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gernb1...You got it...
A logical mind is an "Open Mind"...Lol...
Read my previous 3 posts, and GRIN...
Regards...Gilgamash...
cksla...You say...
Even the Eclipse Commander II, a leader in this category prominently displayed at the show, is still not ready for prime time. Until voice recognition becomes much more reliable and consistent, we're unlikely to see advances in the improvement of telematics. A fully functional system looks to be three to five years away....
Here is a little something from the ECLIPSE COMMANDER ADVANCE
brochure...
"ECLIPSE Commander Advance enhences driving safety."...
"The best reason for using the ECLIPSECommander Addvance system is to emhence driving safety. You interact naturally with the Commander, through voice commands and by hearing its responses, and you never have to remove your hands from the steering wheel or your eyes from the road."...
The brochure continues:
"The commander has been designed and engineered to be an easy and affordable way to upgrade to all the advantages of advanced voice control as well as extras such as MP3 decoding and upgraded Human Interface capability."
This is what Fujitsu Ten people are all reved up about. And this is what is aimed at going into new cars...
Regards...Gilgamash...
cksla...
Update this PR of 1999 to today, and change the name ECLIPSE COMMANDER, to ECLIPSE COMMANDER ADVANCE to make it relevant to any EDIG discussion...
Regards...Gilgamash...
cksla..
AND HERE I THOUGHT YOU KNEW EVERYTHING THERE WAS TO KNOW ABOUT FUJITSU TEN, AND ABOUT THE ECLIPSE BY FUJITSUE TEN PRODUCTS?...
It is clear we are communicating...
Here is another try at it, and if this does not work I will have to ship you couple of brochures I picked up at CES.
One is a 75 page catalog of Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten products, listing a plethora of of automotive entretainment products, such as TUNERS, AMPLIFIERS, CD CHANGERS, TAPE PLAYERS, SPEAKERS, MONITERS FOR VISUAL ENTERTAINEMENT, IN SHORT HIGH QUALITY SOUND AND VISION THAT PLEASES AUDIOPHILES AND VIDIOPHILES IN A MOBILE ENTERTAIMENT ENVIRONMENT...
The other is labled ECLIPSE BY FUJITSU TEN, ECLIPSE COMMANDER ADVANCE"....
It is important that you pay attention to the ADVANCE word here...
This is the unit that is audio-video, telephone, MP3 player, CD changer, etc., and it is all voice intergrated unit and is to go in new cars...
Also, if you send me your e-mail on the "Private Cahnnel" I will send you a more detailed synopsis of this then we may be on the same wavelength...PEACE...
Regards...Gilgamash...
DON...
Beautifull Summer day here...Puts. Phil should move to Bay Area. One more putz here won't make a difference...Lol...
I will take the more snow, however...
We need more white stuff in them there mountains...
Regards...Gilgamash...
Tenderloin...
Sorry, you are right I did say "every new car". My bad, correct that to whatever modifier you wish, like "many new cars", or "some of the new cars", then multiply the fraction you get by the total number of cars toyota puts out, and you have a lot of Eclipse Commander units with Mp3 players sold...
The point is that you can not ignore this revenue source any longer because of any "past History", and because there are no specific PRS telling you how many units will be ordered by Eclipse Ten...
The product is here, it is being marketed "aggressively" by Fujitsu Ten, who already has cornered a good part of the car audio-video market, and is tooling up factories to meet its
anticipated demand for a product which had a great reception by "customers" at CES...GRIN...
Regards...Gilgamash...
emit...
Expect the unexpected, but act on the basis of the "obvious"...
Regards...Gilgamash...
acarazio...
Here is my take on the points you raise...
1) Management was very smug when they announced their $550,000-600,000.00 revenues for the Feb. 15, of this year. They also said they would give "guidance" as to future quarter revenues. Furthermore, there is the statement that they will be "Revenue Nutral" in 2003. Your question, therefore should be which quarter?...
