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A web video company that is most likely a hoax

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Re: A web video company that is most likely a hoax

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Post by lukejduncan »

FWIW

Registrar ID: CORE-123 (Klute-Thiemann Informationstechnologie GmbH & Co.KG)

Created On: 2005-06-16 19:22:24 GMT

Last Updated On: 2011-09-15 12:17:38 GMT

Expiration Date: 2012-06-16 19:22:24 GMT

Status: member-lock

Registrant ID: COCO-10657700

Registrant Name: Roman Rumpf

Registrant Organization: Raystream Inc

Registrant Street: 2101 Midway Road, Suite 140

Registrant City: Carrollton

Registrant State/Province: Texas

Registrant Postal Code: 75006

Registrant Country: US

Registrant Phone:

Registrant Phone Ext:

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Registrant Email: roman@raystream.com

Re: A web video company that is most likely a hoax

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Post by jcromartie »

radley wrote: post #34

I checked the demo videos: "Original Version" - 1080p, AVC uncompressed "Standard Compression" - 480p, AVC uncompressed "Raystream Version" - 480p H.264 AAC, ~1200kb data rate Nothing that fishy here. They seem to be advertising to broadcasters. It's possible they have some nice custom algorithms for their videos. That isn't uncommon - take a look at Apple movie trailers and iTunes videos: they have their own magic j…

Here's a comparison of Raystream's "own" encoding side-by-side with their "uncompressed" video after being run through Handbrake with default H.264 settings.

http://imgur.com/a/uQsiU

See if you can guess which is which.

Re: A web video company that is most likely a hoax

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Post by joelhaasnoot »

emp_ wrote: post #50
joelhaasnoot wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's marketing ignorance: it's like selling a Facebook like button for 1200 euro's as a "social marketing" (true story BTW).

Go on...

My boss as at an internship charged a client 1200 euros for adding a Facebook button. I believe he sold it as a social marketing something or other. He liked to overpromise, overcharge and underdeliver. Oh, and sold stuff we couldn't do. Needless to say the company shrinked by 400% by the end of the internship.

Re: A web video company that is most likely a hoax

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Post by chrisbolt »

TDL wrote: post #32

A simple way of finding out if it's a scam is by looking at the balance sheet. If you see little to no assets it is most certainly a pump & dump; this "firm" has not assets. These scams are usually formed through reverse mergers, that is how they are able to sell stock.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=RAYS.OB
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