Let's not forget the skills required to use the tools effectively. What's the percentage of Poser users that can produce a photorealistic image with the program? Generally, the fault I see with most images is that the poses look wrong. Bodies are bent the wrong way or don't look properly balanced. Even if technology could drop prices to an affordable range to produce movies with 3D humans indistinguishable from real actors, it will be a rare individual that can actually seamlessly blend real and 3D togther. I'm not going to get into an argument over what is and isn't possible in 5-7 years. Personally, I don't see it happening that soon. I've yet to see a Hollywood movie, costing a hundred million dollars, that seamlessly did the job. Gollum was good, but the character was exaggerated enough that a lot of flaws were readily forgiven. I'd like to see a Hollywood budgeted film with a leading CG man or woman seamlessly interacting with other live actors before I start anticipating doing something similar all by my lonesome on a new super duper laptop. Having bought a new laptop five years after my previous, I can safely say that there wasn't a quantum leap in speed and capabilities in that timeframe. The new one is clearly faster the old one, but I haven't seen anything yet that has amazed me. I'm not ready to believe that my next laptop will be all that astonishing.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon