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Dreaming is not allowed but fantasizing is perfectly ok. ;)
who needs stinkin homeruns when you can bunt all day long.:O
Looking forward to the next webcast. Murrayhill please lead us in cheer.......
could you tell me when ces starts?
your'e ruining the mood set here.;0
The Company's previous 52-week high of $0.625 was set 50 days ago on November 18, 2003.
One year ago, the Company's shares closed at $0.230. The price has climbed more than 173 percent since then.
At the time of this alert, the stock had traded 582,900 shares via 156 trades, 10.98% above it's 20day average of 525,225 shares.
This new 52-week high currently puts the stock:
21.43% above its 20day Moving Average of $0.519
26.73% above its 50day Moving Average of $0.497
37.78% above its 100day Moving Average of $0.457
one thing I never understood sporty was why don't they let male cheerleaders (like yourself) cheer female sports? Deep thoughts.;)
go edig and happy new year
times must be a changing if murrayhill is cheerleading now. ;)
da boy seems a little confused.lol/
"It facinates me how serious people take this OTCBB stock."
and those who spend an inordinate amount of their life bashing it.lol
happy new year
Subject: Forbes Article on Divxnetworks part 2
From Beer_Man
PostID 303391 On Thursday, January 01, 2004 (EST) at 9:00:15 PM
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But by then Greenhall was on to the next phase of his plan. To become the next MPEG2 Greenhall knew he had to get the codec out of PCs and into other consumer gadgets. Chipmakers, attracted by his Internet following, signed on. Today Philips and Samsung are building DivX-compatible DVD players, and 59 other companies are also building DivX-branded gear, including a video camera. Enter ''autocatalytic cycle'' number two: People burn DivX-encoded movies onto DVDs on their PCs and pop the disc into their DVD player in the living room. DivX DVDs can have at least four times the run-time--or the same length of film can have four times the resolution--of regular DVDs. (Windows Media isn't yet in a DVD player, but Microsoft scored a win this summer when The Terminator 2 DVD came out on two discs: one regular and one a high-definition version that can play on PCs using the Windows Media codec.)
In the battle to build a better codec, Microsoft would seem to have insuperable advantages. Its army of programmers has been developing codecs from scratch for almost a decade. The company spent $500 million researching and developing Windows Media 9. DivXnetworks, by contrast, has six codec writers and relies on licensing groups of patents. That can work, Greenhall insists. MPEG2 was a standard built on such a patent pool. The MPEG4 standard has been around since 1999, but by ensuring compatibility and adding antipiracy tools, DivX has become the leading MPEG4-based codec.
Today DivXnetworks makes about $2 for each DivX-branded DVD player that is sold. (Nineteen million DVD players were sold in the U.S. alone this year, and the company hopes to have its technology in a majority of the players within just a few years.) Greenhall also hopes to get a piece of every copy-protected DVD that Hollywood sells. Jack Valenti, the chief of the Motion Picture Association of America, has spoken well of the product, though no studio offers DivX-encoded DVDs just yet. The latest round of venture capital, closing soon, will likely value the company at just over $100 million.
As the battle with Microsoft rages, the two have pulled ahead of competitors, according to Yankee Group analyst Ryan Jones. He gives Microsoft the edge in terms of maximum compression. But DivXnetworks is ahead in keeping its chips simple, power-efficient and cheap. As for consumer support and the all-important ''momentum,'' Jones rates it a dead heat.
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Subject: Forbes Article on Divxnetworks part 1
From Beer_Man
PostID 303390 On Thursday, January 01, 2004 (EST) at 8:58:32 PM
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The Big Squeeze
Scott Woolley, 01.12.04
Jordan Greenhall plans to make a bundle by remaking the TV, movie and consumer-electronics industries. All he has to do is beat Microsoft to the punch.
Jordan Greenhall had the good fortune to get a job with the original online music site, MP3.com, but walked away just before Vivendi Universal wildly overpaid to acquire the company in 2001. He missed a big payout, taking instead an idea.
