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To: Jill who wrote (6610)	3/27/1999 9:58:00 AM
From: hookjock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

I like your baseball analogy Jill. Thankfully you did not use a basketball analogy and compare them to the L.A. Clippers.

To: Jill who wrote (6610)	3/27/1999 12:55:00 PM
From: killybegs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

We will, in my opinion, continue to see great changes in the public view of Ampex...by Definition,,,this is a Media Company..integral part of business strategy by Media/Communications company is publicity, advertising, information, promotion etc to establish a media brand....this will no longer be a quiet little company....

To: Jill who wrote (6610)	3/27/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: scrooge	Respond to of 17679

I would agree with you ( although I wouldn't want to) except for the new personnel who have been brought on board recently, who have terrific records, esp. the Marbloro Man - I think they realize they have to change and that's why we're seeing what we are seeing - otherwise, why hire those people?

To: Jill who wrote (6610)	3/27/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Michael Olds	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

Jill, (notice how all us boys always cluster around a girl poster's post?)(Delay in response because I went off-line to use my wordprocessor to compose this.) I believe you have hit on the two insights which provoked my outbursts yesterday: 1. I think the world has gone into a different mode of Time. The crazies (of which I am one), always get blown away by such shifts. That is the root of this “internet mania.” And 2. It is conceivable to me that EB has not really tapped into this, and is, in stead, pursuing a straight line approach to a change in corporate attitude (which, in effect, will amount to no change in attitude at all.) We need a 3-dimensional or 4-dimensional approach. As AXC, we need to forget about “doing” this, we must be the means for others to “do.” I am saying that a straight line roll-out of the current AXC Network (Production studios, Content Providers, Broadcast Stations) will be out of date before it even gets completed. I am saying that there will be a solution to the bandwidth problem before you can snap your finger, and that this will completely change everything. I am not saying that this is the solution, but a solution that I can invision (and if an ignoramus can invision something like this, someone knowledgeable can see how it can actually be done) is a new type of switcher. In the same way that data is now switched between hubs along the telephone line grid, the new switcher will route data between various types of bandwidth paths: copper wire, cable, fiber optic, and satellite. At such a time as this happens, the advantage of even a Broadcast.com will be totally lost. With equipment that exists today and which AXC produces and controlls, a million dollars will set up Al with his dream studio. Forget the web page as we know it, he will have a Personal Network Television Studio. His audience (including those tuning in via re-broadcasters – Al's affiliate stations) will tune in wearing their Virtual Reality helmets and visit his Beatnik café where he will recite his poetry; they will then glide over to Al's Blue Note; to hear his synthesized band; visit his boutique, jump over to my Throne Room where they can sign up for an interview, or join the queue to petition the king. Al's studio and mine and yours will be able to hold live, interactive simulcasts. The day will be mixed interactive live and static archived materials. Everyone will be able to sell their favorite things by making special deals with anyone anywhere in the world. (I see a thousand distributors of my curry powder.) Stop. These are just a couple of miscellaneous features that come to mind. The point is, anyone will be able to broadcast their “thing” live, interactively, and at a profit. Ok, not everyone. But it will, within the next year to two years, be possible for anyone with a million or so bucks. This leads me to EB. He must either have this vision, or be made to accept it from without. It is not reasonable to wait like cattle at the slaughter to find out. We as a group, must enter this new, interactive age proactively. This is the medium. The way it will work is that at the point where this vision gets spelled out in such clear detail that it only takes money to make it real, the money will appear. Either we (AXC) get the money, or it will go elsewhere. It will go elsewhere only if we have not made it absolutely clear that this is the shortest route to that future vision. And right now, perhaps by happenstance all the cards are in EB's hand. But as Hal will no doubt testify, a winning hand doesn't take the pot if there isn't savvy and capital to back it up. Then we need the specialists. They have got to get in on the act. They cannot fight us for nickels and dimes any more. What we need is the Henry Ford vision. Every holder of 10,000 shares of AXC today must be a million dollar customer of AXC in 18 months and have a million to spare. That's 200/share. That is not impossible. Start by 3 months of daily increases of 1/16 th. That is all it would take. That is probably more than enough to get a fever going.