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I've used the Toaster in a video environment for a major live switch concert once and really liked its functionality for what we did at the budget we had to work with. (9 hours with four genlocked cameras) I tried to learn the lightwave accessory to the Toaster but found it quite awkward. It is obviously quite a capable package in the right hands. A friend of mine here, locally who now owns 3DS came from the lightwave animation world tells me not to waste my time as anything in lightwave takes longer to model, to keyframe, and to render than in 3DS. As far as Amblin Productions is concerned, I* believe they got their toasters donated for the publicity. Same reason my daughter is Apple literate. The school got their Apples free. In addition, the Toaster was truly a pioneer in bringing very highend features to the small video producer. It turned the video industry upsidedown. Only today is the Toaster beginning to receive some competition from MACs and PC's. The Lightwave package, I think, has its popularity rooted in the fact that it was bundled with the toaster video switcher. If sold on it's own, I doub't it would be anymore popular that Design Cad 3D. Did you ever ponder if 3DS were bundled with a revolutionary product like the toaster or even the targa+ card. Things might be radically different.