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    Pixel is Reemerging


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    Sorry, I made a boo-boo

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    Someday (just before The Second Coming, I guess) we will see an announcement like this that doesn't contain the verb "reposition". Meaningless.

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    1000 units total at a wholesale cost of around $800.00 = $800K in sales. What a dismal result for a multi million dollar venture investment complete with heavy payroll. It is pretty cool technology but is flawed in many ways including price point, lack of frame selection, specialized processing, long delivery periods...heck that's just a few. Not even considering DR Rx changes and dispenser errors...

    Brett is a very talented individual, and if anyone can make this a success, it's him. However, I would say if their second attempt is lack lustre, there will be quite a few executives updating their CV's.

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    i tried those a couple of years back at a trade show in europe . I didn't get it then, I don't get it now. Google glasses? that I get.

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    I cannot remember having ever seen a first gen, totally innovative optical product of any type, succeed in the first gen.

    Period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Santini View Post
    I cannot remember having ever seen a first gen, totally innovative optical product of any type, succeed in the first gen.

    Period.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shanbaum View Post
    FT-5 Tracer, PG-7 Pattern Generator, SG-8 generator, Step One blocker.
    Funny, I don't know if it was their first refractometer, but the TOPCON RM-6000 from long ago, when Ronald Reagan was still passing gas in the oval office, was the best refractometer, ever. No Topcon machine since than has done the job better, IMHO. I shed a tear for it when it died years ago. Newer isn't always better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by optimensch View Post
    Funny, I don't know if it was their first refractometer, but the TOPCON RM-6000 from long ago, when Ronald Reagan was still passing gas in the oval office, was the best refractometer, ever. No Topcon machine since than has done the job better, IMHO. I shed a tear for it when it died years ago. Newer isn't always better.
    Ain't it the truth. I too had an old Topcon AR, don't remember the model, but I rue the day I let it die and bought a new one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Santini View Post
    I cannot remember having ever seen a first gen, totally innovative optical product of any type, succeed in the first gen.

    Period.

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