 2: of the time it gets it right. So that's the
Speaker 2: main thing you have to do. And then you're going
Speaker 2: to find that you probably only have a choice of
Speaker 2: either the internet, the cable company, or the T or
Speaker 2: the phone company.
Speaker 1: And you know, if the.
Speaker 2: Phone company is good, if it's decent, if it's AT
Speaker 2: and T or something or FiOS, that's probably better. But
Speaker 2: with Spectrum, you're probably that's probably gonna be your best bet.
Speaker 2: You just have to figure out when you cancel cable
Speaker 2: with them, they're gonna be they're gonna.
Speaker 1: Want to charge you more for your Internet. That's really
Speaker 1: how it works.
Speaker 2: So that's.
Speaker 1: How much are they asking for?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: They won eighty dollars for just the internet service?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 2: That's that's eighty bucks a month is a lot for
Speaker 2: just internet. Now, I will say their average, if you're
Speaker 2: not on a promotion, is about sixty a month. So
Speaker 2: I would say, here's what you need to do with
Speaker 2: with Spectrum. Have you called and asked for the Have
Speaker 2: you called and said I want to cancel I get.
Speaker 4: I did, Yes, I did.
Speaker 5: But that's what they said.
Speaker 4: If you want to cancel, cancel because the thing is
Speaker 4: that we used to be the other cable company. What
Speaker 4: Time Warner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's done.
Speaker 4: How they have me underd Time Warner Expectrum and my
Speaker 4: rate right now with them just for TV and cables
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: Let's stop, right, that's all great, that's a lot. Yeah. Boy.
Speaker 4: I called them and I say, hey, I need to
Speaker 4: cancel this. It's not working for me. You know, it's
Speaker 4: too much money. So they said, if I want to
Speaker 4: cancel a kind cable, they will charge me eighty dollars
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Internet, Yes, and that is true. They will
Speaker 2: do that. But here's the deal. Did you ever get
Speaker 2: transferred to a different department. No, okay, so that's what
Speaker 2: you need to do. So I just did this. I
Speaker 2: just went through this with my mom and she was
Speaker 2: doing the same thing. I called up the first time
Speaker 2: and they said, yeah, just you're gonna pay eighty bucks
Speaker 2: a month whatever it was ninety dollars a month, and
Speaker 2: I said, okay, well then we'd like to cancel. And
Speaker 2: that's when they transfer you to the person that can
Speaker 2: actually cut you a deal. So that's my recommendation is
Speaker 2: to call in again and you can either ask directly
Speaker 2: for the re tension department or you can say, Hi,
Speaker 2: I'd like to cancel my service. Can you please transfer
Speaker 2: me to the operator. The normal operators that are answering
Speaker 2: are not the people that cancel your service. They want
Speaker 2: to give you one last deal before you go, So
Speaker 2: that's what you need to do. And yeah, ask for
Speaker 2: the retention department, and I think you're going to get
Speaker 2: a better deal.
Speaker 1: Aim for that sixty.
Speaker 2: Dollars a month factor if you get If you can
Speaker 2: get fifty, that'd be amazing. But really you're probably gonna
Speaker 2: end up paying about sixty bucks a month for internet.
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of the going rate these cable companies.
Speaker 2: And thanks so much for the call. These cable companies
Speaker 2: are realizing that people are cutting the cord. So what
Speaker 2: do you think They're not going to sort of say, oh,
Speaker 2: no problem, we're gonna let you cut the cord and
Speaker 2: you know, no big deal. No, they really want to
Speaker 2: make sure that they're getting their money's worth out of you.
Speaker 2: So if you cut the cord for cable, they're just
Speaker 2: going to charge you a little bit more for the
Speaker 2: internet three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm in that same boat right now.
Speaker 2: I've got I was paying about forty five a month
Speaker 2: for my spectrum and now it's gone up to sixty.
