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Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
Holy smokes. Incredible that they're abandoning this piece of hardware, their own brand, while still supporting the Magma chassis. It wasn't that long ago that I bought the Digi chassis, which I chose precisely because I wanted it to be supported through upgrades.
This would be like Avid abandoning the HD interfaces but still supporting, say, the Lynx Aurora. Am I the only one stupid enough to have bought this chassis and not unloaded it in time? Why in the world is there no upgrade path for this? Sorry if the outrage has already been vented--just now getting around to this issue. -R
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Re: Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
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The EOSS for the old expansion chassis came over a year ago, already. I know it can be hard to keep up, but Avid is pretty diligent with keeping us aware of when they drop support.
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Re: Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
i had Digi Tech Support on the phone tell me years ago to NOT buy that thing....I actually couldn't not believe that someone at Digi on the clock would say that but they did.
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Re: Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
Rick,
I use to have 2 of them but no more. They had issues. I replaced them with the PE-6R4-I Magma. It is rock solid, huge track counts. No problems. You can still use your chassis even though it isn't supported. When you can you should replace it with the PE-6R4-I .
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Re: Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
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PE6R4 is the way to go. Chris
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Re: Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
This thing was garbage from the beginning.
But that being said, they finally worked out the bugs and now dropped support. I ditched mine before that. It is pathetic that they would drop this, especially considering that it was specifically marketed as "future proof" because of the way the card connected to the chassis. If this was Apple or Intel or a larger ("real") company, the lawyers would be lining up for crap like this. They misled their customers, offered them an unsatisfactory experience, then dropped the product. They should be ashamed. (Well actually, they are, I've received a few apologies from product reps). Crap like this continues to make Avid/Digidesign a substandard company. |
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Re: Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
Crocodile tears. Not ashamed enough apparently to have the decency to offer an upgrade path. Having to spend an extra $2500 on a PE6R4 just to maintain the same functionality as the Expansion|HD has me rooting for Reaper.
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Re: Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
I just don't get it. How hard would it be to offer a new set of guts to make it continue to work.
I'va always defended Digi in the past against the various naysayers, because I appreciate that they've provided an upgrade path to gear that actually gives you more processing power. But now, I'm in a position to have to upgrade my PCI cards and my chassis just to retain my current functionality. A couple thousand here, a couple thousand there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. -R
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Re: Digi Expansion HD chassis no longer supported?
It's hard to believe that this is news to anyone. Move along, there's nothing to see here folks.
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