Is DVDA a viable product

readw wrote on 1/31/2004, 3:11 PM
It is interesting to note that only 1 DVD player supported by Sony is a current model unit, (see Below). Being over 1 year since the product was put on the market Sony have released one maintenance release of DVDA that included bug fixes and from memory that was before Sony took over the company. The maintenance release of DVDA brought out by Sony since they took over the company only Sonyised the splash screens. It is becoming clearly evident by the lack of hardware support for this product and the failure of Sony to bring out updates or even maintenance releases of DVDA is indicating that they are not interested in supporting DVDA beyond its current release. This is a great pity as it is a good product even if it is only supported by one current model DVD burner.

Warren

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/Products/showproduct.asp?PID=810&FeatureID=6989&FeatureTL=6967

Comments

bpeterson wrote on 1/31/2004, 6:30 PM
I can say the lack of support for other DVD burners is very frustrating! You'd think they realize that not EVERYBODY is going to buy a Sony DVD Burner. Do they really want all the long standing Sonic Foundry customers to turn to other software and tell new customers not to buy it? All they need to do is spend a little time providing support for other drives. Speak up Sony! What's it gonna be? DVD Architect is NOT the only software on the market! Are you telling your customers that you could care less?
johnmeyer wrote on 1/31/2004, 7:39 PM
Even if they do eventually release an upgrade, the comments by the Sony moderator in this forum do not give me a "warm fuzzy" feeling that they really understand what they need to do. In particular, in a thread about 3-4 weeks ago, the Sony moderator indicated that there was no need to be able to do anything with VOB files alread put on DVD. This indicates a total cluelessness that is typical of big companies, not the quick-on-their-feet, close to the customer that Sonic Foundry once was.

Since the whole point of DVDA is to put video on a DVD, it is absolutely clueless to suppose that no one is ever going to want to use that video ever again. There have been other hints thrown out that nothing is comine anytime soon. Finally, they have made no attempt whatsoever to provide a patch, workaround or any other accomodation to the woeful lack of end actions.

I'll keep beating them up in this forum every chance I get, because I would much prefer to see DVDA become a great product like Sound Forge, Vegas, and Acid. However, it is not even close to being in the same leauge.

Not close at all.
PeterWright wrote on 1/31/2004, 8:19 PM
Regarding burner compatibility, it seems that what they haven't done is update the list.

I bought a new burner last week (Lite-on) and it worked with DVDA out of the box, so there are probably many current models that are compatible, just not on the list.
wobblyboy wrote on 1/31/2004, 8:33 PM
I tried DVD burned with DVDA on every set top player in my local electronics shop. It played fine on every one.
farss wrote on 2/1/2004, 12:29 AM
Well to start with that's a list of DVD burners known to be compatible. They're NOT the only ones that'll work, from reading most of the posts here I don't think there's many out there that aren't, maybe the new 8x ones might be an issue but then again I seem to recall someone else saying his was working OK so maybe even they'll work OK.
I'm not saying DVDA doesn't need some urgent attention and real soon too but that isn't an issue that I know of.
Getting the DVDs to meet UDF spec IS.
jwreich wrote on 2/1/2004, 9:23 PM
Just like Adobe's Encore, there are a number of burners that work just fine with DVDA. My TDK 440N as spit out over 150 DVD's with only 2 costers. Not bad!

I love DVDA however I have outgrown it. I would really like to see Sony continue to develop this product, like most of you, but I can't wait. My business depends on me bringing new concepts to my clients. I have had to move to Adobe's new offering. It's sad, but I only use DVDA for my "basic' work now...

JWR