We Hate To Say We Told You So
Apr 16th, 2007 by General Henz
But… we told you so.
Some of you lucky ones will be receiving a care package this week and in it you’ll realize that we possess a secret skill: fortune telling.
In one of the documents we comment (maybe) on Cineflex as follows: “With a focus on ‘law enforcement and surveillance’ do they care about the entertainment industry?”
Well, on Friday our soothsaying ways were validated. Check out what the co-owner of Cineflex had to say about his company being bought by a big ass military company: “We intend to accelerate the adoption of this important technology by force protection, homeland security, and first-responder customers worldwide.”
Boom. And just like that we’re credible fortune tellers. Where’s the mention of the entertainment world? Nada.
“Force protection”, “Homeland security”, “First-responder customers” sure doesn’t sound like “entertainment”, “cinema”, “cinematographers”.
It’s not really surprising that the sale happened. It’s surprising that the company claimed for the past two years to care about the entertainment industry.
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I hope they still plan to sell their systems into the ENG market. It is a good system for the work I do. I will grant you they are not the most reliable of systems. But what other choices are out there right now? We keep hearing about FSI coming up with something but it never seems to go beyond hearing about something. They are as focused on surveillance as everyone else. Seems like everyone eventually goes down that path.
So who does care about entertainment?
Curious - that’s a good question, and one that the War on Wobblies hopes to answer.