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Agree. It seems to me that studios would be more interested in the rental. If their movies cannot be copied, the long term effect of renting vis-a-vis buying could be far more profitable. In fact, it seems to me that they could increase the price of selling the product to the point that hardly anyone would want to buy it, while renting it for a couple of dollars. I know some people who over the years have watched the same movie 10 or more times. It is a lot easier to get someone to fork out a couple of bucks again and again over a number of years than to get them to spend about 20 once. A person would say "It's just a couple of bucks," and rent it again. If the marketing is handled properly ...
My only concern right now is how slowly the whole process is moving forwards. I can't wait to hear the news about content.
Yes, in fact they took such a little time that practically everything must have been worked out. It doesn't make any sense otherwise. I'm waiting for the results.
That's pretty quick. The details must have been pretty much worked out before they left. I am looking for an announcement pretty soon.
I've been conducting the test from another computer tonight. And it is much better all the way around--much better.
Oh, oh. Got back last night. That don't sound good. Unless, of course, they went down just to sign papers. I notice that our numbers in Alexa are down. This thing may take a lot longer to get going than I expected.
I don't think much about what AOL thinks. After all, they were the number one ISP ten years ago, and now the company is a mess. The only thing they have shown me over the years if that they can mess up a good thing.
Irrelevant. It is not about loans. It is about not generating enough sales. Time to get out, sit back for at least two Qts. Then, maybe get back in. That's what I am doing.
Thank you happy dog. Your comment is very welcomed and it throws light into the whole matter.
>>> I have been out of MOBL for a little more than two weeks. I do think this is a company with great potential, but the near future looks troublesome. They've had three quarters of declining revenues and losses. And it doesn't appear to me that they are about to turn around. I've been in an out of it since two pennies way back, and I have carefully watched how it has been built from scratch. When Jay first expanded the share base, I was opposed to it. but now I see that it may be necessary in order to take this company to a higher level. Buying ISPs in and around cities where we offer wireless should be the priority. Then, to those customers, you offer wireless as an add-on to the services. Advertise it like this: "Right now we cannot provide wireless at home. But when you go into Tempe you will be able to access your account from anywhere in town." This I thought was part of the plan, but I guess I was wrong. I will keep up with MOBL because I think it is likely to go somewhere, but not now. The company must first complete some of the build-outs and do other things. This means that I expect the O/S will expand to around one billion, and the price of the stock to decline further. Unless something spectacular, good or bad, happens, I expect the stock to decline to under .10 over the next twelve months, and when I see a turn around in revenues, then, it will be the time to get back in.
I agree with Z: this is a good take over candidate for the likes of ELNK. But it is not going to happen for some time to come. A year, maybe more. It is very hard at this junction to tag a price to it, and the wireless industry is still in its infancy. Also, the relationship with Cornell will make potential buyers wonder what about the unknowns. So Jay has 1/2 years to build the business anyway one goes. At least the nest couple of qts. will be a trying time.
No. The extra shares were registered so that they would be able to issue more to outfits like Cornell, and for the purchase of other ISPs and other related businesses.
Dennis,
You bring the point of my discussions on other boards, but see that places me in another dilenma. I cannot defend myself from that accusation without running the risk of being placed on the spot here by arguing something that has nothing to do with MOBL.
But I will do so anyway, in considerable brevety, so as not to try to offend anybody. The only place where I was in a debate was the RLTR board, and if you go back there and spend a few hours reading the argument that ensued, you will discover that the argument had to do with my reporting streaming problems from an investor run beta test of the RLTR website. I was criticized for reporting a problem, which was the objective of the test, anyway. And I also received threats of deletion and banning. I much like the way IHUB is set up from the standpoint of the presentation of the pages, but it hasn't failed yet: if you are not positive in your outlook someone is going to complain and lay a threat upon one. With that say, I am gone out a here, and let the parties that be, think about my criticism.
lih,
I have no problem with the moderator. He seems to be a resonable person. I do have a problem with the person who called for the removal. And I do have a problem with a policy that can so easily stiffle debate. I think that the investor is not well-served by this policy, and that it is harmful for the overall context of the proccess to to have the threat of removal of post or banning so readily used to cajoule those with who one does not agree. That say, I will let it rest. But I will continue to voice my opinions in a rational and polite manner until I am denied access, and others, as long as they are free to read my words, can dismiss my opinion, either by ignoring these or by replying. I am all for a lively debate, and my mind is always subject to be changed by information brought to bear by others. But if negative comentaries are looked down upon in such a manner that poster will hold back from uttering these, then, I ask, what is the point of this exercise?
