Share Structure update...

HH Management spoke with the Wyoming SOS office this afternoon, regarding the crazy delays in lowering the share-count to the board approved level of 600-mm.  Back in January, HH sent a form with board resolution and a credit card authorization for the $50 cost to modify our corporate records.  Did not hear anything back for months, until some shareholders noticed that it still had not been updated.  So we contacted the SOS office and they said that they could not accept a credit card payment for this sort of amendment, and needed a company check with the name of the company as the account holder.  So we sent them a $50 check.  Did not hear anything back until today, when the same shareholders pointed out that the share structure STILL had not changed.  So we looked at the bank account, and the check to Wyoming SOS had not been presented.  So we called them, and they said that we failed to include the original paperwork (which was sent in January) with the check (sent in May), and that's why it hadn't been processed.  SO, we're sending a new print out of the board resolution and form, and a new check via Fed-ex.

Anyone using this matter as the basis to sell is being VERY POORLY advised.  See image of original documents file in January below.

VODwiz Roku (IPTV Channel) and V.O.D. Portal Site

UPDATE, JULY 16 - Hannover House and Nanotech are in the final phase of the pre-launch operational steps to launch both the Roku (Internet Protocol TV) Channel and the stand-alone Video-on-Demand portals (collectively known as the VODwiz venture).  The initial beta-test will start with titles exclusively from the Hannover House library until logistics are tweaked and capacity issues measured... after which point in time, the titles from our partner supplier studios will be announced and added.  Watch this blog over the new few days for instructions on how friends and shareholders of HHSE can access the Roku-enabled IPTV channel in order to stream titles through VODwiz and to provide thoughts and comments back to the Company prior to the official consumer launch.  For the beta-testing stage, the Roku channel will post first... then days later, the V.O.D. website will be published.  Exciting times, indeed!

College Football Madness... just a few weeks away!

Yes, Sports Fans... it's "that time of year" coming at us quickly... the launch of the College Football Season!  Hannover House is proud to have partnered with IMG College Sports (and the University of Arkansas Athletic Department) to present the first in a planned series of S.E.C. and top college team pre-season football videos.  The Arkansas Razorbacks Football 2013 DVD will be launched in mid-August with premium in-store placement at Wal-Mart Supercenters and Hometown Markets, including checkout aisle displayers at many locations (see display design below).  With print-edition team guides selling tens-of-thousands of copies each year... there's a building enthusiasm that the same concept transferred to DVD will be popular with consumers.  As the fans down in Wal-Mart-land like to cheer, "GO HOGS!"

ARKANSAS RAZORBACK FOOTBALL 2013 - 93 Mins., Color, Stereo, $14.95 srp

 

 

VODwiz Emerging as Indie Film Powerhouse

News is breaking this week (and next) about exciting new developments and supplier partners for VODwiz, the indie studio Video-On-Demand Wizard site from Hannover House (and Nanotech Entertainment).  The logo before your eyes is poised to become a brand-name icon... and you were there first!  We extend thanks to all of those "shareholders of vision,", who have the wisdom and ability to see both the present moment as well as into the near-term future.  Go HHSE!

From Holocaust Survivor... to French Resistance Fighter... "ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES" is an incredible and true story.

NPR's Kyle Kellams (KUAF-Radio) conducted an in-depth (and moving) interview with World War II survivor Nicole Holland and her daughter and co-author Brenda Hancock, which aired on regional radio stations throughout Arkansas yesterday.  Excerpts from this interview will be edited for national NPR placement in support of their new book "ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES," which will be in bookstores July 23rd.  If you'd like to hear the interview, click on the link below to KUAF Radio.  The interview is contained within the Ozarks At Large story from Monday, July 8th, and begins at 22-minutes into yesterday's program.

http://www.kuaf.com/content/monday-july-8-2013

A Brave New Media World...

Although it predates my time, I still recall my father’s stories of when Television launched in the early 1950’s, and replaced radio as the medium for mass entertainment.  This sea-wave of change created great turmoil in the advertising worlds, but within the entertainment industries, the Radio Giants quickly adapted to become the Television Giants (ABC, CBS, NBC).  And while the transition from Black & White to COLOR TV was seismic in the eyes of consumers, again, the existing “major media players” remained the powerhouses controlling TV entertainment and the lion’s share of media revenues.

It wasn’t until the 1980’s – when cable TV began to emerge – that new media giants were born.  Then, just a few years later, the emerging home video industry spawned an explosion of new media companies… leading to today’s transformative video-on-demand platform that is finally enabling indie studios to compete one-on-one with 100-year old media giants.  VODwiz and the associated VODwiz IPTV Channel are the Hannover House windows directly to hundreds-of-millions of consumers… direct delivery to consumers of our movies (and titles from many other suppliers), with no manufacturing costs, no shipping, no middle-man fees and no time-delays for payment.  Watch “what you want, when you want it” is no longer a slogan, but a reality that VODwiz is making possible.

So what’s next?  For Hannover House (and our technology partner NanoTech Entertainment), we think that “4k TV” is the next transformative media platform… a high definition picture so clear and detailed that it makes today’s HD screens feel like a Black-and-White relic.  If you haven’t had a chance to see a 4K image, you’ll have to accept our observation that most people’s jaws literally drop open in awe!

Parallel paths will be pursued for the launch of 4k in America.  An effort to assemble and create 4k programming needs to occur hand-in-hand with the retail placement of 4k players and screens.  Hannover House is already taking active steps on both fronts – with top tier titles set for 4k remastering and VODwiz studio partners being pursued for additional 4k titles (on the programming front), with hardware and package configurations through NanoTech set for mass merchandiser presentations and 2013 retail availability.  It’s like the launch of the Sony Walkman, on mega-High-Def-steroids.  Very exciting, very cutting-edge, and HHSE is well ahead of competitors on this pioneering front.

On other matters, some shareholders have asked for more details on the eBook “BookTV” format launch – which deserves a lengthy blog on its own.  But for brevity, we’ll pose a hypothetical question: 

Do you think a 19-year-old college student is going to prefer to pay $99 for the purchase of a seven-pound textbook to lug around all semester – or $19.95 for the same “information” delivered digitally to their iPad or mobile device?  What if that digital version also contained active links to reference websites, video clips and expert demonstrations?  Which is the better, more thorough, more convenient (and less expensive) way to deliver textbooks or entertainment books (for that matter)? 

The textbook industry in America is a $10-billion annual market… the HHSE / NTEK Book-TV format makes textbooks better and less costly… both indicators of a terrific opportunity.  Sure, book wholesalers and even campus book stores will be threatened by this improvement in textbook delivery, but it’s a brave new media world.  Adapt and thrive – or ignore the coming wave and perish.  HHSE is very excited about this moment in time, and our position and direction in the digital-entertainment and digital-information age.

—ERIC PARKINSON, C.E.O. Hannover House

Tax Programs Spark Arkansas Film Production

As the only company in N.W. Arkansas with a full-service Grip & Electric truck and equipment package for motion picture production, Hannover House has enjoyed a spike in demand recently... sparked by the newly enhanced Motion Picture Tax Incentives for Arkansas-based productions.  Today is the first day of principal photography for "VALLEY INN" - just days after the completion of "THE RECRUIT" and a few weeks after the wrap of  "GREATER" (all of which utilized Hannover House production services equipment).  When HHSE shareholders ask what is meant when we describe ourselves as a "full-service" entertainment company, we mean that (like Paramount or Sony Pictures), we have the full range of services and capabilities (from the physical production of films through the actual distribution of entertainment programming through all major media channels, without requiring third party suppliers or service providers).  Just FYI... stay tuned...