Where to find thunderbolt cables?

We've buy a few months ago a MacBook Pro to use Final Cut HD but there still nothing available on the Apple Shop to use our Thunderbolt port.
Reasons enough to become ******-off to spend so much money for new ports who stay unusable for our video productions.
Is their somebody who knows when items will become available in Europe to use the Thunderbolt port?
Or was it just a commercial stunt from Apple to take away the display port on the new MacBook Pro?

Hi,
Peripherals like external hard drives are still being developed by companies to include Thunderbolt. This includes cables as well. As far as the mini display port; It's still a display port (It's the same size and all pre-Thunderbolt adapters and cables will work with it).
Here are some links:
http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_series.aspx?from=search&region=en-global&m=1 5&rsn1=40&rsn3=47
http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm
http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/
http://www.lacie.com/technologies/technology.htm?id=10039

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