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Gold/Mining/Energy : Tri-Vision & The V-Chip

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To: trenzich who wrote (2967)	6/3/1998 11:02:00 AM
From: D.E. Shetland	Read Replies (3) of 5743

How dense are you? I used to think you had a modicum of understanding the larger issues in this arena, but it's now very clear you don't know much about the development of closed-captioning and ratings info within a TV. Do you think a company should waste time explaining in their marketing material the gorry details of how the mechanism they invented (V-gis) differs from the basic construct of a V-Chip device. If you look further in all their materials --annual report included --you will see that they have always acknowledged the fact that there will be other devices and other ways to screen ratings. Given that the US system will not be the only one in the world, they are quite correct in stating that they have a lock on a "self-configuring" V-Chip --which for my money would be the only way to truly commercialize the technology because who would spend money on a static system that will be so clearly obsolete within 2 years. That was the whole problem with the closed captioning system --they're in their fourth iteration and it's a real problem for backward compliance with the OEM's. That is what they all want to avoid with this since it appears to have worldwide appeal. The real question is why Acacia touts having a patent that is basic to the operation of reading ratings --that is what is so absurd. What TC/TVL have is an approach to the whole operation of the TV and the ratings that no one else did any work on. It's basically all software, not hardware. That's the key to all of this rating info, not how to read and splice data bits from VBI21. If that's all Acacia has, boy are they selling a line to everyone about their "V-Chip" patent. For every reference TVL has made to having a "proprietary V-Chip" device, Acacia has two for their "owning the entire rights to the V-Chip". How silly are they to think there will be only one approach to reading ratings and acting on them. Ask yourself this: Soundview has been in the press numerous times saying they'd have a V-Chip decoder on shelves since July 97. They've continually said they'd have it within 2 months of ratings being finalized. So, WHERE IS IT? That's right, you'll never see it because they have absolutely no clue how to manufacture, distribute, market anything that is tangible. It's a bunch of VC wannabes who hope that they can fabricate a great "concept" to go ramp the share and flog it off to suckers like you. THEY HAVE NEVER EARNED A PENNY IN ANY OF THEIR VC HOLDINGS. THEY HAVE NEVER SOLD A PRODUCT TO ANYONE. Wake-up TZ to the scam that is Acacia --Ask them to send you product literature on their device. The empty envelope will probably come COD since they have no cash to pay for anything! You better read their filing s more closely. They aren't that sophisticated at hiding the scam. Someone of your intelligence should be able to read through it rather easily.

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