I made a call to the local Sony gallery to enquire about the current price and the boss tells me, "No more FX1e!". Hmm, discontiued suddenly with NAB around the corner. Man, now I have to wait again!!! I hope NAB comes tomorrow!!!

I've moved this to our Area 51 forum since it's really just a rumor. Personally, I don't put a lot of stock in this sort of thing because it comes up frequently with various cameras. For example, this thread proclaimed the death of the VX-2100 over a year ago, but people are still buying them....

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=41279