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Before FF7, our first impressions of a game were generally in a home. Huddled around a CRT TV in a friends basement or stuffed on the family couch, experiencing games for the first time was an intimate experience. But with Final Fantasy 7, we had options. Store kiosks, demo discs, and even the occasional TV commercial. And as a result, our expectations were set accordingly. On this episode, we discuss the myriad of ways we first experienced the world of Cloud, Barret and Tifa and how those first impressions lived up to our lofty expectations.STARRING (all handles from Twitter) Eddie Varnell (@thatretrocode) of the Boss Rush Network (@BossRushNetwork)Kyle VonKubick (@obeykube) Josh of the Still Loading Podcast (@StillLoadingPod)Matt (@dj_stormageddon) and Geoff (@geoffmakesnoise) of the "Fun" & Games Podcast (@funandgamespod)Mekel Kasanova (@MekelKasanova)Michael K Hughes (@KaidanXain) of the Capes and Junk Podcast (@GamesAndJunk)Mike Albertin of Games My Mom Found Podcast (@mom_found)Nate McLellanSONG COVERSFinal Fantasy VII: Aeris's Theme (Violin & Piano Cover Duet) Taylor Davis & Lara de Wit by Taylor Davis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7Wcl5y5Qs&t=29sHollow (Final Fantasy VII Remake) | Classical Guitar Cover by John Oeth Guitar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ny8vJcv3CQMy Website: agamerlooksat40.comMy Discord: https://discord.com/invite/SdaE4atGjCMy Twitter: @agamerlooksat40My TikTok: @agamerlooksat40My Facebook: facebook.com/agamerlooksat40My Insta: @agamerlooksat40My Patreon: patreon.com/agamerlooksat40My Email: agamerlooksat40@gmail.comMy Phone Number: Ehhhhh, not gonna happen. :-D  Support the show

For the first episode of 2025 we take a look at some of the BBC's Tomorrows World predictions from 30 years ago. What did they get right and wrong. We talk about how video game history can be different depending upon which angle you look at it. Then finally it's all about the CRT TV and would you want a monster of a set in your home? All this and more retro tech news in Dave's Briefs and we set a new Community Question Of The Week. This week we are sponsored by Sega Mania magazine. The new issue covers the second half of 1995 and finds out what is new for the Saturn and if the Mega Drive still has life left in it. Head on over to https://www.sega-mania.com/ and use the code TWIR10 to save on issue 8!  00:00 - Show Opening 04:44 - We've Seen The Future Story Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdn10yk0k1o 20:12 - They're Rewriting The Past Story Link: https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae 34:42 - Dave's Housekeeping - News links found below 44:11 - Oooh, That's A Big One Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZxOuc9Qwk 50:21 - Community Question of the Week

On the anniversary of their ill-fated trip to Camp Craven, our favorite juvenile delinquents are invited to a mysterious indoor amusement park. One year older (and a little better prepared), our troubled teens head to the park to find out if lightning ever strikes the same kids twice.Featuring returning guest player Imani Russell as Zora Lee Copeland, and played in Monster of the Week by Michael Sands.Content Warning: gunshots, firearms in a contemporary setting, choking, knives, drug use, panic attacks, supernatural possession, unsettling carnival rides/gamesFind Monster of the Week here, and learn how to play quickly here!Join us on Patreon!Leave us a review! If you do, we may shout you out on the show!Keeper: Robin LangenhopZora Lee Copeland: Imani RussellCJ McAllister: Max WeinbergLane deMar: Rowan McStayEddie Hiller: Casey PapasEdited by Robin Langenhop & Rowan McStayMage Hand High Five logo by Shane SmithCover Art by Robin LangenhopMUSIC"Craven's Indoor Amusement Park" by Robin Langenhop and Jacob KerznerFrom Epidemic Sound:“House of Mirrors” by Luella Gren“As Fast as You Can” by Wendel Scherer“Asymmetrical” by Wendel Scherer“At the Abyss” by Golden Anchor“Don't Let Me Drown” by Tigerblood Jewel“Every Day, Every Night” by Roy Williams“Eye of the Newscaster” by Out to the World“No Apology” by Mike Stringer“Undead Digital Minds” by Polar Nights“Wee Hours” by Brendon MoellerSFX attribution: Turning on an old CRT TV by pfranzen -- https://freesound.org/s/328171/ -- License: Attribution 4.magehandhighfive.comFollow your new third-favorite actual play podcast on our socials:DiscordFacebookInstagramTikTokTwitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Erick's older brother Gabe is back on the show so we had to give a recap of what happen with Zack. Everyone give a quick cap of some TV shows and Harry Potter. Gabe talk bands that go on tour and why he won't go see most of them. Is there a reason to get a CRT TV? Well figure out the reason why people would want one. Then Zack talk about this toys and want to do a challenger with Erick. Fun show so I hope you enjoy it.   Links: Erick Feiling IG Zack Stack IG Comedian Erick Feiling

I am joined by Tony Warriner who is one of the founders of Revolution Software as we discuss more gaming, gadgets and technology both retro and modern. Topics include: James hunting for a SEGA Genesis in the USA Broken Sword Reforged Kickstarter blasts through £50,000 target to over half a million! Broken Sword 2 remastered? Did Tony from Revolution Software realise Broken Sword on its original release would be so popular? The design differences between Lure of the Temptress, Beneath a Steel Sky & Broken Sword Balancing PC minimum spec and recommended levels in development of games Sony PlayStation 5 Pro details leaked splitting the PS5 target specs Triple AAA titles and layoffs in the industry Netflix, Disney Plus etc and how we are cancelling subscriptions due to raising prices The needless pain of grinding in a game to progress Match 3 games and the lightning energy nonsense Apple EU App Stores Tony’s first article on Pixel Refresh, Beneath A Steel Sky Sets as Broken Sword Dawns – Revolution Book Preview James’ article on Pixel Refresh, CRT TV for Retro Gaming – The Beauty, Buying, Repair & Despair Acorn Pocket Book preview YouTube Premium, if only they would separate YouTube Music Apple Music for lossless, even on Android Where is Spotify HiFi lossless audio??? Literally years since the original announcement WearOS versus Tizen on smartwatches Tony’s Apple Watch experience NOTE: Tony or I lost connection at the very end, so the conversation goes a little odd as we wonder where the other person went :) Luckily the software locally records so Tony continued recording! SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW: Amazon Music | Apple Podcasts | Deezer | Pocket Casts | RSS | Spotify | YouTube Music | YouTube SUPPORT THE SHOW: Donate to the Game & Gadget Podcast & Pixel RefreshSUBMIT QUESTIONS FOR THE SHOW: Submit a question for the Game & Gadget PodcastFIND OUT MORE: What is the Game & Gadget Podcast WEBSITE: Pixel Refresh – Gaming, Gadgets & Tech both Retro & ModernEMAIL SUBSCRIBE: Latest Articles / Reviews via EmailPIXEL REFRESH YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Pixel Refresh on YouTubeFREE GAME SOUNDTRACKS: ScummVM Music Enhancement Project

Jeff and Christian welcome Jordan Minor from PC Mag, and author of Video Game of the Year, to the show this week to discuss Xbox exclusives possibly landing on non-Xbox hardware, a second season preview of Halo on Paramount+, and Smite getting a sequel. The Playlist: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League, CRT TV gaming Portal Revolution VR Talk: Asgard's Wrath 2

73 Episodes in feels like a good a time as any for a little switch up. The new set is here, it's real, it exists, it's not just a fairytale. Thank you so much to every one of you who has supported and watched us up until this point. I never could have imagined what this show would grow into when I first started producing it over a year ago with the Amsterdam episode. This show means so much to all of us and it would be nothing without our community.  A few words on the thought behind the new set and what you can expect moving forward: This set is meant to symbolize a little bit of the personality from each of our hosts. Stuff they loved growing up or that directly ties into their interests. Imagine what a room would look like if they all shared a bedroom growing up. We'll continue to add things and change things in it as we grow into the room. Dont worry, I know new things can be a little scary but this is very much still the same Fear&. It'll still be scuffed af from time to time, itll still be chaotic and make no sense, it'll still probably break every now and then. I hope yall fuck with it as much as we do. Also the old set is still there, this is likely not the last youve seen of it. Love ya enjoy the episode ok bye ♥✨ BONUS CONTENT ✨ PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/FearAnd

We took our sweet time with this episode, but we're back to celebrate the fourth entries into some beloved series! We kick off with Pikmin 4 and the new concepts it introduces after taking several years off from new releases (it may be worthwhile to listen to our previous Pikmin episodes). Braydon is seems pleased with its deliveries, but will it be enough to convince Connor to play it? Meanwhile, Connor has spent intimate time with Final Fantasy 4, playing as originally intended on his SNES and CRT TV. He has a lot to say about the quality of retro gaming he seems to have been missing out on, and the amazing level of intention put into the game by the developers of the time. Join us FOUR an excellent episode! Email us comments, questions, complaints and suggestions at nintengems@gmail.com https://beacons.page/nintengems for more links and follow on Insta for more fun!  