2) I think you are wrong about the IFE. The company "we are doing business with" is a mere intermediary, and they do not "Pay" for the widgets. My recollection is that the Airline pays edig, and that there is already a "paying customer Airline", and other Airlines are "waiting in the wings" to see how it plays, before they jump in. So, there should be some money from the IFE in the next quarter revenue...
3) Personally, I am very excited about the ECLIPSE, and think it will be a "huge" revenue generating program for EDIG. Just think, the New car Models are on the Factory production lines already. Toyota owns over 51% of Eclipse Ten, and every new car will have an Eclipse Commander with MP3 in the dash...
So, it will be way before your 9 months that EDIG will see Q over Q higher revenues...DO THE MATH, and start GRINNING...
Regards...Gilgamash...
bcaddel...ATTA BOY...!..GO FOR IT...Lol...
Your plan is great. I suggest you call RP early in the a.m., and have him see to it to you get that 0-1000...
Have a nice cruise, and "sell" loads of 0-1000's...
Regards...Gilgamash...
TI's new chip doubles the Speed of digital data transfer...
Regards...Gilgamash...
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030131/daf013_1.html
Smay...What day?...
Regards...Gilgamash...
MIR...
Your Order number was # 14187. I ordered an 0-1000 on Friday night, and it was Order # 14390.
What day did you order yours?...
Regards...Gilgamash...
DON...
There you go again with that TI DSP with a "kernel"...Lol...
Regards...Gilgamash...
DON...
Did you ask what was the chip-set they were using?...
Regards...Gilgamash...
Namequoit...
You are right, I did bring it up...
You, and your cohort austonia's shallow attempts to riddicule the 0-1000 by beating the drums for CREATIVE Nomad, via posting their OP-ED Press release on how much money they made last quarter, has no relevance to the issue of whether 0-1000 is a better prodct than anything Creative has to offer in the DAP market...
I know CREATIVE as far back as the 80's when I bought my first sound card from them, while they were operating out of a warehouse in South San Francisco, CA. And, I know what a giant multi tentecle company they are, and how they operate...
As they point out in their own PR:
"Approximately 50% of our revenues in the second quarter came from products outside the PC, including our NOMAD digital audio players, Cambridge SoundWorks and Creative branded speakers, and our family of WebCams. Revenues from our NOMAD family of digital audio players, including the MuVo and NOMAD Zen, were up over 100% year-over-year;...
FIRST:
They say 50% of their quarter's revenue came from a plethora of
products other than PC, and there is nothing there to indicate
that NOMAD family of products were a big chunk of that 50% because people were gobbling them up, as you imply...
SECOND:
They note that their revenues for the NOMAD FAMILY were up 100%
year-over-year, but they fail to mention that they had to take a $60 million writ off last year. I suppose, one could conlclude that they only lost $30 million on their NOMAD this year?...
Ordinarliy, I ignore such obviously illogical comments as yours that seek to compare little EDIG and its 0-1000 with such giants as CREATIVE and APPLE, citing their askwed financial PRS to infer that EDIG somehow failed in executing on its PLAN to deliver its technology to the Market...
On the other hand, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Why don't you buy an 0-1000, and a Creative top of the line NOMAD, and after you have compared them write your critique. Then, there would be some validity in your comments, provided they have merit, which I doubt...
Regards...Gilgamash...
Tinroad...
I am sending an e-mail to RP to ask if we are in the PVP. What a neat gadget...
http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.010903/bb6.jpg
Don't expect a reply, but I will try. The implication is certainly there, that EDIG is in it, (Multi codec; MP3, MPG4.)
Regards...Gilgamash...
Namequit...
I sure hope Tin didn't buy that piece of junk...Lol...
Creative had to take a $60 million tax write off for their rushing to corner the MP3 Market in 2000,2001. Looks like they still don't have it right...
MP3 market is not a market for GEEKS and technical whiz kids. It really has its major base in technically challanged folks like me. The baby boomers, who would like to carry their albums of Greatful Dead with them while hiking in Yosemati Park, and they have the resources to buy the uints at $500 A POP...
