[Arthur Puig]

Ola, whether you do it or not I think you’re a marked man now! : )

Maybe they’ll send the BlackMagic police to your door

BTW, my deskop wallpaper is Snow Leopard default, not DaVinci logo (just in case)

[Arthur Puig]

I know that.

I was hoping someone in BM coiled notice that’s what some of us Aja users will be sacrificing, hopefully they make one.

[Arthur Puig]

Thanks Gary for the info provided. As much as I need Revival now, I’m a little concerned to the fact that BM hasn’t spend much time with it, I think I’ll wait for that. It’s not too hard to speculate that a Mac version could come from this.
In my experience with DRS, the automated systems were inducing more errors to the picture than fixing some, then we had to manually repair the mistakes done, and timewise it was better to do it manually, although this is far from ideal. When we heard of Revival we were really excited about it, but then there was no “Pro” version.
I think the best will be to wait till the waters clear out.

[Arthur Puig]

for the lite/pro versions I was asking about Revival, I actually called BM, and there is an option for sales, I think is 2 for DaVinci products, I can never get anybody to answer it, I even called the non DaVinci sales option, and I got transferred to someone in the DaVinci department I can’t remember the name now, left a message, never got a call back.

But one question I asked in this forum and never got an answer, is will I need to buy a box through a reseller for the $1500 version of Revival, or is it software only? And what are the main differences, is that automated vs manual?

Also, what sorts of demo are available for us?

[Arthur Puig]

[Joseph Owens] “Well, either Blackmagic will ask you to cease and desist, or sue you, or the bank will refuse to duplicate a copyrighted trademark.”

Really??? Cease and desist? Being sued??? It’s just a decoration for crying out loud, you’re not promoting to be DaVinci or BM, what about if I put a DaVinci desktop wallpaper, am I going to get a cease and desisit, or get sued too? Besides, how could anybody ever find out?

[Arthur Puig]

It does seem like two different companies indeed, at least you’re not doing what Apple did to Final Touch 2K users, in a way you’re protecting the big investment older DaVinci owners did. In my case in particular my interest in the Linux version is totally gone, the system may be robust, but the way it was promoted to the public seems obscure and weak, too much confusion, I want to deal with BM, not with some tech resellers. Same for Revival, that I really need, I’ve been calling for over two months and I’ve always been on hold for hours, never got to talk to anybody, and the differences between the light and pro version seems unclear at best.

[Arthur Puig]

here it is…

https://www.the3dshop.com/product-view.aspx?i=2321

Took me 30 seconds to find it

quite pricey though…

[Arthur Puig]

[Rory Hinds] “well I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree, building a computer to run a piece of software is not rocket science, sure there are people out there that need help and by all means make money off them but don’t force the people that do know to spend a very large amount on an over price PC”

I second that. I actually had to put a Linux box with infinaband, ethernet ports, and a raid, having zero experience in it, it wasn’t that easy, but it wasn’t that hard either, in a week I got it running. The information is out there online how to do it, and I’m sure it’s not that hard for BM to publish it. Again, I think this is more trying to keep an antique business model alive for a bit more, maybe until some contracts run out…

[Arthur Puig]

[Rory Hinds] “You can’t purchase the Linux software alone. Not sure why BM advertises it for $19,999.
You have to purchase the Linux software, panel and you have to buy it as a system from a reseller which the lowest cost is $85k”

That’s just BS in my opinion. And I know I’m an outsider, but it kind of seems to go against BM way of doing business, it may be just an interim situation, to try to not give all these resellers the ax so soon, it’s actually cool they do that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if panels and Linux version goes for cheaper in the future, with no resellers selling you overpriced computers. I mean, a DaVinci for $999 was utopic, even when they just bought the brand.

[Arthur Puig]

LOL!!! That’d be awesome!!!

Specially if they list that as a hardware requirement

EOL GT120 for Mac or flashed (whichever available)