After reading the whole thread there is one argument about V4, that hasn't been mentioned, and that is the economic aspect. What happened to V4 is a rather new economic feature called "lock-in".

To explain what "lock-in" means I rather give an example: Many years ago when the first VCR-systems came on the market there were several formats: VHF, BETAMAX and the lesser known VIDEO2000 (an european system) These formats were competing on the market but in the end VHF became the standard and BETAMAX and video2000 disappeared. Not because VHF was the better of the three, but because there were more movies for VHF on the market. In fact VHF was the most crappy system.

 A similar example is the QWERTY-keyboard, what is in fact the worst solution for a keyboard layout.

I don't want to say that V4 is the worst model (I won't get into that discussion :)  ) but if you compair V4 with VHF and the content made for V4 with the amount of VHF-movies you will see what I mean.

What we see now is that there is a need for a new "standard" , like dvd has replaced VHF because of the new technologies available. Unless SM and DAZ won't try to cooperate in making a new standard for the poser(!)market and insist on making their own, people will stay with the old standard and will there still be demand for V4-content.

For those are more interested in "lock-in" or think I'm talking crap:

http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/paths.html

best regards,

Bopper.

 

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