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Re: SRT8 post# 74197

Saturday, 01/07/2006 11:31:11 AM

Saturday, January 07, 2006 11:31:11 AM

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bbillybbass & wick:

Here are the "Services" listed on the CC site under the "Entertainment" heading:

1. Direct Satellite TV
2. Snapfish
3. Digital River (Software)
4. Rhapsody and Napster (Digital Music)
5. getDigital (CD to MP3 conversion)
6. Gameznflix

I think that #'s 1, 4, and 6 are the more obvious "entertainment-centric" services, while the others are mere conveniences. IMO, The first portion of the paragraph everybody is looking at could well include all of the above. However, let's highlight a different word for a moment.

Key initiatives to innovate include the following:
o win in home entertainment - be the retail destination for home entertainment products and services
o digital home services - develop breakthrough consumer electronics service offerings


BREAKTHROUGH....Hmmm...Digital Satellite TV is definitely not breakthrough, nor are digital music applications.....Now Gameznflix? Perhaps...Just thinking about what appears below

(Thanks to afterthought, who assembled these quotes:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=9148424 )


From december 1st press release transcript:


Another thing that is very strong for us is what is the evolution of rental business?
We are aggressively looking at a download model or paper view model, one that would allow us to offer to our members a title that is electronically delivered, you know that is the next stage of this business. And whether that be through a computer, to a media center PC that is attached to the television, or satellite system of some sort, or an IP based television, that is something we are aggressively looking at because the technology and more importantly, the market for that may not be here right now, we know that some of the things that has happened in and around the business, that it is absolutely coming, and we want to be ready for it in anticipation of what that is.

from webcast

...(interviewer)does the company have any plans to develop an on demand platform?

(john fleming)Not only do we have plans, we are ready to beta test, we are in fact we are so close to beta test right now, we got everything in place and we are running internal testing right now before we take it out to the outside world for beta testing. We believe that the industry is going to lead in the next years to the direct download, and so we've spent probably the last year working on that portion of our business and getting ready to move forward in it. One of the hurdles of that industry in the direct download is going to be the studios recognizing that its a real market, and their going to have to address it and address it with the vendors like ourselves.

(interviewer)And when do you plan on rolling that platform out?
(john fleming) As soon as my legal department says I can roll it out, as I said were already testing it internally, and we just have a couple more hurdles we want to make sure, because we at all times want to make sure that we are maintaining our copyright protection for the studios and ourselves, as well as the users who are going to be using it so we have a few more legal hurdles to clear and then we are ready to bring it out to actual beta testing in the public.





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