...if there were some pre-ordering site that I could put my credit-card where my mouth (and 3 other mouths) is, I'd be pre-ordering at least 2 personally.

If the mother company is apathetic, I am sure there is still some infrastructure left in Cambridge to handle this.

Don't take the response level from this BBS at face value -- two owners at work have had their units for almost a year and they both want tuners but both have NEVER BEEN TO THIS BBS.

Anyway, if you make the site, they will come.