Tuesday, November 23, 2021

The 1920's and the 2020's are too similar

The riots, the factions, left ideology of Marxism and Progressives. Russia and Germany are on probation with Germany on house arrest in 1929. Jump to 2020's and Russia is in its own yard but China is getting on its nerves. The USofA has a Berlin problem with the added progressive groups demanding crazy ideas made into law, think pronouns and equity. The social activists group BLM got a boost from the Marxist leadership - same time tested method of riot in the streets, crete division and of course fine tune race as the principal sword. This quick induction is just a reminder of history. Even if the Department of Education with its lack of interest in any history because indoctrination is the progressive socialist's game. The first film clip is from "Babylon Berlin" series, amazing to watch, well researched, and the message nobody in 1929 noticed except a few was Market Crash. (Note:Hitler used the Left groups to get into power. Here in 2016 those went crazy when Trump won. OMG history repeats and Trump will be "him") Half of a pronoun joke is all I got.

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Sunday, December 6, 2020

Warner Media (HBOmax) may break Warner Bros 100% fail rate at streaming

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I was not looking at HBOmax as a monthly budget item because ATandT is not capable to handle really good content on a one2one basis muchless the big Vault of classic film and DC based movies. The rollout of HBOmax as the stream and theater release date is the same for 2021. This plan is USA only and expect last minute changes.

Why am I being polite to HBOmax after throwing fire and brimstone on ATandT since forever? The Warner Media structure is outside the telecom/network structure. Sorta like, "we know how to make and distrube film you (ATandT) do not".

First, Beyond The Trailer addresses the Stream and in theater same day for all 2021 releases and other topics.

Second, this is a big deal because pandemic means content cannot rust away on the shelf. Movie theaters have done some sketchy things like 15 screens to fill, jack prices up on everything. But for ne the worst thing? Made getting into a seat as painful as trying to get on theme park ride. (Pass the bleach, masks, gloves.) I will not go in the door.

Third, Ask for my opinion and if the moon rocks land in Australia, ISS supply mission is nominal, and Hamiltion is not in the car for Formula 1 race, you may get some words;this is all true for today December 6, 2020.

My Comment on Beyond The Trailer video above.

1.0 Okay this is one of those times where a little history made its way in. Modern movie going changes. Sometimes with a wrecking ball and sometimes with tech improvements and for sure the pandemic (covid-19) has forced a big change.

Update December 8,2020 (00:58:00 ET):

The last big shakeup was 2013 when the transition from film to digital. Quite a problem if your theater was local with a couple of screens - Hollywoon Ordered and that was it. Comply or die. This time the pandemic puts theater out on a limb with public safety removing the rope that allows the owner climb down.

November 6, 2013 Slice of scifi took a call on the death of local theater. After that another call on some movies look the way it should only on theater sized screen.

Last segmemt of the show:

To watch the Episode: Feedbackapalooza: Theater Survival https://youtu.be/53GtXLwWLOo Check Slice of SciFi for News, Rreviews, Interviews, Cons and people who know the universe that is Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy - https://www.sliceofscifi.com

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1.1 Historically Warner Bros. failed at every streaming "experiment" it put up on the web. DRM servers turned off with no warning, stupid device restrictions, and high price. Now, with someone in charge that knows how to work a streaming business plan even I am going to throw $ in for at least a quarter. The stupid sliding window release method made them truckloads of money when reels, disks, and file transfer. It also boosted infringement because, people want to watch and will buy, unless their region I blocked. Note, grabbing a non-licensed movie is infringement not theft. Taking a DVD out of (store) is theft not copyright infringement. (NOT a lawyer but I do know how to read)

1.2 Back in the day there were Drive-in Theater and local Movie House. Then the crazy Mega-Theater w/up to 15 or more screens to fill (if lucky). This is where quality dropped to the point I did not go. I drive to Air & Space IMAX Theater at Dulles Airport near Washington DC. Me and wife tried the newer Dinner and Movie places; food + booze + movie did not work for spouse. Staff either didn't care or was not trained in how to be invisible in this kind of arrangement -- she will not try 2nd time. This is the consumer that drops $75 on munchies, a drink or two + ticket, one chance. I am not qualified to answer for families who may want to drive a carload of kids when I have seen up to $15 each tickets. Not going to get all "what about the experience" mushy - I did take a bunch of kids once and only once (sisters and nieces bribed me).

1.3 So, here we are. I am going on the record saying Disney is off my list, they are going to do something pretty special to get even Rental Stream (PPV) $ out of me.

1.4 From the top: I have to keep my BigBucks Xfinity so I can watch that model change. Netflix just increased to $14 month for a rather basic subscription but for now I'll keep it (demographic target is not me but the new stuff still has me watching). Amazon Prime Video is never going away, however, the content fight will get messier. HBOmax running on my Amazon Fire TV thingy that all TV's have? Got to recheck. Also, and it my be just me, NEVER buying TV that requires Internet connection to setup or update. Do have Kindles for just browsing for fun movie or series to fall asleep on.

