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HAUP at $4.8 might be a bargain at these prices. I am loading up for good times ahead.

HAUP (Hauppauge Digital, Inc.) always goes up in the November - February time frame because of a combination of several factors.

http://stockcharts.com/gallery/?haup

Take a look at the lower or weekly chart to clearly see that behavior. This year HAUP is stronger that ever in its history

Typical HAUP late-year catalysts:

* HAUP usually unveils several new products at this time of the year. The CEO already said that will release several new products in coming days/weeks

* 4Q 2006 and FY 2006 earnings to be released in December will show a 20 - 30% year over year revenue increase per CEO's comments last month during the annual meeting. Net income reported for the first 9 months of 2006 is 25c/share, almost doubling the 14c/share reported for all of 2005.

* HAUP usually goes up big during the Consumer Electronics Show held yearly in early January in Las Vegas, Nevada.

* HAUP reports its biggest quarter of the year in February. The first quarter of every year reflects Holiday sales. This year the company expects strong sales of some of its key products.

Last month Kenneth Plotkin, the Company's Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer said that the Company expected net sales in excess of $90 Million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006. He also said that based on certain sales channel market information currently available to the Company, sales of the Company's WinTV-HVR 950 hybrid video recorder product were expected to be relatively strong for the upcoming holiday season. As a reference, revenues for 2005 were $78M.

The Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950 is a small, compact USB device that is capable of viewing and recording both SD and HD TV. The HVR 950 is that it is a self powered USB device. It does not need an external power source to operate, and also comes with a small TV Antenna that is capable of receiving SD (NTSC) and HD (ATSC) over-the-air signals. It is also capable of receiving other NTSC signals, which allows me to view the cable at one's residence.

The WinTVHVR 950 is a truly portable TV Tuner from which you can view TV virtually anywhere. Your apartment, the park, hotel room, and even an airport terminal could provide the signal quality and reception that you need in order to view TV with this device. The Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950 USB2 is a TV Tuner that gives hope to the masses of people that have non-Media Center PCs. It is fairly compact, and provides both a quality SDTV and HDTV experience to the end user.

This product (about $100) is a hot selling item and almost impossible to find on shelves of electronics stores worldwide.

In the most recent 10Q, the company stated: .."Our R&D departments in New York and Taiwan have been teaming together to deliver an impressive series of new products, including two new multimode TV tuners, the triple TV format WinTV-HVR-3000 and the quadruple TV format WinTV-HVR-4000. The WinTV-HVR-4000 is Hauppauge’s first product with high-definition satellite TV reception. In addition, two new dual tuner digital TV receivers, the WinTV-NOVA-T-500 and the new WinTV-NOVA-T-USB2 diversity digital TV receiver, were introduced. Together, the R&D team is scheduled to introduce 20 new products in fiscal 2006.”


Other HAUP facts:

- Small float of about 5M shares

- Strong balance sheet: $8M cash or 90c/share and ZERO LT DEBT

- Profitable and growing company. Last three year revenues are: $51M in 2003, $65M in 2004, and $78M in 2005 ended in September 2005....and over $90M in 2006 (per recent guidance)

- Profitable every quarter this year

- Highest yearly profit to be reported in a few weeks (2006)

- Undervalued. Trading at a P/S ratio of about 0.5.

- Technological leader in the development and manufacturing of digital TV and data broadcast receiver products for personal computers.

- Institutional ownership is way up!!:

For more info go to the Hauppauge web page...

http://www.hauppauge.com/