Orange Codec (partially found television commercials; 2003)

***Orange Codec*** was a program for Microsoft Windows. The company known for the Orange Codec software, Hrasty Inc., has recently come back and started rediscovering old Hrasty Inc. programs. UPDATE: Hrasty Inc. is no longer rediscovering old programs. ~~It is still unknown when the 2022 version of Orange Codec releases~~. UPDATE: It might never get released due to the sudden death of Katie Rogner after the break-in to Katie Rogner's house happened.

## History

The first mention of this program was on January 15th, 2003, when Orange Codec made the Coming Soon commercial. The commercial was about the program coming soon, obviously. A few days later, the program was made available for download. It was hosted on the now-defunct website, https://orangecodecdownload.com. The first version of Orange Codec, known as version 1.0, was released on the same day that Orange Codec was made available for download. The earliest version of Orange Codec that has been found is version 1.2. It is not available for download because the file has been deleted on transfer.sh. v1.2 was released on March 2003. The second earliest one that has been found was version 1.4 from May 2003. It is not available for download because of the same reason.

On February 18th, 2004, they aired the second commercial, The program was released at that time. It was said that "Orange Codec went downhill from there,", on April 2004, Orange Codec 2004 version was released. Later that same year, they aired the 3rd commercial, This one was about the program being on Windows 98. This statement from Microsoft employees is actually the reason why they partnered with such a company, to which Microsoft replied on October 2nd with a follow-up interview. They stated that the commercial was created so that they "become a very big publisher," as well as releasing screenshots of the commercial. In one of the other commercials, Orange Codec is seen partnering with Intel alongside AMD, who states that the commercials were created because "they loved the program."

Fast forward to the year 2005, this is when they first started making screensavers. They released Hrasty Inc. Screensaver, which included pictures of the Hrasty Inc. logo. Orange Codec 2005 version was released on January 9th, 2005. It has not been found yet. They also made 2 advertisements which featured the text "Orange Codec" slowly zooming in to the center of the screen. Those ads were really weird. No one knows why they made these advertisements. There is no other information about what Hrasty Inc. did back in 2005, so let's move on to 2006.

2006 was the year Orange Codec was in store shelves for the first time. They promoted it so much on TV and their YouTube channel that it caused people to get annoyed. This is also what caused the hate to increase, and a Orange Codec Hate Campaign was made. This is when Orange Codec The Movie was released, so that they could try to get rid of Orange Codec/Hrasty Inc. for good when they tried to inject viruses onto people's computers. Unfortunately this did not cause Hrasty Inc. to stop making programs, so they continued to make them. Orange Codec 2006 version was also released on February 2nd, 2006. This is the first version that was bundled on a CD-ROM.

2007 was the year they started developing Orange Codec The Video Game for the PS2, but was ultimately cancelled before release because the game had a dangerous PS2 exploit/virus known as PS2Destroya, it was discovered back in 2018 and beta testers of the game did not know that. It forced you to play the dangerous video game. It also disabled the ability to turn off the PlayStation 2 console and it also disabled the ability to eject a PS2 disc, making you inescapable from the Orange Codec video game. It will also eat your important PS2 data and replace it with junk files, therefore rendering the PS2 unusable. The virus also killed you in real life. Orange Codec 2007 Version was released on February 1st, 2007 and Hrasty Inc. starts ripping off Microsoft software, the first one called Orange Codec Paint was released on March 7th, 2007.

Fast forward to 2008, the Orange Codec Windows XP commercial started airing on January 5th, 2008. On that same day, Orange Codec 2008 version was released to the public. It is also the first version which offered the MSI version of the Orange Codec installer, however that won't be available until April 17th, 2008. But on June 18th, 2008, they took it down for unknown reasons.

Fast forward to 2009, This is also the same year that the Orange Codec 2009 Commercial VHS Tape is released. The commercial WAS aired in its original form on television, but it seems like the original version might be lost media. It advertised the Orange Codec T-Shirt being made available for purchase online. Yes, they did have a online store back then on their old official website. The modified version of the same commercial shows the Orange Codec logo, but something is off, the Orange Codec text is there, but there is no music or the announcer. The text "MARCH 21ST, 2021" pops up, and then it cuts to static for about half of the tape and the end shows what looks like to be 2 lines. The sound was also modified to add weird sound effects and visuals were modified to add the weird visuals. It is theorized that an individual broke into the Orange Codec offices and stole one of the tapes that was finalized in production of the TV commercial that was airing on TV. UPDATE: The individual was probably the OPERATOR. On November 22nd, 2009, Orange Codec Notepad is released to the public. It is also ripping off another Microsoft software. Orange Codec 2009 version is released on February 16th, 2009.

2010 is also the year that Hrasty Inc. started developing antiviruses. The first version, called Orange Codec Anti Virus v1.0 is released on January 2nd, 2010. Orange Codec 2010 Version is released on January 29th, 2010. This is the first version that featured Orange Codec Web Browser, their "advanced" web browser that is not advanced at all. It came bundled with the Orange Codec 2010 Version program, and it starts to be bundled in all of the later versions of Orange Codec. On that same year, they once again partnered with Microsoft to make the 3rd infamous commercial, the Orange Codec Windows Vista Commercial. I don't know how they didn't get sued by Microsoft. They were ripping off Microsoft software.

In 2011, Orange Codec was introduced in Europe and Asia, they made 2 advertisements about it, each with a different background, on that same year, Orange Codec Media Player v1.0 is released to the public on April 13th, 2011. It rips off yet another Microsoft software, this time ripping off Windows Media Player. And they also released the second version of the "advanced" web browser, known as Orange Codec Web Browser v2.0 that same year. It was released on June 2nd, 2011. Orange Codec DVD-ROM version was also released on March 14th, **2011**. Orange Codec 2011 Version was released on February 10th, 2011.