1.5 Cannot pay monthly for everything so some products have to be left out: CBS All Access = 0 (nothing for me), All Disney = 0 (EVIL Corp), hulu = Divide by zero cause Disney, Paramount = (waiting). The Amazon Prime Video channel subscription is stable so I do add any channel (WGNa, Shudder, Fandor, AMC, etc) when there is a series I must see (WGNa, Almost Paradise was blocked on Xfinity. I Bought each episode on Amazon).

1.6 What Warner Media has done is structure a way to watch what I like at home day 1 and if I must I will go to IMAX for 3D.

1.6.0 The AMC on the next block is off limits until I am vaccinated and doctor is happy with that experiment. (Don't skip getting complete procedure. In my case I have to wait and see beacause even for Flu shot I have restrictions on kind of shot.) OOPS. Too long? TMI? (copy paste into blog now)

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Test -- video embeds

Just messing with obsolete tools, Chrome does not allow sign-in to bolg. [
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

ADLAND SPECIAL -- Officially Not Summer + Adland Interview By Adpulp


Just a note to wake journal up. Next week some science fiction rants or video. -The Invisible Cat

Dude! You Didd't Have A Clue Who She Is!
[ Sometimes people use a technological solution and accept their job is more pleasant than it should and never bother to ask; 1. Who invented it. 2. When was that tool invented. 3. Where was it invented. 4. Why is this marvelous tool in this most unlikely situation?
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[ I have thought those questions now and then. I had been "on the Internet" before it was all prettied up for everyone -- It-was-big-heavy-slow just like today.
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[ One of the non-military plans for Internets was easy access to a site that could have a repository of ... Anything ... in the case of advertising it is Adland site by Ask Wapplings (AKA @dabitch). Twenty years of cataloguing, by the rules, the best and worst of the industry for future students and general public has been kicked off the Internet. The
"Nuisance DMCA" is not being used as it was intended but as a weapon destroying history and educational resource. Back to repository. I had icy chill because my thought was just like, "Library of Alexandria".
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[ this is where I leave you so can read -The Invisible Cat ]


Åsk Wäppling’s Adland Torpedoed By “Nuisance DMCA”
September 26, 2019 By David Burn




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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Movie Screening Security Guards [see archive org] (p;t)

This video was made 10 years ago and managed to stay online in a 320x240 frame. For reasons I suspect are Chrome browser hates my old mac os 'cause its flash it will not play in Twitter.

PLAY!

The sad faces because fewer high quality "screeners" found their way to infringes.  Reckon they will have to cruse the corner "knockoff tables" with the tourists. Note: 4K cam in the theater trick is rubbish too.





TTEST.... Done.

Monday, October 8, 2018

NSFW (lang) - Old Twitter: Kill Fail Whale VS New Twitter: Capital Hill Protest OCT 2018

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[New Twitter UI (Is just a mess, I hate it.]
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Friday, February 2, 2018

Blogger VS Google: The Adobe Flash War

My daily workhorse computer is an Intel iMac, 27", 10.6.8 and chrome browser that Google calls obsolete. Yeah, a perfect system except Google and now Amazon Prime Video will not function. Why? One reason is DRM is driving the browser bus now. Another reason is Adobe Flash and HTML5.

To kill Flash forever the browser must treat flash as a bug; 1. If browser has flash plugin then allow no video to play and embedded video  becomes a vector to Youtube.
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Blogger page is a wasteland. Oh, my mobile renders page perfectly. Go figure.

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Thursday, August 3, 2017

The Space Race - LEGO Saturn V Build - Amy Shira Teitel versus Adam Savage

If the Cold War sounds like government FUD to you then read on. I can't show you (REDACTED) father's documents since they were fetched by serious suits driving black Fords - 1974 I think. Not my problem at the time.

[ The Apollo mission was a project that happens sometimes in history -- think The Great Wall of China, a massive  project driven by the events of the time. The Cold War Soviets already set  the bar by putting a satellite in orbit. All we the USA had was one big bluff. Soviets publicly said they would be 1st, also a bluff.

The public needed an ego boost so President  Kennedy gets on TV and bluffs Soviets. (The rocket people in Army & Air Force had nothing.)

In the 1960's I lived outside Langley AFB on the Hampton side. Then I could walk across the bridge and look around and day dream (restricted areas are well marked and I knew better to test MPs. The contractors were everywhere; ID cards were available to family with limits - Adult accompanies minors.) Loved that wind tunnel.
1969 was magical.

