Sure, X-Stream is a great product concept for the high-end market- but it does little good for the rest of the people who aren't high-end users. First- E-on has to DEVELOP Xstream- for EACH major platform, then make it WORK on each major platform, then SUPPORT IT on each major platform. It's a MAJOR bit of work to pull off from a company that hasn't had an exactly STERLING REPUTATION in making their basic bread and butter software line work efficently!

Most of us have been patient with E-on with Vue 4 and 5, including Infinite- because we assumed that they were ALWAYS working on making it better- so people always said "Give them TIME, they will FIX this and FIX that-" .. but when you learn that they are head-over-heels DEEP into the high end RACKET- it makes me worry that they are in OVER THEIR HEADS and so lost in making the high-end stuff work that everything else takes a BACK SEAT (or NO seat!)!

I mean- can E-on "Walk and Chew Gum at the same time"?  It appears to me that they CAN"T!

Plus the fact that they have been extremely SILENT for such a long time, and make update changes to Vue 5 at a GLACIAL PACE (very slowly)-- has me personally worried about their ability to accomplish necessary tasks- doing the basic software maintenance that needs to be done to keep their low-end and mid-range user base happy...

Doing an EPIX file exporter would take about one day! Keeping MAX, LIGHTWAVE, C4D and MAYA users HAPPY will take YEARS and cost a lot in programming time and resources... which is apparently what is actually happening with E-on these days...