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- From: innovative_technologies@actcom.co.il (innovative technologies)
- Subject: Re: Innovative Technologies comp.dcom.modem spam
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- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 03:04:06 GMT
-
- coop@dorsai.org (Adam) wrote:
-
- >At least 15 messages were posted today in the comp.dcom.modems
- >newsgroup by Innovative Technogies promoting its new website which
- >advertises its software for the TYIN board. Innovative's posts were in
- >reply to virtually *anything* having to do with voicemail, including
- >my queries about entirely different products.
-
- >IMO, this shotgun approach is a SPAM and waste of bandwidth. One
- >message was enough, thanks.
-
- Dear Adam,
-
- As they say: "Easy to Flame, Harder to Tame"...
- You do have a point in that our postings were a bit excessive (some
- were erronous multiple postings while using a new mail reader... :-)
- We would like to appologize if this offended any fellow net'er here.
- Still, the enthusiastic responses we got more than outweighed the
- flames... :->
- Now to the point: We have responded to posts here at comp.dcom.modems
- requesting recommendations for a GOOD FAX/VOICE mail modem system or
- complaints from frustrated users about poor Voice Modem performance.
- Since we have been using our TYIN2000 for at least two years with
- great results, we thought sharing our experience would be for the
- benefit of fellow net'ers. We are sorry this might have offended
- anybody. We would like to stress that we DO NOT SELL the TYIN modems.
- We have been just a regular TYIN user until lately, when we decided to
- offer some useful TYIN utilities we developed for internal use that
- greatly enhance the sound quality of this modem (since the MIC input
- used for recording cannot exploit the full potential of this advanced
- board) as well as functionality of the bundled S/W. We have been urged
- by fellow TYIN users to offer these utils for the benefit of other
- TYIN users (since no such utils were available), and have decided
- accept the idea and offer some of them as shareware..
-
- Since we have been flamed, our best response is to cite users comments
- (made BEFORE we ever offered these utils):
-
- From a Developer:
- >YES, THE TYIN IS STILL THE BEST BOARD EVER MADE.
- >ABOUT 50,000 WERE SOLD, MOST IN HONG KONG, MEXICO, CANADA, DENMARK.
-
- From a user:
- > I agree with your analysis of the board, I really think that it has
- >better price-to-performance than any other IVR I've seen.
-
- And we have many more in our mailbox...
-
- So,"why is this great modem not popular?" you should ask.
- Simple answer: The manufacturer stopped promoting the product rather
- early in it's life cycle. Our guess is that this advanced DSP modem
- (the advanced TYIN4000 Pro has TWO DSP's!) was too expensive to
- manufacture and compete with cheap modems on the market. It actually
- came before it's time: Look at the popularity of the IBM MWAVE DSP
- modems today. The TYIN was amongst the first to offer reliable
- DATA/FAX/VOICE autodetect, as well as advanced H/W compression (up to
- 20 minutes of voice per megabyte!). From what we've heard, the TYIN
- technology is still embedded in many FAX's and Digital answering
- machines today.
-
- Look at it's main features: outstanding announcemet sound quality
- (8KHz/8bit compared with 4.8KHz/4bit used on popular voice modems,
- even the IBM MWAVE DSP modem currently offers only 4 bit
- announcements, as per an MWAVE consultant response we got), low CPU
- load (thanks to it's onboard 32 bit DSP, it can run even on a 286) and
- rock solid reliability (including reliable DATA/FAX/VOICE auto-detect
- and application support).
- It's main weaknesses are the result of lack of manufacturer promotion:
- relatively simple voicemail s/w application (no "flashy features" such
- as FAX-BACK and PAGING, although these are available from 3rd party
- developers) resulting from the fact that the manufacturer abandoned
- the product (i.e stopped making agreements with 3rd party S/W
- developers) quite early in it's life cycle.
- NATSEMI still supports the product but has stopped further S/W release
- developments. The TYIN modems are still available from various
- sources. They are also part of popular FAX-ON-DEMAND products such as
- ROBOFAX and others (they were sold largely as OEM products).
-
- So that's the whole story. As a result of this flaming, and also since
- we would like to hear other users, we have started a thread in this
- newsgroup requesting opinions of voice modem users about their voice
- modem sound quality and reliability. We hope to hear interesting
- responses...
-
- regards and shalom (peace...),
-
- Innovative Technologies
- Telecom, Multimedia and VoiceMail products
- email: innovative_technologies@actcom.co.il
- Check our WEB site at:
- WWW: http://www.israel.net/innovative/
-
- (note: When responding, please send email in addition to post here).
-
-
-