Here we have a thread....And it's an awesome thread, started by a bunch of fantastic guys...which is basically an "adversarial" for videostorm. That's OK by me!!..
But even the original poster/ Videostorm rep said it himself "We have come on this group to start this thread and support it because we don't have our own forum anymore!!!".. "Oh and and we like you guys!"
The complete irony is, they have come onto a public Control4 forum to sell their stuff, but you no longer need Control4 to run Videostorm!?!!!
It's now completely generic now that control has gone to the cloud. What's that you ask? That also means Alexa control.(without Control4?)..which means another chink in the "goodbye C4 chain" fly's out that AV control window!
No need for music. Or lights. Or HVAC, Now no need for AV distributed video?
Could this be called a Control4 "own goal"?
The other total irony of course is Videostorm is completely DIY......look Mom no dealer or pro needed...., the price keeps coming down down down, and there are third party generics...
You can also buy on line!
All the things that a Control4 platform should be!
Thing is would you guys trust these guys to stay in business? when (as some other poster put it...they need to make their third party stuff and sell outa China)? ie is this stuff legal?
Well who cares!? This is what 99.999% of other AV viewing folks" do anyway!!!!!! (cheat DRM) Hint and they don't even pay exorbitant prices...They pay ZILCH! ..yet here we are as Control4 customers actually paying money for this stuff?? And 6-8K for Video matrixes??! ..Just to suit the Harvey Weinsteins of this world?!
I mean what the??!
(How stupid are we really!!!!?)
So VS is cheap?. It seems reliable. It's DIY, you can buy on line, no pro and no Control4! Sure it might become worthless in a couple of years, (say if it runs fowl of the Hollywood robber barons) - but so does your expensive C4 platform become worthless whilst it remains dealer only anyway! (so, go figure) .....who really cares??? Why not go for it?!
Anything to fight the Hollywood DRM!
(Can't wait for the new 4K encoder to be "tested and certified"!!!!)
IMO!!!!!
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