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Prepar3d pricing announced

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Hey All,

Today on the front page of the Prepar3d web site, we have announced the pricing for Prepar3d client licenses and the developer network.

Client licenses will be $499. This is quite a bit lower than the original MS ESP license cost, plus much easier to acquire - use a credit card and order online then immediately download.

While it's not mentioned on the front page, I believe there will also be discounts for educational institution use and I think volume discounts as well (not sure what is considered "volume" though :-> ).

The price for the Prepar3d Developer Network (PDN) subscription will be $9.95/month for the Registered Developer level, and $99.95/month for the Solution Developers level. Pricing and benefits under the Partner Developer level will be announced sometime in 2011.

Tim
 
TV use

Dear Tim:
Could you advise if that price of $499 would apply to a TV station using the product for inclusion in an Australian TV production about some air safety incidents?
Best,
Geoffrey Thomas
Senior Editor
Air Transport World
 
Hey Geoffrey,

That sounds like a perfectly valid commercial use of the product to me, so I would say yes the $499 price would apply for that.
 
What about multichannel (namely 3 view) support

Beatle (Great to see you again!)
I was hoping that P3D might already have multichannel (assign a video card and core to an independent view - same database) support. I saw another post that just mentioned the phrase (multichannel) so I though I would ask. I had asked Mike Z to include that in ESP plans.
Haven't see you since we met at my research cockpit lab at Boeing Seattle - glad to see you're onboard!

Dave Whittington
 
Hey Dave,

We have Multi-channel support, which to us means multiple computers hooked up over a network all running as one system (so you could have a 4 computer setup where the master computer is doing all the simulating, handling AI objects, computing weather, maybe running some 2D panels, etc; and then you could have 3 slave computers running the left, center, and right video channels). This would of course require 4 seat licenses (more obviously if you wanted more video channels :-> ). This capability is in the version shipping now.

We also support 1 (or maybe 2) SDKs for doing the morphing to handle projecting multiple visual channels onto a dome display (I think you have to license that tech seperately from another company though).

We're also looking into providing ways to allow external sim engines to control the movement/orientation/etc of SimObjects via SimConnect (I was actually working on this when MS shut ACES down, hopefully will be resurrecting that code soon) - I seem to recall that was another of your feature requests when Mike and I came to visit your lab.
 
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