Pete, dramatic language given that the current delay previously announced I believe said shipping by the end of August. We're not quite there but we'll know shortly. Everyone has said it may take days to weeks for distributors to receive their shipments. There should be some solace that delivery of production models has started to people who are testing and blogging their findings.
Here's hoping you receive your camera very soon. DaVinci Resolve 9 is part of the shipment and I don't believe that's quite ready yet but those testers did receive a software disk so maybe that's not going to further delay the camera release.
[updated to add statement from BMD]
Sorry, Pete. You're right that it's not going out at the end of August. A few days ago there was a post on BMCuser describing a delay related to gathering feedback from the current field test:
http://www.bmcuser.com/showthread.php?4 ... #post17659So we don't know when it ships but we know it's "days not weeks" which is simply silly prattle when it's more than a 7 days. If it ships at the end of September, we have to think of it as 30 "days" later, not more than 4 "weeks.". Obviously if they are gathering feedback for a couple of weeks, it's going to take time to deal with the feedback and determine what must be fixed before the camera is released and what can wait until a later firmware update. Again, apologies I did not appreciate the extent of the delay when I first read her comments. She had me glossing over the details when I first saw "days not weeks!"