Podcast #1017: Summer Box office Wrap-up and AirPods Pro Review

On this week's show we wrap up the Summer Box Office numbers with the top ten movies based on ticket sales and we look at two contradicting studies about streaming vs cable. We also have a review of Apple's AirPod Pro. We also read your email and look at the news of the week. Summer Box Office Wraps with $1.75 Billion, It Closes on a High Note No one expected this summer to be a close comparison to the last pre-pandemic summer and it wasn't. Total North American box office for the 17-week summer period, including the Labor Day holiday weekend, totaled about $1.75 billion. That's a little more than 40 percent of the $4.34 billion recorded in 2019, a period that did not include $474 million for the first week of "Avengers: Endgame." (That opened on the last Friday in April.) Full article here… Is Roku Right? Has TV Streaming Really 'Passed the Tipping Point'? Roku's 'Streaming Decade' report describes OTT as the dominant means of viewing video in the American home … despite recent data from Nielsen indicating that it's still somewhat of a niche behavior Full Article Here… AirPods Pro The Apple AirPods Pro are wireless earbuds with noise cancelling, water resistance and a customizable fit. Are these the ultimate wireless earbuds everyone is talking about? Braden gives us his take. Features: Active Noise Cancellation Transparency mode Adaptive EQ Vent system for pressure equalization Custom high-excursion Apple driver Custom high dynamic range amplifier Spatial audio with dynamic head tracking