I guess I'm the only one posting here and are quite concerned about the same thing that you're going through.

However, I bought Vue 5 Easel as a Xmas gift for me, and was contemplating on getting Vue 6 Esprit (an upgrade), and they are still going tor the Pre-Release thing, like 'they're' making you Download the program without the option to, like, get the boxed version.

There should be 2: the Download and the Physical Boxed versions.  I for one can hardly download 1.X GBs of files -- since I'm on Dial-up and rarely would use GetRight.

This will be very confusing to me if I plan to make an order in January, for yet I still need to send them a faxed proof of purchase I made from e-Frontier and Digital River.  But you made some good points and what's up with paying more for a PDF-ed manual -- That doesn't make any sense; Things should be made together (The software application, the Contents, and the Manual), and with all that, I am going to be leery about that.

I been so awe inspired by all the things that Vue can do in terms of creating realistic clouds and HDRI, and all the photo-realistic stuff, but I will hold out until they send a physical boxed version or if they're still running their pre-release -- I hope they can burned the CD or DVD for me (I never seen a burned CD that has 1.5 GB)

But, I do support your concern.

JB

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