Original MBox to be dropped

[Third Eye Studios]

This is a LAME decision digi (Avid). You discontinued the 001 because it was a pci device, but the mbox is usb. Why would you discontinue it? This is a stupid decision to force your customers to upgrade their hardware. You guys continue to SUCK more with every passing day!!!!! Sorry, I couldn't find a nice way to say it.

[filosofem]

Originally Posted by Kryst

If you're going to drop a piece of hardware from your support, do it at an even release (ie. PTLE 7.0, PTLE 8.0...), not half way through updating a version of software.

I don't know about you but I'd prefer 8.0.1 over 8.0.0.





filosofem

[mksnz]

I don't think this has anything to do with software or hardware related issues... its only business ya know
And to make sure it won't work there will be a piece of code in the program as well.

[peppertree]

Originally Posted by filosofem

It means that the original Mbox will not be supported. It may work but if you are running unsupported hardware and require technical assistance then you are effectively on your own.

Originally Posted by sunburst79

I think it means that A) it wont be tested or qualified and B) If a update breaks compatibility it wont be fixed. It doesn't mean that its necessarily going to stop working with say 8.1 though. Digi has been hinting that the original MBox might be dropped for a while while at the same saying that they would support it as long as feasable.

Do we actually know any of these things? Digi has never made clear what exactly "support" means. Digi still provides tech support, here, for the 001, for instance.

[Kryst]

Originally Posted by filosofem

I don't know about you but I'd prefer 8.0.1 over 8.0.0.





filosofem

Oooooh no. I'm not updating mid-way through working on a project again. I learned my lesson LOL

Still, my complaint was that they should have dropped support of the mbox when releasing 8.0.0, or waited until 8.3.0 came out.

New versions of PT LE come with the hardware purchase, so who the hell would pay for a software upgrade to a product that's being dropped if they knew that was coming? Essentially what happened was people paid for the upgraded software and now may want to pay for new (supported) hardware that comes with the same upgrade they just purchased.

Hopefully there's a money-back thing to counter that.

[sunburst79]

Originally Posted by Kryst

Still, my complaint was that they should have dropped support of the mbox when releasing 8.0.0, or waited until 8.3.0 came out.

I'm guessing that the fact they are working on getting Snow Leopard and Win 7 qualified along with writing some 64 bit hardware drivers and the fact that they are dropping the MBox may be related.

[DonaldM]

Just so I'm clear, I have the MBox 2 mini...is that still supported?

[sunburst79]

Originally Posted by DonaldM

Just so I'm clear, I have the MBox 2 mini...is that still supported?

Yep! its only the original MBox being dropped.