Controversy in the retro community. Who doesn't love a bit of it? Ok fine, but lets talk about it * That BANGING Bang & Olufsen CRT Steve has been working on from 1989 * Update on the Chinese CRTs (we found someone buying them!) * Should Louis buy a 100hz Widescreen Trinitron which only has SCART inputs? * Hilarious PSIO drama * Our thoughts on the release of the Morph switch from Pixel FX. (0:00:00) - Start (0:01:30) - Steve is loving the Bourbon and Yoga (0:03:30) - Steve's Birthday and Retro World Expo (0:11:33) - B&O MX 5000 CRT TV (0:19:07) - B&O TV Quality and how it connects to other B&O home theater gear (0:32:50) - PSIO and upcoming "Scaler Wars" (0:41:58) - Morph & Tink 4K: Longterm support is what counts (0:53:35) - Retrocastle update on the Chinese CRTs (1:02:09) - How are they matching the old tubes to the electronics?? -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/zez https://twitter.com/usa_retro We encourage your questions however please keep in mind that very technical CRT problems are really hard to diagnose online. If you are interested in Steve's professional CRT repair services please head over to his patreon page https://www.patreon.com/retrotechUSA Steve and Louis maintain a blog about their projects "The Cathode Ray Blog" https://www.cathoderayblog.com You can find the audio on the web or your favourite podcast app https://anchor.fm/zezretro For all your own CRT repair needs, check out Steve's channel https://www.youtube.com/c/RetroTechUSA

Is Taylor Swift the most generous person in the world...OR has she done something wrong? Why you should never suck your tummy in. Mick's GOLD COAST discovery...he's brought back to launch in the capital. How similar is NASA to Rod's old 34cm CRT TV? Life hacks from a jailbird. Chinese Zoo Sun Bear - NEW VIDEO FOOTAGE surfaces!!! Mick's NEW DARK THEORYruins Finding Nemo. Why did the chicken REALLY cross the road? Are the Melbourne storm actually jerks? Yes...WITH PROOF! Can Rod pass the new Neighbours trailer TEST? Trump makes history AGAIN! Gabi - "My husband's worried I'm ruining the baby". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So you get stranded on a Desert island with a CRT TV and power some how. What game are you bringing with you to kept you occupied ? Me and  @NESADDICT  Discuss that on this weeks episode of The Weekly Warp Pipe Podcast

There was an era before any of us had capable internet where we would lug our giant CRT TV's and Xbox's anywhere we could to get just a taste of that sweet large scale competitive multiplayer. Journey back with us as we revisit a much simpler time.

Sacred Clay-This is one of the best remedies for the mouth, gums, and teeth that we know of. This method also draws toxins from deep within body organs by pulling them up through the nervous system channels that connect the various body organs of the body to the teeth. It is similar to the Ayurvedic Oil-Pulling method, yet with a more powerful pulling agent - the Sacred Clay. One drawback for some, but not all, has to do with the potential temporary discoloration of some areas of the teeth resulting from the clay bonding solidly to toxic buildup on certain spots of the teeth, particularly if your teeth may be somewhat porous from past deterioration or receding gums. So far, only time and a dental cleaning or polishing work to remove this discoloration. (See advisory below). We are working on a White Pyro product as a solution but it is not yet fully explored. If your teeth are subject to discoloration, try using sesame oil or olive oil instead of clay for the swish.Michael King + Amalgam fillings are much more affected by Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMF's). EMF's are known to cause metal fillings to deteriorate more rapidly resulting in increased levels of heavy metal toxicity. (All the more reason to be using the clay.) Be advised: EMF fields are generated from cell phones, wireless computer technology, cell phone towers, CRT TV's and computer monitors (the fat ones), cordless telephones, microwave ovens, high tension wires, etc. With the increase of wireless internet and cell phone usage and the increasing number of cell phone towers being installed without regard for human health, EMF hazards have multiplied many times over in the last 12 months alone. These are some of the more likely suspected causes of rapid deterioration of fillings in the mouth being reported now in increasing numbers (by non-clay users as well). Licorice Root-Clay LED Whitener Sonic Toothbrush & more Glycyrrhizol A, a compound amply present in licorice has strong anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal properties. This herb helps prevent the buildup of mouth bacteria and protects against gum disease as well as cavities [10,11]. Licorice also exhibits marked anti-inflammatory property and can help in soothing mouth ulcers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bhsales/message

Hey Listener, be kind and prepare to rewind because we're kicking off the WYI? Spooky season with recurring guests comic book/smut illustrator Jaimie Filer and Zach Bender from Couple of Creeps. Both of these guys have large horror/cult movie collections and they're on the show to talk about them. Topics this week include: We're not even 3 minutes into this episode and Jaimie brings up porn. Zach ruins papier-mâché for us. Why can't we have a feel good Halloween movie…with Alexis Texas? Hey Hollywood, you can make new monsters. What's your movie collection body count? The nostalgia of VHS. Everything is a disc now. Memories of video rental stores of yore. Rob's Video. Beaded curtains or saloon doors? The rise of the used pop culture media store. Special edition DVD packaging. The goodness of the 2nd DVD with all the extras. A core childhood memory of seeing a full size JAWS. Displaying thousands of pieces of media. Jaimie Filer: Sharer of Movies. Being able to let go. Hand numbered, limited edition = I will buy it. Vinegar Syndrome. Media Room of dreams and being comforted by your collection. At least get a sound bar rant. The World's Strongest Man contest of moving a CRT TV. An economic way to watch things becomes a collection. Come out to the Secret Base Cinema VHS Swap at Paper Street Trading Co. on Sunday, October 9th. Ritual. What is your favorite movie in 4K and has 4K ever ruined a movie for you? That time we all forgot what community theater is called and Aliens on Ice! A Road House tangent about Terry Funk and famous bouncers. Learning about the things you are into.

DJ Slopes AKA Daniel Ibbertson from Slope's Game Room and Grizzly from Playstation Country presents a gaming news show, inviting several friends along to chat about all the latest gaming news with plenty of retro injected in. Follow Slopes Game Room here...

I read from crown colony to CRT.     Watch a CRT TV in slow-motion: https://youtu.be/3BJU2drrtCM     The word of the episode is "crow's foot".     Merchandising! https://www.teepublic.com/user/spejampar     "The Dictionary - Letter A" on YouTube   "The Dictionary - Letter B" on YouTube   "The Dictionary - Letter C" on YouTube     Featured in a Top 10 Dictionary Podcasts list! https://blog.feedspot.com/dictionary_podcasts/     Backwards Talking on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmIujMwEDbgZUexyR90jaTEEVmAYcCzuq     dictionarypod@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/thedictionarypod/ https://twitter.com/dictionarypod https://www.instagram.com/dictionarypod/ https://www.patreon.com/spejampar https://www.tiktok.com/@spejampar 917-727-5757

A packed show this week! Alex shares his impressions on Grand Theft Auto 5's arrival on the new wave of consoles, the Elden Ring performance saga continues with the arrival of patch 1.03, AMD reveals the impressive-looking FSR 2.0, while AMD also aims to take on Intel at the more budget-orientated end of the market. 00:00:00 Introductions 00:01:09 GTA Fünf releases on PS5 00:09:48 Elden Ring 1.03 console performance boost? 00:21:36 FSR 2.0 00:31:39 AMD New CPUs taking on Alder Lake 00:37:48 GT7 servers down for 24 hours 00:44:05 Microsoft "releases" DirectStorage 00:46:28 UK sales physical vs digital 00:50:01 DF Content Discussion: Steam Deck 00:52:46 DF Content Discussion: DF Retro Gran Turismo 00:56:47 DF Supporter Q1: With the reality of console supply shortages isn't crossgen the more responsible course? 01:02:39 DF Supporter Q2: If you didn't have to use them for coverage purposes, would any of you ever touch a PS4/Xbox One system ever again? 01:06:07 DF Supporter Q3: How close are the two horizons (Forbidden West/Forza) to Nanite/UE5 in terms of geometric density/complexity? 01:07:52 DF Supporter Q4: Steam Deck has this very useful 30 FPS option built in. Do you think, the console manufacturers could implement such "half refresh rate" feature into their own SDK? 01:10:28 DF Supporter Q5: How do you keep CRT TV's maintained and going? 01:13:52 DF Supporter Q6: What went wrong with Microsoft's Windows Experience Index score as a replacement for system requirements?

