[csdenmark]

I am very pleased to see the announcement of the new BBO-TV. It is very good news for the perspectives of bridge.

I am very pleased to acknowledge that BBO management is now going for technological inventions. The handheld devices are a key technology to be able to lift at least some of the restrictions which have tarnished bridge for many years now. Those have threatened to kill the game completely. The appaling approach from the regulators will soon dry up for arguments against creativity.

The flash technology for harddrives and for applications are the future.

I am very pleased to see BBO management in this way will be supporting those bridge federations which are most in favour of technological progress for bridge. Poland, Finland and USBF looks like front-runners. It is also very positive I think that I have noticed the vice-chairman of EBF Jens Auken is a frequent guest on BBO.

I am very pleased to notice from Fred's comments that convention card feature will be an important issue. The database and the ability to make queries will be a hard task - but it is the keyfeature to be able to de-regulate bridge. That will also be the way for bridge to turn down the screens for a more relaxed but still faire milieu.

BBO-TV is very good news for off-line bridge and has very little to do with online bridge. My prediction is that first steps of de-regulation will take place for Bermuda Bowl 2011. After that I think we will se a quick trickle down effect to take place.

My best wishes Fred
Claus Sønderkøge

[ArcLight]

* It worked at home (as opposed to work - so its likely a firewall problem) - but it was very slow , maybe BBO ws slow at that time - Looks nice *

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I tried running the Demo but all I got was a blue screen after "logging in" and looking at "Connecting to BBO" for a while
It just sat there

Then the login screen came up again.

Is there more to the demo? (I tried all 3 methods)

I am running this from Work, I'll try at home later.

This post has been edited by ArcLight: 2007-August-08, 08:39

[fred]

ArcLight, on Aug 7 2007, 01:35 PM, said:

I tried running the Demo but all I got was a blue screen after "logging in" and looking at "Connecting to BBO" for a while
It just sat there

Then the login screen came up again.

Is there more to the demo? (I tried all 3 methods)

It sounds like you are one of those people who are having a firewall problem.

Sorry but I have very little expertise in this area. Perhaps someone who knows more can explain why you are having this problem and what, if anything, you can do about it in terms of changing settings on your PC and/or network.

My sense is that less than 10% of people who have tried BBOTV have run into this sort of problem, but the number is sufficiently large that we will have to do something about it eventually. It is far from clear when that will happen, but I am guessing it will happen before we announce an official release.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[glen]

csdenmark, on Aug 7 2007, 08:02 AM, said:

The flash technology for harddrives and for applications are the future.

Note that Adobe's Flash software for applications and "flash technology for harddrives" are not the same. The latter refers to solid state devices, where there are no moving parts in the hard drive.

[Quantumcat]

What exactly is BBO-TV?

It'd be awesome to have world events screened on TV (like poker nowadays!), but I have a feeling that's not it