"DAZ would be shooting there own foot by bagging on the program that uses there figures. Im assuming that Poser content is how they are paying for the DS development." Perhaps for now but not in the long run. It is true that DS will support Poser 4 files (not 5). "They are creating a program that will compete with the program that they create figures for that are there bread and butter. Wow...I said that all in one sentence. :)" Ah, this is were things get real interesting. Daz Studio will have its own propritary format! While it will be backward compatable with the Poser file format. That means that Daz Studio will be able to run all the old Poser stuff and the upcoming new Studio figures/objects. I believe that the writing is on the wall. Support for the Poser file format will be ending once Studio is up and running at full speed. Since Curious Labs has already announced that they are beginnig work on Poser 6 and they stated that it will not include any figures etc. only the base product. You can see where this is leading. Where will Poser be once support for their products file format stops and they can't use the the new Studio file format because its proprietary? Hummm, interesting...