Speaker 2: And the first person I call was like, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: just the deal. You can't get another deal. So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna keep calling back until I do. Well, we'll get
Speaker 2: it in there one of these days, let's see, uh
Speaker 2: before I take well, I'll take one more call before
Speaker 2: the show ends because we've been on for man how
Speaker 2: long we've been on? Oh fifty minutes? Okay, but let
Speaker 2: me just talk about Zagit really quick. It was a
Speaker 2: gat whatever you want to call it. But you know,
Speaker 2: this was a brand that when I came to LA
Speaker 2: for the first time, zagit was like it you when
Speaker 2: you went to a restaurant you checked the zagut rating, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, you just knew it had those three ratings.
Speaker 1: It was like out of thirty.
Speaker 2: It was like, you know, service decor I forget what
Speaker 2: the three things work. But it was like, you know
Speaker 2: those three little terms.
Speaker 1: One was service, one.
Speaker 2: Was food, and I forget what the other one was
Speaker 2: Ambiance maybe, but that company, you know, as we got
Speaker 2: Yelp in the Internet, they kind of got you know,
Speaker 2: passed over. And then Google bought them back in twenty
Speaker 2: eleven and one hundred and fifty one million dollars, and
Speaker 2: they thought, oh, this is gonna be great. They're gonna
Speaker 2: bring zagit into the digital age. Of course you have
Speaker 2: Google Maps, you can mix it in. They did all
Speaker 2: that stuff. Nothing happened. Is no one talks about zagut
Speaker 2: ratings anymore, sadly, because I still think they're really fun.
Speaker 2: Like I always loved them. I love the way they
Speaker 2: wrote them. I always loved everything about them. Well, now
Speaker 2: Google is selling it, is selling it. I don't know
Speaker 2: how much they sold it for.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really say.
Speaker 2: But they passed it on to a new owner, an
Speaker 2: upstart restaurant review company called The Infatuation. And they said
Speaker 2: they were very excited about this because zagit was started
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy nine as a kind of a way
Speaker 2: to help friends find the best restaurants, and similarly, the
Speaker 2: Infatuation was built in two thousand and nine to help
Speaker 2: people find the best restaurants.
Speaker 1: So now they're going to own them. It's called the Infatuation.
Speaker 2: Let's see what their website looks like, because I've never
Speaker 2: heard of that, the infatuation. So here's the thing that's
Speaker 2: kind of annoying though, is that the infatuation is gonna
Speaker 2: run zagit separately. So that's kind of weird. It's like,
Speaker 2: why can't you just run it, like, let's mix this up,
Speaker 2: let's get it. Okay, So here's the article on it
Speaker 2: that they're getting zagat So maybe it's a gap, I
Speaker 2: don't know, but anyway, let's just find Let's see if
Speaker 2: I put in Los Angeles, let's see what this says
Speaker 2: for the restaurants. Okay, so it's got the greatest hits list.
Speaker 2: Oh you guys, sorry, I forgot to switch this thing.
Speaker 2: The best new restaurants in Los Angeles, the best sushi
Speaker 2: and rest the best sushi. Let's see the best sushi
Speaker 2: is thirty one. Best sushi places, let's see everyday sushi kiro. Interesting.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely not a sushi aficionado, so I don't really know.
Speaker 2: I know, like one sushi place and that's it.
Speaker 1: But this is interesting. Okay, So they do kind of like.
Speaker 2: A rating as well, eight point four. But we'll see.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I'm I have a lot of
Speaker 2: nostalgia for Zagit because I always had the book and
Speaker 2: I would always look up restaurants and that was the
Speaker 2: way to go to restaurants in Los Angeles for so
Speaker 2: many years. And it just you know, now it's it's
Speaker 2: totally kind of gone down. Back to our last conversation,
Speaker 2: Irwin says, I called Spectrum last week and I asked
Speaker 2: for the retention department and they cut my bill down
Speaker 2: to twenty dollars less a month. Look at that.