Can you immagine them facing the nightmare described by Tinroad?...
Regards...Gilgamash...
Tinroad...
Simply put, THAT IS BEAUTIFUL...
I already did upgrade from MXP100 to O-1000. Can't wait till I get it next week. A sentiment shared by posters of "comments" on d-music com., some of whom had paid $20 dollars to get next day delivery only to find out that no deliveries were made on weekends...Lol...
Your post should really be posted on d-music.com also. This guy really needs to be challanged for what he is, a person on a mission to bad mouth 0-1000 without having compared it to the other units he plugs...
Regards...Gilgamash...
CORRECTION...Jauary 8, 2003 PR...
Regards...Gilgamash...
emit...Don...anyone...
This is from the January 6/03 PR:
"Equator's proprietary video processing chipset and our technology and engineering expertise are being combined to address the emerging OEM market for new home video products handling multiple codecs and featuring high definition capabilities. Our new, customizable solution is already attracting OEMs who have scheduled private demonstrations at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week."...
I did not see the equator chip-set at the EDIG site at CES...
It was at the Microsoft Pavilion...
I have two questions:
1) What are examples of some of the "...home video products handling multi codecs and faeturing high definition capabilities"?
2) Does any one know if the "...private demonstration" for
the OEMS were held at the Microsoft Pavilion, and what came of the private demonstrations?...
Regards...Gilgamash...
Hi Don...
Who is this guy austonia? I was checking d-music com., and found him there too, posting the same balderdash he posted here. What's with this guy? He really must hate EDIG...
I wish some who is more technically inclined than me, would get on d-music and post a comment questioning his critical comments, and pointing out that most of the points he raises are software correctable, as it was pionted out here...
Regards...Gilgamash...
stone-mason...AMEN...
Regards...Gilgamash...
MIR...YEH...BUTANYWAY, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?...Lol...
Does it say that there were three times as many hits on the edig site after introduction of 0-1000?...
Or, does it imply that edig dropped to a lower ranking after the 0-1000 was made available for sale?...Lol...
Regards...Gilgamash...
StoopSooners...YOU ARE RIGHT...
ECLIPSE COMMANDER ADVANCED'S voice recognition system is not a product of edig, however the "Integration" of the MP3 capability with the unit is what edig worked on...
Regards...Gilgamash...
50+...GOOD WORK...KEEP THE FLAME LIT...
I am not sure if cksla had long conversations with the F10 Tech people at CES 2003...
I would say, however, his "guesses", as usual, are on the mark as to what are the capabilities of the "docking Station" EDIG prepared for F10...
The questions to be asked are did EDIG prepare the "docking station" (1) for the aftermaket, or will it work for the (2) new car market also?...
The answers I got were (1) YES, and (2) May be, with some modification, to work with the ECLIPSE COMMANDER ADVANCE UNITS
that are destained to go into new cars...
The eclipse commander advance has "...state of the art recognition of conventional American English dialects. The user needs just to speak in a natural-sounding human voice instead of a synthesized voice. It will confirm commands, ask questions and respond..."
"For head units that do not have built-in MP3 decode ability to play MP3 files,the Commander conviently provide MP3 playback compatibility." (from ECLIPSE COMMANDER ADVANCE brochure given out by F-10 at CES 2003...
Regards...Gilgamash...
DON...You hav mail @surewest...
Regards...Gilgamash...
bomba...You seem honestly interested in having a discourse...
For that reason, I humbly request that you refrain from sloganeering. Especially, I suggest you stay away from words such a "Hype", "Bash" which have become "heavy" with pejorative connotations...
There is no distinction between your "Attitude" and mine. You say "Tomatos", and I say "Tomawtos"...
You see the developments today as "Positive", so do I...
We differ as to its "implications" in the not too distant future...
I can appriciate the "validity" of your constrained enthusiasm,
based on your "exposure" of the past three years, which will make your outlook "jaundiced.". However, I did not call you a "Basher". Such lables are counter productive and lead not to
honest and intelligent give and take which may lead to enlightenment.