Special Guest Jon, He Sucks at Film, sits down with me and teaches me about CRT TV's and what position of the human centipede he would be.

RetroLogic - Episode 66 25:38 - Trivia - The Price is Retro. 1:12:47 - Show Topic - Trivia stats from season 1. 1:46:58 - Community Couch Questions. Welcome to RetroLogic episode 66 - I'm Dan Caporello. Here with John Cummins, Sam Wagers, and special guest Philip! Better known as Flightsy from our community. Retrologic isn't just a podcast, it's also a Community! Visit RetroLogic.games, scroll down, click the discord link to join the least toxic retro bunch of retro gamers on the internet! We have weekly giveaways, question submissions, collection show-and-tell, and more. Join today! Housekeeping: Odama-rama Breath of Fire-bruary Retro game store news.   Icebreaker - what did you buy? And what did you play?   Philip: Bought: Odama, What the Golf, Chicory, Kirby Fighters 2, Figment, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Hollow Knight (For Naomi). Played: Odama, Kirby Fighters 2 (test), Death Squared (w/ Zoe), Chicory (w/Naomi), Overcooked! 2 (w/ Mom), What the Golf, Pikmin Bloom(?). Sam: Bought: culdcept revolt (3DS) Played: Front Mission: Gun Hazard, ODAMA-RAMA stream, Spelunky 2 John: Bought: SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighters DS Played: SNK vs. Capcom Card Fighters Clash Switch and Ghost of Tsushima Dan: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, Mario VS Donkey Kong, Kirby Rainbow Curse, Balan Wonderland, 5below haul. Played: Advance Wars GBA, Mad Dash, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.   The price is RETRO   How to play: I'm going to list off 4-5 games. Everyone else is going to guess how much the games are worth in total. Whoever is closest to guessing the actual price of the lot, wins that lot. Everyone has a list, and everyone guesses. The “ghost” always guesses $300 The winner of the episode is the person who won the most lots! Dan's list Sam's list John's list Philip's list “Blank-o-pedia” “I'm going to start reading the description of a game from wikipedia. As soon as you think you know, shout out the answer, and I'll let you guess. If you're wrong I'm giving the other person an opportunity to guess. If you're both wrong I'll keep reading until someone else yells out the answer.” Philip “Spot the fake game” ChrisHL94 Liam Philip “Explain games horribly.” TheAmbassador — 01/11/2022 I have a bad/good idea for a game for your show. Explain games horribly. Guess a game based on its horrible explanation: John's Trivia Card Philip's Imitation Trivia Card Check out the Price Is Retro Database at Retrologic.games. Polterguest stickers! Show Topic (Game Highlight, News Highlight, Discussion topic)   Topic: The Price Is Retro season 1 stats! w/ Flightsy! Community faves: twodollarhero I really loved the list where @Flightsy compiled the favorite games of the RetroLogic crew and kind of went into why the community was special to him, how RetroLogic is the first community he's really gotten into, etc.   Community Couch   Retro Rewind Odama-rama Breath of Fire-bruary Questions Community Couch Questions: ChrisHL94

As the Apollo 11 astronauts hurtled towards the moon on July 18th, 1969, members of the Nixon administration realized they should probably make a contingency plan. If the astronauts didn't make it – or, even more horrible, if they made it to the moon and crashed and had no way to get back to earth – Richard Nixon would have to address the nation. That haunting speech was written but fortunately was never delivered. But you can go to the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City and watch Nixon somberly reciting those words. It looks like real historic footage, but it's fake. Artists Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund used the text of the original address and media manipulation techniques like machine learning to create the synthetic Nixon for a film called In Event of Moon Disaster. It anchors an exhibit called Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen. In this episode, Panetta and Burgund discuss how they created In Event of Moon Disaster as a way to highlight various misinformation techniques, the changing literacy of the general public towards media manipulation, and the effectiveness of misinformation in the museum medium. Topics and Notes 00:00 Intro 00:15 July 18th, 1969 00:40 The Safire Memo (https://www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events/centennials/nixon/images/exhibit/rn100-6-1-2.pdf) 01:38 Clip From In Event of Moon Disaster (https://moondisaster.org) 02:30 Nixon's Telephone Call (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_8tawnlwr8) 03:00 What is Deepfake? 03:30 Halsey Burgund (https://halseyburgund.com) 04:06 Francesca Panetta (https://www.francescapanetta.com/about/) 04:30 How They Did It 04:50 Why This Speech? 06:02 Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City (https://movingimage.us/event/deepfake-unstable-evidence-on-screen/) 07:05 Misinformation By Editing 09:53 Misinformation and Medium 10:23 Museums as Trustworthy Institutions (https://www.museumarchipelago.com/71) 11:27 What Would a “Deepfake Museum Gallery” Look Like? 13:43 In Event of Moon Disaster (https://moondisaster.org) 14:00 Outro | Join Club Archipelago

I recently had the pleasure of talking with Thomas Daede, the creator of an open-source CRT chassis. This project aims to replace the current aging circuitry that drives CRT TV's and arcade machines, with more modern components that allow for more control and flexibility. While the project isn't ready for public testing, Thomas has made some pretty incredible progress so far and this has potential to completely breath new life into older CRT's. If you're a CRT-expert and have experience in high-voltage electronics design, please check out the Github link and see if you can contribute: Github: https://github.com/tdaede/td-crt Follow Thomas: https://twitter.com/enginetankard Demo of it in action: https://vimeo.com/591387422 This is also available as a video, links here: https://www.retrorgb.com/interview-with-open-source-crt-chassis-creator.html Please consider supporting this channel via monthly support services, tips, or even just by using our affiliate links to purchase things you were already going to buy anyway, at no extra cost to you: https://www.retrorgb.com/support.html T-Shirts: https://www.retrorgb.com/store.html All equipment used to shoot this video can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/retrorgb Thomas also mentioned some of the resources he used to get started and I wanted to share them here: TV: https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/tvfaq.htm Monitor: https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/monfaq.htm Deflection: https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/deflfaq.htm CRT Tube: https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/crtfaq.htm --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/retrorgb/support

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa and happy Winter Solstice! In our last episode of the year, we roll out the CRT TV into the classroom and do something different before our winter break: watch a bad Christmas movie and riff on it! This year, we endure "Jingle All the Way 2" starring everybody's favorite tow truck voicing comedian, Larry the Cable Guy! In this "hilarious" "sequel", Larry is a put-upon dad who's trying to get his child of divorce a stuffed talking bear when his ex-wife's new husband tries to foil him at every turn! And there's a random wrestler! Ho ho oh dear god, no! WINTER BREAK FUN DAY SONG Music and Lyrics by: Ryan O'Reilly Produced and Arranged by: Bing Glenn --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week! Tim has some questions and conundrums about Apple Arcade! Slasher: Guilty Party is a hyper violent whodunit, and FROM OUT OF NOWHERE, Major Grom: Plague Doctor might be our new favorite super hero movie! We also discuss Bloober Team & Konami signing a business agreement, SkateBIRD, Monster Hunter: World, and more! 00:02:50 — TECHNOLOGY! Apple Arcade 00:20:40 — TV! Slasher: Guilty Party 00:34:20 — MOVIES! Major Grom: Plague Doctor 00:48:00 — VIDEO GAMES! Bloober Team x Konami business agreement, Tim got a CRT TV, SkateBIRD, Monster Hunter: World Keep up with The Keep Up! Treignwreck.com/thekeepup Facebook.com/TheKeepUp Instagram: @thekeepuppodcast (https://www.instagram.com/thekeepuppodcast/) YouTube: The Keep Up (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLRUwERKaf97f6nfLsd3oTg)

A jam packed five star five course meal of bonus content awaits you inside this mp3 file! Featuring tim rogers' Coke Zero review, Kris Graft's grilling wisdom, Frank Cifaldi talking about classic games, CRTs and high end PCs, Brandon discussing his relationship with meat, and Vincent Diamante joining the exclusive club of guests who actually listen to the show. A SMALL DESCRIPTION OF EPISODES PULLED FROM: (Ep. 200) Post show. We EXCLUSIVELY reveal the big tim rogers review you've all been waiting for: new formula of Coke Zero Sugar. Jaffe calls the Guggenheim museum “The Gug.” I bleep something out by request. (Ep. 201) Pre-show. Jaffe negotiates a “One Day Early?” line read from Special Guest Kris Graft. Frank tries so hard not to use Amazon. Jaffe negotiates Evil Offsetting Calculus. Everyone has a riff on the idea of what a Fonzie Scheme is. (Ep. 201) Post-show. Special Guest Kris Graft gives a breakdown of his grilling technique, including tofu. Brandon explains the thing with meat. Buy 'Em Beat ‘Em Trade ‘Em At McVan's. The panel explores the idea of games as a commodity vs. appreciating them after time. Frank explains why he's a PC gamer and how he got a top of the line video card at retail price. (Ep. 202) Pre-show. Chris Kohler, subscribe to the Patreon if you wanna hear the bonus episodes. C'mon man, it's $3. Brandon and Jaffe negotiate a “One Day Early?” line read from Vincent Diamante. Frank got a new laptop. Jaffe makes sure nobody knows anything about the Sony press conference. The Craigslist ad Frank links in chat: https://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/for/d/imlay-city-arcade-game/7377840888.html (Ep. 202) Post-show. An interesting numerical coincidence occurs. Frank likes the nuanced discussion about the Heritage Auction stuff going on in the forums. Jaffe's using some compressed air. Brandon explains the double edged sword of the forums. Many tell CRT TV stories. Pocket barks a bunch. All We Do Is Misconstrue.

