Thunderbolt has a bright future in the computer media server market for home theater applications. apple has pretty much replaced all of their computers adding Thunderbolt, their monitor is now Thunderbolt. the PC mfg are going to start integrating Thundbolt as well as various consumer electronics companies. TVs, video cameras, etc. will be Thunderbolt, so I can see Meridian adding a Thunderbolt card to the 800 series equipment. It is a much faster bi-directional way to move large amounts of data (audio/video/etc) and to able to daisy chain devices.

565, 562V, 518, DSP5500, DSP5000C, Misc analog for rear channels, Talon 12 in sub