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    • Fri Jun 27th 13:02 PM
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      Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI
      You can say anything you like if you're willing to give up the
      pretense of credibility (look at most Yahoo! posters), but if you want
      people to take what you have to say seriously, then you need to be
      able to back it up.

      Apparently, Seeking Alpha has decided to jettison any credibility it
      might have had in favor of becoming known as the outlet for
      fantasy-based, unsubstantiated ranting. If the site decides to
      republish the calculated lies of a basher without providing any
      substantiation for the following claims, then in my opinion, the editors are negligent, because a brief amount of research on their part would have revealed:

      The lie: "Texas Instruments just beat Microvision to the market (by at least 6 months)."
      The truth: - Microvision and Texas Instruments both plan to introduce limited quantities of pico projectors late in 2008 with a ramp up in early 2009. Optoma's pico projector is not currently available for sale (notice that it doesn't even have a model number or a product name), so the company hasn't "beat" Microvision to the market at all, much less by six months.

      The lie: "TI/Optoma solution is more than twice as bright as
      Microvision's ... As far as color saturation the two devices are
      essentially equal, but because TI's solution is twice as bright, the
      image appear much more vivid."
      The truth: Microvision's solution has 2.6 times the pixels of the
      TI/Optoma solution. Both devices output 10 lumens of brightness, and the Microvision solution has 150% of the TI device's color range. The products are not even "essentially equal" - the Microvision device is clearly superior. Think DVD quality (Microvision) vs. VHS quality (TI/Optoma).

      The lie: "Texas Instrument's solution is available in mass quantities
      today"
      The truth: Limited quantities will be available later this year. More
      are planned to be produced next year - Microvision has announced the same schedule for releasing its device. What model number would I use to order the "mass quantities" that are available today? ...? ...that's what I thought.

      The lie: "Our sources confirm what Detwiler was reporting on Friday.
      Microvision has yet again delayed the original shipment date of the
      `Show'"
      The truth: Microvision's annual sharehold meeting was held on
      Wednesday of this week, and representatives of the company reiterated their plans for bringing pico projector products to market in limited quantities before the end of this year with increased production during the first quarter of 2009. Apparently "Detwiler" missed that memo. Do you guys actually get paid for this kind of "research?"

      The lie: "Texas Instruments is able to offer OEMs a viable roadmap to deliver massive quantities of brighter (2x-10x brighter) and cheaper pico projectors than Microvision could ever theoretically deliver with lasers."
      The truth: The author gives no evidence to support any part of this
      statement. Microvision's SHOW is a class 2 laser device - as safe as
      any laser pointer, and probably safer than most business and home
      theater projectors. Lasers that produce visible wavelengths of light,
      which trigger the eye's blink reflex, are typically considered safe.
      Unless Microvision is planning to release a product with an
      ultraviolet laser (which no one could see), this isn't a real concern.

      The lie: "Investors in Microvision need to see the light and realize
      that the dream is rapidly becoming a nightmare."
      The truth: Readers of Seeking Alpha need to "see the light" and
      realize that this outlet has just reduced its credibility to the level
      of an unmoderated Yahoo! message board.
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    • Tue Jun 24th 11:13 AM
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      Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI
      Pending the results of Seeking Alpha's investigation (which I presume won't take very long, considering the evidence). I hope that we will soon see a retraction (in this space and submitted to all of the news sources who carried or commented on the original article), an explanation of how this happened, an apology, and a change in policy (perhaps requiring posters to use a verified name and company name) to prevent this type of dishonest manipulation from happening again in the future.

      I will say that it is encouraging to see that the article was removed before the start of trading today. Hopefully, Seeking Alpha's follow-through on this issue will be similarly encouraging.
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    • Mon Jun 23rd 19:46 PM
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      Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI
      Now that I have pointed out two flat out lies in this piece, how long will it take Seeking Alpha to pull the article and issue a retraction? Keeping this article up when key facts have been demonstrated to be false is tantamount to participating in the fraud.

      I'll give this some time and then come back later so that we can talk about the "essentially equal" color gamut and this comment: "its light engine is no larger than Microvision’s (implying viability for embedded handset designs)."
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    • Mon Jun 23rd 19:32 PM
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      Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI
      Found the link substantiating the 10 lumen brightness for the Optoma pico. Unless my math is really getting poor, 10 lumens is not 'more than twice as bright' as... 10 lumens.

      "Optoma showcased what it calls the world’s first pico projector. The extremely light and small pico projector uses a LED for the light source and is based on Texas Instruments’ DLP technology. The battery lasts just one hour on a complete charge so it is best used for short presentations and small spaces. The tiny projector emits 10 Lumens of brightness according to the company"

      source: www.displayblog.com/20.../
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    • Mon Jun 23rd 19:19 PM
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      Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI
      In the third paragraph of this article, the author says: "Texas Instruments just beat Microvision to the market (by at least 6 months)." If showing a demonstration unit at an industry conference is the benchmark, then didn't Microvision's appearance at CES 2008 actually beat TI/Optoma by six months?

      If having the product available for worldwide sale is the benchmark, as you can see in the following video, an Optoma representative is claiming that the unit will be available in early 2009 (or in limited markets, some unspecified about of time before early 2009).

      www.youtube.com/watch?...

      The CEO of Microvision, on the last quarterly conference call stated that the production version of the SHOW would be available in the first quarter of 2009, and limited units might be available in the 4th quarter of 2008.

      No matter how you try to spin those facts, the statement "Texas Instruments just beat Microvision to the market (by at least 6 months)." is demonstrably false and misleading.

      Shall I continue, or are people starting to get the idea?

      It's okay to have a different opinion. It is not okay to have a different set of facts.
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    • Mon Jun 23rd 19:04 PM
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      Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI
      The author says in the fourth paragraph: "The TI/Optoma solution is more than twice as bright as Microvision’s." Below is a link to a PC magazine video from CES where a Microvision employee states that the SHOW prototype's output is 'about 10 lumens.' I can't find the link at the moment, but I have seen a video review of the Optima projector in the past couple of days that stated its output was also ten lumens. If the author of this piece can't show evidence that TI's projector is capable of an output around 20 lumens, then this statement (among others) is demonstrably false and misleading.

      www.youtube.com/watch?...
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    • Sun Jun 22nd 20:01 PM
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      Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI
      Wow, you can almost smell the panic. This is one of the funniest articles I've read in a while. Huge misrepresentations that are easy to disprove, misspellings, poor grammar. When did seekingalpha become the equivalent of an unmoderated Yahoo! investor message board? Too funny.
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