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In the next 2 to 3 mos I'll be able to afford a subscribtion to ihub and get rid of that pesky pop up. hehe
I think it's in the ibox, if you hide it, goes away.
It's going to be like a Mall, each one feeding off the others traffic, IMO.
If I remember correctly the horror genre was the most popular according to Bev on a PR or statement awhile back.
I think Loinsgate will be more popular than Sony for the time being, depending on the price point. Sony at $3.99 is good for a couple of movies a week, if LG is at $1.99 that would give them the advantage.
SONY, man they have their fingers in everything. This is great. Nice list on Sony orignaldp, we'll be everywhere soon!!
I'm with you truck king, here's my scenario: PR from content provider/marketing partner out on their ticker symbol before the CC, along with PR from reeltime announcing it and whatever else is down the pipe.
I'm hoping there's going to be a lot of potential investors on that call from the release of PRs that day, IMO.
Timing couldn't be better for a PR release of major content provider, one of the top three I'm told, with all the buzz around CES about online distribution.
Alot of write up's in the online mags, here's one:
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6517889.html
By Paul Sweeting -- Video Business, 1/7/2008
CES: Studios see big swell ahead for online distribution
JAN. 7| LAS VEGAS—Top digital executives from four major studios on Monday predicted an explosion of professionally produced video content on the Internet in 2008, driven by improved streaming quality, the proliferation of video-capable devices and the media companies’ need to find new business models for their content.
“Technology is creating many more ways to consume content,” said Thomas Gewecke, newly named president of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. “One core of our strategy is to make content as available as possible and in as many configurations as possible.”
Dan Fawcett, president of Fox Entertainment Group Digital Media, said his company will be focused on extending the distribution of its content online as far as possible in 2008.
“We’re strong believers in ubiquitous distribution,” he said. “That’s the reason we created Hulu. We’ll be aggregating content on Hulu.com but we’re also interested in letting people distribute our content virally through the Hulu player.”
Hulu is a joint venture between Fox-parent News Corp. and NBC Universal. Currently in private beta, the site is slated to go live “in the next few months,” according to Fawcett.
Also driving the proliferation of online video offerings this year is the need for the studios to test a variety of distribution and business models as they try to figure out the best ways to monetize their content.
“Everybody is experimenting right now,” Disney’s executive VP for digital media Albert Chang said. “As content owners, we need to diversify our revenue streams as much as possible. We’re all going through the process right now of windowing TV for the first time. We’ve never done that before and we need to experiment to find out the best way to do it. Product development and how we handle our video is going to change very quickly over the next few years.”
Experimentation doesn’t mean missing financial targets, however.
“The iTunes business is revenue-positive for the studios that are participating,” Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment president Tom Lesinski said. “Our digital video-on-demand business is revenue-positive. None of these businesses are being run as business development projects.”
Lesinski predicted that 2008 will see “significant growth in the amount of content moving from broadband to the TV,” as set-top boxes like Apple TV and Vudu gain traction.
“You have five or six really serious players in that space right now, and I think you’ll see them start to have an impact,” Lesinski said.
Pressed by panel moderator Charlie Koones, publisher of Variety and president of the Variety Group (of which Video Business is part), the executives largely side-stepped questions about the impact of Apple’s growing strength in the online video business.
“I think Apple has to be rewarded for the products they make,” said Chang. “They’re really compelling. It’s a great ecosystem for consumers. ITunes was really our first opportunity to legitimately distribute video online.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the largest individual shareholder of Disney and sits on its board of directors.
“Do they have too much sway? They compete against a lot of other options,” Chang said. “They even compete against piracy. So to say they have too much control is looking at too narrow a slice.”
OT: Tough loss for the Steelers, hope you got to watch the game.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the upload rhustang, count 2234.
Pats all the way!!!!!
Restricted shares and for private financing.
That's a first RTK, no matter who or why, reeltime has it's last deadline to meet for me. I will decide what to do after that. I only wish I could average down right now at these prices.
My info company is not diluting, who's selling, anybody's guess. Reeltime has no control when, why and how much someone will sell their shares for.
IMO reeltimes hands are tied, until major studio decides to release the PR, that will start this puppy rolling.
Thanks AngelHillCorp, good info here seems hard to come by these days.
Nice job Tyee, thanks.
Thanks etrade, commission free day, got me some shares for my stocking.
Nice find on the patent update AngelHillCorp, a patent would be nice.
napoleonsolo13, I think reeltime has alot to release in the way of news and will confirm some of your questions soon.
Deal..The Original dpb5, get em now. Share your outlook for this company.
We've been through this before with the manipulation of the pps and we'll bounce back like we did before. Who is doing it is the big question and the only one that bothers me right now.
