teddanson wrote: It seems BNM Video have been around a while.
This page mentions they brand/company has stopped operating and that their latest storage/multi-room audio/video systems can be upgraded (for a fee) to a 4K Zappiti server.
Maybe 2 French companies on the same segment, was one too many? One folded, the other one survived.
They received some awards for their video storage/replay solutions around 2011/12, announced a low cost version in 2014... and then disappeared.
Last snapshot of the website is from 2018 with a (c) 2014.
Not a single BNMvideo entry on eBay.fr or LeBonCoin.fr.
They just dropped from the face of the Earth... or just merged with Zappiti?
...
Got it! Co-Founder's LinkedIn here gives the timeline: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruno-napoli-aa0a6475/details/experience/
Electric furnitures (Legrand) => Home Theater installations (Cine Laser, Espace Plus, Cine Now, Home Cinema Services) => Community Mgr for LAL (Les Annees Laser magazine).
In parallel, started BNM Video to import/rebrand Taiwan (Cypress) devices.
Design, manufacture, marketing and go to market of Closed Caption video decoder for Laserdisc players. Our Closed caption decoders are rapidly distributed in all major AV shop like Fnac and Virgin as well as a good part of the Hi-fi and Home Cinema shop in Europe.
Company was closed in 2018 when he moved to Hong Kong.
Now... I'm wondering if he could be the co-founder of a HK company that a schoolmate has been running in HK for years ...
Might have even met him for a beer in Singapore few years ago!
I'll contact him to get some info on the old CC models.
Julien
|
