On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:16 PM, David Lister <foceni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andreas Regel wrote: >> David Lister schrieb: >>> I didn't want to write a long mail, but here goes: >>> >>> The TechnoTrend company, as of Februay 2009, doesn't exists any more. >>> *It is bankrupt*. First, its owner Novabase sold as many of its shares >>> as it could in 2007, in hope that the proceeds would allow TechnoTrend >>> to get back on track. No such luck. A few months back this year, the >>> company was finally dumped and sold as a whole to some German telco >>> company in the Kathrein Group for liquidation, because of the tremendous >>> drop in it's market value and forthcoming bankruptcy. This might also be >>> of some interest to prospective buyers of it's former products. :) I >>> don't want to search for all the press releases, but you can verify this >>> claim here: >>> http://www.euronext.com/fic/000/044/480/444806.pdf >> >> As written there the Görler Telekom bought the business and stock of >> TT, that includes the brand name, all products and most of the >> developers. They formed a new Company called TechnoTrend Görler GmbH, >> that will continue development, production and sales. >> >> See here: http://www.kathrein.de//en/press/cont/texte2009/pi0910.htm >> >> Even if not explicitely mentioned there, PC products are included in >> that deal. >> >> New web site is still under construction: http://www.ttgoerler.de/ >> > That is good news, thanks for the update! Everything falling apart last > time I checked was a rather disturbing experience, even though I've > never been their greatest fan. There's just a handful of companies > making usable PC tuners and TT was one of the bigger ones. If KG are > serious, I am quite relieved. Kathrein not only has extensive know-how > and capital, it seems to like Linux. We might even see official Linux > support for their new products. That would be cool! :) I'd definitely > support such a manufacturer. > > *OT* I just remembered in connection with Linux DVB-S2 cards: in case > some of you also heard about that new dual DVB-S2-CI tuner for PC's with > full Linux support, you can forget about it. Or at least I can. When I > pre-ordered directly from the Russian manufacturer (NetUP), they said > the price for one would be $1000. What a rip-off... Indeed it is. Maybe you will get a DVB card with dual DVB-S2 and CI with hardware H.264 decoder and HDMI out for a better deal. You might need to wait for the hardware to be available though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
