#Honestech vidbox without product key drivers#
#Honestech vidbox without product key driver#
#Honestech vidbox without product key manual#

Now that I think of it, you're also right that some printer packages do come with rudimentary editing applications (I just don't use them). And for a printer, Epson also hopes for residual income on the consumables. So I won't concede all of your point, but it's an excellent argument.

#Honestech vidbox without product key drivers#

Printer drivers don't let you edit a document or photo, they provide the means for the editing package to print. But the capture package is slightly more than just the drivers.

#Honestech vidbox without product key driver#

They're my job.ДЄs for your driver analogy, I like it, and I'm rethinking my position, though the software package provided with the hardware does do a little more than simply 'let you use it.' And if someone did create a separate package to use that hardware, then I would indeed expect the drivers to be free. Trust me, I'm well into the world of computers. Personally, in this case where hardware is the tangable product, I don't think keys should be needed. See how far Nvidia gets if they charge for replacing or even upgrading the associated software needed for the hardware to work. The AO, used over there, has taken me down in the past 5.5 years. Typically when a company makes hardware, it doesn't charge if you need to replace the software needed to run it.

The viewpoint you seem to have is the value is in the software and not the hardware. The hardware is always of some value if the company that sells it provides an easy way for software to be downloaded for it. does it matter? Not usually as the company provides legacy support and even an easily accessable link to currnet or latest software needed to make the hardware work. You buy a video card that comes with the software needed. not a physical piece of hardware that cost more than a little bit of someone's time. But I'm looking for an email with numbers and letters to make software work.

True, a trifling cost compared to a new car, but again, there is no incentive for them to 'give him' a new key. They will charge him the cost of the new key, probably $50-$90. But if you sell your car, and it has an expensive 'chipped' key, and you don't give him the key(s), GM is NOT going to simply give him a key out of the kindness of their heart just because he bought a used car. it's a software and hardware package that was bought and paid for years ago. I understand not handing out keys to software that can be pirated but this software is useless without the associated hardware.ДЄt the very least they could offer a product key for a nominal fee. when I sell it, the new owner owns it and GM doesn't get a cut just because the product was sold used. I'd kindly make the point that, in my opinion, the 'incentive' was already recieved when the package originally sold years ago. I'm sorry to hear Roxio needs an 'incentive' to help me. there's definately a sense of resistance to help in such a case. I already see why people need to come up with creative fibs. Indeed I can tag seller with a negative or force a return but I honestly didn't expect Roxio to have a problem with such a simple request. Sound like I might as well have thrown the money away. I am old vietnam vet, not well, on a fixed income and found this product at a resonable price. The seller was a wholesaler that sells bulk goods like a 'Goodwill'.

the original seller was most likely not the original owner and says he does not have the key and didn't realize it needed one. I took a pic of the kit I got and put it on my server so you can view it: I PMed Rox-Ralf a request for help making my purchased useful. You still need the hardware so it's not like the software is pirated if one is in ownership of the OEM disk, box and hardware. What would be the point of Roxio not helping someone that didn't register or wasn't the original owner? I'd like to think Roxio would be helpful with such a simple request as it would reflect kindly on the company. It's perfectly good hardware and DVD with software but all is completely useless without a product key. VHS is obsolete so they convert their VHS's and they are done with the kit. out there that the product key wasn't saved since it was not stamped on the DVD or included in the manual. I think it's safe to say that there's plenty of these.

#Honestech vidbox without product key manual#

I got everthing down to the manual but the DVD was in a plain white envelope. The hardware looks like it's never been out of the package. I got it off ebay because it seemed to be a bargain and a neet way to transfer my old VHS's. I purchased apparently a used older version for PCs of the Roxio VHS to DVD.