Goodbye, Escient and Snell

“Escient, a pioneer in media management and digital media servers – and a significant leader in the early days – has seen market share slide as newcomers flood the market.”

The real reason is they put out a terrible product (Vision), offered no meaningful support, and then left all the dealers holding the bag while they lied and said they were merely transitioning.
Let this be a lesson to other manufacturers - don’t blame it on the competition.

The next software release for Vision is night-and-day difference. I know because I have seen it and tested it. EADJH doesn’t know #### about what he/she is talking about with “blame”. #####, please!

OK, so you created an account here just to say that? Are you an Escient fan boy or employee?

I’ve have worked with a number of Vision servers and of course we installed the latest updates. I’ll agree that it was a vast improvement over the original software, but the device was still very glitchy and could not be trusted to work within a customer’s system. Just recently we replaced one that was installed in a large home system with a server from a different company and after 2 weeks, the homeowner said they had used the new server more than they ever used the Vision in over a year because the Vision was such a pain to deal with.

I’m not the only one out there with this opinion. Now when you’re ready to converse like an adult, feel free to come back.

Just FYI.

We will sell the “vision” series under the Elan brand.

Still great product!

Not following - are you with Elan? Are you an Elan dealer? How are you selling the Vision series under the Elan brand?

So ESCIENT is virtually dead??

Really??

Is the entire product line simply going to disappear??

Awesome. Boston Acoustics makes plastic garbage for retail shelves, and Snell makes speakers that sound great, look good and are designed with CI in mind.

I can see why they would drop the brand.

Idiots.

Jason Brown
http://www.asktheadvisors.com

It took a few years, but the die was cast by ReQuest in 2001. Confessed ReQuest fanboy

It’s sad to see any popular brand leave. The current custom CE landscape reminds me of the countless movie scenes in which a character is running for his life while the landbridge/iceberg/temple is crumbling beneath his feet. There is sure ground. We haven’t reached it yet. Digital delivery of media has caused us to become as knowledgeable about networking as we ever were about speakers. The proactive will make it across the bridge in time. The reactive will be swept away in the glacial runoff.

jhamill, please read the follow-up story

http://www.cepro.com/article/dm_exec_on_whats_to_become_of_escient/

It truly makes no sense to keep the Escient organization going when you have such strong brands in Denon and Marantz, plus a changing media-server landscape. The Escient engineers (including co-founder Chris Commons) will be driving Escient-like technologies to Denon, Marantz and others like Loewe.

Looks like Ebay will soon be raining Visions.

sigh.

Does anyone know what this means for Escient outside of the USA? They have recently introduced the Escient Zone product to Europe and it would seem strange to pull it out so quickly.

The Zone system is not affected by this strategy. D&M Europe, will continue to develop and market the Zone integrated home control system. D&M Installation’s ongoing commitment to Zone is underlined by the recent launch of the new Zone network HD media player and DIN Rail-lighting system.

I am a little confused here… Escient Europe will continue to operate??

And this “Zone” system appears to be nothing more than something OEM’d by Control 4??

They have also never shown the Vision as being discontinued on the European site?

Here is a link to the “Zone”

http://www.escienteurope.com/products/index_zonetpkp.html