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...echo...echo....LOL
Good for some laughs, I guess a few million just ain't enough for some people:
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040603-110326-3271r.htm
The patent description sounds very quaint WTR today's tech.
Whatever happened to EDIGs patent for a digital music device?
Yes, thank you for starting the same conversation on IH and agora. A post on one board is a discussion, on two is spreading the word, but one more and we'll have to call it what it is -- STOCK SPAM!
No offense, but please take your stock hyping spam elsewhere.
"I just wish I had that option."
IMO, its just a matter of being the new kid on the block. Positive experiences from passengers and carriers will help with word of mouth exposure to hopefully build critical mass.
Number of IFE customers starting to break the 'two-hand' barrier!
Thanks, you're probably right. From what I can make out, they will have 3 planes with 1 on standby (all 767's):
http://www.bluefoxairlines.com/newsroom/articles/article.php?id=15
This isn't as insignificant as it sounds at first though, because they plan to have only business class on all the plane seats. IMO, that means that they need many more digEplayers per plane than what other carriers have ordered so far (perhaps up to one per seat assuming they would include free IFE and not rent since they are charging business-class fares). Nothing major, but probably worth a few $100k at EDIGs end.
Not sure if they will make it off the ground yet.
Anyone find out anything about Bluarrow (trying to figure out their fleet size). Google isn't helping much.
Great find again on the IFE front MedRare. Are you in the business?
If fuel prices remain high, the benefits of our lightweight system IMO start to get more attractive. Many carriers operating on the edge are saying that high fuel prices may push them over the brink. OTOH, money spent on fuel may mean some airlines decide to delay implementation of discretionary items such as IFE.
Don't worry, naysayers will manage to whittle any sum, no matter how large, so that EDIGs cut appears to be nothing.
Just saw the APS/Jetsgo PR, I noted that there is an exclusivity arrangement in the deal for the Canadian market. I hope this is temporary (ala Alaskan) - I wonder for how long?
Not clear to me what the record functions are on this device. Sounds like you have nice optical outputs, but WHAT will you be able to output? Again, it all goes back to content. If it only has analog inputs for recording broadcast/cable material, then the EDIG/Fusion player still one-ups it because it can accept direct digital input.
"OH MY! This has to hurt......... "
But that's the great thing about being able to ignore the truth, everything comes out just as you want to see it
Oh lawd, so much for quick sales. I never understand why it takes so long for some of these products to roll out. I mean, how can they expect to maintain any edge they have will such long lead times. This is not the automotive industry.
Still not clear how they are going to address the same security/property rights issues with these video players that held up digital music. Studios won't be happy with the idea of consumers armed with DVD quality recorders snapping up their digitized movies off the cable box to show to whoever they like, especially now that after-theatre sales make up more of a movies revenue than when its out on the big screen.
The move to premium DVD content (ala high value extended version DVDs such as the Lord of the Rings) that isn't released on cable is one way to maintain sales, but that's not going to be enough.
Excuse the ignorance, did a quick look up of MPEG2 vs. MPEG4 and it seems MPEG2 is basically DVD quality video. MPEG4 is more or the less the same efficiency codec with lots of extra features thrown in.
Sounds good, but I'm not sure what differentiates it from a half dozen other devices on (Archos, etc.) or soon to be on the market. As far as my limited examination tells me, the most distinctive feature is that it hooks up directly with a digital set-top-box. This means it can record digitally recorded premium cable content w/o having to pass through an analog conversion (as far as I can tell, recorders like the Archos can record only analog signals that are then digitized into mpeg4 or other formats). This means the stuff you are watching can remain digital from reception to recording to viewing without loss of quality. This capability is only possible with MPEG2 encoded content (althought the player can record from analog to MPEG4), I'm not up to speed as to the difference in quality between MPEG2 and the MPEG4 used by other portable PVR devices. Could be they had to intentionally cripple the quality to prevent a protest from the movie studios, otherwise it would be possible to record DVD quality movies from your cable subscription, but again I don't know enough about it to say for sure.
A little quiet time can stir up a lot in one's mind
While I think this could be a hit product for EDIG, from a personal viewpoint I've gotta ask, do we really need more tv in our lives? Can our kids not stay in a car for 30 minutes without having to be 'entertained'?
Great, this confirms that this device is not limited to use by people owning Fusion set top boxes.
