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ok, so completely dismiss it.
right, ok
who is "we" that "knows" the CFP of magicscreen is an "idiot"?
Not true.
End of story
Come on , the CFO of magicscreen was quoted in the press release.
You think if he was misquoted he wouldn't take issue with that?
Seriously?
Never heard of a DBA?
You didn't look very hard:
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Digital Signage: Ready for Take Off?
http://www.myprintresource.com/article/11359577/digital-signage-ready-for-take-off
The Albany airport in upstate New York, like many airports, offers a great perfect example of the past, present, and perhaps future of signage. Basic, printed wayfinding signage directs passengers to their gates, tells them where to enter and exit lines, and explains the security procedure; at one airline’s terminals, old-school channel letters inserted into a display board announce the day’s flights; and throughout the airport, dynamic digital displays update all the arrivals and departures—and, of course, feature advertising.
The airport is not unlike other airports, or in fact many other public spaces, retail establishments, and restaurants. The proliferation of digital signage has, in some cases, replaced conventional printed signage, but more often than not, digital and printed signage exist side-by-side with each other, a situation that most sign industry experts believe will continue indefinitely.
“There are some applications where digital signage is very valuable and brings added benefits for the customer, and there are some applications that don’t make sense at all,” said Catherine Monson, CEO of FastSigns, a visual communications franchise with more than 530 locations worldwide. FastSigns offers extensive educational and training support for its franchisees in all areas of signmaking, and has been integrating digital signage solutions since 2009.
“I think there’ll be a peaceful coexistence [between print and digital signage] forever,” seconded Glenn Feder, Director, Business Development, for the International Sign Association (ISA). Last year, the ISA’s Sign Expo debuted “Dynamic Digital Signage Day,” with a full complement of sessions and tutorials on how traditional signmakers could develop and offer digital signage. Every session sold out. So for this year’s Sign Expo, ISA is expanding Dynamic Digital Signage Day, and the “Dynamic Digital Signage Park” on the show floor is 25 percent larger.
Undoubtedly, one of the biggest drivers of the fast development and proliferation of digital signage has been the dramatic drop in price and weight of the displays themselves. Where once screens weighed a ton and cost a fortune, today, lightweight and inexpensive screens have become the norm, even at the commercial display level. (A consumer-level display—like an LCD TV you’d buy in Best Buy—would not be able to support the constant uptime a digital sign requires.)
However, the display is only one part of a digital signage solution. Another is the software and hardware running the content that physically gets displayed. To pipe content to a display, you need media player software running on a server or some other device either wired or connected wirelessly to the display. Content needs to be formatted for a given player, and the player needs to be compatible with the display. Some displays have built-in players, some don’t. And the questions don’t end there. How do you update digital sign content? Remotely over the Internet? Locally from a USB drive? And how often? What about tech support: whose responsibility is it to monitor and maintain uptime? Who is responsible for fixing signs that go down? And how? Do signmakers need to offer service contracts? How many even want to get involved in that?
There are many questions and much confusion when it comes to digital signage. As a result, digital signage has by default become the purview of A/V professionals, at least for high-volume deployments like airports, fast food restaurants, digital billboards, and other large-scale applications. Smaller companies like commercial printers and even traditional signmakers have been leery of trying to navigate the sea of vendors and options, and figuring out how to develop content for digital, let alone how to make money doing any of these things.
“My general impression is that signmakers were confused about how to put together a digital signage solution, intimidated by the technology, and even thought they had to learn all new motion graphics software and Adobe Premiere,” said Rick Scrimger, president of Roland DGA Corp. But, he added, “a lot of these are very simple menu boards and static signs like they design today, but they rotate through a bunch of different things to catch the customer’s attention or tell a story in a different way.” In other words, digital signage doesn’t have to be that much different from static signage.
“Digital Sign In a Box”
To help cut through a lot of the confusion, last year at the ISA Sign Expo, Roland—known for its wide-format printing systems and no stranger to traditional sign shops—had pre-announced a digital signage solution that aimed to help print signmakers explore digital signage options. The company used that initial announcement to glean customer feedback and tweak the offering, and at this year’s Sign Expo officially announced the Roland DisplayStudio digital signage solution. Essentially, DisplayStudio is a “digital sign in a box,” and includes the nuts-and-bolts of what companies need to get started in digital signage: production software, a media player, and a choice of high-resolution commercial-grade LCD displays ranging from 32 to 55 inches (including mounting hardware). The cost of DisplayStudio ranges from $1,600 to $2,900, depending primarily on the size of the screen. There is also a less expensive “BYOD” (“bring your own display”) option, consisting of just the software and media player, that brings the cost down to about $1,000. The goal is to make digital sign development as easy as using iTunes.
