In another thread, Tony wrote:
Are you sure about that?
I could swear that the posted prices of both Phoenix "Pro" and Phoenix Live are more expensive than LD2000 Intro and our FB3 -- in fact, substantially more expensive.
It could be argued that "oh well, that's their Pro version compared to your Intro version" but the fact of the matter is that their Pro version doesn't include the wide number of options that our Intro version does (for example, Winamp, VST, several bitmap tracers, Asteroids, etc. etc. and so on). Moreover even with our Intro version, we include more shows and substantially more frames. And these aren't just any shows and frames, these are shows and frames made by some of the top companies in the world! ILDA Awards are won by people using even our LD2000 Intro system. See if you can find out how many ILDA Awards are won by "the other guys"...
Comparing LD2000 to MAMBA, it could be that MAMBA is less expensive. But personally I wouldn't compare LD2000 to MAMBA. I would compare MAMBA to our FB3. In this case, if you are saying that MAMBA is around $900, well, our FB3 is between $500 and $600.
The LD2000 system is made for true laser professionals and experienced laser users. It carries a price that is actually far lower than other software in that category. About the least expensive you can get by if you go with Laser Animation is $8300 (at today's exchange rate) and if you want to go up from there and buy a LOBO system, that's going to cost you around $100,000!
So when comparing apples to apples, I really don't think that anybody else is offering the same value we are. I guess you wouldn't know about you don't have a Pangolin system. At a $500 to $600 price-point, you get an awful lot of sofware, plus our FB3 hardware. Really that's hard to beat. And just wait until you see QuickShow!
Owe it? We started the concept of free updates back in 1986, when Laser Media was charging $27000 for digitizing (and oh by the way, also charging for updates...) and Laser Fantasy and Laser Images were both charging over $12000 for their systems. I don't feel that we "owe it" to anyone. We just do it. That has been our guiding principle for the past 23 years.
Lowered our price to what? We already give you more than anyone else does at the price points where our products are. Nobody can touch what we give you at these price points, or frankly any other price point.
So what would you have us charge, and then how much would you be willing to pay for the updates Tony?
Bill