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Microcap & Penny Stocks : NVEI (Was NVXE) - New Visual Entertainment Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Regeloney who wrote (1518)	7/20/1999 11:58:00 PM
From: Ben Mackenzie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2211

For those interested in the technical side of what NVXE has available to them ... is a means to put both left and right eye images on a single 35 (or 70 mm) movie frame ... in a standard 35 mm camera with just a change in lenses. This makes the 3D movie no more costly to make than to make it with the old 2D way. The way IMAX does 3D is to have 2 cameras with their lenses spaced at the correct eye spacing ... and use 70 mm film for their really big screens ... I'm told the size of the IMAX camera is about the half the size of a sofa. With the camera gear used by NVE, it is small enough to go out and shoot surf board and scuba scenes.... and much lower production costs to make the movie to begin with (I've seen 3D footage on this). Then to project the New Visual 3D movie at your local theater, all you need to do is to swap out the lense in the projector (about 60 seconds), replace the white screen with a silver screen (to maintain polarization, and have a barrel of cheap polarized glasses at the entrance. I've held the lenses at New Visual. I'm an aeronautical engineer who was a projectionist at a local theater when I was in high school. New Visual's hardware works and is so verrry simple. With this simplicity and low cost, it would be really easy to have one theater in each of the movie theater complexes around the country be set up for 3D ... and be switchable back to 2D in seconds. Can you imagine a Speilburg production in 3D?? ... I would sure like to see his stuff in 3D. Now on to T.V. .... I've seen New Visual's demo on my own T.V. using their VHS video tape and LCD Shutter Glasses ... the video is an 8 minute medley of a variety of things. The experience was amazing. I wanted to get other people's impression of this technology so I showed it to about 40 people ... generally on their own t.v.'s (takes only a minute or so to hook up)... in the conference room where I work ... to a local t.v. sales and service shop to a Radio Shack ... to my stock brokers home ... and they were all impressed. About 20-30% of the people reached out to try to touch the imagry ... it was that real to them. The video resolution was the same as that of standard VHS. I never thought I'd see 3D t.v. in my lifetime ... but I have ... and it is so simply done. The left and right eye images are alternately shown on the t.v. screen, and the LCD shutter glasses are sync'd to the video output of the VCR ... so the left eye sees only the left eye image, and vice versa. Note that this technology is not proprietary to NVXE ... I think it was developed a long time ago for computers for visualization. Today's televisions have half the frame rate of computers ... and I believe that NVE had several units modified to be compatible with the t.v. frame rate to show what could be done on ordinary televisions for entertainment. I believe that NVE's objective is to make $$$$ on the software (movies) ... and not the hardware. Remember Gillette ... and their focus is on making $$ on the blades ... and Nintendo ... makes the $$ on the software. There are 2 types of LCD glasses systems which I've seen ... one where up to 4 glasses are connected via a small, long wire to a Palm Pilot size box at the t.v. .. which has a video cable going to the VCR Video output ... and the cost of this with 2 sets of glasses is about that of a Nintendo 64 box ........ and there's also a version where there's an infra red link to the glasses (no wire). In my opinion, this is not only the better approach ... but the cost of manufacture has to be reasonable ... how many things do you have associated with your t.v. with an I.R. remote control? I have a friend in France was our European sales rep for the company I work for (in the aerospace area)... and he's an electrical engineer and was the original inventor of the LCD television screen. When I communicated to him what I had seen and the LCD shutter glasses approach, indicated that of the various methods of doing 3D t.v., this is the best approach. It can be viewed from any position in the room. There is a bit of a flicker on a standard t.v. with each eye seeing half the frame rate of the t.v. ... but after a couple of minutes, you don't even notice it ... and it should be done in a darkened room (like a movie theater). I'm looking forward to seeing this technology on the new High Definition T.V.'s which are digital and have twice the frame rate of standard T.V.'s .... digital t.v. is the direction the t.v. industry is headed towards ...With the coming digital t.v.'s, the flicker (which I think is acceptable)is not present. So as I see it, it the production rates to ramp up for the massive consumer audience could be in sync with the digital t.v.'s which are getting going now. So the timing on going to this technology ought to be fairly good. So how much more would it cost for the manufacturer's to add an I.R. emitter (like that in your t.v. remote control) to the front of the t.v. structure, and tie it into the video sync circuit??? ... The circuitry has to be simpler than a t.v. remote control which also has the digital coding for the various buttons ... and thus this cost increment has to be less than $20 for the t.v. end of this.... retail cost that is... This is my guess. Remember I'm an aeronautical engineer, not an electrical.... but I've had a Ham license for 40 years.... so I've been around electronics... and in my present job, I work as director of technology for an aircraft component manufacturer. The bottom line is that this 3D technology exists ... I've seen the hardware .... and others and I have seen the results of it ... and it works. I invested in NVXE over a year ago ... after looking at what they have and after seeing Ray Willenberg's vision (NVE President) of what he wanted to do with this, and seeing his level of committment to make NVE a success. I've had a lot of talks with Ray for a long time now, and also met him at his office. I agree with the others who have spent a lot of time with him ... that Ray is a very ethical person ... with a great vision and is inspired to really take NVE forward to a successful future. It is not my intent to hype the company, but to give you my observations of what I've seen ... from my investigations for the last year and a half. Regards, Ben