Speaker 1: Whoo Because we talked about it.
Speaker 2: On the last podcast, which was two weeks ago, and
Speaker 2: I talked about the retention department and yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: everyone's That's what everyone did. So that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, what else do we have we've got?
Speaker 2: Oh, Grace says, I was able to lower my Spectrum
Speaker 2: Internet down to fifty two a month, all right, so
Speaker 2: there's hope. So it looks like fifty two is good, okay,
Speaker 2: And Anastasia, I'm jumping around a lot today. Anastasia says,
Speaker 2: I never checked that rating. Always look at yelp. Now
Speaker 2: I know we all look at YELP. Let me give
Speaker 2: you my little way, I search Yelp because I do
Speaker 2: it a little bit differently than everyone else. So when
Speaker 2: I'm in an area, I go to Yelp and I search,
Speaker 2: you know, restaurants, and then I do so sort by
Speaker 2: most reviewed.
Speaker 1: So the most.
Speaker 2: Reviewed restaurant basically gives you, kind of, wherever you are,
Speaker 2: the restaurant that the most people are going to. It's
Speaker 2: not always the best or the finest, or the most
Speaker 2: expensive or the best food, but it kind of usually
Speaker 2: is known for something. So if you're it's just kind
Speaker 2: of a fun thing I do because I'm in that area,
Speaker 2: I want to know the restaurant that everyone's sort of
Speaker 2: going to. But I will tell you one time this
Speaker 2: kind of backfired on me. I was doing a sometimes
Speaker 2: I fill in for Leo Laporte, the tech guy, on
Speaker 2: his show, his syndicated radio show, which I'll be doing,
Speaker 2: by the way in April. But I was up there
Speaker 2: in Sonoma County. I think it's Sonoma. Petaluma is where
Speaker 2: they do it. I think it's Sonoma County. And of
Speaker 2: course I looked at Yelp to I was there for
Speaker 2: you know, the two nights I do the show, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to find a good restaurant, and so I
Speaker 2: looked in the first restaurant that came up with some
Speaker 2: random place. It's called Garlic Joe's or something like that,
Speaker 2: whatever it was. I'm like, I'm not going there. And
Speaker 2: I realized after I left, because it had like three
Speaker 2: thousand ratings everything else had like, you know, a hundre
Speaker 2: or two hundred. I realized that the restaurant is the
Speaker 2: Guy Fierre restaurant. And so I was like, Oh, it
Speaker 2: didn't hit me till like six months later that it's
Speaker 2: I've let's see what's what's his restaurant called Guy Fiery
Speaker 2: And uh, let's see Garlic Garlic.
Speaker 4: Uh, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe he did, Maybe he doesn't have
Speaker 2: Johnny Garlics. Oh he ditched it. Never mind, I guess
Speaker 2: he Uh, I guess he's out. Okay, he's out at
Speaker 2: Johnny Garlics and text with Sabby, So I guess he's
Speaker 2: not an owner anymore. But anyway, I had a lot
Speaker 2: of reviews and I didn't end up going to it.
Speaker 2: But uh, that's I guess that's why. Anyway. So that's
Speaker 2: my point is that's the way I like to search yelp.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of fun. I mean, everyone has a
Speaker 2: different way of searching yelp. But yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 2: get some comments before. Lorraine says, when are you filling
Speaker 2: in for Leo? I think it's public knowledge because someone
Speaker 2: texted me, tweeted me about it, and I guess he
Speaker 2: must have mentioned it on his show.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be the uh, it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: end of April.
Speaker 2: I'll be up there so I'll have more details when
Speaker 2: when I can share them. I guess when I know
Speaker 2: I can share them. I hope I didn't, and let's see.
Speaker 2: Michael Moffett says, I look for the most reviewed, realizing
Speaker 2: that people will go out of their way to complain
Speaker 2: if they've had a bad experience, then those who will
Speaker 2: rave That is very true.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Darryl says, great show, Thank you, Daryl.