Pascal Leroy, Director General of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Forum joins us live to discuss their report on a proposed recycling framework for critical raw materials – CEWASTE – and why recycling critical raw materials from circuit boards, neodymium magnets, fluorescent lights and batteries is essential for the long-term sustainability of electronic manufacture. Geek TV Stephen Cass, senior editor of IEEE spectrum, explains how he has repurposed an old CRT TV to display his favourite web pages using a Raspberry Pi and a bit of python code. We also discuss the importance of the maker movement and the right to repair laws coming into force later this summer. Apple vs. Epic Our Games Correspondent Chris Berrow, delves into the detail of the Apple vs Epic lawsuit, with Epic asking if Apple's control over the App Store is anti-competitive, by only allowing in-app purchases through the store and taking a 30% cut of the sales? If Epic wins, this could have huge implications for the games industry, and potentially make in-app purchases considerably cheaper. (Image: Electronic waste. Credit: Getty Images) The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Angelica Mari Studio Managers: John Boland and Bob Nettles Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT One of the larger digital signage networks in North American retail has been quietly building upon in Sam's Clubs, the big box warehouse club stores that Walmart runs in competition with Costco. There are 25,000 or so screens in the stores and the aggregate audience that sees those screens is somewhere between 25 and 30 million people, per month. The network started with TV walls - with one media playout box pumping a signal to as many as 40 TVs. So that gets the numbers up. But Sams's Club has been adding more screens in the auto service area, at the customer service counter and in food services. It is even testing digital floor projections. The network exists to boost the shopper experience and support brands that have product in these stores. The operating model is much more about generating ad revenues that cover the operating costs of the network than it is about a new revenue stream for Sam's and Walmart. Digital signage veteran Mike Hiatt runs the team that operates the in-store media network, and he has a great perspective on what's been done and what to do now. He was with Walmart years and years ago when PRN had CRT TVs hanging from ceilings, in the retail giant's first iteration of in-store digital signage. Susie Opare-Abetia runs Wovenmedia, the San Francisco digital signage content and solutions company that has been running and growing the Sam's network since 2014. I had a good chat recently with Susie and Mike about how the network operates, how it's growing and what they have collectively learned about running a big screen network in a cavernous big box store. Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS TRANSCRIPT Thanks for joining me, Mike, I think most people will know what Sam's Club is, but could you give me the Cliffs Notes twenty-five words or less explanation for the people in other parts of the world who don't know?  Mike Hiatt: Sure. Sam's Club is a member retail organization, similar to Costco, and we're part of the Walmart family of retailers. So it's a membership-based club big-box membership club?  Mike Hiatt: Yeah, if you've been to Costco, you're very familiar with Sam's Club. We've been competing with them for quite a number of years and there's a lot of subtle differences between the two, but they're both basically member-oriented clubs and member clubs create a unique perspective for retailers and we can talk more about that later if you're interested.  And you run the media group, Sam's Media group, right?  Mike Hiatt: I don't run the whole group. The entire group is all monetization, all the monetization tactics for Sam's Club that will include online, mobile as well as in-club. I handle in-club. So basically in-store media.  Mike Hiatt: Correct.   All right, and Susie, your company is providing the software and the content solution and basically the overall solution for a rather large network, right?  Susie Opare-Abetia: That's correct. So we've been working with Sam's now since 2014 when we did office deployment and so they used our platform, which consisted of all software suites plus a content library to manage all of the screens in the clubs.  And what's the scale of this network?  Susie Opare-Abetia: It's actually pretty ginormous, you know, roughly about 20,000 screens across the chain, which is about 590 clubs. So you've got about, just North of 40 screens in each club, and that's in the electronics department, and currently in the term battery department.  So it's like a typical big box going back many years where they have a TV wall full of different flat-panel TVs, all driven by this one or maybe a handful of media players all pretty much playing the same content and you've also got stuff in the battery and tire area, and now you're expanding in other parts of the store?  Susie Opare-Abetia: Yeah, that's correct. So like you said, the TV wall and electronics, and that's essentially powered by BrightSign meaning the plans connected to a series of amplifiers and then we've got two screens in the tire and battery, ceiling mounted just above the tire and battery services desk, and then we just finished deploying a pilot in 55 clubs. That's super exciting. I'm showing Mike will talk more about it, but that's basically adding screens in the cafe. Six large 75-inch displays in a cafe, displays in membership, and then floor projection technology in the aisle basically.  And I'm jumping ahead of myself here, but I'm curious about what the floor projections will solve a lot about.  Mike Hiatt: It's an exciting opportunity for us in terms of looking at it, we've been running one-off tests for quite a while, just looking at technology and how we could maximize the floor and use it, ‘cause it's really just a Greenfield space, right? And Woven came to us with some technology that got me really interested, which was laser projection versus the LCD.  I had been looking at LCD optical technology, from these projectors for years, and went on to the Path to Purchase Institute and DSC and you'd always see the different projection technologies and I never was interested because I know I couldn't roll it and roll it to the scale that we needed it because I didn't want to have to get people up on ladders every year or less changing out halogen light bulbs, and it just was never practical for us to even consider it. But then when Woven came back to us and said, “Hey, we've got this new technology we found that some of these new providers, or, some of these providers are now developing, which is the laser technology with no moving parts.” I got really interested, and so we started working that internally at Sam's Club, and we were able to put together this idea, which was, we could throw messages onto the floor and basically not have to compete with product facings and all the other stuff that you had to deal with when I was at Walmart having to deal with monitors on the shelves. You don't have to compete with the merchants, and it's great because your sightline is right there on the floor anyway. So it's not like you don't have to look up 20 feet in the air. Is it purely for advertising or a kind of in-store promotion?  Mike Hiatt: We’re using it for both? One is we're putting in some projectors to promote our scan and go product, which is a great mobile product. If you haven't ever used it and if you're a member of Sam's, you should really sign up for that because scan and go is fantastic. Basically, you can scan your own items when you're in the isles, and then you basically check out by just swiping your credit card that's already in the mobile app, and then you can skip the line, and so we created this fast lane just as mainly a way to promote the idea of scan and go. So we have dedicated a special lane in some of our clubs with the pilot test. There's a lane now, and then above the lane are two projectors that are just showing these really cool arrows using the projectors that kind of show your way out of the club, and it's just a fun way to promote the idea that you really should be using scan and go and skip the line altogether. And of course, during COVID, this has been a really popular trend. You're not having to deal with going through the checkout line. You just scan yourself out, and you take off. So we are using it for that, and then we've got projectors that we're testing and still in testing mode. But testing that from a monetization standpoint, where we put supplier advertising or advertising products, all endemic on the floor inside what we call the race track or that main thoroughfare of traffic as people move around the club near the product. We want to have it obviously near the product where most displays are.  You mentioned monetization. I'm curious what the business model is, if you're using in-store promotions, you're doing endemic advertising for brands that sell in the store, and then maybe some third-party advertising.  You've got potentially a pretty big audience. Is the idea of the screen network for incremental revenues for the company, or is it a cost-recovery model first, and if you make some revenue beyond that, even better?  Mike Hiatt: That's a great question. It really acts as a way for us to put technology in the club to help the members experience. Being a member club, club members think of us as a country club for retail. We take care of our members. We want our members to feel valued and we want them to have a good experience when they're in our clubs, even probably more so than say a particular retailer or grocery chain would, and it's because they pay money every year to participate. And so as they come in, we want to make sure that the technology is helping them, and so as a part of that, the monetization piece, at least when it comes to the in-club area, we want to promote products that they're interested in, and of course, the suppliers want to do that as well. And of course, we want to charge them for that, and that allows us to do the cost recovery.  We're not focused on maximizing advertising revenue per se. That's not our main objective, even though if it happens, that's great, but that's not why we do it, and that's not the main focus, and so we're really not interested in non-endemic. Sam's Club has traditionally been, we've been focused on endemic advertising only, just because we're not trying to create a media network that spans beyond that. Okay. So if I am a third-party brand, there'd be no reason why I would ever sell on Sam's Club, you're not really interested in their advertising?  Mike Hiatt: Not really. There are some opportunities we're talking about, some other tests that we're looking to do, but they're mainly out in the parking lot or out where the fuel screens are, the fuel pumps, but not inside the club. Susie, how often does content change on the network?  Susie Opare-Abetia: So that's a really good question and it really depends on the channel. So for example, in tires and batteries, it's going to be changing less frequently, and you have the, like you said, seasonal promotions and specials depending on holidays and that kind of stuff, and then you have the menu board, if you will, of services, which is pretty fixed. In electronics, it’s quite different. The monetization strategy really drives the frequency of updates if you will. In some cases, content’s getting changed on a weekly basis, in some cases, it's, a couple of times a week and in some cases, it's less frequent if it's more like an evergreen sort of seasonal content. But in general, the idea is just to try and keep the programming as fresh as possible in that department. So that, if a member is shopping with Sam, maybe a couple of times a week, they get to see a little bit of variety in that loop.  Yeah, I would imagine that there's a lot of thinking that has to go around the programming model because of that frequency and also because of sightlines, and I'm really curious to hear from both of you about TV walls and having a generic feed that goes across 40 different TVs and a whole bunch of different manufacturers and do they get fussy or are there any issues around what's on those screens, so that makes one look better than the other or whatever? Susie Opare-Abetia: That's a really good question. I can talk to the tech piece, basically, what we're doing now with this, we're pretty much wrapped up with a third-generation platform in electronics. So we're delivering everything from delivering HDR, so the highest quality but then the tech is able to downscale that signal so that it was even for a very sort of low-end HD set. So the way the system works, it's pretty much agnostic to what you're feeding it. So we feed it the highest quality and the better sets get a better quality signal.  But in terms of the actual content, yes it's the same across all the TVs and maybe Mike can talk about how the different manufacturers get their share of time on the network.  Mike Hiatt: The short answer to your question is yes, they do get fussy.  I can tell you a lot of stories, but obviously, if you think about it, if you're a TV manufacturer, you want just to talk about your TVs all the time and so there is that fight there. But we believe strongly, the company as a whole believes strongly in a unified vision for the network where we have this one image that's running all the time. So we liked that idea of synchrony and pulling that together that Susie had talked about from a strategic standpoint because we feel like the club looks better versus the more chaotic version where you would have your own thing.  However, we do make accommodations for top-of-the-line models that they want to show off and get excited about, get people excited about what you'll see, like one-off kind of kiosks set apart from the TV wall and Samsung showing their Samsung content, LG is showing there content and Vizio and so on. So there is some of that there, but the majority of the screens are all playing the same thing, and then as part of our agreement with them is that we are there to support them as suppliers, and so we make sure that their content that they want to run is also part of the programming mix for the TV wall. So as part of the relationship we have with them as strategic partners, we want to make sure that they're able to promote their TVs, even though there'll be Samsung content on an LG TV and vice versa, we have no problem with that because we want members to be able to compare and contrast TVs anyway and the only way to really do that very well is to be able to look at them, play in the same content.  Yeah. I could just imagine the conversations standing with a Samsung rep when it's an ad running on an LG TV or vice versa.  Mike Hiatt: Yes. (Laughter) Sam's club is a pretty big footprint place with, I don't know, 40-50 foot ceilings and so on and a lot going on. How do you think in terms of sightlines and choices around content and how big a display has to be to suit the environment and the dynamics? Mike Hiatt: It is a big space. It's really funny, I've always worried “Oh wow, these TV screens are just getting too big”, and when you're seeing them, like down next to you they look gigantic and then you stick them up on a wall and they're like, wait for a second, that's way too small.  So we live in that world quite a bit at Sam's when it comes to those kinds of things with sightlines. But I will say that the technology is getting there where it's affordable to bring in the big enough screens that we're starting to bridge that gap of where historically the screens were just a little too small and trying to roll that out across thousands of locations, the numbers really add up, and but I think we've turned that corner over the last few years where we can afford those 75-inch screens, which are more than fine when it is, in most situations, what we're trying to do, and in fact, in some cases, we're having to re-sculpt how they fit on the wall because we just don't have that much room to put these big screens. There's only so much real estate on the wall, so that's good.  