“The key thing is software to build playlists, much like you’d build a playlist in iTunes,” says Scrimger. “Whether it’s a movie file, a JPEG, a PDF, or a PowerPoint, you can quickly drop content into a playlist and publish it to a display. One of the key things we’re doing with our solution is we’re helping people get into this business, and wrap Roland support around it.”
New Opportunities
That a printer manufacturer is getting involved in digital signage is telling, and is perhaps representative of the added value that traditional signmakers can bring to customers who want to get into the digital signage space: complementary and supplementary static signage, as well as the attention to aesthetic detail that graphic communications professionals can offer.
“If you look at the total opportunity, there’s tremendous growth for the sign companies even if they lose some of the traditional signage along the way,” said ISA’s Feder. “Some of it will end up being complementary to each other, some will be replaced, and there is a big upside on bigger revenue opportunities and a chance to better serve your customer by moving onto this new sector.”
“An A/V professional thinks, ‘We’ll put a screen up, it’ll be in the cloud, you’ll have all this content, it’ll be great,’” said Scrimger. “Signmakers think, ‘Let’s not just put a screen up, let’s think about a digital print around the whole thing on the wall that speaks to, or is in harmony with, what is on the display.’ Signmakers and commercial printers think a lot of the time about readable, legible fonts and color combinations of text on certain backgrounds that make it impactful. Signmakers will think a lot more creatively like that and deliver something that is more integrated or aesthetically pleasing. It’s not just a TV on a wall.”
Understanding what complements digital signage also goes hand in hand with understanding what applications make sense for digital signage—and which don’t.
“What’s very suitable for digital signage are areas where customers and prospects have dwell time and you want to update or even day-part the messages based on who is walking by typically in that part of the day,” said FastSigns’ Monson. The types of people you find in a shopping mall, for example, will vary over the course of a day; early or mid-morning shoppers have a very different demographic profile than an after-school crowd. Being able to easily tailor signage to appeal to those different demographics can have a great deal of value.
Signage That Makes Sense—and Cents
Although large retail locations, fast food joints, and airports like Albany—or bigger—are the emblematic venues for digital signage, for the average commercial, quick, or sign printer, the real opportunities lie further downstream.
“We could see much greater growth [in digital signage] as these deployments move from the large scale to the small and medium—local and regional—area, because that market is most likely untapped at this point,” said ISA’s Feder. “That’s where we see the sign companies coming in and playing a major role.”
Small and mid-sized local businesses—printers’ primary customers anyway—are a vast, untapped market for digital sign solutions.
“Commercial printers who have a wide-format department could easily get into this,” said Scrimger. “A lot of the bigger pro A/V digital signage guys are going after airports and a thousand screens in a quick-serve restaurant chain.” The opportunity, as Scrimger sees it, for Roland and for small to mid-size commercial printers, is “to target those small and medium businesses that need one display at their reception desk to tell their corporate story. There are a lot of small businesses that are largely being ignored.”
There is of course the perpetual issue of how to make money with digital signage. Return on investment (ROI) is always a nebulous concept and is notoriously variable from company to company—or even from month to month at the same company. “In any marketing situation, calculating ROI is never easy,” said Monson. FastSigns helps its franchisees not just with the technology, but also with extensive sales and marketing support. “You would put in your total cost of operating the digital sign system vs. your total cost of implementing static signage and how often you update it. And you would have to have a good way of measuring your sales lift.”
Moving into digital signage is not going to be a fast process; it’s going to take some due diligence, and a great deal of education. “A lot of folks move in this direction because it’s sexy to do,” said Feder, “but the more time you put in up front understanding what your objectives are, and how you will measure them, means you will deploy a system that will have long-term benefits to your organization.”
Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign...
Whether—and how much—digital signage cannibalizes print sign work remains to be seen, but either way, it’s worth investigating.
“Let’s say it’s going to take some portion of print,” said Scrimger. “Do you want to eat your own lunch or do you want it eaten for you? Do you want to be a part of that cannibalization, or do you want someone to take it from you? You have to decide how to participate.” The printing industry is no stranger to cannibalization from digital media, after all. Scrimger suggested a good place to start is to use it for their own businesses before offering it as a service. “Every commercial printer, every signmaker, should have a digital sign in their shop, so that when someone walks onto get print services they look up at the display while they’re waiting—‘I didn’t know that you did wide-format, or could wrap a vehicle,” he said. “If they realize the benefits, it’s easier to convey those benefits to someone else.”
“He who installs the digital signage and /or he who provides the content for digital signage is also probably going to be supplying static signage around it,” said Monson. “It’s an offensive and defensive play.”
“We fundamentally believe that signmakers that are providing channel letters, indoor graphics, window graphics, and vehicle wraps can also provide a digital sign,” said Scrimger. “There is no reason why that same customer couldn’t come to them for everything they need in the signage world.”
I don't.
My guess he assumes he will get MUCH MORE than 5% of the market.
