Mike,
Are you a Tivo user? If so, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the moved transport controls. As a Tivo guy, I absolutely love the transport controls surrounding the direction controls on my MX-700 - it makes moving from menus to controlling playback absolutely seemless. The change there seems the biggest problem to me on the 950. While yes, I'm sure I would get used to the change, I can't imagine that I would ever prefer it, or even like it as much, as the older models.

But I could be wrong :)

-Neil