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Market Alert: RAY DIRKS RESEARCH – TMM Inc. (TMMI) December 16, 2013 by Ray DirksPosted on admin on December 16, 2013 // Leave Your Comment
This is the first report by RAYDIRKS Research on a rapidly growing industry – the digital video space, where the Internet-based, digitally-addicted, personally mobile world of video streaming is just beginning to benefit from the application of software-derived solutions.
Ray Dirks and his team of money managers and security analysts have discovered a company named TMM, Inc. (TMMI on the OTC) that is developing a proprietary data compression technology under continual development called TRUDEF™ – with the right software-based solution.
The TRUDEF codec has moved rapidly through the laboratory and into product development. Inspired by a fractal algorithm originally developed by Michael Barnsley and Alan Sloan, two PhDs in mathematics from Georgia Tech, TRUDEF’s multi-patented technology is a paradigm shift from current video compression methods.
In a world where video usage relentlessly expands, TMMI’s management team believes that there needs to be more than one solution for video compression and image enhancement. It would be even more helpful if the solution was specific to each user and not just tied to the limits of hardware. Choice encourages creativity.
Video is not just for broadcast anymore. It’s openly available to everyone, and will be easier to manage once it’s treated like all other digital content. Since most content will ultimately flow through the glorious content of the ether, we better be ready with more than one solution.
In a one-solution digital video ecosystem, there’s little opportunity to develop creative systems that can drive down the cost of collecting, managing and storing the gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, and exabytes of video content, and at the same time offer enhanced capabilities for how to access and use this potentially valuable content.
So – Software is the Solution – and TRUDEF is the Software, in the opinion of RAYDIRKS Research. Ray Dirks and his team suggest that readers of this article do their due diligence, consult with their advisers, and purchase shares of TMMI at their current price for probable capital appreciation in the short term and the long term – of several times on their investment.
Specifically, RAYDIRKS Research is setting a Target Price on TMMI of $0.40, or
40 cents per share for TMM, Inc. by the second half of 2014 – within one year.
It’s becoming clear that users around the world are demanding multiple solutions as to how they can capture, encrypt, compress, play, transmit, enhance, store, and view video content. TRUDEF and its many applications offer users a choice beyond the limitations of hardware.
The user base for TRUDEF consists of all manner of content creators, content distribution networks, and inhabitants of various way points along the video work flow pathway. They produce content, compile it, enhance it, manage its distribution, and earn from it. Every conceivable sector of the economy depends on this content and the bandwidth needed to support it, from motion picture studios, defense agencies, medical imaging firms and educational institutions to wireless carriers, nascent space exploration entities, and the ubiquitous and multi-faceted users of YouTube.
While there are a few companies out there who are carving out a niche enabling the distribution of RAW content, they require inordinately large and expensive pipelines for distribution, even within an internal work flow environment. Clearly, video compression is the most realistic efficient solution. There’s a major shift under way in the delivery of video and programming for highly capitalized industries such as cable and TV broadcasters to software-based distribution over the Internet.
The Big Wide World of Video – There are five essential factors defining today’s digital video universe. Consider this new virtual realm as driven by one virtual pulsating Venn diagram comprised of five factors overlapping one another – essentially consisting of Image Quality, Bandwidth Utilization, Energy Efficiency, Compression Speed, and Storage Capacity. These drivers vary in magnitude, relevance, and relative importance – depending on the user’s needs, limitations, and goals. They are often expressed in metrics specific to the application.
Users may have to prioritize the importance of one factor over another, or even select one compilation of factors for a universal solution, but unavoidably, the results will be directly influenced by the choices made.
And there are other notable factors that influence users’ decisions in choosing the right Video Compression Solution – Compression Ratio, Image Enlargement capabilities, PSNR Metrics, Conversion of Mezzanine Content, Archival of Digital Media, Up-scaling from lower to higher resolutions, Video Zooming, Single Frame capture, Subject Isolation, and Tracking – are some of the specific requirements that certain users demand.
That’s Entertainment – And More – Consumers throughout the world are choosing and changing their preferred wireless devices at an eye-popping rate, often up-grading and switching platforms. This behavior compels the entertainment industry, manufacturers of consumer electronics, and content carriers to devise new strategies for attracting and retaining customers. Other businesses are not immune. Online Education, Gaming and Gambling, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance push the limits every day. More detail, more data, and more bandwidth are constantly in demand.
Despite the high cost of entering into a manufacturing environment, companies that were once software-only entities have been drawn into making devices because they see the value in getting customers hooked on cyclical upgrades. After seeing the success of Apple and its walled-garden approach linking the device to software and vice versa, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung had to follow.
