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From: James Lloyd <[e-mail]>
To: Joe <[e-mail]>
Cc: Joe Tracy <[e-mail]>, [e-mail],
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Yeah... I'm beginning to think that all that was good about Newtek left
to form PLAY inc.  They screwed all of the original Toaster owners with
the current LW upgrade policy... how quick do you think I was to consider
becoming one of the first Flyer owners?

Maybe someone -should- make an example of these high-tech snake-oil
vendors with some class-action pursuit...

_____________________________________________________________________________

                                James A. Lloyd
                              Magnet Interactive
                               3D Animator-type
_____________________________________________________________________________

                 "We can do that. We don't even need a reason."
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On Sat, 14 Oct 1995, Joe wrote:

> I was never told a number of things by NT about my flyer prebook and
> purchace.  I was never told when I prebooked that the system would not be
> done when I was suppposed to take delivery many months before the actual
> delivery date promiced.  Once the delivery bull was going down I took
> delivery of an "in construction" version that was descibed in a letter to
> not do certain things.  It didn't do those things and didn't do many more
> things.
>
> 4.0 was supposed to be the stable, bug free version. 4.1 is just and ass
> umbrella for their initial incompetance.
>
> NT turned to shit about a year ago.  It used to be about the finest
> company I have ever dealt with.  Now it is about the worst I still deal
> with.
>
> The fact that they advertized a video system that used "lossless
> compression" and a non-linear editor that obviously wasn't developed by
> anyone who actually edits more than home movie transfers was an
> indication of where the company was heading.
>
> Lossles compression:  sounded great and like a real breakthrough.  Now I
> am told that the Perception, a Motion JPEG compression device, has
> cleaner output and is what I whould be having for high end work.  How can
> jpeg be better than Lossless compression?  Easy, they lied.
>
> I had to put up a lot of money for nine months before I could get an
> animation to video clip at HQ5 and now I am told the percption looks better!!
>
> I will admit that the sequencer initerface is better than any other box I
> have looked at and not having to render dissolves is nice but I still
> feel taken advantage of.
>
> I deleted the flyer LW 4.0 version and went back to using 3.5 so I could
> get some work done.. I AM DONE BEING NT'S BETA TESTER WITH  NONE OF THE
> PERKS OF BEING ONE.  Sure I want to use all the new features.  I said
> use, not test.  Also I want to render out the cool scenes that those new
> features give me in a reasonable lenght of time, at least as fast as
> before.  flyer LW 4.0 is just a pig.  When it is done, bug free (they
> couldn't even make the requestors work right) and optimized for my amiga
> 040 systems, I will use it.  Until then, sorry I have work to do.
>
> Two more little things.  I am happy to own two quantum atlas 2 gigers
> that will do HQ5 over the entire surface but for the first two month of
> owning them, I was seeking legal advise and feeling very ripped off. Now
> I am happy that I couldn't afford thos microp 9er's.  this whole thing
> has been stressfull enough without that situation also.
>
> Blowing off Lee Stranahan has got to be about the stupidest thing they
>  have done in all this.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Joe Freeman  the  Video Junky    [e-mail]
>
>            "You fucked up, you trusted us."  Animal House
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