The 4:20 Project: Black Friday Edition

Whats up you guys. Black Friday was alright. I didn't get the laptop like I wanted, but I did get my $150 computer. There was a lot of bitchers at Best Buy. Its hard to explain via print, so its all explained on the podcast. The 4:20 Project Episode Twelve is finally up. The episode was fun to make. Thanks to everybody at Best Buy, like the lady that gave us blankets. Here are some ways that you can get the episode.

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Enjoy the episode. Hopefully, another will be posted some time between now and two weeks. I want to try and make an episode some time the first or second week of December. Later...

*UPDATED* Hopeful Black Friday Buys

Best Buy
Early Bird - 5am to Noon
eMachines Celeron Desktop w/ 17" Monitor $149.99
Toshiba Celeron M 370 Notebook 15in screen 256MB/40GB DVD/CDRW $379.99
Paintball Tournament (Xbox) $9.99
Seagate 120GB Internal Hard Drive $29.99 (rebate)
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (Xbox) $9.99
Billy Madison DVD $3.99

Gamestop / EB Games
Early Bird - 7am to Noon
XBox Doom 3 Expansion - $19.99

Target
Lego Star Wars Video Game (Xbox) - $19.88

More will be added if I find something interesting. Me, Spoony and Rebecca will be recording a special Black Friday Madness show for The 4:20 Project. If you want to be on it, contact us I guess. Or just wait at Best Buy EARLY in the morning.

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TriangleEntertainment Q & A

What is TriangleEntertainment??
TriangleEntertainment is the production company that produces some of your favorite podcasts / IPTV shows.

What shows do you produce??
TriangleEntertainment currently only produces two shows. The 4:20 Project and The Joe Anderson Show.

Are there any more productions coming?
Yes. Soon we will start production on an untitled tv show. You will be able to watch it on your computer by subscribing to it via an RSS Feed. You'll be able to download it through your favorite RSS reader. TriangleEntertainment also is working on some untitled podcasts as well.

Can I you produce my show??
Yes and No. Depending on what your trying to get us to produce. If you want us to produce a podcast, about 95% of the time, we'll say yes. Some things may apply when you get us to produce your show. Now, if you want us to produce a IPTV show, we would have to look at it, review it and run ideas with you first. The cost of storage is high, if we choose your IPTV program, and if we feel that it isn't being liked, we may end the partnership. So unless we feel the show will be a hit, your IPTV show won't be produced by us.

Why should I subscribe to this feed, if I'm already subscribed to one of your shows??
The TriangleEntertainment feed will enclude all of TriangleEntertainment's shows in one feed. Plus, you'll get announcements about new shows only through this feed.

Review: Comedy Central's Motherload Network

Comedy Central has just launched a new service for Broadband users called Motherload. It's a way of getting clips of Comedy Central shows, on your time. What is different comparied to MTV's Overdrive, are many many different things. These simple things make it probably the best broadband demand service out there.

[1] Works With Firefox. Unlike MTV's Overdrive or VH1's V-Spot, Motherload works in firefox. I personally hate changing from Firefox to Internet Explorer just to watch a clip. Firefox is a much safer browser, and lowering my shields to watch Melinda make out with another hot chick on The Real World using Internet Explorer is just not good.

[2] Original Programming. Motherload offers original programming that can only be found on that network. Some of the shows are just outstanding, like Jump Cuts, Meet The Creeps, and TV Listings while some aren't really good like I Love The 30's, Shadow Rock and Odd Todd. If they put Original Programming on lets say, a new episode of one show every day, I would look forward to that day alone.

[3] Old Classic Shows. Comedy Central had alot of classic shows back in the day. Unfortunatly, they were cancelled to fast or ran there course before I found out about them. Since Comedy Central doesn't have the room on the regular schedule to show them, why not show them on Motherload? Example, a cult classic that everybody knows is Crank Yankers. Now they can be found on Motherload any second of the day. Viva Variety was a great show featuring Lt. Jim Dangel and Trudy Wiegel from Reno 911! and Micheal Ian Black from Stella. The show didn't last long, yet it still has a cult following. Cult Classics are ways to see shows that you didn't really give a try back when they were on in the day.

There are some problems though, if you want to get the full show in one sitting, sorry they only come in clips. Another problem that bother me was that not all of the Classic Show's episodes were up at one time, it looks like Comedy Central is going to release one "episode" a week for each show. Now there are a lot of clips in the libary. In fact, there are so many clips of the Daily Show, they gave them their own naviagation button.

What also bothers me is that there are too many ads. I guess I can't complain considering they just launched. I'm sure that Comedy Central doesn't want to spend too much money on this, considering they still want people to watch CC on TV, because that's where they get the ratings, not the computer.

Greg Giraldo tells you what is new for the day on Motherload. He is a great guide for this service. He is very funny, in fact he almost makes me want to watch his show on the TV!! Then again, why should I, considering I could sit on the computer and just watch the clips of his show right on the computer. Sucker...

It's a great service that Comedy Central put out. Its much better than VH1's V-Spot and MTV's Overdrive networks. I totally Recommend you to watch the Motherload Network. Now if only other networks follow after Comedy Central and do the same thing.

I do have a reccomendation though. If Motherload starts to fail, I would put up Chappelle's Show unaired Season Three episodes. You know how much people would flock to see that, before the dvds come out?? Only offer it on Motherload for lets say, two weeks before the DVDs come out then instantly pull it off Motherload. Don't show the episodes on TV, Chappelle's Show definately could make a shitload of money after it ended. Showing an episode or two would just boost more intrest in it which would mean more DVDs would be sold.

Coming up this weekend...

This weekend, expect some posts about the following:

• Review: Comedy Central's Motherload Network
• Beavis & Butthead: Bring them back!
• Posting of The 4:20 Project Episode Eleven
• The Xbox 360

Peace out...

What should cancelled TV shows do??

Now days, TV shows get cancelled left and right. Some of them are just terrible and you sometimes gotta wonder how that shit got on TV. While others are great shows, but they don't get a chance to shine because of the network or a shitty time slot.

There are different things you can do after you get cancelled. Lets take a look at Jump Cuts. A great show that shows many different segments from independent film makers. I tuned into Comedy Central one night and I was hooked. Yet, only four episodes were produced in it's entire run!! Jump Cuts never had a stable time slot for new or old episodes. What is Jump Cuts doing?? The show is getting re-hashed by the same network that cancelled it, Comedy Central, and put on their Broadband Network called Motherload.

Another show that was cancelled is Stankervision. The show airs on MTV 2 part of their Sic Em' Friday block. The show brought in some very good ratings and helped MTV 2 to recieve their highest third quarter rating ever! It should have been renewed for a second season...but it wasn't. No one knows why but luckly, they had a show before Stankervision called The DAMN! Show. In fact, The DAMN! Show is supposed to be better than Stankervision. The DAMN! Show is being distributed on DVD.

Right now, tv shows on television network is a very dangerous place to be. That's why I think that IPTV is the way to go. What is IPTV?? To put it in simple terms, its TV downloaded from the internet. This is why instead of going to PBS for a time slot, The Triangle is distributing our TV show over the internet. We don't have to worry about ratings, or a fear of being cancelled. All we have to worry about is putting the shit out on time. There is no advertising, so you don't have to worry about fast forwarding or anything. Internet based TV is the way to go now that BitTorrent is getting popular. You could easily distribute your show and not worry about anything. It's simple and hopefully I'll be able to prove that to you when we get our first episode up in 2006.