Summary: It’s a busy week as always in the tech and entertainment world, struggles with YouTube, Nintendo killing off game systems, can Chuck Norris take out a whole army, Sony and Nikon camera company shake-ups, Time Magazine gives us a most facepalm worthy list, The Verge wonders if camera’s will even be a thing in the future, Samsung makes a lot of people mad and don’t forget Star Wars dropping a brand new trailer for The Last Jedi! Be sure to visit the good people over at originartwork.com and check out their amazing artwork! Plus when you decide to order, they have a special gift for all digitalSoup listeners! Just enter the promo code “ DIGITALSOUP” on check out and you’ll get an additional 20% off anything in their store! ----more---- digitalSoup on YouTube... Kicking the show off on a fiery note, we discuss our issue with YouTube, the problem we ran into, the (sort of ) resolution. WARNING! Things may get a little heated. Nintendo discontinues NES Classic Mini After being constantly sold out and demand very high, Nintendo makes the logical business choice of discontinuing the NES Classic Mini, is it really gone for good? Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator Adam has a great recommendation for a game where you can finally settle the argument over how Chuck Norris will fare against a full Roman army and how many chickens will it take to wipe out the German world war II army. Sony overtakes Nikon in the US Full Frame camera market With a 23% growth since this same period in 2016, Sony passes Nikon and is now 2nd only behind Canon in US Full Frame Camera sales. Could the April Fools joke of Fujikon or Nikony actually come true? Time Magazine list of 5 camera’s that are better than your phone camera. We all know the saying, the best camera is the one you have with you, which is why so many people rely on the camera built into their phone. Time Magazine goes out on a limb here with a list of 5 cameras they deem better than your phone. Sure it’s a nice list, but is this really newsworthy? Who even needs a camera with Google’s ideas for computational photoraphy. The good folks over at The Verge put up an interesting article discussing the what if aspect of cameras and photography as they merge with high end tech, specifically computational photography. Absurd? Terrifying? Exciting? What do you think? Samsung Galaxy S8 eliminates the physical Home Button In what is being called a bold move, Samsung has dropped the physical home button from their phones, opting instead for a pressure sensitive on screen home button option. Is this a big deal or just one more thing for people to freak out about? Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer drops on Good Friday Where were you when the trailer went live? Picture it, Good Friday, sitting at your desk at work and all of a sudden you are getting notifications from everywhere that the brand new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi just went live! We know you watched it, but what did you think?What will the old, weathered Skywalker saying he only knows one truth….It’s time for the Jedi to end, mean for the franchise? Mark Hamill & Daisy Ridly’s Epic Star Wars: Force for Change Added bonus! Check out a great interaction between Mark & Daisy as they announce a great contest they are sharing on Omaze, brilliant interactions and really a chance of a lifetime if you win! RIDDLE OF THE WEEK:“Many have heard me, but no one has seen me, and I will not speak back until spoken to. WHAT AM I?”Make sure and send us your guesses to jason@digitalsouppodcast.com and don’t by shy, record yourself giving the answer and email the audio file over and we’ll play it on the show next week! Be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes and leave a review, lets us know what you think. You can reach us at the digitalSoup podcast website, Facebook or on Twitter @thedigitalsoup. Have a follow up thought to anything we discussed or have an idea on what we should talk about in a future episode then drop us a message on Twitter or our Facebook page or better yet record the message on your computer or phone and email it to jason@digitalsouppodcast.com and we will play it on the air. Thanks for listening!! What the guys are doing outside the podcast: Jason - http://www.youtube.com/GameGuru jason@digitalsouppodcast.com Adam - https://twitter.com/StarfieldEscape adam@digitalsouppodcast.com Dave - http://www.davidszweduik.com/ dave@digitalsouppodcast.com
