RE: KAT5 Website Updated

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

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I hope Keith has copyrighted or otherwise protected his work!

Demand wise, I agree - it can only go up.  Multi room audio is getting bigger & bigger every year, though still Linn & QED seem to be the main players in the UK market.  Add in distributed video, which they don't have & you're onto a winning combination.   Even if Linn/QED did have them, the price points cannot touch Keiths for value.

The only problem could be in persuading snobby dealers not to use a 'name' brand.  In fairness though, it can sometimes be down to the client rather than the dealer - I know someone who works on houses/flats of the well heeled & often the remit when it comes to audio is 'I have 50k.  Install the most expensive hifi you can for that', or they know of brand X and want only that, regardless of whether it's any good or not :)

 

I will repeat my initial statement, as I think it's important:

"I HOPE Keith has copyrighted or otherwise protected his work!"

 

Tony

 
 -----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 January 2002 11:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] KAT5 Website Updated

This has all already been thought of and discussed with Keith.  Indeed he's had offers from companies that want to manufacture and distribute his modules.  Whether it happens sooner or later I think Keith will have to go down this route.  Demand will only rise as the IR and the switcher arrive. There's also the possibility that an unscrupulous manufacturer could buy a set and reverse engineer and start knocking them out themselves.

 

M.

 

----- Original Message -----

From: BUTLER, Tony, FM

To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'

Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:55 AM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] KAT5 Website Updated

I was wondering why they hadn't been mentioned in HCC or HE, but that's fair enough - Keith you need to employ a shed load of assembly elves to knock out the units to the masses.......

 

An alternative would, of course, be to sell to a mass manufacturer.

Has anyone heard of the Silver Slider?  A replacement CF sleeve for the Compaq iPAQ.  Developed by a guy (george) in his spare time, v.popular as a lot smaller than Compaq's version & sexy looking to boot!

He teamed up with pdamotion who now do a mass produced version of this.  George presumably gets royalties or something on the units, meanwhile still does his own version and he has produced other variations on the theme.

PDAMotion AFAIK, only have the rights to a particular model, so best of both worlds for George - he gets an income stream from the mass market ones, but also continues his sideline of hand crafted ones & newer versions.

 

Nirvis, I believe, have come to a similar sort of deal with Microsoft over the slink-e units.

 

This could be a way forward for Keith - mass production would gain him exposure & dosh & create a market for both the standard units & custom jobbies for 'special needs' ppl like those on the HA list :-)

 

Hey Keith - if you need a business manager..... :]

 

Tony

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