Thanks Van,
I get an estimate date of 6/21 too on the order. I guess we will have to see how accurate it is.
I'm not too happy though if they are removing the trial options, it would be nice to try those out.
I'll contact them Monday and see what I can find out.
Dave
Although some folks have speculated on whether TE was still advertising the trial options, their webiste still lists it as having the trials for the SD-DS2 (serial data decode) :
SD-DS2 Serial data decode-RS-232, I2C, and SPI decoding (trial license comes with all DS2000 units)
That is based on their current page for the DS2072,
http://www.tequipment.net/RigolDS2072.html. I used the WayBack Machine to look over past versions of the TE web ads but didn't find any trial option mentioned besides the SD-DS2 as far back as September, 2012. But there was not very much web crawler activity on the TE web site, so if promotion of other DS2072 trial options was made, it didn't get recorded by the crawlers.
I'm just keeping fingers crossed that mine will actually ship by the 21st. I'm also hoping I don't regret not getting the higher BW version.
--Van