Lack of execution, were adding quality content, slowly but surely, Bev is still bringing in the deals, we've added high profile members to the BOD and the new site is up and running.
Yeah they've been sittin around with their thumbs up their ass feeding off us investors, give me a break.
LMAO.. he does like to hedge his bets too..
Here's some industry articles to read while we are waiting.
Online video will be 8% of industry by 2011, report says
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6513528.html?industryid=47214
Writers Strike a Boon to Web Venutres
http://www.videobusiness.com/blog/1730000173/post/1560018956.html
I'll take a stab at .25, in that time frame, soley based on a PR released my a major studio in conjunction with reeltime PR (Lionsgate took us to .15 for the most part) and prior to that reeltime PRs JVs with some other recogniziable companies.
Ihuber's and insiders have accululated it's up to reeltime to get new investors.
Sam Adams please..
I don’t see reeltime as a competitor to netflix or BB just yet, even with major content on the site. It’s a backhanded compliment to compare the two at this point, I see reeltime right now as more of an independent cable network such as, ESPN, HBO, etc… back in their heyday. I can remember watching Australian Rules football on ESPN or movies and half hour productions on HBO when I was younger as a supplement to over the air TV.
The same is true with today’s generation only with laptops and mobile phones thrown in the mix that connect to the internet via cellular or WiFi/WiMax instead of cable to watch alternetive programing.
The irony is that although reeltime maybe in competion with the cable companies, down the road, on the content side they are service providers on the delivery side. That’s probably why grid has a major cable company as a backer, they may see the same potential as we investors do for the evolution of TV.
RTK don't worry I will submitt your problem, that the gridplayer is not idiot proof.
I have watched over 50 shows on reeltime with no in and out sync problems. For asus to claim it is the the gridplayer with no evidence and egg you on is just hilarious.
It's also called covering your arse, so you can say I told you so, on the off chance things don't go as planned.
I emailed him the other day. I generally don't like to post my communications but I will to back up AN_OX and OldE5s posts.
This was his response:
Thomas;
Good questions. I would like to know the answers myself. Audited financials will be ready when they are ready, and I can not guess when that will be. Insofar as the content providers are concerned, all looks OK. Look for news shortly in regard to that.
Michael
Thomas Dxxx wrote:
Michael.
Hope your well and dry. Just checking in to see how things are progressing with the new site.
Hope testing by the future content providers is wrapping up and with positive results, any information you can share would be appericiated. I would also like to know if audited finanacils are close to being finished?
Great news for Innovative Technologies, not sure if you handle any of their inquiries but I'll ask anyway. Do they plan to release audited financials in the near future?
Enjoy the Holidays.
Regards,
Tom Dxxxx
Thanks Tyee
Well which is it?
RTK post # 3319 "The numbers are going to be ugly. There is no doubt about that."
OR
RTK post # 3324 "Well, about ICTN nobody knows anything because they haven't released any numbers."
C'mon stop playing games, now your attracting others who have no holdings here and feel they must post their musings on this company.
No, that's you and what I think you know about ICTN/RLTR financial situation.
Newman!!!
I would think the guy doing reeltime's audit would also be doing Innovative's audit.
Have your little birdies said anything about that?
Repost of Popular Mechanicics article on Googles Andriod platform.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4230588.html
The Future of Your Cellphone on Google's Android: Buzzword
Google’s open-source mobile software enters a mess of carrier lockdown. Could this be the end of contract hell, or it just hype? In his biweekly trends column, PM’s senior tech editor looks into the crystal ball—and finds out you’ll be happy either way.
By Glenn Derene
Published on: November 9, 2007
What will cellphones look like in an Android world? (If you’re waiting for that joke about sci-fi humanoids with cellular telephony implanted in their brains, it’s not going to happen—too important a subject here.) I am, of course, referring to Google’s announcement this week of its impending cellular handset operating system and the surrounding developer network, the Open Handset Alliance.
Details are sketchy about what to expect from Android, but one thing’s for sure: The hardware won’t look anything like photos of the so-called “gPhone” that have been circulating around the Internet since the rumor mill got fired up a year ago. (Rumor sites are very good at getting hold of half the truth, and terrible with the rest of it.) Google stated that it has no intention of manufacturing or designing hardware—at least not at first. Instead, the Web giant’s development team is producing an open-source, Linux-based operating system that will be provided free of charge on future handsets. And next week, a software developers’ kit (SDK) will hit the masses, to encourage software innovation and ensure a healthy allotment of applications for Android phones when they first start rolling out later next year.
