It looks as if the CF-wave will still give us a good ride well into the foreseeable future, come what may!

My wallet just breathed a sigh of relief and stopped clinging so tightly to it's perch on my desk...

If this is indeed the bottom line, it should be a huge screaming headline and a sticky thread all of its own. There's so much guesswork and speculation going on right now that this is great and crucial info.

Once there's a large installed user base of the new software, it'll be great to have some performance comparisons of CS5 alone, with various CUDA cards but no Cineform, with Cineform but no CUDA card, and with both. Of course, finding otherwise identical systems for benchmarking will be a challenge...

Snap - Is this a fair statement?

This is a small thing, but is there a chance HD Link can support drag and drop? I sometimes view my clips in Explorer and have HD Link open. I often try to drag and drop into HD Link but always forget it won't allow that. It's not terribly important, but it'd be nice.

Drag and drop for HDlink is on the list, although not in 5.0.