I saw the renders from the new Daz beta but it didn't live up to the hype that I thought I would see.  What I read in my email made me think that I was going to see something that rivals Reality or Vue.  Usually when Daz gets something I begin to wonder if Poser would follow suit.  The only thing that I learned today was that Poser's flexibility with lighting is still a good choice and if you need something more than that then there's Reality

The only thing that I really got from reading the little that there is on it, It just seems that they've automated the settings, where as with Poser you just have a huge range of customizations that are available in terms of lighting and materials, and environment spheres.  It would be nice to have an Easy button on Poser but not if it means getting rid of the flexibility and customizations with configs.

With Poser I know for a fact that I can create realistic renders or renders that look like paintings and I wouldn't want to get rid of the things that allow that range of creativity with my renders.