Posted by Donald Link on 10/24/05 23:24

Jesus welcome to the real world. The first version of most software
programs when it hit the big market after Beta have some problems. The
positive thing (which you forgot to mention) is that they were
addressed promptly. Tough if you are worried about a 65 meg update.
Must have a dial up otherwise you would have no problems. Just grow
up a blowing a small problem like it was major.


On 23 Oct 2005 10:14:41 -0000, nappY Si <nleio23@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Where does Pinnacle get off selling crappy
>buggy software? We know every software app
>has issues, but there's a *reasonable*
>tolerance level for this.
>
>Check this out. This is a bug-list for
>Studio 10. And we're talking about a
>new product here.
>
>http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=57556
>
>It's amazing that Pinnacle expect you to
>buy their brand new Studio 10, and THEN,
>download a 65MB patch (that's right 65MB)
>to fix it. You then find that 65MB
>'patch' which took a few hours to
>download, itself is screwed up.
>
>It's obvious Pinnacle is in the business
>of releasing crappy untested software,
>and then using their poor gullible
>users as guinea pig testers. Pinnacle
>then fixes the software, or doesn't fix
>it, depending on how much that would hurt
>their profit margin.
>
>And when you call them for support,
>they piss on you and tell you to go
>away.
>
>Where does Pinnacle get balls like that?
>
>What's more, you'd assume Avid, who purchased
>Pinnacle a while back, would enforce the same
>excellent quality control standards on Pinnacle,
>that users associate with professional Avid
>products.
>
>

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