JimH used the other end of his edit pen to promote my comment to a new thread. My thoughts here build on a thread that Glynor posted some weeks back, asking how MC had been useful in unexpected ways. Glynor, I gathered, works in still photography, or maybe video, and he had mentioned using MC to track down photos, I think.
It strikes me that MC as currently built shows real promise in a couple of new ways. The first is an "MC Pro" version, which isn't really for pros but enthusiasts who are clammoring on the forum for additional file formats, better image/audio editors, etc. If MC 11 goes for $40, I think MC Pro, everybody's dream app, would go for $75.
The second idea I mentioned in my previous post. People who work with media are deluged with data. I think jriver could write a media cataloguer/tracker to keep up with this. This would take some doing, but I think jriver has genuine insight into doing this. Auto-updating and meta-tags would be part of the package. This so you would know that the sequence of 100 targa files, "airplane.[####].tga" and the sequence of 72 tiffs, "airplane.[####].tif" were in fact two versions of the same single shot.
There's more, there's always more. That's about as far as my brain goes, ATM.