• Avid Media Composer

  old avid original pricing

  Posted by Aaron Zander on January 24, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  Ok, some of you may remember my old avid thread a few weeks back.

  I’ve been tasked to get original or rough original prices for the equipment we have

  was hoping you could help me out with this, as I can’t find any old catalogues online etc from 10 years ago

  here’s what we have:

  Sony U-Matic V0-5850 Beta Deck
  Apple power Pc 9600 Avid media composer system.

  Avid Media Dock (scsi) 8 bay enclosure
  Avid Media Drive rS36 LVD “quiet Drive” scsi drive/enclosure.
  2 Bay SCSI JBOB drive.
  Sony Trinitron PVM-20M2U
  Avid Color Coded keyboard
  Standard Apple Keyboard
  Rainbow Rainbow Sentinel Avid Dongle
  Avid Scsi terminator.
  Mackie 16 channel mixer
  DigiDesign Video Slave Driver
  DigiDesign quad Audio Interface (dd2 i/o)
  Kramer 8×8 video audio matrix (swithcer)
  Digi Desing Red 888 I/O

  Thanks in advance

  -Zander

  Aaron Zander replied 18 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Ron Gerber

  January 25, 2008 at 8:22 pm

  My memory might be a little fuzzy but I think Media Composers were going somewhere between $85,000 – $105,000 back then. We had a few of them that were finally taken out of service about a year ago. The Avid Express systems back then were running in the ball park of $45,000 – $55,000. I’m not sure about your deck, but I do remember that nothing Sony sold was cheap.
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  Ron Gerber

  January 25, 2008 at 8:23 pm

  My memory might be a little fuzzy but I think Media Composers were going somewhere between $85,000 – $105,000 back then. We had a few of them that were finally taken out of service about a year ago. The Avid Express systems back then were running in the ball park of $45,000 – $55,000. I’m not sure about your deck, but I do remember that nothing Sony sold was cheap.
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  Bouke Vahl

  January 26, 2008 at 11:26 am

  [Aaron zander] “Sony U-Matic V0-5850 Beta Deck”

  Dunno prices from back then, but this deck never existed.
  A VO 5850 was a Umatic low band deck without timecode and 422 control. Even 10 years ago it was totally obsolete and could then be bought for about a dollar per pound.

  Mackie stuff was also dirt cheap back then, dongles were free with the software…

  Contact your financial dept. They should be able to find back the original invoices.

  Bouke

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  Aaron Zander

  January 27, 2008 at 12:23 am

  it was passsed on to us second or third hand so no purchasing records

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