[I]"Fusion has been losing ground to Nuke for awhile now. This may put it back into the game."[/I]

Fusion will no longer care about the game played at the Superbowl, it's playing field will be in the ghettos. The problem The Foundry will have is they don't make cameras. BMD are now close to being in a position to say "Got a script, got talent, then we've got everything else you need." Not entirely true, you'd still need tripods, lenses, lights and good coffee. The clever thing that BMD are doing is challenging the market segments where there's no one whose been prepared to lowball. No point trying to make cheap lights or tripods, the Chinese manufacturers have done that already. Vision switchers, cameras, recorders and post software is where there's a big market for affordable products.

Bob.

I know. I don't agree with the ghetto analogy, but I hope they drop the price from 2495 down to 999 like Resolve. I would get it.

I agree with Bob, because that is the Blackmagic philosophy, make great products available at realistic prices.

I doubt they'll drop the price to $1,000 very soon, that'd annoy the existing user base.
What they'll do is bring out a new version with a reduced upgrade price and say half the price for a new licence. That way the existing users think "great, cheap upgrade". Rinse and repeat over a couple of years and then we might see a $1,000 asking price.

Bob.