I have no inside info on this, so I'm more or less guessing but here's my take.
Dreamcard was a "crippled Rev." It straddled the lines of an inventive user and a professional developer but the lines were blurred and the audiences and messages so different that it created as much confusion as it did anything else. So RR decided to replace DC with two paths. If you want the power of Rev, buy Rev. (My guess -- and I reiterate my caveat -- is that they'll make this upgrade very attractive from a price standpoint because they have nothing to gain by driving away DC users who are basically happy). The alternate path is you want to use a Rev product that's more like the old HC and somewhat like multimedia authoring tools, so you buy Media at a much lower price point but you limit yourself to certain types of apps. I think the company has created a bit of a difficult-to-decode message on the main rev media page because of this statement: "*Revolution Media's*simplicity makes it ideal for creating software utilities quickly and easily. You can conceptualize a project or solution, but what is the fastest, most productive way to turn your ideas into software? Its *Revolution Media*." That makes it sound like Media will include the full Transcript language, which then begs the question of the real differences between the products. Then on the detail page there's this somewhat confusing tidbit: "Use Revolution, the English like, built-in language, to add the *step by step logic *of your concept to your creation." I suspect -- but again my caveat -- that this is just a mistake, that the language is called Transcript, not Revolution (which would be devilishly confusing, no?). In the end, the important thing I think is that DC users now have to decide whether they are fish or fowl and head down the path that suits them best. Probably not a bad move for the company; Media sounds like a truly consumer-appealing product. On 3/4/06, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > Which multimedia authoring tool had a scripting language and premiered > > at the Boston expo the year before HC was released? > > Was it Director known as VideoWorks first??? did I won? Gee, I was > only seven years old! :-D > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
