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March 2007--This picture was taken by Gregory Case and marks an important point in our history. This is Alex and Ricky just before they went down the stairs to tape the very first show.  Ricky had just told Alex not to worry but that as far as he could figure it out, it would take over $300,000 to get the videos to play on the internet.  Alex was worried.  She only had $20 on her and she was hoping to have a nice dinner after taping.

Fast forward.  Ricky found a company out of Germany that had just started 3 months before with a product that just might do the job for less than 1/10 the cost.   By April 2, 2007 the program had been installed and the first show premiered.  Whew!!!

The big question in electronics is, When do you jump in?  There is always a new innovation around the corner and prices are always coming down.  

That brings us to the new bigger player.

The original idea was to get a video that could be seen by slower internets.  We tested the player with our viewers in Australia and New Zealand.  (They are really nice people!!) What we found was that the slower internet people were unhappy but the faster internet people were thrilled.  So we tested with a wider sample of viewers.  The same result:  Faster internets were happy and slower were not.  Our results showed that 90% said go and 10% said nice try, don't change.

We decided it was time to jump in, but not leave anyone behind.  There is a screen for both internet speeds.

There is more to this story and we are going to put together some quick tutorials, but first I have a hot date with a quilter.

Capt'n John