That's all been good, and so I feel like we're getting to a happy place if you will, between the size of the screen and the size of the box, if you will. So you've got 25,000 screens. What's the monthly audience, the aggregate audience? Mike Hiatt: The audience that comes in is about 25 to 30 million per month that come into the club, and those numbers, COVID is really messed with us a little bit because we've had these giant groups of people come in, and then we've had some real swales like it's really hard to look at comparables over the past year. And also our curbside pickup has gone way up too. So people that used to come into the club, a lot of them, because they don't want to be in the club due to COVID or other reasons that they're getting, we have a club pickup set up where now we just roll it out to their car, and they buy it online. Yeah, I suspect there's a whole bunch of businesses that are going to have an asterisk beside 2020 and 2021 in any kind of timelines or story of their business, just saying this happens. So like the anomaly is explainable.  Mike Hiatt: Yes. Even though I know that our merchants are really struggling because, if you're the person responsible for toilet paper, for example, you had a great March 2020. There's no way that your March 2021 is going to compete with it, so it's going to be interesting for all of us, as we try to create new baselines and understand, how we're truly growing  And because you do a card read every time somebody buys something, you know how many people are in the store, right? Or at least how many members, and if you extrapolate that, it's 1.2 people per card or something that you that's how you get to your 25,000? Mike Hiatt: Yeah. We've also done viewership studies and we're doing some new technologies where we're able to track that more accurately. As far as the individual people that are in the club, you're right, we do have the ticket counts, but depending there are some variables there, you'd have to try to, like you say, model and extrapolate 1.2, for example, And and we do and can do that, but we're actually looking at some other ways to track it more regularly because typically our insights team, they like to keep some of that data close to the vest and not even share it internally. Yeah, that was going to be my next question and I'll try it anyway.  Is there any data around the kind of cause and effect, if you put an endemic. Advertising piece up for let's say organic olive oil from Italy or whatever. Can you then look at the selling rates of that olive oil when it's promoted on the screens versus those times when it’s not promoted on the screen and say, okay, it bumped it by 10% or whatever? Mike Hiatt: Yes, we can do that. We haven't done that as much, mainly because of just the issues that we have with resources. It takes quite a bit of work actually to do those types of reporting, and we spend most of that time on the online side of the business with our resources to do that. So there's been sales in the club, mostly as an awareness-building channel, and that you're reaching members in the club, at that zero moments of purchase. And that's the kind of way we promote it more than trying to attach it exactly to the point that they had an opportunity to see this spot and then they went and bought the product. It’s more like new on shelves?  Mike Hiatt: Yeah, exactly. The floor graphics pieces, I think are going to change that formula a bit over time as we learn and figure out exactly what we're looking to do with the floor graphics program. But I can see that be in a place where we would actually create custom reporting based on sales lift or what we call return on ad spends, or ROAS, for the floor graphics because it's very direct or that product is local close to those screens, whereas you remember, in Sam's club, the TV wall, for example, is way up at the front. So as you walk in, you see them but you're not exposed to those messages when you're back there in the freezer, buying frozen chicken.  So there's a real 50-yard disconnect between the media and the chicken. So trying to connect that dot gets very circumspect, even if you are able to figure out that this individual walked by the TV wall when the frozen chicken ad was running, which is hard enough, and then trying to figure out when they actually made it back to the chicken, pick it up and put it in their cart and then made it around to actually purchase it. Those are some details that are hard to get your finger on conclusively.  So if I’m a CPG brand, and I'm launching a new, I don't know, body lotion in a giant bottle, that's going to be deeper into the store. Is it hard to sell them into screen participation or they understand through explanation and maybe intuitively that this is better than people just stumbling across my product, it's better if I make them aware that this is available? Mike Hiatt: Yeah, I think especially when you're launching a new product, we've seen a lot of success that way, where you think about that you're investing in the new product line, you're putting it in a Sam's Club and we don't have nearly the number of SKUs that say a Walmart has, but the SKUs that we do have, do very well from a sales velocity standpoint. And so yeah, a lot of them say, “Wow, okay. So I've got a new SKU inside of Sam's Club. It's a new three-pack,” that kind of thing where it's its own SKU. It's nothing that you can't buy this anywhere else really, and so as you walk in, you want to be able to impact them as best as you can. We do a lot of that where you'll be driving that new product purchase and it's that zero moments where they're in the club, they're in the buying mode, it's not so much immediate as interruptive, and whether you're trying to read something on the internet or watch a TV show or something like that, we're interrupting you with an ad message. There are no interruptions inside of the Sam's Club because you're actually shopping. That's what you are doing. That is the editorial and the editorial and advertising, it's one and the same if you look at it that way.  Susie, is Woven media building all of the ads, or are you building the content that's running in between the advertising and the advertising is coming in from agencies or perhaps from Sam's? Susie Opare-Abetia: So it's essentially Mike's team that works with the suppliers as well as the internal merchandising teams and marketing to produce that content that's advertising or promotional, and then basically what happens is all of the content gets uploaded to our servers and then Mike's programming team is able to essentially combine the ad content, the commercial content with our third-party content, which is a mix of premium content across multiple categories, like sports entertainment, etc. So that you end up with this really engaging experience that is skillfully crafted so that it's not just ads all the time. You're basically engaging the member, you're driving TV sales, and you're also promoting Sam’s Club and as we discussed, other products in other departments o in the electronics department.  Did the experience over the last seven years of working on this network reshape some assumptions around what you think people want to see when they're shopping in a Sam's Club versus what they really want to see? Susie Opare-Abetia: Yeah, so Mike's team actually has done a really good job with some of the studies that they've done to determine what content categories really make sense. For example, we know that, believe it or not, food is a really compelling category and as is obviously sports and movie trailers, video games. So there's definitely been, over the period, more learning about what content captivates which audience and the audience: is it male, is it female, etc.  Mike Hiatt: Yeah, it really is fascinating. The male/female breakdown, where the males spend a lot more time watching the TV wall in particular. But they also represent a much smaller percentage of the actual members, regular shoppers in the club. So you want to take care of both audiences. But it is fascinating to see and then, of course, one group wants to see sports and skiing and all the different fun stuff, and then the female side is more about travel and food like Susie was saying. Mike, you have an interesting history, so to speak, in terms of in-store media, in that, you had a first go-around working with Walmart on its in-store digital media network, and then went off and did your own thing, I believe, and then now you're back with Walmart but through Sam's.  Is there a clear distinction between the way things were done, let's say 10-15 years ago when you were involved with Walmart, and now?  Mike Hiatt: Oh yeah. When I first got there and inherited the system, we had CRT TV's, like 50 feet up in the air… (Laughter) This is the old PRN network, right? Mike Hiatt: Yeah, the old PRN network and we wanted to evolve that, and that was a really fun project for me to get into, and I never had any digital signage experience before that. I had been basically a VP over media direct operations for an ad agency in Salt Lake City and had worked in high tech, like previous to that. But I had some different ideas and some thinking about what we wanted to do and had a good relationship with PRN and we organized a kind of a next-generation network, and we were using satellites at the time. We don't do that anymore.  There's been a lot of fundamental changes that have allowed us to create a better experience and be better at our digital signage experience in the store environment.  So yeah, I don't know what you want me to talk about. I could go in any number of directions. What would you be interested in learning more about?  I’m curious about what you've learned and obviously, it's a lot easier to do now in many respects, and as you say, the sightlines and the display technologies are a lot more visible and compelling than TVs hanging from ceilings. Mike Hiatt: One of the best things that I've found, and what I learned in my Walmart experience, which was really reassuring to me in this space, is that when done correctly, digital display or retail media actually works, it actually drives purchase. It actually makes the promise hole of what we always try to do in the advertising space, which is influence the purchase, and again, it has to be done correctly, and we were doing that with those endcap screens that we had in the club or in the store on the endcaps, and we definitively over and over again with an early solid methodology were able to show incremental sales lift from those positions and the better the content experience, the more proactive the content was, it was a definite art to design the content that would run on those screens.  But as we got better and better at that, we saw tremendous gains over our control claw, our controls stores for that product. That's the really encouraging thing is that when done correctly, it absolutely works and if you can get the media source very close to the product. A huge piece of that is making sure that something is working and it's not trying to do too much, so many digital signage deployments are trying to do too much and it makes it too chaotic and you just need to be focused and simple. So we learned a lot of things doing that whole process that allowed us to actually create a successful network and we're implementing those things today at Sam's Club and the, but the cool thing is over with the last 14 years, has been that we're finally starting to work better across the silos, if you will, because in a large retail organization, you think about any kind of deployment, like what we were doing at Walmart, you have to transcend operations, merchandising, marketing, and IT, and to get all four of those groups together when they all have different EDPs that they report into can be really difficult, and it's been historically a struggle, not only with my experience at Walmart and Sam's, but I think any big retailer. ‘cause when I went off and did my own thing, I was working with other retailers and they were dealing with similar problems, but it's a lot of that trying to get organized across those silos, it makes it very difficult to actually have a successful implementation a a lot of times.  What compelled you to go work again for a big company as opposed to yourself?  Mike Hiatt: It's funny. I left and did my own thing and was really enjoying it and was traveling the world and doing exciting stuff and working for a variety of retailers and technology companies, and one of those was Walmart, and so I was going back to help them and work on them, like beyond what I had done when I was there full time, and then also part of that was Sam's Club, which they wanted to redesign their network, and so I got involved in that, and then part of that was better understanding monetization and how we wanted to sell, and so we had a sales team handling the in club stuff and a different sales team handling the online, and so I made the decision, working with my people at Sam's Club, we decided we wanted to combine those two, and so by doing that, and then we reworked the technology side and that's when we brought Woven media in and they weren't selling, they weren't a sales facing organization with suppliers. And Triad was and Triad was handling the online piece, let's have them handle the in-store piece or the in-club piece, and that started to work really well. I went off to do other things as a consultant and at the time, Roger Berdusco, who was our CEO at Triad reached out to me and convinced me to close my business and come work for him full time. So that's what I did, and yeah, came over and worked for Triad and basically running all the in-club or in-store and retail media-related stuff, while 90% of the rest of the company was focused on the online world, and we did that for several years and then, of course, one thing led to another and Triad ended up being bought by Sam's Club and they brought us all over, and so we were part of WPP and because it’s a long story, I won't get into all the private equity firms and the details associated with that. But at the time that we were, WPP and Sam's Club decided they wanted to bring it in-house, but they didn't want to try to build it from scratch. They wanted to leverage our expertise, our people and our technology stack, and so we figured out how to put that package set up together and we moved over to Sam's, and so I’m back at the mothership, so to speak.  Yeah, so you just woke up one day and realized, “Oh, I'm here again?” (Laughter) Mike Hiatt: Yes. Susie Opare-Abetia: Thank you! (Laughter) So Susie and Mike, what are people going to see over the next year or so at Sam's Club that's going to be added to the network?  Susie Opare-Abetia: Basically if you walk into Sam's club, and I said there are 55 deployed already, but basically over the next couple of years, we're rolling these new channels out across the chain. So we're doing 270 this year, and then next year we're going to finish out the rest. So if you go into Sam's Club, you'll see the cafe area, on both walls of the cafe, you’ll see three 75-inch screens, three of them facing the club and three of them facing into the cafe area, and those a mix of menu boards, as well as sizzle, big wide freezies, and hot dogs and what not to attract people into the cafe. So a really nice mix of programming, synchronized in some cases across those three screens, and that's essentially replacing the paper signs that you see today in the club. So you'll see those in cafes. You'll also see, as Mike mentioned, the flow graphics projection in the scan and go aisle, and you'll see 75-inch screens in the member services areas. So this is where members go and find out more about travel services or financial services, or, do stuff with the membership, and that already is shown to have really moved the needle in terms of the member experience, the ratings. The screens are driving the ratings of that experience which is great. And then you'll see, in some small number of clubs, you'll see the racetrack projectors that Mike mentioned in the aisle. Sam’s Club is still testing those and figuring out when they want to roll those out.  All right. This was super interesting. I appreciate you guys spending some time with me. Susie Opare-Abetia: Thank you, Dave, this has been great. Mike Hiatt: Yeah, this has been a lot of fun.  

