4/28/08

I hope sharing this information will not get my hand slapped.

A forum member at CP points out that Amazon.com is advertising Poser Pro for a pre-order price of $429.99 (with a pre-order price guarantee) to be released on May 6, 2008. I have looked, and as of 6:47 PM EST (USA) the add is still there. Amazon has a picture of the front and back of the box, and lists an item mobel number of "PSRPROHBXW" and an ASIN number of  "B0017U7TQ0". The shipping weight is advertised as 8 ounces. The Amazon site says this deal has been available since April 15, 2008.

This is, I think, the full version, not Poser Pro Basic, which is supposed to be released as an upgrade to Poser 7 at a reduced upgrade price.

Searching on Altavista for that ASIN I found a site (www.stewartmc.com ) that had advertised a release date of April 29, but that page got pulled, the site now advertises the same deal and date as Amazon.com, but adds a UPC number of "717103856396" and an EAN number of  "0717103856396". Part of the back of the box from this site can actually be read.

A search on the ASIN number in Google leads to another site with the same information.

Amazon miss reported the release date of Poser 7 by 1-2 weeks as I recall, and they are famous for getting these kind of details wrong, but getting a peek at the back of the box was interesting. I would quote the box, but anyone can go and look at it for themselves. The paragraph on rendering is particularly interesting. By the way, what is an REYES renderer?

LMK

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.