He's assuming 10-15% I guess.
I'm trying to be VERY conservative.
Hey, $4-5 ?
I'll take it!
Looking at this again...the profit margin assumption is too high.
Let me suggest:
$9 billion opioid pain relief market.
Elite grabs say 5% of it. Leave the rest to Purdue, Egalet, IPCI, Pfizer ZGNX etc.
$450,000,000 in annual revenue + say $20,000,000 with their other products.
$470,000,000 in annual revenue.
Say net earnings of $140,000,000 (30% margin)
A billion shares.
A PE ratio of 15.
EPS of .14
I get a share price of $2.10
$9 billion opioid pain relief market.
Elite grabs say 2% of it.
$180,000,000 in annual revenue + say $20,000,000 with their other products.
$200,000,000 in annual revenue.
Say earnings of $150,000,000
A billion shares.
A PE ration of 15.
EPS of .15
I get a share price of $2.25
Just a bump to this post.
Good article.
“It’s an unbelievable crime that that drug is not tamper resistant, given what OxyContin did to our state,” said Cronin, 34, who has been clean since 2005. “I know if OxyContin had been tamper resistant, I would never have become a heroin addict.”
Relax dude.
Giving your email address isn't exactly ordering. Plain and simple.
Calling IR won't change that.
I have no reason to believe the units won't become available for ordering.
LMMFAO all you want but right now the NP-1 is not available for order, purchase or shipment.
@ mofran.
I can't respond to your PM, but read my last couple of posts.
I told you I am in.
FWIW
This is the only link I need to prove it exists.
http://us-new.ingrammicro.com/_layouts/CommerceServer/IM/ProductDetails.aspx?id=US01@@9500@@10@@UQ3188
Pretty sure a huge publicly traded company like Ingram wouldn't list vaporware on their website.
Still, a legit review would be nice.
So where is your unit?
I had the same experience as you.
COULD NOT ORDER IT.
That's my point.
Hey I hope it exists. I bought a small 30,000 share position in NTEK.
But you should never stop asking questions.
I see press releases. I see photos. I see specs.
I don't see a SINGLE review by someone that actually used the unit. This guy must still be waiting for his unit to review:
http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles/2014/02/living-with-4k-nuvola-4k-player-np1.php
I see promised delivery dates moved out several times.
I see the chief technologist heading to prison for fraud. Hey, it happens to even nice smart folks.
I see no press release or independent verification for any of their partners (Akamai, etc)
I see a quote, posted by NTEK in an NTEK press release, by Will Law. Did Will actually see or use the unit? Or did he agree to use it in his booth in April off of specs? Did he actually say what NTEK claims he said?
I see they won a couple of awards. But no where is there a writeup as to the the award givers experience. What TV did they hook it up to? What content did they watch?
I see the announcement of the partnership with Ingram Micro, but if I search Ingrams site there are no references to Nuvola or nanotech.
Soooo, if you can show me ONE legit full review and a video of it in operation by someone other than a nanotech employee then I'll feel better. Why hasn't CNET reviewed it? Electronic House?
Look, I actually do believe in this but there is enough to make anyone doubt it. Just put out a full review by a respected journal.
Oh by the way, not sure if anyone has seen this.
http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/03/14/csu-film-students-sell-rights-to-revolutionary-distributor
What is that? A picture of a few plastic boxes?
I did that
Do what?
So I submitted my email address!
How does that prove I will ever see an np-1?
I still can not find a detailed review of this unit in a respected journal or trade magazine.
Did they "order" or "preorder"?
Did anyone have their order fulfilled?
So I contact investor relations to confirm that they have my email address for preorder ?
IR multitasks as customer service ?
I have an IT background ...browser is just fine.
Yup
Did that ....
I sure don't. Care to enlighten?
You can add the bundle that includes NP-1
http://store.nanotechent.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=70
but when you goto check out...
Products marked with *** are not available in the desired quantity or not in stock!
"good authority" serves as verifiable DD?
OK, I'll have to remember to use that, thanks.
I don't doubt it one bit really. As I have stated ZGNX is a nice company. Just wish for their sake they could get an abuse resistant hydro product to market a bit faster than three years.
No one is up in arms?
Here are a few links to bring you up to speed:
Controversy surrounds FDA approval of Zohydro
http://www.pharmacist.com/controversy-surrounds-fda-approval-zohydro
Doctors urge FDA to reverse approval of Zohydro, controversial new pain drug
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/docs-urge-fda-halt-launch-controversial-pain-drug-article-1.1706470#ixzz2wRBJnJv5
New pain pill's approval: 'Genuinely frightening'
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/health/zohydro-approval/
Goodness. What's an artificial run up?
Is that when people buy artificial stock with artificial money in an artificial marketplace regulated by an artificial government agency of an artificial country?
