Posted by TonyP on 12/27/75 11:33

Martin Heffels wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:58:13 -0500, TonyP <arpierre@hooptonline.net> wrote:

>>As for the first runs and PAL, I don't know. I do know that
>>the later ones seem to have worked. There were many PAL users in the
>>Pinnacle forums editing away with the card.

> They fixed the problem too late. After that mal-start of the card, hardly
> anybody bought seemed to buy the card. But another thing which also might
> have helped declining the sales, is that generic firewire rapidly became
> popular, and most people just rather waited for some rendering, instead of
> plonking down a lot of extra money.

The DV500 was/is the the largest selling product. I believe well over
100,000 were sold. After the final version of software was released
(v4.5a), they made an offer to switch over to Liquid Edition v5 for only
$55. I saw the end of using hardware (along with many others) and just
using a software based NLE program. As computer speeds increase, so does
the workflow of the software. With Liquid using both GPU and CPU for
rendering (in the background while you continue to edit), the faster the
machine, the faster the rendering. You are right with the advent of
miniDV and the firewire. Anyone with WMM can now do basic stuff. Even my
Pro BOB uses the USB2. I would never go to a system now that is tied to
a card. The DV500 had a long run. It was from my reading, in the
beginning bumpy. But when it finished, it was stellar.

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