https://pangolin.com/collections/las...with-quickshow
Pangolin's quickshow is $374 right now on sale. Certainly cheapest I've ever seen it, and i've worked here for 6 years. Unlocks full ability of Quickshow and compatible with any ILDA projector out there. A lot of used FB3s sell for more than we are selling new ones right now.
Hate to sate it, but LD2000 is limited in widespread use and basically obsolete and no longer updated... we no longer make the QM2000 hardware, and offer users upgrade paths to hardware and software more relevant in this day and age. You'll find many more shows you can play back with an FB3 than you will with LD2000
As for the hardware independent, other than the limited demo versions, there are no plans to make any Pangolin software hardware independent, with the exception of a Machine license for beyond, and then we're already talking in the thousands of dollars...
Thanks and good luck
Sincerely,
Ryan Smith
ScannerMAX Mechanical Engineer
ryan {at} scannermax.com