Tracing the roots of the digital music revolution, Greenhall focused on a sequence of computer algorithms called a codec, which compresses and decompresses data. The codec in MP3 software squishes digital songs to one-tenth their original size. That makes them small enough to swap online and fit by the thousands on iPods. It makes them small enough, even, to begin slipping from the grasp of the $13 billion music industry.
Greenhall's big idea was this: Ever greater degrees of compression would soon upend other, even bigger, industries. He seized on a medium that remained hobbled from unwieldy digital files--video. An hour of Survivor (the reality show on CBS) takes up 300 times as much room as an MP3 version of Survivor, the hit song by Destiny's Child.
Greenhall came up with a company, dubbed DivXnetworks, and a plan: ''What we learned from audio, you could do the same thing with video.'' Users would be able to stream movies and TV shows over high-speed Internet lines with no lag time. That could lead to either massive piracy--the Napsterization of Hollywood--or, with the right copy protection, supplant DVDs as Hollywood's richest revenue stream. Better video codecs also open the door to portable video players, much the way MP3 led to iPods and the like. Alaska Airlines is experimenting with handing out paperback-size video players to passengers. During the flight they can then watch any of ten-plus movies stored in DivX format on the player's hard drive.
Designed to be invisible to users, codecs compress any kind of digital file by identifying and eliminating redundant data. Frames of video, whipping by at 24 to 30 per second, have lots of duplication (see box). The faster computers get, the more subtle redundancies a new codec can effectively exploit, and so files become tinier. That is, better codecs are just as predictable as faster PCs. ''These are technologies that can really change an economic ecosystem, technologies that affect cultural balances of power,'' Greenhall says.
The first blockbuster video codec, MPEG2 (which stands for the Motion Picture Experts Group, version 2), was introduced in 1994 and had already cut digital files to about 3% of their original size. MPEG2 lets movies fit on DVDs, and allows digital cable and satellite to carry hundreds of channels; it's also given birth to dozens of popular gadgets--from digital video cameras to TiVo.
Hardware manufacturers that use MPEG2 chips pay royalties to the owners of the core patents behind the codec, mostly corporations such as General Electric, Sony and Alcatel. Greenhall figured he could be first out the gate to popularize a fourth-generation MPEG codec; distinguish it by adding strong antipiracy protection and a brand name that guaranteed compatibility; and reap healthy royalties from content companies and consumer electronics firms.
In 2000 he and a few partners tracked down a handful of codec experts around the globe and, using the MPEG4 tools, whipped together a video codec, called DivX. DivX reduces an already-compressed MPEG2 video by another four-fifths. The file is now less than 1% the size of the original.
The Internet broke the chicken-or-egg problem that holds back most video standards. Taking a page from MP3, Greenhall released DivX for free in 2001. Soon tens of millions of downloads of the codec were streaming around the globe. The more people created DivX content, the more people would download the DivX viewer to play the content. And the more people with viewers, the more reason to create content, an ''autocatalytic cycle,'' in Greenhall's words. The earliest users were largely pirates and pornographers. So what? That could get a legitimate business going.
One hitch: Microsoft also had its eye on the market and was designing its own killer codec. In fall 2002 it released Windows Media 9, which could squeeze files into slightly smaller packages than DivX. (Microsoft claims nearly a twofold advantage; DivXnetworks says its latest version eliminates the performance gap.) The software giant built Windows Media Player into its operating system, a tactic that has killed many a small software competitor.
Subject: Ms. Platt e-mail
From silversurfer
PostID 303036 On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 (EST) at 7:58:01 PM
Response To: B-Lunist PostID 302963
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I asked her if investors would know the names of the company(s) unveiling MOS-powered players at CES 2004.
Hello Michael,
As of today, I do have more than one (and I'll leave it at that) press releases scheduled. Of course, that is a forward looking statement. As for the content of the release, I cannot yet discuss that.
