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>Daved Hagel wrote:
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>> Sick wit hthe Mac version of MCX.  I agree that it is a powerfull system for
>> the price but the NT version of MCX is buggy and from my view Avid is doing
>> little to improve it.
>
>This is not totaly true. 1.5 is not that buggy. most buggyness comes in with 
that
>fact that there are so mny different machines out there that people try to 
install
>it on. Plus three different truevision boards. Ver 1.5 with a Rtx.dtx board is
>rock solid. yes there are features that could be implimented (which 1.6 doea 
fix
>some) but those can't be called bugs. I got a 1.5 on a compaq 6000 installed 
and
>runing rock solid (24 hour burn in) in under 2 hours. It is very good for the
>price (turn key can be 10K+ less then the mac version) Yes avid isn't putting 
a
>ton of work into NT but they are not ignoreing it. And with Symphony comeing 
out
>Greater things may be on the way. Yes Nt is not as Good as the Xpress but it 
is
>good. (better the Speed razor or D-vision)
>



Daved Replys:

You'll get no arguement that it's the best thing going for NT, but the fact is 
that it is very buggy and not very "rock solid".  I'm running a RTX board and 
have more "tiny" problems then I ever would have thought possable...and I had 
my dealer configure a "working" system for me beacuse of the compatibility 
issues.

The bug list for 1.51 could take up a page and a half easy.  IF you are one of 
those that have a working system without bugs, great, congratulation.  But 
there are a lot of us that do not.  If you don't believe me, look at the MCX 
product disscussion board on the Avid BBS.  The complaints got so loud around 
NAB that they had to create a special fourm for complaints to keep the main 
fourm open for tips & tricks.

Anyone considering an MCX system should have this information.  So do work 
fine, but some do not, and I know of many an MCX-NT user that has some serious 
problems.