In 1971 I was prepping for a holiday in SE Asia so the MOON was the last thing on my mind.  -Now I'm just the #InvisibleCat called dutch.  (Very Retired)
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[ The immortal words from Sugar Bates, "What are you going to do now?" #Banshee on @Cinemax.

Answer: I am posting video by people who know the Apollo mission inside and out - History lesson in crafts class.
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[ The ultimate space race of all time -- Build LEGO  Saturn V that NASA produced to put man on the moon Apollo 11.  The superpowers are Amy Shira Teitel and Adam Savage (they are on TV so they are equivalent in power.

Vintage Space - Going first with archive of live cast. Long with many bits of fact that may have never made it into NASA History Site and worth the time if you are like me and never did anything with LEGO. Mzz Amy AKA @astVintageSpace is a Space Historian and quite entertaining.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

The Tick: Amazon Video Series: He's the Blue Suit with a Killer Jawline and Crazy Talk

[Confession: I did not know The Tick was back. Of all the comic book book superhero characters only The Tick made sense. I didn't have the comic book collector gene but The Tick knew I didn't fawn over the comic book stars and destiny called . When The Tick was on TV in mid 1990's I was busy as bee working, that means "not in the demographics" of targeted group advertising. Hey, I have a mute button for distracting toy ads.
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[Note to me about Amazon Pilot system: 1. The Tick along with two other pilots was posted August 18, 2016. 2. Amazon gave The Tick a go for season one in September. 3. Hurry up and wait mode for delivery to Amazon.
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[Amazon Video Pilot Page for The Tick: Descriptions, Actors, Details, and user comments.
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Thursday, October 8, 2015

MIPCOM: Keynote Speakers Explicate Content, Delivery, Advertising and Social Platforms

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October 8, 2015 22:06:28 EDT

MIPCOM: Keynote Speakers Explicate Content, Delivery, Advertising and Social Platforms

Before I offer opinions I wish to thank MIP for the great speakers and full length video. https://www.youtube.com/user/mipmarkets

1.0 Social Ground Zero -- Twitter
[ Note on "TV x Twitter - MIPCOM 2015" presentation
 -- Think about the new shiny toy called social TV and what it will be asking you to give up in order to play by rules that are, at best, not in your best interest. We already throw useful, sometimes personal, data at Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Google and others but I get twitchy when "TV x Twitter" promises a world of fun without cost. I may be overstating my position on this platform  -- needs more study. ]

[ MIPCOM youtube "TV x Twitter - MIPCOM 2015" ]


https://youtu.be/gsIvKZ6p9eQ ]

1.1 DeathStar -- Google
[ What Google built in order to make mobile experience better - Has nothing to do with making video work better. ]

[ Mobile: google AMP ]
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/10/get-ampd-heres-what-publishers-need-to-know-about-googles-new-plan-to-speed-up-your-website/

Basic concept is simple. No javascript. Restrictive CSS, images and video can be constrained at will for performance. JSON is okay because it is the loader. HTML5 multimedia tags are AMP custom elements. Think Facebook Instant Articles done "The Google Way".
But this stripping out out tags also reinforces a walled garden. AMP is an open source project, but tags like amp-img are killing and replacing elements that have been part of the open web for literally decades. It’s forking HTML
For better and for worse, this is essentially a rollback of how HTML and web technologies have evolved over the past decade. It’s a little jarring that so many of the sample AMP pages on display this morning look a lot like the web of, say, 2002, shrunk down to a phone screen. Like an IE 5.5 emulator.
However, another non-standard standard promises good things. We like good things until all user control is locked down. By user I mean me and my mobile.
And it’s yet another case of a technology company coming along to promise a better experience for users that takes one more bit of power away from publishers. That is, of course, a reasonable and good thing for technology companies to do! Blogger and WordPress empowered anyone to publish online; this hurt professional publishers but the tradeoff was a net gain for users. Google, Facebook, and Twitter created amazing platforms for discovering interesting content; this hurt professional publishers but the tradeoff was a net gain for users.
1.2 We have the Force -- Not Yoda, that other guy
A brief history of phone vs human (I think so) from Jacques Mattheij (@jmattheij). I pulled out one point, read it all.
[ SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 Whose Phone Is It Anyway? ]
http://jacquesmattheij.com/whose-phone-is-it-anyway
And so we arrive today. Where you think that you own the computer that you use and the phone in your pocket. You see the network as a peripheral of your computer and your phone, with your device as a node in a network operated by ‘peers’.

But that’s not the view of the phone company and your ISP. They see that phone in your pocket and that computer on your desk as a peripheral of their infrastructure.
I was going to add a few more historical essays (less than "now" old) but physics got in way. Pesky relativity.

1.3 Special Relativity for Content Viewing -- It's The Law
[ consumer is the observer of the content; There is only now, past and future are irreverent. Time and light vector for Future and Past emanate from the observer in normal space. ]

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