Hoster Shutting Down - Stopped Working: Upgrade DirectX and WMP

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Musicman51

Ok...we have beat that to death dale. I'm computer illiterate i admit. But stupid i'm not. First of all, the security updates are completly worthless unless you go online with your show machine, and i don't. Second, when i upgraded almost 10 months ago, i did the required updates, and the WMP, or activeX or DirectX thingy or whatever it is, wasn't on the upgrade list.

billyo wrote:


billyo you are truly a vision of wisdom in all this sea of misery and despair.... I read, and make use of all your advice, and i have learned a lot from you..thank you. And i agree with you 101%. Also beat to death by many. Our friend Ed Beram also tried to convey the same message in this very thread. It's a trade off. That's why it's been about 10 months ago that i upgraded last. Actually even then, it wasn't necessary.

And now that they're charging for the privilege of upgrading, i bet it will be longer before i do again. Hoster is a fantastic software program, but getting to be so sophisticated that common people can't use it, or make it work. I'm a karaoke show host, not a computer tech. And as you say billyo, if we have to keep upgrading our computer's resources as well...it could also become a very costly karaoke presentation software. I thought hunting bear in the alaska foothills was expensive...lol The "Pay-As-You-Upgrade", now is just the beginning of the cost factor...Been with mtu since 2001 first upgrade i've ever been charged for. What was it that mtu had on their website for years? "Something about the "Privilege of loyal mtu users to upgrade"?

the very obvious reason why MTU has to do these upgrades in my opinion was, a lot of Hoster users asked for these, they wanted to have a sophisticated show so they asked for new features to be added. and MTU is trying their best to do these.i guesed not knowing that these new features being added there will always be a trade off..ie. more memory,bigger hhd.etc. in which most of us who has older laptop can only go up to 2gb. of memory. don't get me wrong i like some of the new features, but BA and removed silence i don't really use, some of Hoster user wanted to have a dj feature/function, in my opinion Hoster is a karaoke program, and that's why i bought it,and that's what i used it for. if i wanted to dj i'll get me a dj program ( i have 4 btw)