X-Banned_Bob
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Sep 10, 2003, 9:49 AM
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Disc Jockey Rocky
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: I just tested the new ROCK AVIO 500 which is 20% faster than the stock AVIO...it is going to be sold in the DVD equipped AVIO for 2899.99 USD. You can see them here: www.djrock.tv
Blatantly prohibited commercial post nothwithstanding ...
Let's just accept that claim ... a 233 Mhz machine is overclocked to 280 MHz ... that's still less than 1/10th of the speed of today's inexpensive PCs, on which the vast majority of video editing systems have been built.
The fact is, that for that $2900, you can get the hardware and software for a system 10 times the speed and memory ... flexibility and capabilities MSUS has indicated they will NEVER attempt to develop ... the latest DVD burner with software ... and at least half of your own time back -- time saved by not having to click 8 times through four different screens for a simple operation, and the endless workarounds on the Avio for features already implemented on other systems with a click & drag.
And if you need to work at more than one workstation, the cost drops dramatically ... my 2nd PC-based video workstation cost less than $700 including two hard drives (200 GB total) and a DVD burner. But with Avio/Kron/Prestige, the second, third, fourth and fifth systems cost just as much as the first.
Please don't misunderstand ... the Avio has a place in the world of video: quick, simple, cutting together and mixing of analog & digital footage -- maybe even adding a few basic FX & titles. Beyond that, it becomes counterproductive.
Pricewise, the AvioProDV should be priced around the $999 point, including an 80GB drive, with the AvioProDV-DVD running around $1299. Beyond that, it's just not worth it.
And unless you have a customer specifically paying you to do a specific function targeted by the add-on software, the add-on software is simply not worth it -- it puts the system cost way beyond its worth, and stretches the learning curve of the system beyond that of more complex systems.
Let's just hope that MSUS & their German parent company will realize their place and price in the market before they completely fail. They came close to going under with the Kron debacle, but seem to have revived their financial coffers by convincing thousands to buy a barely changed OS called SmartEdit for a couple hundred dollars a unit. Since then, they've pretty much killed off their "loyal" customer base by various ingenious methods, which are too numerous to enumerate here. So once again it's back to the newbies -- and today, they're just too smart to pay three times the price for 1/2 of the product.
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