MooPig PODCasting Department :: "PODCast Patent Trolls"

Buying up patents on Technology of Serialized Play lists
lamented by Pat Darnell  |  Apr 1, 2014  |  Bryan TX

EXPOSE THE PATENT TROLLS!!!!!!!!!!!  Fight them on infringement! Donate to http://fundanything.com/en

Protect your blogosphere, podcasting, and all unfiltered sources of information that "makes-up" our Internet....


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http://youtu.be/3IrF6ox-3N8

http://fundanything.com/en

MooPig ReRun :: "Death of Cable TV"

Originally posted 12/24/2012 03:28:00 PM

... THE $2.2 TRILLION WAR FOR YOUR LIVING ROOM BEGINS NOW


A Motley Fool Investigative Report — Monday, December 24, 2012

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RE: The Death of Cable
Dear Investor,

When I wake up tomorrow morning, I won't have cable TV.

Because I'm cancelling my service! And joining 3 million Americans who've already cut the cord.

(If you LOVE television, but HATE hidden fees, bad customer service, and monopoly pricing, you can too.)

But more importantly, I'm buying the 3 stocks that are poised to explode when this faltering $2.2 trillion industry finally bites the dust.

Just like newspaper publishers, telephone utilities, stockbrokers, record companies, bookstores, travel agencies, and big box retailers did when the Internet swept away their business models.

Making investors who saw the writing on the wall RICH beyond their wildest dreams.

One simple strategy brought them 613%... 1,541%... even 2,486% gains. And you can take advantage of it TODAY, for what may be the last time.

See, we're about to enter a new golden age of television. But the winners won't be who you think



CLICK HERE to get all the details in
The Motley Fool's new investor alert video!

Here's to your wealth,



Tom Conner
Vice President of Software Development
The Motley Fool

P.S. When the rest of America's 300 million households cut the cord — all signs are pointing to 2014 — everyone and their mother will claim they saw it coming. They'll say they knew all about Google's experimental project in Kansas City. They'll say as soon as they heard Apple's shocking post-holiday announcement, they knew for sure.

And they'll be lying... but that's okay. Because you'll be the quiet one, with the big smile on your face. And the HUGE balance in your portfolio. CLICK HERE to learn the best strategy for investing in "Television 2.0"!




___________________________Reference
http://www.fool.com/fool/free-report/18/sa-cabletvaudio-253366.aspx?source=isaspodft0000323
http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/top-10-cable-television-programs-week-of-feb-27-2012-21414/

MooPig Tech Coroner :: "The Death of Paid Television"

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$2.2 trillion Entertainment Industry about to Metamorphose
by Pat Darnell  |  July 15, 2013  |  Bryan TX

When you say "Content," you have said it all. Everyone still wants content. Name all the Tech/Entertainment industries that have been found dead on arrival since the Internet began: Record Companies, big Box Retail Shopping, Telephone, Stockbroking, Bookstores, Travel Agencies, ... what's next?

Our Internet has the ability to transform - transfigure - change - transmute - convert businesses' modes of operation to the point of "transform or get out."

But everyone still listens to music; everyone still watches movies; everyone still trades stocks, everyone still reads newspapers ... just not the way they did last century. Guess what -- everyone still wants to watch television.

And everyone [58%] hates cable TV.

Using your imagination can you imagine a different world of TV? Google Fiber, Apple TV, and Amazon have prepared for this Fall, 2013, to be their declaration of war to win in your living room. A lack of imagination will limit you to doing it the old way, and not being satisfied.

Ask yourself: "Why would I need cable to watch TV?"

New choices ... watching shows online, game consoles can put your favorite shows on your TV. Shows can be watched on mobile devices. Special rabbit ears will get you sports events, circumnavigating cable.

The next generation will not watch TV on cable.


_________________________________Reference
http://www.fool.com/fool/free-report/18/sa-cabletvaudio-253366.aspx?source=isaspodft0000744
https://fiber.google.com/about/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/20/cable_dying_is_it_cord_cutting.html

MooPig Tech Coroner :: "Cable TV"

THE $2.2 TRILLION WAR FOR YOUR LIVING ROOM BEGINS NOW


A Motley Fool Investigative Report — Monday, December 24, 2012

[Picture LINK]

RE: The Death of Cable
Dear Investor,

When I wake up tomorrow morning, I won't have cable TV.

Because I'm cancelling my service! And joining 3 million Americans who've already cut the cord.

(If you LOVE television, but HATE hidden fees, bad customer service, and monopoly pricing, you can too.)

But more importantly, I'm buying the 3 stocks that are poised to explode when this faltering $2.2 trillion industry finally bites the dust.

Just like newspaper publishers, telephone utilities, stockbrokers, record companies, bookstores, travel agencies, and big box retailers did when the Internet swept away their business models.

Making investors who saw the writing on the wall RICH beyond their wildest dreams.

One simple strategy brought them 613%... 1,541%... even 2,486% gains. And you can take advantage of it TODAY, for what may be the last time.

