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You do raise some good points but as I am used to using lens effects all the time such as lensflare and DOF to render comparable animations on 3DS would cost me another $1000 for the IPAS suite. As far as people using Lightwave on the Toaster, they are exactly the same prduct. Nobody using it for professional work would ever subject their beautiful pictures to the cheesy wipes and fades on the Toaster, not to mention the Toaster is composite only. Render speed is something niether you or I can comment on for about another week as I havn't seen the latest beta version and the render engine is supposed to be much improved. Refraction is not something I use very often but it is certainly nice to have and I have used it on a couple of animations that I wouldn't have been able to do with a work-around. I think this kind of point counter-point is great. It really gets my juices flowing!! Regards. Brian Schmitt