Speaker 2: Uh Dushawn says, Rich You're awesome, love your tips. Thank you,
Speaker 2: and uh Leo Laporte, Yeah, you guys.
Speaker 1: I did this once before.
Speaker 2: I feel actually I filled in for him twice, once
Speaker 2: on the local level here just for KFI, and then
Speaker 2: once up at the national level for a syndicated show.
Speaker 2: And then they asked me back.
Speaker 1: So I was that was nice?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: All right, let's take one more call here six six one,
Speaker 2: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 5: Hey Rich from Davy?
Speaker 2: Hey, Greg, what's up?
Speaker 5: Not much? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: I was wondering if I was going to go a
Speaker 2: whole show without one of my regulars calling in.
Speaker 5: I guess I'm the last call.
Speaker 1: You are the last call? What's up today?
Speaker 5: Kind of problem with my iPhone ever since the last update.
Speaker 5: You know, when you go into settings and then general,
Speaker 5: there's been this one. You know how it as if
Speaker 5: there's an update. It's that there's a one in a
Speaker 5: red circle. Yes, yes, and I go to software update,
Speaker 5: but then it says, you know your software is up
Speaker 5: to date, but that one, you know, the the one
Speaker 5: is still there.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, I've.
Speaker 5: Shut it down, I've did a soft reset, but it's
Speaker 5: still there.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's something to do with the This is funny.
Speaker 2: This actually happened to my my father in law. He
Speaker 2: was going crazy over it. And basically you have to
Speaker 2: go there's like, you know how they have like those
Speaker 2: little settings on iPhone where it's like finished setting up
Speaker 2: your phone and all this stuff. Yeah, one of those
Speaker 2: is hanging somehow. So I would go back in and
Speaker 2: just kind of go through all those menus where basically
Speaker 2: you click your Apple I D you can go into
Speaker 2: your General and kind of look at software update. Let
Speaker 2: it go through there, and I think the main one
Speaker 2: you want to go to is your your Apple I
Speaker 2: D one at the top and kind of see because
Speaker 2: it's trying there's something that like usually when you change
Speaker 2: your like your Apple pay or something like that, they
Speaker 2: want you to like finish something.
Speaker 1: So there's something that's.
Speaker 2: Hung in there that where where's the I get that
Speaker 2: It's on your General settings, right, Yeah, And so when
Speaker 2: you go in there, there's nothing, nothing's highlighted in there
Speaker 2: at all. No.
Speaker 5: Well, you know how when you go into general, there's
Speaker 5: about and then software update right right, That's that's where
Speaker 5: the one is. And then when I go into there,
Speaker 5: it just says my software is up to date. But
Speaker 5: then when I go back the one is still there.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, it's definitely hung. That's uh, it's kind of
Speaker 2: a it's like a little ghost setting right there.
Speaker 1: That's a hmm.
Speaker 2: What if you now you've did a off reset on
Speaker 2: your phone, Well, do.
Speaker 5: You know how you like push the power button, then
Speaker 5: hold down the the home button. That's all I did.
Speaker 5: That was gonna ask if I did a reset, would
Speaker 5: that erase all my settings?
Speaker 2: Or there's there's one reset that you can try that
Speaker 2: will not mess up a lot of things, and that's
Speaker 2: your your your Let's see here, let me go into
Speaker 2: the reset. There's a couple Okay, so when you go
Speaker 2: into your iPhone, there's a couple of reset options. There's
Speaker 2: reset all settings, erase all content in settings, and then
Speaker 2: reset network settings. So the two the one that you
Speaker 2: can try first is reset network Settings. But keep in
Speaker 2: mind that's going to delete all your Wi Fi passwords
Speaker 2: and all your Bluetooth connections. So you can try that
Speaker 2: if you want. I mean, I've done that before. It's
Speaker 2: just kind of a way to reset your phone for
Speaker 2: the network. Reset all settings, which I don't want to
Speaker 2: proceed too far because I don't really know how much
Speaker 2: that's gonna do. But the one that you really want
Speaker 2: to stay away from as the erase all content and settings,
Speaker 2: because that one wipes your entire phone. Reset all Settings,
Speaker 2: I think just brings your phone kind of back to
Speaker 2: back to kind of let me just see reset all
Speaker 2: settings iPhone. So Yeah, this will reset let's see, keeps
Speaker 2: your apps and data, but resets your personal preferences and
Speaker 2: network settings. So you can try that. I think that
Speaker 2: that's not going to be as bad, but it might
Speaker 2: help you. Now, have you tried just closing out that app,
Speaker 2: like where you take the settings app and you sort
Speaker 2: of close it out by what iPhone?
