Andrew Mehta
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Paul seemed to get his MX02 card working in the end: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/4/867780#867794
Can he give you any pointers I wonder…?
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Optibase’s annual report from 2005, gives some of their thinking on the competitive market Media100 faced:
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The principle competitors of our Digital Non-Linear Editing products are Accom®, Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., Avid Technology, Inc. Discreet (a division of Autodesk, Inc.), Leitch®, Inc., Matrox® Electronic Systems Ltd., Pinnacle® Systems, Inc., and Quantel Ltd. Competition also comes from Matsushita® Electric Industrial Company Ltd. (“Matsushita”) and Sony Corporation (“Sony”), which have either introduced or announced plans to introduce disk-based systems. Because the market is constantly changing, it is difficult to predict future sources of competition; however, competitors are likely to continue to include larger vendors, such as Apple Computer, Matsushita, and Sony
Many of these competitors have substantially greater financial, technical, and marketing resources than Optibase.Some of our actual and potential competitors may have longer operating histories, greater name recognition, access to larger customer bases and significantly greater financial, marketing, technical and other resources than we do. Our competitors also sell products that provide some of the benefits of the products that we sell, and we could lose sales to our competitors. Moreover, some companies in the digital video and streaming market, including some of our competitors, are participating in business combinations. These combinations may result in the emergence of competitors who have greater market share, customer base, sales force, product offering, technology expertise and/or marketing expertise than we do. As a result, our competitors may be able to adapt more quickly to new or emerging technologies and changes in customer requirements or to devote greater resources to the promotion and sale of their products than we can. Thus, we cannot assure you that we will be able to compete successfully against current and future competitors, or that we will be able to make the technological advances necessary to improve or even maintain our competitive position or that our products will achieve market acceptance.
In addition, we expect price competition to escalate in the digital video and streaming market. We have consistently attempted to minimize the effect of price reductions in the market by introducing more sophisticated products at the top of our product line, and thereby attempt to maintain higher selling prices. However, competition in the future may force us to further lower product prices and we may be unable to introduce new products at higher prices. We cannot assure you that we will be able to compete successfully in this kind of price competitive environment. Lower prices and reduced demand for our products would reduce our ability to generate revenue. Failure by us to mitigate the effect of these pressures through cost reduction of our products or changes in our product mix could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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Source: https://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Optibase_%28OBAS%29/Filing/20-F/2005/F2851913
The company (Optibase as a whole) also revealed they had accumulative losses of $66million.
The newly acquired Media100 had contributed circa $3m in revenues during 2004 however.
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Boris and Uzi’s contract:
https://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Optibase_%28OBAS%29/Filing/20-F/2006/Ex-4/D1533526 -
A little bit more elaboration…but it seems they sold the patents to Acoustic for $1million, and the Media100 software to BorisFX for $20,000. =P.
Agreement with Acoustic Technology LLC
During September 2005, we executed an agreement with Acoustic Technology LLC for the sale of certain intellectual property rights for $1 million in cash. According to the agreement we will still maintain a worldwide right and license to develop and sell products covered by such intellectual property rights.Agreement with Artel Software Corp.
In June 2004 we acquired certain assets and assumed liabilities of Media 100 Inc. as part of a pre-packaged bankruptcy filing of Media 100, see Item 4A. “History and Development of the Company” under the heading “Capital Expenditures for the Last Three Years”. During the third quarter of 2005 we entered into an agreement with Artel Software Corp. (commonly known as Boris FX), or Boris FX, for the sale of our Digital Non-Linear Editing product line activity including all service, warranty and maintenance obligations for $20,000. Under the terms of the agreement Boris FX and us will share revenues derived from any future sales of these products and services up to $2 million and we will supply Boris FX, at Boris FX’ request, with manufacturing services for the Media 100 HD boards for a period of 24 months beginning on September 28, 2005.Source: https://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Optibase_%28OBAS%29/Filing/20-F/2006/F2851895
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Does this show, that Media100, and then Optibase, owned the patent on Nonlinear Video Editing….
…and then lost it to Acoustic Technologies in Nevada…? O_o
https://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6542692
The patent above is listed as having been cited by Apple in another patent awarded in february of this year, =P.
Imagine if when BorisFX bought Media100, they had also bought the patents, ^_^, and Avid and Apple had to pay them a royalty on every piece of editing suite software sold, ^_^, XD.
Of course, I don’t fully understand patents, and could be waaay off base, =).
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HDX is still an excellent bit of kit, in that I’ve heard great stuff about its upscaling and downscaling between HD and SD. It’s just a bit limited in that it really only works with the G5 PowerMacs, and none of the subsequent Intel machines, =/, on account of their move to PCIe.
There was another thread a few weeks back about codecs:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/4/867883
The newest codecs can be installed via the 15-day Media100 demo:
https://www.borisfx.com/media100/
…although this demo is for Intel Macs. [Be aware also, any files saved in new versions of Media100 won’t open in older versions – and the demo has auto-save activated in the preferences by default].Assuming yours is a PowerPC, you may want to try some codecs dated 2008, from Media100.de:
https://www.media100.de/fileadmin/media100/media/files/support/downloads/Media100-codecs-powerpc.zip
….perhaps these will let you play back old files without the HDX card.I had just got a second hand Media100i when the HDX came out. I’d drool over adverts for Optibase’s Media100 HD systems, but of course couldn’t afford them at the time, ^_^.
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Got to ask the obvious – is it just the HDX Junction Box, or the actual HDX card as well as the junction box?
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Okay, =).
13th Jan comment: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Media100Suite/permalink/967092923320211/?comment_id=998323260197177
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Perhaps – only that wouldn’t be fair on Floh, after all the work he’s put in for Boris (probably pro-bono) on the Yosemite version.
That said, he did say in January: “Hopefully there will be a nice announcement from Boris about Media 100 soon, not only covering Yosemite support.”… so some news beyond Yosemite might be in the works!
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Found I’ve got a 8.2.3a download on an old hard drive.
Apparently Quicktime 7.5 is the last that supports it too, going by the search results for 8.2.3 on this forum.