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From: jason@cbmami.UUCP (Jason Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: JMan Review: RENDER & Conclusion
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Date: 20 May 91 09:00:15 GMT
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	One thing that really scares me about Jman is Hash's total refusal
to sell his product via dealers!  I work for an upscale dealer in Southern
California which specializes in Video/Animation.  Our staff is well versed
in Lightwave, Imagine, and 3D-Pro, as well as many of the older packages.
We demo the products on proffesional systems (A3000's, 33 Mhz and 50 Mhz
A2000's, etc..), all are systems are networked we can even do renderings in
3D-Pro in its paralell processing mode!  Finnal output can be viewed in
24-bit via Firecracker, Toaster, DCTV, etc...
	Obviously Jman's use of spines makes it a very interesting product
to us, but they won't sell it to us!  We called up to order two units and
we were informed that they will not sell to dealers, they offer better
pricing to end users at shows than they offered us.  Further they told us
that their users were to upscale to purchase from dealers.
	It seems to me that Martin is doing a diservice to his product and
his end-users (both current and future).  Would you rather purchase a $500
package after getting a hands on demo from someone who really knows the
products and is farmiliar with its strengths and weaknesess relative to the
other products available?  Perhaps they don't want their ray-tracing engine
compared side-by-side to Imagines...  If they insist on only selling direct
then they will have a much smaller user base, that means that bug reports
will take longer to get back to them, that means there are fewer people for
owners to share ideas/help/objects with, etc...
	From what I have seen of Jman it is a product with a lot of
promise, I am probably posting this letter primarily because I am
disappointed that I won't be able to get my hands on it in the near future.
However, I truely believe that refusing to sell to dealers hurts Jman
product development as well as its potential sales!
	If you are a Hash customer, you should let them know how you feel
about this policy.


-Jason-

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Jason Goldberg				UUCP: ucsd!serene!cbmami!jason
Del Mar, CA