See, we're about to enter a new golden age of television. But the winners won't be who you think



CLICK HERE to get all the details in
The Motley Fool's new investor alert video!

Here's to your wealth,



Tom Conner
Vice President of Software Development
The Motley Fool

P.S. When the rest of America's 300 million households cut the cord — all signs are pointing to 2014 — everyone and their mother will claim they saw it coming. They'll say they knew all about Google's experimental project in Kansas City. They'll say as soon as they heard Apple's shocking post-holiday announcement, they knew for sure.

And they'll be lying... but that's okay. Because you'll be the quiet one, with the big smile on your face. And the HUGE balance in your portfolio. CLICK HERE to learn the best strategy for investing in "Television 2.0"!




___________________________Reference
http://www.fool.com/fool/free-report/18/sa-cabletvaudio-253366.aspx?source=isaspodft0000323
http://www.marketingcharts.com/television/top-10-cable-television-programs-week-of-feb-27-2012-21414/

MooPig TV Series Reviews, Intergalactic TV Watch Department: "Dr Who News"

Go Ahead, Ask the Question: Doctor Who?
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 7, 2012  |  Bryan TX

Dr Who Enemies: "Who done it?"

"Of course they didn't do that in my days, and I don't want to be a reactionary old fart about that but in my days, it never occurred to me to try and kiss a girl," he said. (the telegraph, dec 7, 2012. LINK)

'via Blog this'

There have been rumours that show bosses are planning a special edition reuniting all the surviving actors who have played the Time Lord, but the 75-year-old said he had not yet been approached about the idea.

Baker, who appeared in nearly 200 episodes of the cult show in the 1970s and 80s, said he was "amazed" at all the kissing done by the last Doctor, David Tennant, and thought the show's special effects were losing some of their impact, he added.

"I think it is quite difficult now to surprise an audience with special effects," he said, "you may please an audience, but visually you can't actually amaze an audience can you?

"In a sense you just watch them trying, but if people can appear and disappear and walk through walls and disappear and then carry on fencing or kissing girls, that amazes me."

Baker said his approach to the Doctor was to treat him as an alien, and this did not fit with Tennant's flirty approach.

"Of course they didn't do that in my days, and I don't want to be a reactionary old fart about that but in my days, it never occurred to me to try and kiss a girl," he said.

"I didn't even know how to shake hands with them."

Baker starred in a two-part Doctor Who special for Children In Need in 1993 with fellow Time Lord actors Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker and Jon Pertwee, but said he would consider doing something similar this year.

"They should actually try and do something like that and they should get a nice jolly script with them," he said.

"I don't know what it will be like and they haven't approached me yet and I'd want to have some say about the script.

"I'm not asking for Tom Stoppard to write the script but for it to be as I remember it and as the others remember their time."

A new series of five Doctor Who adventures on audio book, with Baker playing the Time Lord, will be released in September.

______________________Reference
http://scifiscience.co.uk/doctorwho/enemies.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/5942592/Tom-Baker-interested-in-Doctor-Who-reunion.html

MooPig's Famous Last Words Department :: "Jenner told Rick that everyone was infected!"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | July 15, 2012 | Bryan TX

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'The Walking Dead' season 2 finale: Meet Michonne! - National TV | Examiner.com: "There is quite a bit that happened during the season finale for "The Walking Dead" Sunday night, but perhaps one of the biggest shockers was the introduction of a new character."

'via Blog this'

If you watch Television you notice that the shows that are one hour long are actually 44:13 minutes long. Commercials take over a quarter of the time to push the products. But even then TV directors push their own envelopes and present you with their version of the "cliff hanger" ending that will make you watch their show again and again.

As season 3 opens we will be entertained, or let down, as the characters become more developed. Depending a bit on the writing, and a bit on happy accidents, the shows directors might offer new information.

"Jenner told Rick that everyone is infected..." Wow, that makes me want to find out what that means! 

_____________Reference
http://www.examiner.com/tv-in-national/the-walking-dead-finale-meet-michonne
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-walking-dead-s-robert-kirtkman-developing-thief-of-thieves-for-amc
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-walking-dead-lauren-cohan-to-become-series-regular-for-season-3
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-walking-dead-star-jon-bernthal-heads-to-harry-s-law
http://www.examiner.com/topic/walking-dead-amc
http://www.uproxx.com/gammasquad/2012/06/walking-dead-makes-up-half-what-diamond-sells-bookstores/

Clutch Cargo Look-a-Likes

Remembering Clutch Cargo
by Pat Darnell and the Herd

I really don't have much on Clutch and his era. I mentioned that Barry Obama looks a lot like Clutch when I see the Prez speaking on TV.

[SOURCE, Excerpt] " ... Deep in the basement of their archives I came across this relic - a promotional brochure pitching television stations to pick up and run this self-proclaimed Comic Strip For Television which was a source of much amusement and mockery in our household growing up in Chicago in the '60's: the adventures of Clutch Cargo! ... "

I don't expect anyone to realize with me how stale Barry Obama's act really is. It would be moot, except that it spooks an old Baby Boomer like me when I focus on Barry's mouth during speeches. YIKES-A!! Look at these old promotional's from the '60's !! A Clutch Cargo Mask ... try and get that out of your head ...

