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... -- Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