I hope that helps.
Best,
Jo Jo
Subject: GTW X-20- songs can appear in album order
From redwing999
PostID 303005 On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 (EST) at 5:15:08 PM
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Thank you for your e-mail, . To ensure tracks are played in the order
they appear on the original album/CD, please follow these steps:
1. Open Windows Media Player
2. From the main menu, select 'Copy to CD or Device'
3. Under 'Items to Copy' select desired music by ALBUM (not Artist, Genre
etc.)
4. Be sure that the Player is selected as the destination device
5. Begin Copy
6. Safely remove the USB connection from Player
7. Tracks will appear in 'album' order in the Play list section of the menu.
The play list name will appear as the album name transferred.
Best regards,
Robert Putnam
read the directions crq
sounds a lot like a cult./
Subject: Regarding AUSTONIA's posts on IFRED
From catsfive
PostID 302558 On Saturday, December 27, 2003 (EST) at 11:45:33 AM
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Since some people over there are not aware of Austonia's anti-edig bias, and I am a political prisoner in Matt's jail, could someone post the following there:
Posted by: austonia
In reply to: None Date:3/22/2003 6:58:18 AM
Post #of 56368
Why I am selling my shiney Odyssey 1000 :
1) Firmware bugs became too annoying (''back'' button not working after you select a song, no backlight when using Radio, VBR files cause track time to go crazy, ''Line Out'' isn't an unamped signal, delays between songs, lockups/reboots, etc etc)
2) no capability for remote, crappy case, no ID3 tag support, no search function, 13-15 seconds to boot up, scroller isn't speed-sensitive, VoiceNav functionality so limited that its worthless, big unattractive screws on side of player, Music Explorer software sucks, etc etc...
3) Music navigation is just too basic. If I want to look through ''folders'' I'd just use my PC and ''File Explorer''
4) better players with more features due out in the next 2 months from iRiver, Samsung, RCA, Bantam, etc (see www.dapReview.com)
5) e.Digital will probably go out of business (according to the facts -income vs. expenditures- and thier own SEC filings), being then unable to honor warantee, update firmware, or replace batteries
6) Odyssey's price/performance is poor compared to Zen or iPod. The Zen, also using a 2.5'' laptop drive, is the same size but with superior functionality for $100 less. The iPod, using the a top of the line 1.8'' drive (more expensive), is 30% smaller and has a powerful music database, easily worth $100 more
7) Where is the Customer support? 6 weeks of not selling any Odysseys yet still not able to release firmware fixes? What are they doing over there?
From moxa1
PostID 302649 On Sunday, December 28, 2003 (EST) at 10:15:54 AM
Response To: db2469 PostID 302648
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I think there's a good chance our new branded Cornice based player will be HP's.... also expecting news on F10. Beyond that I don't think there will be any other ''major'' news unless we get something on the IFE front. This is JMVHO of course.
Cheers.
wow
I totally disagree. Everyone has different tastes in music and listening habits.
To say one is right over the other is absurd.imo
save this post./
lol...like that will ever happen./
oh behave! :)
niz, nice work and please continue keeping on my good man./
sunnyskies, very refreshing insight./
gernb and I thought the chowderhead was doing such an exemplorary job of moderating. :0
moxa, from the previous webcast, fred mentioned an auto-infotainment company was very close to signing on. fwiw
Did I miss something or is mh now a hypster?/
Looks like a decent start on the road to recovery.
good luck to all my old friends going forward.
moving on up I like it./
very nice niz thanks./
Hope all is well with my socal buddies./
tenderloin this sure smells like the digster imho. fwiw
are you a trader?
Dr.Hunt: zip it on over if it's not a problem. I'm still here.
Odyssey1000, I concur.
bmpskr1, go in peace.
I find your positive attitude toward this company and it's bright future quite refreshing. :)~~~~
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LGJ,Tinroad & Go Silver appreciate your efforts!
Tenderloin bush league is putting it mildly!