one comment Dale, you make a nice pro/con statement for the pronto but when you say there is 'no perfect interface', as a designer of a remote you must agree that its more than the interface. the interface has to be aware of the application, and a remote control, particularly for home theater, should be easy AND convenient. unfortunately, this doesn't appear to lend itself to touchscreens as some of us have realized. when programmers do their magic it sometimes is easy to get caught up in the software marvels and not remember what device the software resides in, and again the real complaint here is that a cumbersome, two handed touchscreen remote is not as convenient as a hard keypad remote.