Hoster 3.0

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MTU defined this market, did all the ground work proving what can be done, then some other fellows moved in on us. Understand so far? Good.

Now, due to our highly ethical, moral, legal stance, we refused to support the MP3+G format, which was initially designed to allow trading Karaoke CDG files as easy as Napster was swapping MP3 files. Swapping was proven to be illegal due to Napster being sued in Court, and loosing. We were legally correct, but hampered in the market. Are you with me? Good.

So, ALL the competitors that moved in on us, support the MP3+G format. As will always happen, when multiple vendors support a format, it becomes a de-facto standard. Since there was the free "crack" software called TOOLZ that did the conversion of a .bin file to MP3+G format, even honest folks who owned their discs jumped on this format. Thus groweth the de-facto standard even more. OK?

After a while, MTU realized that it was futile to continue to refuse to suport the MP3+G format. Hoster 3.0 will have this support, as well as playing MP3 audio songs, and (MTU format) KMA Karaoke files, and WMA audio files and a future MTU format we have been working towards for 5 years now.

You might say, MTU has taken off the kid-gloves, and we are coming out fighting. Every competitor will feel our answer. As long as you stay with MTU, you will see that we will have something for each type of user.

Some common overview features of Hoster® Platimum 3.0 are:

1. New Features - There will be a charge for 3.0. We have given our customers over $80,000 of developments for free this year. It's time we get some payback. Our competitors offer NO FREE UPGRADES, and the one who says they do, in reality change the product name or major version and you have to buy the "new product" at retail! So, in effect, they sell their "entry" product for a lower price than MTU, pull you into their camp... and then soak you on upgrades. Well... we too can play that game, but we won't soak our existing customers. You won't pay retail for upgrades from MTU as you do to our competitors.
   
   
2. No more Tabs - The Playlist and Import Tracks Tabs structure turned out to be a problem. It prevents Hot Keys, and updating fields as you go between Tabs. Tabs have now been removed. The Playlist is the Hoster window. The Import Command on the menu bar will display the Import Tracks dialog that does all it does now with more features coming.
   
   
3. Hot Keys - We will have full support for operations by keyboard keys, not just clicking the controls.
   
   
4. Play MP3+G and MP3 Files - We will have full support (actually already do) for playing these files along with KMA and WMA in the same Playlist. Eventually we will offer converting MP3+G files to our KMA format, including all the Song Parameters we save in the file header, so you can use them in your Songs Database and Song Books.
   
   
5. Platinum-Bronze - Our secret!
   
   
6. Upward Mobility - With the new architecture, we will be free to do anything you want us to, and that we dream up. Hoster 3.0 is "fully modern Millie", with 4 years of development and debug history behind it.
   
   
7. Competitors Features - We now look at the best features of our competitors and, as they have done to us for 2 years, we will now do unto them... except we have a VERY SOLID base we are starting from to "out-do" their features. MTU's creativity and listening to our customers is reknown for generating new features! Knowledge is Universal. What you do with it is Unique. MTU has 35 years experience in Professional product development... all focused at the Karaoke market of tomorrow.
   
   
8. Installation Options - We have been working on some very sophisticated ways to allow you to move your Registered Hoster from one computer to another, when you need to upgrade or your computer fails. We will even preserve your "persistent" settings, such as colors, fonts, window sizes and locations... all those things you work through when you first started up to make Hoster work "your way".
   
   
9. Encrypt Songs - For those of you who have systems you let out for rental, or hire a KJ to run your show at your contracted Venue, you will be able to encrypt all your KMA songs to only run on that Hoster. If they are stolen, there is no damage. Your employees will not become your competitors by ripping you off.

We will soon have our new store on-line. This will allow us to offer many different options that were difficult to handle before. You will have your own private "My Account" and "My Software" area where you can change your record, see your RegCodes (that you forgot to print and save ), and communicate better with MTU. Our scripts already check the database of who owns what, so we can help guide you based on what you have ordered.

All for now. If I didn't say too much, I'm sorry... that's the way things are at this time.