stockdoc,
Please read with comprehension. I did not say theat MOBL has one billion share outstanding. I said that MOBL will have one billion shares outstanding. There is no doubt that they will continue issuing shares because they do not generate enough revenues to do the build-outs, and they are now having decreasing revenues. All those working contracts with other companies really don't mean a thing if they don't generate revenues, and companies like Cisco are not going to turn down business just because their customer may not make it. And if you read my post carefully, I did not say that MOBL will not make it. I said that MOBL will have to make changes in order to stay afloat. There is nothing wrong about what I have said. I have issued constructive criticisms of how I see MOBL, and it is pretty bad if you cannot accept it.
While Yahoo was way out of hand, and people said crazy things, bashing or pumping, here it seems that well thought out arguments for why a stock is not a good investment is not welcomed. I guess this place should be called "rosyihub".
Furthermore, you, as well as others here, need to read posts with comprehension, not just scan over it. I did not say that MOBL has one billion shares outstanding. I said when MOBL has one billion shares outstanding a year or two from now.
I used to post in Yahoo, but they changed the system there, and so I come here.
As for motivation< i just wanted to post my thoughts. No big deal. However, if you want to assign it any other meaning, well, that's alright with me. I could says something similar about you.
Why would anyone who knows why they hold an invested waste his time making a personal attck instead of addressing the issues. You might as well have come out and just called me a "basher", but ad hominen attacks have nothing to do with the validity of arguments for or against anything. I guess you really don't know why you are invested on MOBL; otherwise, you would be addressing the issues I brought up, and not some ulterior motive I may have.
WHY I SOLD MOBL
To talk about why I sold MOBL, I must first explain why I bought MOBL.
I bought it because I thought that the wireless internet was a coming thing to which a substantial number of people would flock. The idea of building a national footprint by buying other ISPs and integrating them into one system seemed to be the right way to expand upon the technology quickly.
But, as Tempe has proven, wireless is just an add-on, and most people are not going to change providers simply to have access to wireless. In fact, I now doubt that most people are even marginally interested in the wireless part. This has put MOBL in a predicament. They need money to develop their networks, but money is readily available to a concern that looks weak to many. Thus, they must acquire the funds by going to outfits such as Cornell, and buying ISPs with stock. This latest thing they have sort-of put on hold. But that apperas to me to be a mistake that compounds the problems. Without the expansion of the footprint, it looks less likely than MOBL can survive. Thus, there only seems to be one solution: aggresively expand the footprint and the wireless networks by aggresively increasing the O/S. This, of course, will dilute the shares, and cause the price to fall. But the alternative may be outright failure. With this in mind, I sit back and will ait for the chance to buy later--at a much lower price. Maybe a year or two from now when the price is under .10, and there is 1 billion in O/S, and we have doubled revenues mostly through acquisitions, but partly organically, it will be the right time to get into this stock again. I cannot see any of the deals now in the works as being substantial enough to change the current financial picture.
I'm not that stupid.
Furthermore, if I didn't think that RLTR has a good product, I wouldn't have 15% of my investments on public companies tied-up in it.
Do not mistake my bringing up the difficulties I have experienced with my being negative about RLTR. I am not negative about RLTR.
The issue of my problems has been discussed in exhaustive detail. I think we should go on to something else.
After reading some reviews, no way I waste my time.
I'll check on it.
While there is plenty of truth in what you say, if the Reeltime management did not think that there are issues that can still be improved upon, they would not be having more beta phase testing. It is quite obvious that they think that there are matters that can be dealt with, as they have made clear in their correspondence with me, and this matters pertain precisely to what I have been talking about--making sure that every potential customer has his/her issues addressed. Maybe they are just being polite, or maybe what seems more reasonable to me is that they really want to know how many household they can really reach with their systems based on the tchnology being used out there, etc..
But this issue would not be discussed here anymore, if several people here would just dropped it, and stopped insulting others over it. I am sure they would be happy to see only post that say "nice day," "where do you think it would close today," "go up, go up." "eom," etc.. Those post are absolutely the least meaningful and most obnoxious one. They provide nothing construtive either positive or negative.
Well, I got to tell you again and again because you and Spark forget. And you read the smae posts over and over.
I just tested the ignore feature for the IHUB message boards by including your ID and Sparks, and let me tell you, it works just fine. I will recommend that you use it too. In that manner, you will not see my posts anymore.
