| 2009 is a strange year for investing and investors alike. | | | | servers and Hewlett Packard who announced in early |
| Gone are most of the rules we've lived by for the last | | | | May of this year that they will launch a range of |
| decade or more. It seems that the day traders are | | | | CodecSys software servers in September. These |
| back in force, braving the market swings as they try | | | | companies are excited by the speed and bandwidth |
| to out guess one another in an uncertain world. | | | | capacity offered by CodecSys but they know their |
| Most of us are still bruised and confused after the last | | | | customers will be almost as excited at being able to |
| six months of madness, but at some point, you have | | | | upgrade those servers with a simple software |
| to begin looking and see if there is anything out there | | | | upgrade in an industry filled with hardware based |
| worth investing in, not speculating in, but truly investing in | | | | servers that need to be discarded to upgrade to the |
| again. | | | | next model. |
| One of my favourite little companies that I've been | | | | A company called Fixstars in Japan has just launched |
| watching develop for the last few years, now appears | | | | a CodecSys software application that combines the |
| to be getting the attention it deserves and I thought it | | | | computing power of a play station 3 and your laptop |
| high time that I told the world how the Internet, | | | | to give you High definition encoding capabilities (That's |
| broadcasting industry, world of mobile phones and | | | | encoding not decoding) to make, edit and stream your |
| basically society as we know it, are going to be saved | | | | own High Definition videos. |
| by a little known technology called CodecSys. | | | | All this while Broadcast International stock stays hidden |
| CodecSys, developed, wholly owned, and fully | | | | away awaiting major press to wake up to what |
| patented by a small Idaho company called Broadcast | | | | they've got, stuck on the US bulletin board market at |
| International (BCST.ob) is the answer to many a | | | | under $2 per share! Considering the potential of their |
| question posed by those involved in communication | | | | technology-this is what the finance wizards call |
| technology today. | | | | ``undervalued`` |
| To send a signal by Internet, satellite or mobile phone, | | | | In an early interview on the Internet site 'Investor's |
| the signal is first compressed, sent through the system, | | | | voices,' Rod Tiede CEO of Broadcast International |
| and then decompressed by the destination device the | | | | mentioned that BI would receive in the region of |
| other end so that you can view your HD film, music | | | | $20,000 per sale of each server. This technology is |
| video or listen to music on your computer, television or | | | | the ONLY technology that can alleviate the bandwidth |
| mobile phone. The compression/decompression agent | | | | crisis allowing television to make its natural change to |
| used to do this is called a codec. There are hundreds | | | | delivery by Internet via IPTV. |
| of them. From Mpeg 2 and Mpeg 4 to H.264 and | | | | Knocked to as low as $1 by the financial crisis, BCST |
| specialised codecs by people like DivX and On2, the | | | | is now regaining ground and at this time of writing is |
| list goes on. | | | | trading between $1.50 - $1.60. I say have a look before |
| The problem facing the computer nerds now is that | | | | major sales start to be announced and the stock |
| these codecs can only do their job and compress | | | | begins to explode. |
| things so far, and the internet is now reaching its | | | | Volumes have been low for the last few months as |
| capacity. A recent report featured with online site 'IT | | | | the majority of investors stood aside while the brave, |
| pro' claims that by 2010 laptops and PC's will be | | | | foolhardy or extremely well informed continued to test |
| operating at much slower speeds on more and more | | | | their metal. Huge amounts of money currently sit on |
| unreliable connections as traffic and demand continue | | | | the sidelines parked in cash, bonds T-Bills and the |
| to increase. Now, unknown to the writer of that article, | | | | money markets. At some point that money will start to |
| and at this point almost everyone else out there, is that | | | | come back in and we should see less erratic |
| the CodecSys technology is able to use multiple | | | | fluctuations on a daily basis. When that does start to |
| codecs to do the job, not just one. It is the only one of | | | | happen, those more perceptive investors will be looking |
| its type and is protected by a gaggle of patents. Using | | | | for keen fundamentals, undervalued companies with |
| three, four or five differently calibrated codecs, | | | | growing healthy sales. They're going to be looking for |
| CodecSys can send eight High definition channels in | | | | companies like Broadcast International with its incredible |
| the space currently being used to send just one. | | | | technology and low stock price. |
| Applications for CodecSys won't stop their either. | | | | To find out more about Broadcast international, start |
| Encoding HD DVD's, storing surveillance video from all | | | | on their webpage and then look closer at the |
| those CCTV cameras, compressing music and video's | | | | increasing problems in the Internet and IPTV world that |
| for your mobile phone, satellite television, IPTV ... there | | | | they will be playing a major part in alleviating and |
| are innumerable applications. | | | | expect to see CodecSys in a technology you own. |
| Agreements have been made with IBM, who have | | | | Remember you heard it here first! |
| just started marketing a range of software based | | | | |