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One final thought. Gagnonrich mentiones that vendors are still selling content with rsrs. I agree that if you buy something that has critical features that essentially no longer work, you should at least be given a warning.

Total agreement. A lot of us who have been long time users are well aware of the work arounds and some probably even were using them before Poser 8 was born. Put yourself in the following example though.

New Poser User buys Poser 8 or Pro 2010, then pays a boatload of money for content that only has RSR's. Without proper documentation in either the Software or Content explaining why some content images won't show properly in the library, this user is left up the proverbial creek without a paddle wondering why his purchases aren't working as expected. Oldtimers like us all know, hey, you've got a question ask in the forums at Rendo, DAZ or RDNA, but someone new who may not even know these sites exist is out in the cold with just Google. It's a pretty piss poor place for finding help if you don't know the right questions to ask.

For those who do find the forums and get the answer, "Use workaround A, B or C", they then have to find those solutions if the answer didn't include a link. They then have to download and install said answer and then they must learn how to use said workaround.

Now tell me again that time was not wasted that could have been spent using the product they purchased. Again, once workarounds are installed and learned they don't take massive time to use, but really, put yourself in the shoes of someone else here. New software is hard enough to learn without this sort of added roadblock.

People keep saying things like "it's probably too hard to implement in the coding", or "it'll bloat the software". As has already been mentioned, loading a file like an RSR an converting to PNG only takes a few simple lines of code to (1)recognise that the files are there, (2)verify that corresponding PNG's don't exist, if they don't then (3)load them, (4)strip the old headers and (5)replace them with PNG headers and (6)rewrite them as PNG files. Seriously, this is not a huge problem to be surmounted by even novice programmers.