Ultimately, a Google mobile operating system has the potential to be far more revolutionary than a Google phone. Despite the fact that the cellphone industry is a mature one, it has never settled on a standard OS—or even two or three, the way that the PC industry did. Say what you will about the evil hegemony of Microsoft, but the company’s dominance of the PC operating system market in the 80s and 90s allowed software programmers to write code that was universally applicable.
Now, not only are there multiple OS’s in the cellular industry (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Apple OS X for iPhone, and Blackberry OS), each OS is usually tuned by the carriers (Verizon Mobile, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint) for each phone. In fact, carriers often detune the capabilities of phones that could jeopardize services they want to sell—music and video streaming, GPS navigation, messaging, etc. The carriers get away with this because, by subsidizing phones in exchange for contract requirements on customers, they are often the only sales channels handset that makers have available. And carriers will often “lock” phones into their networks, rendering the devices useless if you switch services—and guaranteeing exclusivity arrangements on the handsets (the hacking and relocking of the iPhone to AT&T’s network has become a neverending battle between the iPhone dev team and Apple). This has loosened somewhat of late. Companies such as Nokia have pushed some of their higher-end phones onto the unlocked market, but the carriers are still holding most of the cards when it comes to what hardware and software is available to consumers.
Into this tangled mess comes Android and the Open Handset Alliance with a Linux-based, open-source OS for phones. Notably absent from this alliance, however, are the two largest cellular carriers—AT&T and Verizon Wireless—as well as handset makers such as Nokia, Research In Motion, Apple, Palm and Sony Ericsson, many of whom have a vested interest in operating systems of their own. Plus, as Nokia company reps whom I recently spoke with were quick to point out, Android isn’t the only open mobile OS: Symbian has an open SDK, and Apple has promised to launch an SDK for the iPhone as well—the upcoming Openmoko initiative promises a GNU/Linux phone that is almost entirely dependant on the software development efforts of the open-source community.
So Android is by no means a slam-dunk as a category-dominating OS standard, but it throws down the gauntlet to start a few much-needed brawls in the cellular industry. Google estimates that the operating system amounts to 10 percent of the total cost of a phone, so a free OS combined with falling hardware prices could eventually result in multifunction handsets that are cheap enough to do an end run around carrier subsidies. This could potentially mean a fertile unlocked handset market.
But what’s got to be really scaring the carriers right now is the prospect of thousands of freely available applications that could subvert almost every communications product they sell. Why subscribe to Sprint’s GPS mapping service when you can simply download a free one that taps into Google Maps? Why pay for text messages to your friends when you can download an instant messaging client? In fact, why pay for cellular minutes at all when you can download Skype and just use your data plan? This sort of functionality has been creeping onto cellphones for years as they have become more and more like tiny computers. But OS’s such as Android threaten carriers with a loss of control over the applications on the phones on their network. And they may find themselves becoming nothing more than wireless Internet service providers, forced to compete on price and bandwidth (another brewing battle, by the way, with Sprint’s WiMAX rollout next year).
Regardless of what happens, it is going to be good for consumers. If things shake out in the best possible way, we could end up with cheap, highly-functional, customizable, Internet-enabled handsets that work across multiple carriers with no long-term contract requirements. With a free, constantly evolving and updatable operating system, it could be future-proof by design. So the cell phone in an Android world would be at once cheaper and less disposable than the giveaway phones we’ve been settling for in the United States for years.
There are more reasons now to invest in rltr since I bought it back in 09/06 and it also reminds one to take their meds!
RTK, your rants have ramped up a bit, you have of late increased your opposing posts towards this stock and ICTN with no substantial credibility other than your personal experiences. You also try and discredit legitimate posts by others with the same rhetoric, again unsubstantiated. What gives?
How many times are you people going to contradict yourselves, sell already or adjust your strategy. I find the people who are more informed are more realistic and tend to have a more positive outlook on this company. The others who tend to feed off this board are the more impatient investors who want to sell. Some complain as to why a deadline is not met to some how influence the company or try and pump info from them because they hear they read the board.
If one follows the industry news, along with the creditable info from reeltime sources there is positive growth ahead. Wether it is with major studios content on the site, JVs with any number of companies (big or small) and mobile tech, which we have seen a hint of already, this companies stock can only go up with the news.
How it gets out there will determine how high it ill climb
Ahh stick around, I like his new siggy, I have a slow computer and the pictures take to long time to load sometimes.
Nice volume, people are buying in or back in with the news. This tech is the future.
I work for a company where a scientist developed a product in his basement for his buddy’s boat. They traded as low as $.90 a share and as high as $32 a share. It takes time for the market to catch up to the tech.
Too bad the PRs aren't dual announcemets from their partners, the larger companies would draw more eyes if they released PRs also, as with Lionsgate. They would also get more press coverage from in the online mags.
Lets hope the next ones are.