Is Future Proof Possible ? - Choosing a software solution over new hardware has many cost-saving advantages, including extending a product’s life cycle through downloading upgrades rather than purchasing new devices.
Mainstream Streaming – The Future of Video As multi-streaming and video streaming go mainstream, digital entertainment is becoming truly personal and unbound. Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Prime would like to accelerate that changeover, while cable companies such as Comcast, Verizon FIOS, and Time Warner have hundreds of millions of steady customers tied to their set-top boxes. Once their customers are linked to Smart TVs, the TV cable is irrelevant. Internet connectivity is all that’s needed.
TV is Hardware. Video is Software - The broadcast industry has thrived on a business model driven by capital equipment, networked equipment, territorial broadcast rights, the unforgiving daily clock of advertising sales, and tenuous affiliate relationships. The new version of the broadcast industry has worked hard to remove technical hurdles, secure a broader body of content rights, activate more agile devices, and introduce millions of new customers to the benefits of digital entertainment. Content is king – and content runs on software.
Mobile Wherever – The TV Everywhere (TVE) initiative – launched first by Comcast and Time Warner to extend digital cable and satellite subscriptions from the television to other devices, allows viewers access to their favorite shows anytime, anywhere. It’s still early, but streaming content is often limited and falls short of consumer expectations, including programming that is restricted to a few devices with access prohibited outside the home. In addition, there is a disconnect with the consumer who can’t justify the cable bill for streaming content.
Success in the mobile ecosystem is defined by high quality, speed, ease of use, and low cost. Untethered consumers are concerned about cost. As much as they want an enhanced viewing experience, many consumers now limit the amount of video streamed on phones over cost concerns – and many believe that they should enjoy free access to TV content on their mobile phones through their cable provider. Bandwidth remains a costly component in the mix.
Software that is not tied tightly to specific hardware is a good starting point. Television engineers needed standards for broadcast so that content was compatible through work flow and across network distribution. Hardware often dictated content. In the old broadcast TV model, owners of the hardware controlled the distribution of the content. Digital content can be more flexible – all that’s needed is the right software player on the user’s end. With Internet distribution, player and content can be seamlessly downloaded, at little or no cost to subscribers or properly authenticated users.
Inferior video quality is still common. While many over-the-top services now offer high definition content, it often doesn’t reach the consumers in that form. Buffering problems, content freezing, poor color and video degradation remain common today. And there are technical challenges with device activation and content authentication. Most of these are software problems. Even though consumers may buy a new 4K (UHD) TV, their cable carriers are likely to cap the signal that consumers receive, limiting signals to 720p.
So where does TMMI and its TRUDEX fit into this picture? RAYDIRKS Research is convinced that TMM’s development team is currently into two high-value and simultaneous streams of development.
Stream I : Codec Modernization
Ongoing Proof of Concept : Since the Fall of 2011, when TMM’s current management team took over the company, the development group has focused on converting TMM’s TRUDEF codec to work on Microsoft Media Foundation from source code originally written in the early 1990's on the DOS platform. This lab work has proven that the codec works well in a series of private demonstrations with client-supplied test content.
Today’s more powerful processors and graphics cards, with multi-core capabilities, enable TRUDEF consumers to gain performance without significant capital expenditures in hardware. TRUDEF provides an end-to-end solution that offers encoding and efficient distribution as well as client meta-data integration and immediate playback.
The development team continues to rewrite the code to modern software standards on modern processors and perform on all devices. This has included cleaning up older code, stripping out and replacing primitive code, and restructuring the code to ensure future up-dates/changes can be made easily. The finished re-written codec will then be adaptable to the industry applications that TMM has identified. In the fall of this year, TRUDEF was ported to play on the Android platform.
TRUDEF delivers high quality decompressed images with impressive clarity, free of unwanted artifacts— and nearly loss-less rendition. TRUDEF has already shown itself to be especially suited for HD and UHD (4K) video. TRUDEF has successfully demonstrated video streaming video HD quality at 6 mbits/sec in RGB color space with video surpassing the quality level of content presently used. These results will continue to be enhanced as codec modernization continues.
As HD digital video becomes the norm, consumer expectations for better video quality are increasing, not only for large screen formats, but for smaller hand-held devices as well. There’s countless video archived today that can be processed using TRUDEF to play on HD and UHD equipment.
