I'm fairly curious about this as well since I have been debating getting the new DVDO edge and now the 997 comes out to muddy my waters

I'm hoping they implement a large protion of the Reon chip and do it well then I could bypass getting the Edge and just take my current iScan HD out of the system altogether.

I would really like to upgrade to the 997 from my 950 since it's getting a bit long in the tooth and falling behind farther and farther every day and I just can't do both any time soon, especially with the 997 being $1400.