In 2012, The New York Times posted an article titled "*The Fate Of Orange Codec: The Scam Company That Never Left Us"*, as always, it was deleted for unknown reasons. There is no Wayback Machine captures of the New York Times article, so it might be lost media forever. Orange Codec 2012 Version was released on January 12th, 2012. The third version of their "advanced" web browser, Orange Codec Web Browser v3.0 was released on May 3rd, 2012.

In January 2013, Orange Codec celebrated its 10th anniversary by making an advertisement. This shows that they really care about this garbage program. No wonder why people losed interest. Orange Codec 2013 Version was released on January 15th, 2013. The same day they made the 10th anniversary commercial. Also Orange Codec Anti Virus v2.0 was released on March 5th, 2013. It has not been rediscovered yet, and it probably never will.

In 2014, they once again partnered with Microsoft to make the 4th infamous commercial, the Orange Codec Windows 7 commercial. Orange Codec 2014 Version was released on February 14th, 2014, and Orange Codec Anti Virus v3.0 was released on June 18th, 2014.

In 2015, Orange Codec 2015 Version was released on January 27th, 2015 and Orange Codec Anti Virus v4.0 was released on March 4th, 2015.

Information about what Hrasty Inc. did in the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 are pretty obscure. Nobody knows what they did on those years. It is theorized that maybe they stopped making programs altogether. But that would change in the year 2020, the biggest year Orange Codec/Hrasty Inc. ever had.

And that is the beginning of the As Seen On TV collaborations.

And the beginning of criticism and eventually lawsuits, wait what?

In 2020, they partnered with As Seen On TV to make the Orange Codec infomercial. It was notorious and infamous for having bad animation skills, and the Hrasty Inc. company received criticism saying that this infomercial was a scam. This infomercial is still on YouTube. Orange Codec 2020 Version was released on May 2nd, 2020.

In 2021, they received a lawsuit from a private company saying that they should stop making bad commercials and requested the company to "shut down and make their own business". Orange Codec still won the lawsuit, but it would not last very long, because they would eventually receive another lawsuit, and it was not good news this time.

The Hrasty Inc. company received another lawsuit from another private company saying basically the same thing, they said they should stop making bad commercials, and they requested the Hrasty Inc. company to shut down and make their own business. However, they added a line saying "Stop making bad animation. Bad animation is not good animation, I don't even wanna see your commercials. They are too cringe. My 2 year old almost cried during one of their ads, Please surrender. Admit it. You were scamming us for years."

That is how they lost the lawsuit. Just because of that new line of text.

Orange Codec lost the lawsuit, the money was burned, the company demolished its building on March 2nd, 2021 and then later they would eventually make a comeback and start making more garbage programs. Orange Codec 2021 Version was NOT released because of the lawsuit. They would eventually make the 2021 infomercial and launch a new website, but the damage was already done. Hrasty Inc. and Orange Codec went from a rising empire to a dead company and dead program. NOBODY is using their products anymore. They have started to rediscover old programs that they did back in the old building, and they have a new building now. Hrasty Inc. went from millions of downloads from back in the day to just 15 downloads from the present day.

~~Orange Codec 2022 Version will eventually be released some day, but Hrasty Inc. is too busy rediscovering old garbage software that probably no one cares anymore.~~ UPDATE: It might never get released due to the sudden death of Katie Rogner after the break-in to Katie Rogner's house happened.

### The Death of Orange Codec and fake Keygens/Cracks of Orange Codec software

Orange Codec is no longer being developed, that means it is the end of the Katie Rogner/Hrasty Inc. saga, all of the other original developers of Orange Codec have vanished without any trace. Also, it has come to my attention that there has been multiple people making Keygens/Cracks out of Orange Codec software, I am here to say that these are unofficial, Katie Rogner in the past years has said multiple times that Orange Codec is a freeware program, not a paid program. There is no official product keys or cracked versions for any Orange Codec related software. Orange Codec Media Player however, IS a paid program, It is a 30-day trial, but the original developers have not provided a product key for that software. There is no cracked version of Orange Codec Media Player, so that is unofficial as well.

Here are some multiple examples:

https://virtualanalytics.ai/orange-codec-media-player-crack-download-win-mac/

https://melaninterest.com/pin/orange-codec-media-player-crack-with-keygen-free-for-windows/

https://www.pedomanindonesia.com/advert/orange-codec-notepad-crack-free-download-winmac-updated-2022/

https://biotechyou.com/orange-codec-paint-crack/

https://astrferre.wixsite.com/kalfrigmentda/post/orange-codec-paint-crack-mac-win

If you come across some of these sites claiming that they have a free crack/keygen of Orange Codec software, do not trust or install them out of curiosity, be sure to have a Virtual Machine ready just in case, because these might contain actual viruses. These are not made by the developers of Hrasty Inc., and therefore, are not planning to acknowledge these unofficial virus sites.

## Search

Some people have tried to find more commercials between 2007-2009, but to no avail. The *Orange Codec* commercials are nowadays hard to find. This has lead to speculation that the creator of the commercials was purposefully deleting any trace of the commercials being online. The only evidence that we found so far are the videos posted by "researcher" which you can still nowadays watch on YouTube.

As of June 28th, 2022, the search for the Orange Codec commercials have abruptly stopped, so it is now said that the investigation has come to an end.

## Videos

   This is just some of the commercials featured on this page, the rest can be seen through a playlist on YouTube: Orange Codec commercials