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Paul
A little business comedy for you.
Apparently, Creative bought Sensaura, and Sensaura technology was
used in CMedia stuff. The purchase was a few years ago, but I must
have missed it.
I went to the CMedia site yesterday, looking for a driver, and
their driver link has been removed. The site has this announcement -
"The Technology License Agreement with Sensaura Limited will be expired
Due to the technology license agreement between C-Media Electronic Inc.
(C-Media) and Sensaura Limited (which was acquired by Creative Technology
Ltd.) will be expired on Sept 30, 2008."
You would think, if the issue was only drivers, they could have had a new
version of driver available for their driver download link. Whether
this is a temporary condition (no drivers for download), or CMedia
has been permanently gutted by a patent troll (Creative), remains
to be seen. In principle, they could also visit all the PCI card
manufacturer sites, and remove their drivers too
The Sensaura name is even tied into SoundStorm, the defunct audio
technology from Nvidia. This would be one more nail in its coffin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundStorm
Paul
Apparently, Creative bought Sensaura, and Sensaura technology was
used in CMedia stuff. The purchase was a few years ago, but I must
have missed it.
I went to the CMedia site yesterday, looking for a driver, and
their driver link has been removed. The site has this announcement -
"The Technology License Agreement with Sensaura Limited will be expired
Due to the technology license agreement between C-Media Electronic Inc.
(C-Media) and Sensaura Limited (which was acquired by Creative Technology
Ltd.) will be expired on Sept 30, 2008."
You would think, if the issue was only drivers, they could have had a new
version of driver available for their driver download link. Whether
this is a temporary condition (no drivers for download), or CMedia
has been permanently gutted by a patent troll (Creative), remains
to be seen. In principle, they could also visit all the PCI card
manufacturer sites, and remove their drivers too
The Sensaura name is even tied into SoundStorm, the defunct audio
technology from Nvidia. This would be one more nail in its coffin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundStorm
Paul