When I missed the 15 day window to upgrade to Ver. 7 with the ability to upgrade to V. 8 when it came out the next suggestion was just get a support contract for the year and I could run V. 7. I didn't read all the notes, which clearly list what you can run with a V. 8 dongle. To my surprise my V. 8 blasted dongle will only run MC with symphony option V7 and symphony V 6.5.X. Again this is clearly listed in the read me but I had assumed like always a dongle would be backward compatible to earlier versions without any issues like the software activation has with the change in activation code structure between 5.5 and 6.0. If I need to run earlier than V.6.5 Avid will give me a temporary code which is great but I'm curious what the logic behind this is. My understanding is the bins from Ver 7 are compatible to the latest version of Ver 5.5 and above. I would assume, here I go again, that the same applies to Ver. 8 bins but I've got to confirm this.
I guess I don't understand why, after paying the support contract money, I should lose the ability to run back to 5.5.x where bin compatibility seems to end. I've paid the money to help Avid stay in business why are they taking away a long standing ability to run previous versions? I get that moving forward they don't want to be handicapped by having to make bins etc... backwards compatible but if I want to run 5.5.x why not let my V. 8 dongle work with it like a V 7 dongle does? Many places I work haven't been eager to purchase BCC 8 or higher so they are still running V 5.5. Now my advice to them is to get the support contract for $299.00/year by the end of the year but not to blast their dongles until they need to jump to the 64 bit world. For me dongles have been a no brainer even paying the additional $300 and now $500 for them made sense because I didn't have to keep track of the software activation codes once the dongle was blasted. Now the "My Products" page does this but the simplicity of having my dongle as a universal key to Avids of all versions is something I appreciated in the past.
Can someone enlighten me on why this restriction has been placed on Ver. 8 dongles and also the software activations?
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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