Thanks for nothing Sony

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filmy wrote on 4/19/2004, 12:29 PM
I am pretty sure DVDA was available as a stand alone app when it came out. I seem to remember a few flavors of downloads as well - somewhere in my mind I seem to remember SoFo saying that is you owned Vegas you did not need to dowload the full stand alone verison, just the add on for Vegas+ . I also remember when Sony took over one of the first things to vanish was DVDA - I even pointed it it out and Sony jumped right on it and said it was a mistake and they put it back up for sale.

What is confusing me in all of this is how people are doing things. Even myself - for example I got the Vegas 5-Demo and tried to get it to run but I kept getting a loop about entering the serial number. Along the way various people have posted about the same thing but some say "Just use your DVDA sn" others have said "The SN for Veags 4 works fine". So on the DVDA side there is no "demo" that I can see but yet in the Vegas+DVD info page for downloads it calls the DVDA download a demo and Vegas and DVDA are sperate downloads. So it is all a bit wierd right now. Do you download the upgrade version of Vegas or the demo version? Do you install DVDA before Vegas if you have DVDA 1 installed? Do you install Vegas after DVDA , but before putting in your SN? I dunno....I have not installed verison 2 of DVDA...yet...now I am wondering if I should, or if I did a bad thing with the demo of Vegas 5 because of the cryptic messeage on the site about "You can not uninstall the demo version".
Cheesehole wrote on 4/19/2004, 12:30 PM
Win2k3 Server is basically the XP kernel, but instead of coming with puppy dog search helpers and cutesy themes, and hiding your extentions in explorer, it comes pretty much configured the way a professional would use Windows. I think of it as the real XP Pro.
vmcdee wrote on 4/19/2004, 1:06 PM
Ok!
Stop it already!

Now let's have a gander over at at Mac Buddies......Now anyone running a mac knows all too well the problems that come along with Software and OS's

So, we P.C.ers now have a fantastic piece of software, one of which we all know is dependant on our OS and harware config.

As our gears takes a STEp yp , so must we. OH WELL! The expense is simply not that great. Each of us as editers can make this back in less than one project.

As far as the weekend warrior goes, let me just say this. Those whom can pay, can play. Thats the nature of the beast.

As far as not being able to get DVD 2.0 with out Vegas 5.0? Wait a month, most of you will snap it up on a p2p anyway.

We want, we get and we bitch! What gives. Upgrade, revamp and have fun. We have been asking for it. Now we have it and we can give the big boys a good run for the money now.

Rock on Sony!

Hell even if I were starting from scratch Vegas would be a great investment. XP and all!

Go build an AVID, let me know how you make out.

Vmcdee


Cheesehole wrote on 4/19/2004, 1:11 PM
>Right now I would tend towards option 1, just to be able to install the OS on different machines.

Well in that case you might as well sniff around for a "corporate" version of XP/2k3. But I grew frustrated with the performance of XP/win2k3 on systems less than 1GHz / less than 1GB RAM so I still use Win2k on my laptop and my slower systems.
BrianStanding wrote on 4/19/2004, 1:32 PM
I'm not bitching. I'm happy with my V5 / DVDA2 upgrade (especially since Sony has indicated they will honor the promotional price to those of us who jumped the gun and ordered early). Good product, good customer service.

I'm just curious about Sony's marketing strategy. Seems like they're missing out on some potential customers, and I don't see any disadvantage to them from unbundling V5 & DVDA2.