Quote - > Quote - Daz has released a couple of products in the last month that I am quite interested in, but I can no longer tell if I can actually use them in Poser right away, or if they need a DSON importer, or if they need to be converted using DS, or if they can't be converted at all. :(

Yes, I find that confusing, too.  It used to be easy to tell before DSON.

Now I look at the tab with the file types, and see if they are the Poser files, or some weird stuff I don't recognize.  :-)

As a good rule of thumb, if you look at the "Additional Information" tab:

DAZ Core installer - DS Native

Poser Core installer - Poser Native.