PPro/FCP: The ProMax ProMedia Converter.
There has been a lot of talk regarding this product over att the Creative Cow forums. It's basically a FireWire outbord box for uncompressed SD editing. It's based around regular FireWire400 technology. I'm a big fan of laptop editing and this could be a cool solution. ProMax says it's going to support PPro (among others). The ProMedia Converter is a 2U rack mount unit and it connects to everything you need (SDI, Component, Y/C, Composite). It's got four channels of on board AES/EBU (aaargh, 2 channels too few for surround editing). The product has not been released. Lets hope it's not vaporware.