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(https://www.patreon.com/topiclords) Lords: * John * Biker Chicks Tier List. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1591151119 * Jesse * https://twitter.com/thefringthing Topics: * Canadian Heritage Minutes * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadarm * YouTube playlist of Heritage Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWANopglXI&list=PL1848FF9428CA9A4A * List of Heritage Minutes on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Minutes * What are your tips for collaborating with people with a higher or lower skill level than you? * Are we allowed to talk yet about how for decades all 3D games were incredibly ugly * https://twitter.com/BlazeHedgehog/status/1247200134057717760 * The website I build in high school & college is lost to the ages, or: how to reconstruct memories of your past without external records * The lost Willie Brown records * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellac * Willie Brown - Future Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An9rC8olaVY * "Grandma Blues" cover (prank?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9xhKLJbXs * PBS History Detectives episode about Paramount Records: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKQbZV4lQk4 Microtopics: * Being a playable character in Frog Fractions 2. * Ranking every Biker Chick from worst to best. * Regretting not having more Canadian Lords on the show. * Still making your TV PSAs even though nobody watches TV any more. * The big robotic articulating arm on the space shuttles. * That time Quebec was going to quit Canada. * A group shot with one teen of every ethnicity and gender configuration. * Reenacting the time someone told the creator of Superman that nobody will care about Superman. * Canada's revolting safety PSAs. * Hanging maple syrup for treason. * The biggest man-made explosion prior to the invention of nuclear weapons. * Celebrating the people who people who became successful after leaving your country. * Trading on the low-key anti-Americanism that is part of the Canadian national identity. * Taking a 45 minute break to worship the military. * Deciding that an idea is important and jamming it into the brain of millions of people. * Doing your best to enjoy yourself even though you are the worst musician at this particular jam session. * The high pressure world of game jamming. * The anxiety of waiting to be picked for a sports team. * Trusting your collaborators. * Not being a mentor so much as a friend who is around to answer questions. * Feeling like you failed your tutoring student but he was pleased and passed his course, so probably it was fine. * The ongoing war between R programmers and Python programmers. * Making your favorite programming language tolerable by totally replacing the syntax. * The smoke effect in Super Mario 64 looking like the MS Paint graffiti tool. * Goldeneye slappy hands. * The difficulty of going back to the video games of the Ugly Period. * Playing old video games on an unreasonably large CRT TV that you can't move by yourself. * Using modern technology to remove the texture filtering from Nintendo 64 games. * Conditioning gamers to desire the next step in graphical realism. * An epic story with three CDs full of cutscenes. * The old movie connoisseurs who want to see only the best examples of terrible stilted 1940s acting. * Making a video game in the mid 00s and having to support both SD and HD aspect ratios. * Moving your web site from Geocities to a cooler hosting provider in France who then stops hosting web sites because of a change in French law. * A gap in your personal history where no written records exist because they were on the early internet. * Letting a web site expire because you built it on old technology that your hosting provider now charges extra to support. * A government form asking you to remember every place you've lived for the past fifteen years. * The threshold for memory sticking. * What we would do with our missing histories if we had them. * Allowing yourself to remember a period in your life and then putting it in deep storage. * The object as a record of a moment. * Dredging the river near the defunct Paramount Records factory in Wisconsin, in hopes of finding pre-war blues records. * Old blues music now being exclusively the province of rich white boomers. * Writing and recording a fake Willie Brown song to prank record collectors. * Recording blues albums so you can sell phonograph cabinets to Black folks who can finally afford nice things. * Your record company being unable to obtain shellac during World War 2, so you go back to making chairs. * Training a neural network on old blues records to recreate a song using the single shard of the shattered shellac record you found. * Finding shards of different shattered shellac records that happen to fit together, and mashing them up. * Digitizing LPs by putting them on a flatbed scanner. * That time a news broadcast showed the QR code of someone's Bitcoin wallet on screen and someone immediately emptied it. * Cutting a new key based on a photograph of someone's key ring, when it's way easier to just break a window. * Recovering ancient room ambience by analyzing the striation on ancient pottery. * Breaking a code by beating the decryption key out of somebody and not having to read any cryptanalysis white papers. * Putting fake information about yourself on Spokeo as part of your personal ARG.

