DVD Movie Factory 5 Plus upgrade cost??

[bquerry]

The squeakest wheel gets the most grease

Which is why I contacted customer support. My response today was a combination of the response I got from customer support & the messages left about the selected few getting a $29.99 upgrade offer.

I'm just curious why you want MF5-Plus. Is it for the extra burning features for burning CD's/Dvd's/Blu-Ray?
Or, do you want the program only to have the extra content?
I'm talking about the extra menu templates for MF5_Plus because MF5 Standard doesn't have that many templates.

MF5_Plus is made and geared for HighDefintion Video Files, the newer capture/recording equipment by Sony & Sanyo along with the Blu-Ray and and HD_Dvd burning capabilities.

Kind of a waste if all you want/need are the extra menu templates that come with MF5_Plus and you are using Standard Definition Equipment & Video Files.

I do have HiDef in my future. I have my eyes and XMAS budget on the Sony HC1. Blu-Ray, hopefully, eventually. The templates for DVDs, well in my opinion, should be free to ALL users, of any version of MF5. It would help the artistically challenged and those in a hurry. All of the InterVideo stuff - not at all! Again, all I really want is fair treatment. The $$$ are not the real issue.

BTW- I have run my own software company and have run companies others as well. I am a software developer by trade - 30 plus years. I understand bugs, anomolies, schedules, releases, $$$ for updates, etc. I understand customer relations. I don't understand ULEAD and how they let what could be potentially great products get such a bad reputation due to a lack of response and such bad customer relations - at least how they have related to me. I also don't understand why I let this (my hobby) get under my skin so much.... standing up for what I think is fair, I guess...

[maddrummer3301]

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[mmponline]

I'm just curious why you want MF5-Plus. Is it for the extra burning features for burning CD's/Dvd's/Blu-Ray?
Or, do you want the program only to have the extra content?
I'm talking about the extra menu templates for MF5_Plus because MF5 Standard doesn't have that many templates.

Primarily for the templates, as this was my complaint from the start that MF5 was a downgrade on the amount of templates supplied, not to talk about the bugs. I do a lot of DVDs, so the templates are essential. The dissapointment was huge when I discovered that MF5 had very few templates. If there were more templates, I probably would have settled for MF5

Burning?? We'll see how MF5 can do the job. MF4 never got burning straight to disk right, and support put the blame on Nero. Even after uninstalling Nero, it never worked, so I'm using another burning software.
I'm still to see if MF5 Plus can handle the burning requirements.

I also need to upgrade my one camera, and that would be to HD. So, if it works well, it will be worth it. Let's hope so. I see a lot of new entries and reports on MF5 Plus on this forum ?!?!?! So...