Howard, Zeev, Bouy and all,
I find it very lonely here, reading the short BW piece to which all this fun may be attributed. The scribner of "Digital TV on a PC," one Gene G. Marcial, evidently doesn't understand the difference between "TV," "digital TV," "HDTV," or "WinTV-D." Nor does Gene evidence understanding the difference between a television signal arriving as RF to one transported over the net. ("Hauppauge will benefit from the increasing supply of Internet-based digital video content"). Mr. Marcial's coup de grace faux pas is the line in which he compares the price of Hauppauge's upcoming WinTV-D ("$500") to the "$7,000 that high-definition TV sets are retailing for".
Does BW have a copy desk responsible for fact-checking? These are non-sequitors as goofy as would be comparing the caloric content of fast food on Mars to the length of time enamel-based paints (especially the violet and green wavelengths) take to dry during the Y2K crisis.
Mr. Marcial continues with news (via "one New York money manager") that HAUP will announce a jv with a "large Internet company that broadcasts streaming media programming on the Web."
Ostensibly, this "New York money manager" is one Mr. Jordon, of Axiom Capital Management.
Axiom Capital's Home Page (http://www.axiomcapital.com/) has not apparently been updated since January, 1999. I can faithfully report it's page "Latest Focus Stock Picks" (http://www.axiomcapital.com/Focus_Stock_Report_Frameset.htm) features just two hot entries:
* SCI Systems - SCI - March 2, 1998 - BUY
* Loral Space And Communications - LOR - September 19, 1997 - BUY
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Ladies and gentlemen; the envelope, please:
* SCI was $40 on March 2, 1998.
* $39 7/16 on HAUP's Big Day.
* LOR was $18 on Sept 19, 1997.
* Of course, it has subsequently rocketed to $19 5/16.
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Anyway, let's forget technology. Forget AA, TA, T&A.
Let's focus on Business Week, as represented by its journalist whose grasp, as it is written, would not seem out of place on a Yahoo board.
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