ELTP and ZGNX are in the same pain space. It's appropriate to compare them and even to speculate whether they have potential synergies.
ELTP's market cap is quite a bit more the ZGNX's so the market seems to think ELTP is a more valuable company.
One mans opinion.
Hey, I think ZGNX is a wonderful company. Probably has a very bright future. But you can't just gloss over the current issues they are having. Hope is not a strategy.
Now perhaps they could partner with someone further along in development...like ELTP for example.
Perhaps you missed this? It's a very piece of news about ZGNX and how their newly approved drug faces a ban.
http://seekingalpha.com/news/1621833-zogenixs-zohydro-faces-ban-following-successful-study-of-rival
Zogenix (ZGNX -11.9%) could face even stronger calls for its powerful painkiller Zohydro to be pulled from the market after privately held Purdue Pharma said its hydrocodone bitartrate treatment cut chronic lower-back pain in a Phase III trial.Purdue's treatment is difficult to crush and snort or inject, while Zohydro doesn't have such features, which has led to wide-ranging calls for the FDA to drop its approval of the drug over fears that it will be abused.The agency has already indicated that it could pull Zohydro if a rival drug with an "abuse-deterrent formulation" was created.Following the late-stage study for hydrocodone bitartrate, Purdue intends to ask for an accelerated FDA review of the drug.Zogenix is developing a tamper-resistant version of Zogenix, but it won't be available until the end of 2016. (PR)
Of course they are. Who is the partner?
Three years is a Looong time
This post makes no sense. What does it have to do with ZGNX?
Share of what market?
The banned drug market?
End of 2016 so the company says...
Almost three years.
Couch, I don't understand this "risky business".
Camargo meets with the FDA several days a week no?
Elite and Camargo consulted with the FDA prior to beginning studies no?
Don't you think if the FDA even "suggested" Elite needed efficacy studies that Elite and Camargo would have conducted them?
No, Oxy is Oxy. If Elite demonstrates bioequivalancy efficacy is assumed.
From Wikipedia:
Bioequivalence is a term in pharmacokinetics used to assess the expected in vivo biological equivalence of two proprietary preparations of a drug. If two products are said to be bioequivalent it means that they would be expected to be, for all intents and purposes, the same.
Birkett (2003) defined bioequivalence by stating that, "two pharmaceutical products are bioequivalent if they are pharmaceutically equivalent and their bioavailabilities (rate and extent of availability) after administration in the same molar dose are similar to such a degree that their effects, with respect to both efficacy and safety, can be expected to be essentially the same.
So all that being said let us celebrate the great St. Patrick so famous for chasing the snakes out of Ireland!
Sláinte!
Dianne must have over-caffeinated today!
What, quite an effort! Thanks!
Not exactly a PR, but distributed to anyone on their mailing list ...which would largely be shareholders I assume.
There clearly is a trend toward abuse deterrent opioids, especially following the FDA's decision to Purdue's Citizens Petition to not approve non-abuse deterrent generic versions of OxyContin when Purdue's patent expired in April 2013.
The FDA also did not agree with Endo's Citizen's Petition to block non-abuse deterrent generics of Opana as the FDA did not believe Endo's abuse deterrent product was less abusable than the original formulation after looking at the mechanics of the technology as well as post-marketing experiences.
I believe the key takaway from these events are there is growing pressure to thwart the abuse and misuse of prescription painkillers, but the FDA is also clearly looking at the underlying technology of abuse deterrent formulations.
Contact:
For Elite Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Dianne Will, Investor Relations, 518-398-6222
Dianne@elitepharma.com
www.elitepharma.com
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Upton-Coburn Congressional Ltr to FDA.pdf
Just got ANOTHER email from IR!
I think they want to mobilize shareholders to put pressure on congress? Or is this all foreshadowing?
Really where?
I think it's very telling Elite IR emailed this article however....
Thought to get the day started. Isradpine and the CBE 30.
From what I understand the FDA has 30 days to throw up an objection. If Elite does not hear back they can move forward. That correct?
How many days has it been? When was the CBE 30 filed?
CBE 30
Similar to Changes Being Effected (CBE). A filing with the FDA to gain approval of a moderate change, i.e., a change that has a moderate potential to have an adverse effect on the identity, strength, quality, purity, or potency of the drug product as these factors may relate to the safety or effectiveness of the drug product. FDA has 30 days to respond prior to implementation of the change. If filer receives no word from FDA in 30 days, it is assumed that the change was approved. See also Changes Being Effected and Prior Approval Supplement.
- See more at: http://www.contractpharma.com/contents/view_glossary/2013-03-25/cbe-30/#sthash.pqhDolBS.dpuf
He also said on 1/22:
Doug13 Wednesday, 01/22/14 10:40:27 AM
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Hold on to your seats. News today. Coming soon.
Nothing happened.... no news until 2/18.