Time to pull out your Sega Genesis and hook up your CRT TV! In this episode, the JJMW crew does a deep dive into the new movie Sonic the Hedgehog starring Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, and Tika Sumpter. Spoilers galore! For more episodes, or to find out how you can help support the podcast, visit www.jjmeetsworld.com!

Rainey, Spencer, Theo, and Lukas investigate the strange smell coming from the basement. They make a startling discovery and uncover a sinister presence. Threatened, the kids race back upstairs and arm themselves. "Turning on an old CRT TV" by pfranzen of freesound.org "Cuckoo clock edited version" by ScottFerguson1 of freesound.org "Cuckoo Clock, Single, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org "ns_footstepsWood" by cmusounddesign of freesound.org "camera_snap1" by thecheeseman of freesound.org "TV on humm off" by ERH of freesound.org "Phone Call Tone 1" by ximian of freesound.org "impact thin wood snapping 002" obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com "The Clowns Have Come to Roost" by TeknoAXE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License "Vanishing", "Unseen Horrors" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Episode 27: Presterollen i spill Vi har fått besøk av Kjetil Austad "Kjaus" Endal, som har vært en av våre trofaste lyttere fra starten. Kjetil jobber til daglig som prest, og vi benytter derfor anledningen til å snakke litt om presterollen i spill, enten det er snakk om Age of Empires II eller Bloodborne. Vi snakker også om superhelter og superskurer, Kina-trøbbel hos Blizzard, CRT-TV-er og Untitled Goose Game, for å nevne noe. Spill vi snakker om i episode 27: Untitled Goose Game, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Daemon X Machina, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Please Knock on My Door, Catan, Nidhogg 2, Super Mario Bros./Sunshine/Galaxy, Borderlands 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, Apex Legends, Hearthstone, Bloodborne, Final Fantasy X, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Spider-Man, Batman: Arkham Asylum, WoW Classic, Slay the Spire, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Pokémon Masters, Dr. Mario World, Mario Kart Tour, Far Cry, Jackbox, Final Fantasy X, Dragon Quest, Den Lengste Reisen, Portal.

This week we discuss people renting their living rooms out, Wrestling, TV head dropping off CRT TV on peoples doorsteps and much more. Follow us on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JeffMikeSCP Twitter: Mike - @MikeTechsItOut Jeff - @TherealJeffRG You can find this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. You can also add the RSS feed below to any of your favorite podcast apps! http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:508059366/sounds.rss

Let's bring you back to the good ol' days. Remember when Saturday Mornings were the best time of the week? What better way to start the weekend than to wake up in your jammies, eat your favorite sugary cereal, turn on your oversized CRT TV's, and binge watch cartoons for hours on end. It was truly a wondrous era that swept North American pop culture for years on end which has sadly vanished in this day in age. So hop in our time machine as Tuong La and Nostalgic Cartoon Lovers Axandre Lemours, Ali Harris, and Catherine Ballachey take you back to the glory days of being a kid and rank the Top 5 best Saturday Morning Cartoons! The post 55 – Top 5 Saturday Morning Cartoons appeared first on PodCavern.

Anthony and Richard report to you from an old fortified - Raccoon City Warehouse. They discuss the recent news of Resident Evil 3 being already in development by Capcom as they send off Resident Evil 2 fresh off the presses to us in a few week so we can finally sink our teeth into what's next for the series. What could a remake have to offer for Resident Evil 3: Nemesis? Well, this episode covers a whole list of ideas and a bunch of banter from Anthony & Richard as usual. VHS footage was also lined up while the recording session was happening -playing from a CRT TV in the corner that is stacked on an old Sony VCR. The tape rolls and so does this episode of the Let's Talk Resident Evil Podcast! 

Point Blank 3 for the Sony PlayStation was the last game in this PS1 trilogy of light gun games. Retro Blissed pulls out the Gun Con, the CRT TV, and starts shooting up targets in this zany mini game compilation. Also, Trevor's brother special guest stars and treats everyone to a new twist on the Bliss quiz! BICBP-RADIO.com Instagram Trevor Franklin retroblissed Johnny Townsend johnnyism28 Twitter Trevor Franklin @retroblissed Johnny Townsend @johnnyism

Hey everybody, sit back, grab a drink and some popcorn as we deviate from our regularly scheduled programming for a three man freak-a-thon! Dave, Jonathan and Chris shoot the breeze and discuss a whole bunch of random nerdy topics this time. We also relive the glory days of flipping around on an old CRT TV from back in the day with the help of my80stv.com!. Get ready for some rambling, some musing and a bunch of fun. If you like the show, leave us a review on iTunes and shoot us an email at CastProtection@gmail.com. We are on Twitter @CastProtection. Facebook, find us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/274523039596769/. Regular coverage resumes next episode!

Hey everybody, sit back, grab a drink and some popcorn as we deviate from our regularly scheduled programming for a three man freak-a-thon! Dave, Jonathan and Chris shoot the breeze and discuss a whole bunch of random nerdy topics this time. We also relive the glory days of flipping around on an old CRT TV from back in the day with the help of my80stv.com!. Get ready for some rambling, some musing and a bunch of fun. If you like the show, leave us a review on iTunes and shoot us an email at CastProtection@gmail.com. We are on Twitter @CastProtection. Facebook, find us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/274523039596769/. Regular coverage resumes next episode!