I have noticed it, and looked at it. But I am not knowlegeable enough to grasp the meaning of most of these readings. Is there a place where I can find information that will help me understand all of the PowerGrid Properties factors?
Correction,
Spark, there are, at least, two of us in here who have had problems. Myself and MiracleMan. Either you are not reading the posts or you are displaying a lack of honesty.
If two of about twenty here are having issues, that is ten percent. I am sure that the average person here has more up-to-date equipment as is more savvy than the average America. Therefore, it would be safe to assume that there are many more people in this country with marginal difficulties that could possibly be addressed. If you were the CEO, I would be selling my stock right away--such a terrible attitude. However, the management of RLTR appears to be highly competend, dedicated, open-minded and professional. In then I trust, but on people who show the level of thoughtless your posts indicates, I have no trust. Don't be so negative. Don't be looking for monsters under beds where there are none. I am sure you can overcome whatever paranoic tendencies you are showing. Please, address the issues in a positive manner. We all would be better of by that.
rfedeleo,
That's great!!! i just played with it. I am going through the PowerGrid Properties window, and discovering all these variables. I suspect that all the answers to the problems I have been having are addressed somewhere in this properties. I need to become more familiar with it.
Nero,
On the peers tab I have four numbers at the bottom:
Unknown peers, conected, unavailable and active seeders
The numbers are now as follows
76, 3, 64, 0
but they have changed as I wrote this
About ten minutes ago they were:
74, 8, 50, 3
If you want me to record some other numbers here let me know and I will post again.
J,
I was just trying to point out that there are millions out there completely beyond the reach of Reeltime. The most obvious cases are those who use dial-up. Please, read the posts with more concern for the line of reasoning that is stated. If you place all the households in this country in a graph based on their overall technical capabilities to use Reeltime's product, you will find that they belong in a curve. At one end are those with great equipment, who will be able to use the services to the full extend. At some point the customers become increasingly marginal, and at the other end are those who cannot use the service at all. The issue is that somewhere in the borderline, there are 10/20 million households (who have DSL or Cable) who will experience problems for a variety of reasons. All of them will not be savvy about tech matters, and many will end-up choosing to rent DVD instead of using our service because they do not understand how to overcome the problems. Instead of attcking each other, we should be concentrating in figuring out what these issues are so that more people can use this service.
You are one of those who appears to think that commentaries here will have an impact on the stock, well, I can assure you that such is not the case. The stock will move up or down, in the long run, solely based on the number of household that pay for our service. I am plannig in being a long term holder of this stock, and I am concerned in addressing the issues, not in looking at the company through rose-colored glasses.
rfedeleo,
Your question is very valid. Even I who is not tech savvy could use some more information. This information should be placed somewhere out of the way. The simplicity of the most commonly used webpages should not be compromised.
MiracleMan,
I am both glad and unhappy with your report of problems. Glad because it proves my point that there are issues out there. (After all we are still in a beta testing phase.) Unfortunatedly some of these issues may be hard to resolve because they reside at the customer end, however, as many as possible should be addressed. I would not be surprised if there are 10/20 million (maybe more) households out there who cannot be a customer of ours because of a variety of matters beyond the control of Reeltime (such as old equip., dial-up, etc.). However, there is probably another 10/20 million who are potential customers, and whose only short-fall is marginal like yours and mine. It seems clear to me that the objective of all those who are part of Reeltime should be to figure out how many of these marginal customers can be satisfied. After all, the wealthy individual with a ten thousand system and a fifty inch screen is going to pay as much for the service as the marginal customer.
Dollar,
Because I don't really know how many potential customers we might be missing on account of this kind of problem. I am sure that you, like many of the others here, are tech savvy. Do you really understand how many people out there are really behind the times? Your circle of friends and acquaintance is probably made up of intelligent, educated people with a considerble amount of grasp for computers and the internet. But that does not address the issue of all the American people with less education, money, and understanding of such matters. As somebody else out there already said, there are still millions of people out there using dial-up, thus there has to be even more whose equipment is not up-to-date, and who could be customers if the ramifications of the difficulties they are going to experience is not addressed. There is a chance that many of these cannot be addressed, and the bottom 20/30 percent may not be customers under any conditions anyway. But less not discard the marginal ones. What use is it there to criticize me in this forum? What do you think the reaction of a visitor is likely to be if anyone complaining is shoved aside in some manner like I have been? When we were doing the test I said, if you experience no problems, report it. That is the way in which issues are resolved. Furthermore, why get carried away by what anybody says here? We are not going to have an impact on the price of the stock. But if there is an issue that can be addressed instead of swept under the rug, it can add a substantial number of customers to Reeltime. I am convinced that the issue is at my end, and it would be better to solve it than to lose those potential customers with similar issues.