Speaker 1: Do you have the eight or the ten?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: The six? Ass?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Success, So just double click you know, your home button
Speaker 2: and then you know, you just wipe away the settings
Speaker 2: and that doesn't get get rid of it either, just
Speaker 2: get it No until there and so if you go
Speaker 2: into okay, here's what I want you to go into.
Speaker 2: I think it's an Apple Pay thing. That's that's my thought.
Speaker 2: Do you have Apple Pay on this.
Speaker 5: No, I've never set it up, never used it.
Speaker 2: See, I think they want you to set up Apple Pay.
Speaker 2: So go into your settings and where it says wallet
Speaker 2: and Apple Pay. Click there, yeah, and what.
Speaker 5: Happens, Uh, there's a Apple pay cash that's off at
Speaker 5: credit or debit card and double click home button allow excess.
Speaker 1: So now go back and is it still there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Interesting and under your Okay, So now go into your
Speaker 2: Apple ID and under the name, phone numbers, and email.
Speaker 2: Try that one as well. There's a lot of information
Speaker 2: on here. That's a you've stumped me, that's a that's
Speaker 2: a great How do you always have the oddest problems?
Speaker 2: That's a that's a that's a stumper right there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's uh.
Speaker 2: I mean, if it's not doing it with a restart,
Speaker 2: I would think you might want to try those two
Speaker 2: settings to reset things before you do the reset of
Speaker 2: the you know, the main reason, not the full reset,
Speaker 2: but the reset your settings. I would just kind of
Speaker 2: look at that and see what the deal is with
Speaker 2: you know, like just kind of research a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I think you'll be okay. You'll just have to
Speaker 2: kind of like set up a couple of things here
Speaker 2: and there. But I think that's what it needs to
Speaker 2: run through, that flow of the setup of the phone,
Speaker 2: because it's obviously hung on something and it's a weird one, okay,
Speaker 2: Steven says on his mom's phone, it was because she
Speaker 2: ran out of iCloud backup space, so that could happen.
Speaker 1: Are you are you using iCloud?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: I usually just connect my phone to the computer and
Speaker 5: download my pictures through there.
Speaker 1: Interesting Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 2: I know. My it's funny because my father in law
Speaker 2: had the same problem and I did like two steps
Speaker 2: and I got rid of it, and he was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I've been looking at this thing forever.
Speaker 1: But it had to do with his on Apple pay.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. But all right, Greg, let me
Speaker 2: know next week what happens with that if you can
Speaker 2: figure it out. If those two settings will help clear
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, we'll do all right, Greg.
Speaker 2: Thanks, keep things going there in the AE or A
Speaker 2: A V A V Y A E. I just combined,
Speaker 2: I combine the Antelope Valley and the Inland Valley Empire.
Speaker 5: Yes, all right, have a good day, Greg.
Speaker 2: All right, you do you know, folks, it's a live show.
Speaker 2: If I want to combine Antalope Valley and Inland Empire
Speaker 2: into the A V. There you have it or the
Speaker 2: AE I don't even know what I called it. That's
Speaker 2: gonna do it for today's show. Thanks so much for
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Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 2: That's gonna do it. For this episode, I will see
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