On Sat, 17 May 2008 18:32:57 -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote: >> Maybe next they will charge $250 for "conference bridge" capabilities. >> It's a joke to cripple things that can be enabled by flicking a >> switch. Your system comes with eight ports of VM but for another $250 >> we can give you 12......
Forgive me for jumping in on this, but that's terribly naive. I work in the broadcast and TV production business. Some time ago a major company called Quantel created a hardware system called "Edit Box." It was wickedly fast and could do things with multiple streams of uncompressed video in real-time. It was way beyond PCs, Macs or *nix boxes of the day. It started at $500,000 USD for four streams. I was at a Chicago post production facility the day that Quantel delivered an "upgrade" that allowed the system to manipulate 8 simultaneous video streams. The field service tech walk in with a disk and installed a software patch. Voila, twice as many layers. That upgrade cost another $250,000. This kind of thing goes on all the time. The hardware has the core capabilities but licensing controls your access to it. You get what you pay for. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://blog.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype mjgraves [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