Someone can hook it up to any device (cable box, etc.) with an s-video out connection (pretty high quality) and record just like a vcr. It must encode it on the fly to mpeg2or4.
Expanded long distance routes = more planes = more digEplayers = momoney
From whats in the PR it sounds as if it has hook ups to take MPEG2 encoded feeds off Fusion STBs (I guess these STBs don't necessarily have any built personal video recorder functionality, since the EDIG product comes with a timer for recording).
It also says it has support for MPEG2 and 4 so I supposed it could take properly encoded files off a computer.
There is also the ability to record video and music from an analog source, so the player I'd guess could be used as a recorder off of any STB via RCA jacks.
Speaking of Scientific Atlantic, management is giving a keynote at the convention (not suggesting any connection there)
http://www.mediacast.net/page.cfm/Link=1/t=m/goSection=1
I'm curious if anyone knows/guesses that this is the mysterious set top box product hinted at by RP so many ages ago. Seems odd if it is given how fusion is such a young company.
Perhaps EDIG already had an internal prototype for the STB platform and fusion came and ran with it.
owd3, it burns, right? LOL
What will he do if EDIG goes belly up? He'll have to kiss that $25 goodbye! Help the poor soul, LOL
News clip says the players will be available for the winter 2004 schedule. I take that to mean next winter.
Doubt this will block anything, they already got the green light from both U.S. and EU antitrust gurus.
Good to know that the largest airline in the world is doing business with us and knows about our products abilities:
http://in.news.yahoo.com/040504/137/2cwej.html
Plus KLM is merging with Air France (or at least they were last I checked).
But lets not get ahead of ourselves yet. We've got news of one order for use on a specific route, and there could have been particular circumstances for which they choose the digeplayer on these flights. Hopefully they will have a need for our product on other parts of their flight network as well.
I wonder if these units will have localized language content and menus. From what I can make out these are for use on routes to the middle east.
Speaking of hot, you are on your own roll with the IFE DD. Thanks for the great finds (I'm not sure how you did it, but I'm not complaining)
This looks good, they are picking up business from many different places. I'm not sure we should expect so much the big whopper orders as small purchases here and there as various airlines pick up the product to use on those specific routes and service classes where it makes sense to them. A few hundred units here, a few hundred there, it will start to add up fast.
OMG, do you hear this train gathering steam!?
IFE is starting to get exciting.
I will do a little preemptive posting as I know some will some predictable posters will start to complain that this order is for only 620 units and say that that is far less than 6000.
"In fact,it has been so popular that we've often not had enough units aboard to satisfy
customer demand. This order helps us with that and it also allows us to begin to
expand the routes on which we offer this one-of-a-kind portable entertainment
system."
Note the use of the word "begin". Sounds to me like this will be the first of several orders as they rollout the service to meet high demand.
I have no experience in that area, so I won't venture a guess.
Don't forget our F10 money as well. Sure, its a one time deal, but its money owed to EDIG for 3 yrs. of being strung along.
Like I said, they left off Sony, whoever is in charge of the site is out of the loop
owd, I know that being the thorough researcher that you are that you realize that Cornice's website is hardly representative of all their current business.
For example, I know that you know that companies such as say Sony who have announced Cornice-based players (http://www.ipodhacks.com/article.php?thold=-1&mode=flat&order=0&sid=580) are also missing from Cornice's customer (http://www.corniceco.com/customers/index.html) and PR archives.
I guess this is another example of a "hype" company getting the boot off of Cornice's web page, RIGHT? LOLOLOLOL
Nice in-depth end-user review of digEplayer experience with many pictures:
http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2004/05/divx_for_grandm.html
Very positive overall, except for the screen formatting issues (that probably has more to do with what Fox will allow them to show, they either don't want to go through the trouble of reformatting it just for this device, or its another security measure, not releasing the movie-theatre quality 16:9 format).
IMO, customization for different partners would be easiest through content. For example, providing foreign language training modules for one airline and tourism information for another. Southwest is the holy grail at this point. I don't doubt that they placed an order, the fit of our product is too good with their needs at the moment - IFE to compete with rival upstarts, large aging fleet requiring retrofitting. If its true that they ordered 1000 it looks like they are doing a trial run like every other potential customer we've heard about so far. If they run with it, you can be sure the order will dwarf Alaskan Airlines.