No, dollar, I am not gone. The likes of you are not going to run me off. Fortunatedly there are some decent people here, but I guess it is too much to expect that eveyone be polite and constructive, instead of ill-manered and rude. I thought of writing a long answer aimed at the likes of you, but an a second thought, I decided you are not worth it.
From now on only constructive commentaries will get a reply from me.
technogeek,
I thank you very much for your considerate reply. I have been in contact with Reeltime about this issue, and others here have also been very helpful. For all I can gather, the issue seems to be that my bandwidth is sometimes just below the minimum threshhold to get the best reception possible. In fact, it tends to fluctuate considerably, more than what I understand to be normal, therefore, I must conclude that the problem is not just a matter of the age of the equipment, but something else within the system that is not functioning just as it should. Don't ask me to be more precise on this matter. I have no idea. In my next communication with Reeltime, I may be able to pinpoint the problem, but for now I am glad to know that it has nothing to do with the with Reeltime's product.
This all started because of the suggestion that was made for us to run tests, and make sure that everything is running properly--sort of our own beta testing here. All along I was thinking that those here who so enthusiastically in favor of the idea weren't really concerned with veryfying that everything was OK, but with just patting each other one in the back. I ws the only who reported problems, and while some were deeply interested in figuring out if the has something to do with the product or at my end, others used it simply as an excuse to attack me--how self-defeating! But well, that's another matter. Again I thank you for your kind help.
rfedeleo,
I like to publicly thank you also for the insights you have brought about following my statements of shortcomings in viewing. I clearly understand the issues at hand. Reeltime's technology seems to be definitedly ahead of the technological capacities of many internet users, as well as some of the communications media being used to transfer information. That being said, any further participation in the evening testing by me seems to be of no useful purpose since my equipment cannot properly handle the load.
Thanks, rhustang, for your private message. You have definitedly addressed the issues that concern me as well as can be expected from anyone in this medium. I also thank the couple of others who were positive in addressing this matter eventhough they didn't have to do so. As far as the othr matter you brought up, I will do as you suggested.
Hell, I didn;t realize it was so late. But maybe the are counting it by Pacific time. Anyway, I am going to bed. Until tommorrow ....
Thanks, rhustang, you have been very helpful. I will take your advice and see what happen.
Also thanks to everybody else who has given me advice tonight.
I only have two more posts remaining after this one for tonight. So unless it is something that needs answering I will hold back just in case.
Oh, I'm sorry char. I've got too much going on at one time.
This is some of the data I have been able to find.
1.25 GHz
480 MB RAM
I am using XP version 2002 service pack 2
Norton
12% of the hard disk space is now taken up
In the background I have Quicken and a MS Office file open.
The pwoergrid is playing One-eyed Jack which is fully store in the computer.
And I am here answering messages.
I know my computer is old. Bought it in January 2002. I just found the purchase date in my Quicken files.
I am not concerned about these problem for my sake. I am concerned about the millions of people out there who have equipment as old or older than my who may be experiencing these problem and that on account of these problem will not pay for Reeltime. To hell with my watching. I don't care if the movie takes a bunch of little skips. I am concerned about those who won't pay the fee if they experience the problem. A lot of people are less knowledgeable than I am about computers, and the moment they have a problem, they will go back to the old way. That's my concern.
Good char, we have read your words of wisdon, now you can leave and stay gone. Bye, bye.
Thanks, rhunstang, I found it. It says 100%. This is the kind of feedback that needs to be given when someone points to having a problem.
I still don't understand why I get the jerky-jerky motion at different places in the movie during different plays of the movie. Can it be that because the file is so big, and it must play so fast, that my computer may not be able to handle it?
If this is the case, then there must be millions of computers out there that are too slow to play a movie like this.
You are right, and I have contacted them in several ocassions. I have sent several e-mails, and the only replies I have gotten is a form e-mail. Which is to a certain degree fine. However, there has got to be a lot of other people like me out there, and if they are having the same experience, then they will not join. For all I can tell the product might be ahead of its time. If the technology is not out there (either in the distribution structure or at people's home) the company has a problem because the totality of the product is not deliverable. If people don't join because of this, many are going to blame Reeltime, and when competition come on board, they might go to thess places and get a better result 2/3 years down the line, and never think about going back to Reeltime. So, my concern is very real.