I would beg to differ.
As an end-consumer of a packaged software product the letters "SE" in themselves mean nothing to me - they convey no meaning.
The words: "This is a trial version of the product. Please be aware that significant parts of this product will expire in 30 days" would have been a bit more useful.
Create Disk>DVD Option disappeared (MPEG-2 codec expiry?)
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I think I can clarify the case here.
The SE (Special Edition) products that come with the hardware are feature limited products and are been given for free in the hardware package. They are been designed to let the customer have a taste with the product and you can decide to upgrade to the full version or not. That means the SE product itself will not expire, but some advanced features such as Ulead's MPEG-2 / MP3 codec packs will. That's why you will see the codec trial expire message in the SE products after 30 days.
You can still use VS 9 SE after the 30 days trial, but some features such as MPEG-2 encoding and DVD burning will not work. You could only encode MPEG-1 video files and burn VCD/SVCD after the codec expire.
Ulead introduced the codec trial mechanism in UVS 9 SE and DVDMF 4 SE for fitting the hardware bundle needs. The mechanism is been invented because most hardware manufacturers do not want to pay the royalty fee for MPEG-2 / MP3 codec packs, so they can only offer the codec packs as trial. If you want to continue to use the codec packs within the product, you need to upgrade to a full version.
The buy and activate link does not work in VS 9 SE is because Ulead has dropped the codec trial mechanism in VS 10 and its upcoming VS 11 (also in DVDMF 5 and 6). All you can do now after the expire in VS 9 SE is to upgrade to VS 10 Plus (or the upcoming VS 11 Plus).
This is a very common situation among software/hardware providers. Take Nero for example, they also offer DVD Authoring / MP3 / mp3Pro codec packs as trial for 30 days in Nero unless you pay the fee for those codec packs.
Hope this helps.
The SE (Special Edition) products that come with the hardware are feature limited products and are been given for free in the hardware package. They are been designed to let the customer have a taste with the product and you can decide to upgrade to the full version or not. That means the SE product itself will not expire, but some advanced features such as Ulead's MPEG-2 / MP3 codec packs will. That's why you will see the codec trial expire message in the SE products after 30 days.
You can still use VS 9 SE after the 30 days trial, but some features such as MPEG-2 encoding and DVD burning will not work. You could only encode MPEG-1 video files and burn VCD/SVCD after the codec expire.
Ulead introduced the codec trial mechanism in UVS 9 SE and DVDMF 4 SE for fitting the hardware bundle needs. The mechanism is been invented because most hardware manufacturers do not want to pay the royalty fee for MPEG-2 / MP3 codec packs, so they can only offer the codec packs as trial. If you want to continue to use the codec packs within the product, you need to upgrade to a full version.
The buy and activate link does not work in VS 9 SE is because Ulead has dropped the codec trial mechanism in VS 10 and its upcoming VS 11 (also in DVDMF 5 and 6). All you can do now after the expire in VS 9 SE is to upgrade to VS 10 Plus (or the upcoming VS 11 Plus).
This is a very common situation among software/hardware providers. Take Nero for example, they also offer DVD Authoring / MP3 / mp3Pro codec packs as trial for 30 days in Nero unless you pay the fee for those codec packs.
Hope this helps.
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