EXCERPT " ... Life In Legacy - Week of October 4, 2003 -- [HERE]

Edwin Gillette - Cinematographer who invented the Syncro-Vox device used to produce those unique "talking lips" in cartoons like Clutch Cargo, and which is occasionally used on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", died Sept. 30, 2003 in Los Angeles at age 94. ..."

Also, you better hurry if you want to relive the Sixties... I end up on lost sites most of the time:

"Sorry, the GeoCities web site you were trying to reach is no longer --available.  GeoCities has closed, but there's a lot more to explore on Yahoo!

MooPig TV Series Reviews :: WWGD ?

What Would Geordi Do?
by Pat Darnell

Geordi was the chief engineer aboard the flagship Enterprise of Star Trek -- the Next Generation, NG for short. In the TV series he is without sight, a bachelor, and plausible.

He might have been a stock room supervisor in charge of shrinkage at a Wal-Mart had he not landed this mejores role in Star Trek. But as a sightless, black man of average height, with the elocution of a Harvard professor, Geordi, Levar Burton, LaForge had a multitude of barricades to hurdle.

Luckily he did not have a hard upbringing, as both his role parents are admiral or better in Star Fleet Command. He does not have a need to wear a hopped version of the regular uniform worn by all, because of his ethnicity. Although the resident Klingon, Worf, has to jazz his uniform a bit. But with his head gear, blind Geordi is brilliant; enough said.

LeVar Burton, American actor, director and author first came to prominence portraying Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley.

In his TV role with Next Generation, Geordi had replaced the previous token black Star Trek actress, Officer Uhuru, and the Irish hard-ass chief engineer Mr Scot. Geordi could never fill her shoes, and his accent was 100% LA; so he had to find a different angle of approach to his role. He tweaks the Enterprise with some engineering feats, while cruising the decks thinking outside his cubicle.

His best friend it turns out is an OCD android officer, Data, who he visits just to whisk out the day's chaos, chew the fat or tell some funnies. They usually discussed some freakish mechanical enhancement that they had tried, or jabbered on about Data's lack of emotion. We experience Data through Geordi's chortles, churns, and disambiguaitons.

For all of this, it turns out, blind Geordi LaForge didn't play slide, nor did he flat pick. But he does put a special visor on his eyes. This visor, which looks like a plastic gator hair clip that girls in the eighties wore, allowed Geordi to see above and beyond typical human spectrums. If no one else was detecting, Geordi was detecting.

The toothed visor attaches to "implants" at Geordi's temples. This means he is hot wired often to "detect" things "out there." They usually put fiber optic threads into his head, and had him stand next to a Japanese jungle gym.

So when we say WWGD, "What Would Geordi Do?" it involves detection. "I'm not picking up any tachyon , pistachio, mustachio, stanchion, nor Hitachi wave lengths out there... " is what Geordi might say. It deepens our thirst for mystery that must be quenched before the hour is up.

Of course, WWGD? -- he would fix it, by gosh!

We won't really know until we experience an off-shoot of LeVar Burton's Chief Engineer, through a new personality developed by the Star Trek Universe.

Feb. 16, 2009 – Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr., who played Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (1987-1994), turned 52 last year.

He also hosted the PBS series “Reading Rainbow” (1983-2005).

MooPig TV Series Reviews :: FARSCAPE

This TV Production was never about the Rubber-Suit-of-the-Week Villains...Three Nostalgic Cheers for "Clever Story Arcs"
Retrieved by Pat Darnell HERE

Dudactive says :

There have been plenty of decent sci-fi series over the past few years. From Earth based X-Files and The 4400, to the space-based Star Trek incarnations. Of the shows that are set in the future—in space—one of my favourite has to be Battlestar Galactica, but amidst these various series that hit our small screen, an Australian production started up called Farscape. Boasting wild and imaginative new universes, an interesting cast of mixed humans and aliens and compelling stories founded on a clever script and solid story arcs. After four seasons the series was brought to an unsatisfying close but—as with many TV series these days—fans pleaded for it to be resurrected and so now we have a fifth mini-series to round things off once and for all. But for now I present the fourth season of Farscape. (Review by Casimir Harlow)

Firstly we have Scorpius, a half-breed scientist who has a strange driveshaft in his head that needs to be replenished frequently in order to keep him lucid. His quest to recover the information contained in Crichton's head becomes something of an obsession, leading ultimately to him torturing Crichton terribly before he and the other members of his crew break free and sabotage Scorpius's command vessel. Despite his roguish behaviour, Scorpius answers to a higher power: the Peacekeeper Commandant Mele-On Grayza, who is also after the same information and is not too impressed by the backfiring of Scorpius' scheming.(Review by Casimir Harlow. HERE)