TRUDEF Scaling – One of the unique features of the TRUDEF encoder is its real-time zoom capability. By encoding magnification data into the video bit stream during compression, TRUDEF is able to instantly and seamlessly switch between 1x, 2x, and 4x video displays with no change in file size. The signal-to-noise metrics of the rendered input are as good as the best static imaging up-scaling algorithms in use today – but applied to 30 frames per second video! This is extremely valuable in Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance applications.
TRUDEF Better Pictures. Smaller Files. - Digital video assets compressed using TRUDEF technology can be stored as one copy and played at higher resolutions. This not only saves bandwidth in transmission and storage space, but lets the user play up-sampled video on a wider variety of devices.
TRUDEF scaling has been tested and demonstrated successfully in multiple-image acquisition formats, including ARRI, ALEXA, RED ONE, RED EPIC, Blackmagic Cinema One, and Canon EOS 7D cameras as well as scanned 16mm and 35 mm motion picture film with excellent results that retain the high quality of the original source images.
Another significant advantage is that these qualities of first generation TRUDEF compressed video files now can continue through post-production and can be delivered to digital cinemas and home theaters without further trans-coding unless special effects are required.
Many TRUDEF features help reduce bandwidth, while others improve viewer experience. Some can have additional advantages relating to storage. Certain features can be tailored from the base TRUDEF codec for each market according to user needs.
TRUDEF Video Playback - The TRUDEF video playback solution enables real-time high quality video streaming with advanced multimedia features for an enhanced viewing experience across multiple platforms and devices.
TRUDEF enhances the viewer experience with advanced features - Today’s users expect streaming video in more places than ever before, and they also expect it to perform incredibly well. TMMI offers TRUDEF Super Streaming in response to these demands. TRUDEF Super Streaming is an end-to-end solution for secure adaptive streaming for over-the-top content service providers that offers high quality video experiences on multiple platforms with advanced multimedia features that consumers love. TRUDEF Super Streaming is a feature-rich software solution, so it can be scaled across the range of platforms and devices.
TRUDEX Excellence Initiative—TRUDEF video gives consumers the freedom to take videos from their computers to watch in the living room or on the go.
TRUDEF for mobile phones enables consumers to easily watch their favorite videos on the go – with great performance, long battery life, and without the need for any special applications.
Ongoing Improvements – TMMI’s development team has identified a number of solutions for improving the quality of TRUDEF output, functionality, and speed. Experiments have begun and are being tested and prioritized by simplicity, degree of difficulty, likelihood of short-term success, and return on effort.
Stream 2 : Product Development
Code Documentation— To fully understand the existing code and record all development, including up-dates, changes, naming protocols, optimizations, source code mapping, and testing results, and also to establish internal working standards within its own development group, TMM maintains rigorous logs documenting procedures and progress. This task is essential to establish value for potential partners and for any parties who may have an interest in acquiring or licensing the technology.
Platform Compatibility — Developed first to operate on the Microsoft Media Foundation platform, TRUDEF now works well in both Windows 7 and 8 and has been demonstrated successfully in Microsoft’s Surface Tablet. Porting TRUDEF to work on other operating systems is well underway, with Android operating system functionality already completed. Owned by Google, Android is a Linux-based operating system designed for touchscreen mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet computer devices. Android is open-source and the most widely used tablet device in the world.
TRUDEF Player — The team has developed a proprietary player which can be customized for use across all market sectors. The user interface and other key features can be customized according to specific customer needs such as security, brand protection, and distribution channel differentiation.
Prototype Server Farm— To demonstrate the scalability of TRUDEF in establishing a model for users, TMM has installed a mini server farm adjacent to its development lab. Various client-supplied videos have been processed and stress-tested. One 52 minute time-lapse and motion video with an original cineform 4K file size of 383GB and converted back to 1.7TB RAW has been processed in less than 50 minutes with a resulting file size of 120GB for standard broadcast quality. The same 1.7TB video file processed for UHD quality took 87 minutes with a resulting file size of less than 200GB. That’s a big improvement in speed over when the same file was initially compressed in the TMMI lab on a single core computer, which took 169 hours in late 2012.
These results show that the TRUDEF™ codec is scalable and as more computers are clustered, compression time will be exponentially reduced. This prototype establishes scalability of TRUDEF technology as a solution for improving video quality without increasing file size. By doubling the number of computers, the compression time would be cut in half. Now the TRUDEF™ codec can be commercially used to compress video content over Content Delivery Networks and Streaming Media.
As Dr. Alan Sloan, the co-founder of fractal compression stated, “As computers get faster the TRUDEF fractal compression time will be faster!”
RAYDIRKS Research suggests that readers/investors place no more than 1% of the amount of funds they devote to common stocks in any one security. It’s best to diversify. !
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