Can you remember a technological marvel that you thought would never be replaced, and the next thing you know it was obsolete? We're taking a look at some of the most amazing technology that changed the world, yet is now nothing more than an afterthought. Some of the items we discuss include: Encyclopedias, CRT TV, watches, answering machines, typewriters, the postal service, steam engines, pay phones and more!

Remember how I had a podcast?   All joking aside, I'm really, really proud of this one. Please join me in extending a very warm welcome to the wonderful Bob from RetroRGB.   Bob has done tireless work gathering information on how to preserve every aspect of classic video games: Not just the systems and the games themselves, but the whole experience of retro gaming. From the best way to hook up your old consoles to a modern flatscreen digital HD TV to the best way to track down and safeguard a CRT to build your own personal arcade, Bob's website RetroRGB is a wellspring of everything you'd ever want to know about the technical side of video game history and preservation. Over the course of an hour and a half, Bob and I share our thoughts on the retro lifestyle, some of our favourite video game memories and talk about what keeps us coming back to the old classics and retro aesthetics year after year.   This podcast is a real collaboration between RetroRGB, Eruditorum Press and the Forest of Illusions YouTube Channel. For the first time, I'm doing a proper crosspost: My YouTube viewers will get a video podcast (and, for the first time, get to see me in person), while fans of EP's podcast network get an audio-only version hosted, as always on the Pex Lives Libsyn (if that version isn't up yet when this goes live, it will be in the near future and I'll update the post accordingly). But more to the point, Bob was kind enough to not just guest on my show, but actually do all the technical work recording, mixing and uploading it too. I could not have gotten this out in time today were it not for him, so I wanted to give him an impassioned public thanks here as well.   Some liner notes:   “In Search of Scanlines”, the Tested.com article that set me down this path. My Life in Gaming on Retro Gaming on CRTs and the Analogue NT Mini FPGA console Bob and Jose Cruz from IFixRetro turn an unwanted consumer CRT TV into an arcade monitor. Do not try this at home. The name of the Japanese poetic structure I was stumbling over is kishōtenketsu. Here's the full poem I was trying to recite from memory, and that I of course butchered horrifically: Daughters of Itoya, in the Honmachi of Osaka. (ki) The elder daughter is sixteen and the younger one is fourteen. (shō) Throughout history, daimyo killed the enemy with bows and arrows. (ten) The daughters of Itoya kill with their eyes. (ketsu) Where to find Bob: The main site is RetroRGB.com. Just to get you started, here are some of my favourite pages: RGB Guide, including an introduction to RGB RGB Monitors Dedicated pages for the NES/Famicom, SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, SNES/Super Famicom and a breakdown of the various Game Boy model revisions and mods. Bob has a YouTube channel as well, so be sure to subscribe if you want to get caught up on all the latest developments in the field of retro gaming and retro game preservation. Also please consider supporting his Patreon to help keep him going. You can also follow RetroRGB on Facebook and Twitter. You all should know where to find me by now. This show was a blast to make, and I hope you all enjoy it!

In this episode Chris and Tom gather today to talk about gaming around the Holidays! Here's what you need to know: Tom is watching Person of Interest, Chris wants a CRT TV, no one wants Mario Bros, NES Classic nowhere to be found....and Tom swears, damn Amiibos, Tom swears a lot, Chris is rocking NES remix, Wii U games, couch co-op v online, what do you want to play when family comes home? Madden Holiday Family Tournament, and so much more!!! Website: BigVisionGaming.com | Twitter: @BigVisionGaming

FEATURING: New Business: Kirby: Planet Robobot, Konami Krazy Racers, getting a CRT TV, Baseball Stars, E3 Expectations.Listener Mail: Nintendo Championships, good marketing, lapsed maker of Mario, Mother 3.

We catch up with legendary Al Lowe to get the inside story on Leisure Suit Larry, those age verification questions and how Police Quest was inspired by a real life police shooting. Our website: [http://theretrohour.com](http://theretrohour.com) Facebook: [http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour](http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/retrohouruk](http://twitter.com/retrohouruk) Al Lowe's website: [http://www.allowe.com/](http://www.allowe.com/) Show notes: Acorn Brand confusion: [http://i.imgur.com/xdZH5g7.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/xdZH5g7.jpg) Last PS2 online servers closed down: [http://bit.ly/1V6JX1K](http://bit.ly/1V6JX1K) Sony releasing a PS4K?: [http://bit.ly/1V6JX1K](http://bit.ly/1V6JX1K) Man has same phone for 10 years: [http://bit.ly/22zFnrO](http://bit.ly/22zFnrO) Pacman suit: [http://cnet.co/1SbHIo1](http://cnet.co/1SbHIo1) Nottingham board game cafe: [http://bit.ly/1SbHKfH](http://bit.ly/1SbHKfH) Chrome Cast on CRT TV [http://bit.ly/1V6K5ON](http://bit.ly/1V6K5ON) Coleco Chameleon Boss speaks out:http://bit.ly/1SjNTfg

Welcome to the Arcade Repair Tips Question Of The Week. This week, we answer a question from Dave who has an In The Groove 2 (similar to Dance Dance Revolution) arcade cabinet and is experiencing a large amount of static buildup on his replacement CRT TV screen. Enjoy!Question: I've been slowly restoring a dance machine (ITG 2) and it has a replacement 32" Samsung CRT TV as its monitor. It's been working great and the picture is fine; however, there is an unusual amounts of static building up on it; more than a normal CRT. It's to the point when I make contact with the glass bezel it shocks me for no more than 120v and it makes the screen flicker and interrupts the marquee speakers. I understand the build up ions and static charge and how when I touch it, it grounds and interrupts the electric field and can interrupt sound components. I was wondering if there is a way to minimize or remove the static charge and if I should be concerned. I've tested the outlets and they are grounded properly. I've watched most of not all the monitor videos (haven't performed any repairs myself yet) and I can't recall you guys ever addressing something like this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Dave

Welcome to the Arcade Repair Tips Question Of The Week. This week, we answer a question from Dave who has an In The Groove 2 (similar to Dance Dance Revolution) arcade cabinet and is experiencing a large amount of static buildup on his replacement CRT TV screen. Enjoy!Question: I've been slowly restoring a dance machine (ITG 2) and it has a replacement 32" Samsung CRT TV as its monitor. It's been working great and the picture is fine; however, there is an unusual amounts of static building up on it; more than a normal CRT. It's to the point when I make contact with the glass bezel it shocks me for no more than 120v and it makes the screen flicker and interrupts the marquee speakers. I understand the build up ions and static charge and how when I touch it, it grounds and interrupts the electric field and can interrupt sound components. I was wondering if there is a way to minimize or remove the static charge and if I should be concerned. I've tested the outlets and they are grounded properly. I've watched most of not all the monitor videos (haven't performed any repairs myself yet) and I can't recall you guys ever addressing something like this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Dave

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and the attendees of the Portland Retro Games Expo talk about Super Mario World. This episode is a bit of a different beast than our previous outings. Normally we play a game, then talk about it, and pepper in your thoughts. For this, we set up a booth at the Portland Retro Games Expo with a CRT TV and an SNES with Super Mario World. We invited anyone who passed to beat a level, then offer their thoughts. The result is an hour of avant garde guerilla podcasting, where people gush about the best Mario game of all time. LINKS OF NOTE Super Mario World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMarioWorld Tommy Boy (9/10) Movie CLIP - Airline Safety (1995) HD - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrjBBXjjhM Classic Gaming Expo: www.cgexpo.com/ NintendoAge » Home: www.nintendoage.com/ ALTERED BEATS | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos: www.myspace.com/alteredbeatscrew Creepycult: www.facebook.com/pages/Creepycult/245475495464019 Beck - Loser - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE Amazon.com: Wii Classic Controller Pro - White: Nintendo Wii: Video Games: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037U…=stunthdottran-20 Game|Life - Your Source for Gaming News Since 20XX | Wired.com: www.wired.com/gamelife/ SPECIAL THANKS: _P, Aaron, Adam, Adrian, Alex, Ashton, Atreyu, Becky, Ben, Bill, Bryce, Calvin, Chives, Chris 1, Chris 2, Chris 3, Chris 4, Christian, Derek, Dylan, Elise, Elizabeth, Ethan 1, Ethan 2, Gideon, Giovanni, Greg, Ian!, Isaac, J-Ro, Jade, James, Jared, Jason, Joey, John, Josh 1, Josh 2, Justin, K., Leland, Matt 1, Matt 2, Matthew, Megan, Michael, Miles, Mitchell, Nathan, Nicholas, Nick, Noah, Norah, Patrick 1, Patrick 2, Ross, Ryan, Sage, Sam, Scott, Shrev, Simon, Spencer, Ted, Travis, Trevor, Tyler 1, Tyler 2, Vito, Zack. And more thanks to Chris Kohler of Wired’s Game|Life.