On the other hand, I submit that it is just possible that my spending few thousand dollars to attend CES for 4 days, meandering through the Halls and Pavelions, to gather information to "Validate" the viability of our little company, may just have convinced me that EDIG is "Real", and is on the "Cusp" of "delivering" on its "Promise", for which we have waited over three years, and TODAAY WAS THE START OF THAT DELIVERY...
Thank you for your consideration, and PEACE...
Regards...Gilgamash...
Don...JUST GOT IT...
No more, "you have reached your limits...", blah,blah,blah. Lol
Regards...Gilgamash...
db24...YOU POST WHATEVER YOU "FEEL LIKE" TO POST...
You are as entitled to express your opinion about the state of EDIG as much as any "GOODIE TOO SHOE KNOW IT All", who will express their trepedation and worries about their investment in EDIG...
Don't get intimidated. I will be right there sharing your enthusiasm for our little choo choo that could...
Regards...Gilgamash...
bomba...SO, YOU ARE SAYING...
Digital Way is going to be "Huge", but you would just as soon wait to count the dollar signs after the "Announcement" is made?...
O.K...If that works for you fine, but it does not mean that there is no "truth" in the statement that our little company is "SHIPPING" the best MP3 player in the market, and that OEMS
are lining up to market it throughout the worls...GRIN...
Regards...Gilgamash...
bomba...ADD TO YOUR LIST:...
The fact that the Conference Call said with no uncertain terms Eidg was negotiating sith "Several OEMs" who were anxious to brand 0-1000 and sell it here and overseas...
And, the initial orders were in the "10,000-to-30,000" units...
You think that was all "fluff"?...NOT...
And, do you think they will keep that a secret as soon as one of them is "Signed on.?"...Me thinks not...
Enjoy the moment...
Regards...Gilgamash...
LL...One year at a time...
Please don't rush it...Lol...
Regards...Gilgamash...
SSI...This has never been a stock for the meek...
Good luck...
Regards...Gilgamash...
Don...
The "docking station" shown at CES was specifically made for "AFTERMARKET"... Right from the horses mouth...
Regards...Gilgamash...
ucansee...Lol...You can smoke anything you want...
Just don't let those who trade in this BB stock, who would want the pps to stay low so they can get back in, cloud your judgment as to what direction the arrow is pointing to...
Regards...Gilgamash...
cksla...
You are forgiven and pardoned for your present attitude, because of your past posts, which could foresee what this little company is about. You are wrong, however, in your prediction as to what Automotive audio-video would mean for EDIG...
I can see how the three years of exposure to the "Drip-drip" negativism of these boards would lead to your present approach.
Go ahead, and wait till the numbers are out. I see nothing wrong with that. But, that does not mean we have to follow your cautious negativistic attitude also...
PEACE, and enjoy the moment...
Regards...Gilgamash...
philo...I THOUGHT THE NORTH POLE WAS MELTING?...
Regards...Gilgamash...
DABOSS...
Those whose "reality" is shrunk to a dot, have no concept of what it takes to bring a patent for an INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY to the MARKET, and create NEW STANDARDS for the future...
And all this, in the face of one the biggest busts in the market place in recent memory...
And, as you aptly note, this is just the beggining of multiple applications that are just months away...
2003 is going to be when D.inkie's rocket achieves ORBIT, and
the company becomes self sustained economically. And, it will start showing "Profits" because of the IFE, and Fujitsu Ten...
After that, you are limited only by your immagination...
Regards...Gilgamash...
LL...db24...AND YOU ARE THERE...
A new ERA indeed...
Let the nay sayers dish out their trite comments...But, we are at the start of what we all expected three years ago...
The only question is how fast this trian is going to pick up steam...
Regards...Gilgamash...
bomba...
You are forgetting all those people who had pre-ordered the
0-1000 and were on the waiting list...
Regards...Gilgamash...