Blue, could the red fox omen be about remembering Whose In Charge Of The Henhouse? Carolyn, you were the one pulled my coat on xvtaix<-; thanks and for the link to a good explanation of Where It's At. I didn't sell it in my recent closet-cleaning because looks like interest is growing while they're investing revs and improving losses slightly in the phrase of developing product and meeting sales orders. A good outcome looks somewhat predictable, seems like a real good Co. with loyal fans. As I'm not a big one for averaging down, haven't done so here. Mostly because the initial investment came from profits on a freerider and that's not where it would come from now if I did so (don't like to break my own strategy rules). All of these TV's (CAMP and SRCM too) are chancy because they actually depend on acceptance by Microsoft, Cable ISP & Phone Providers, and the Networks ultimately. Any coming technologies involved with TV on the Internet will depend on cooperation with Bigs to be admitted Into The Big Leagues which might not have anything to do with quality of the product or the Co. from any point of view but The Art Of The Deal. But it's starting to happen & isn't a subsector to ignore.
Been seeing late-night ads for WebTV (that's Microsoft's)(not free access, but wonder if it will be soon in view of Gates Giving It Away Free like's being said lately) on the Shopping Channel whenever I look lately, thinking of maybe getting it to keep up with its pertinence to my Internet Investments. (I didn't get Cable yet). WebTV is accessible by phone modem. These half-hour-long adshows hawk No Computer For Web TV, featuring ease of set-up and access, ability to make and accept phone calls at the same time WHILE PUTTING THE SHOW OR THE WEB ON HOLD (our pet?) and downplay limitations of website accessibility of course. Shopping, chat, email, and sports from the living room is the mainstay. WEBTV, PalmPilot and Other Minis, Digital Access etc. all require their individual browser and There's The Rub Right Now. Here's a Picture Of Future Possibilities Maybe... instead of a laptop, maybe folks will be taking a small tv or a fold-up portable screen to the beach like they do already, maybe even accessing the web via a built-in transmitter...keeping their data on the web accessible via password and typing it in on a fold-up portable keyboard (both have been invented and in non-public companies involved with Intel when last I looked). Keeping their stuff in some mass web data storage thing like ORCL's doing. Goes without saying none of that will be promoted to consumers previous to WhyTwoKay, or if something more easily portable has already come along! Maybe it'll ultimately be a little plastic sheet with a tiny antenna! That there's a Logjam on What's Next For Wireless is obvious...
A recent Bill Moyers show on PBS about the government give-away of the broadband channels to the Networks pointed to TV Internetworks as The Very Next Phrase... these Bigs now have the opportunity to expand hundreds of channels into what now is used for one, and they got That Bogart For Free. (This show's feature was such a giveaway of the taxpayers property perhaps not being the best idea of benefit to us all, but what's done is done). The usual Bigs were mentioned as T, CMCSK, DIS, COX, TWX, CBS, GE, FOX, etc...who haven't done much with it yet but sitting on these capacities now. (My guess is they're trying to figure out how to project and implement plans while avoiding the risk of being accused of Monopoly. Taking their time about it, if they ever come to an agreement it'll actually be amazing). How this whole issue so important to the taxpayers received so little news coverage was mentioned as not a surprise when The Fox Is In Charge Of The Henhouse.
Seems like These Bigs see The Internet as a bone thrown to The People to compensate because it's a small airwave area compared to what's been given out. WWW's the The Only Place The Common Citizens Will Be Able To Exercise Their First Amendment Rights communicating thru this medium - subject to overseeing by controllers of internet access of course.
Expanded TV Land, More Choice Of Channels, More Ads, More Programming... That's What Make$ Their World Go Round.
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Joanie |
