Quote - Let me ask this of those who have tried the DS3 beta or even the official release...how comparable are the render times to Poser for similar scenes and similar render settings? 

Is DS3 faster or slower than Poser for scenes of roughly similar complexity? 

Also, a second question...is DS3 capable of network rendering? I haven't seen anything about that in the promo material I've seen.

What do you mean by complexity?  Our definitions may differ.  

I find that refraction in DS does take slightly longer on my system, but not hours longer, maybe 10-15 minutes.  I'll try to do a side-by-side in a little while. 
I still can't find a way to render displacement in a mirror in Poser 7.  This may have been fixed in Poser Pro, but I don't have that.  DS has had that since the original beta.  

As for network rendering, like Kaibach said, that's all up to the 3Dlight license.  This comes down to the "If you want it bad enough, are you willing to pay for it" idea.  Sure, network rendering is available in Poser Pro, but it's only useful if you use it.  But, I do think that there are things that DAZ is shooting itself in the foot with.  Dynamic Cloth is Windows Only.  3Delight has a restrictive license.  I can see these two things biting them in the butt more than anything else.

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