I guess i'm just a mug for the promise of future upgradability ;) You would tell this quite easily if you saw my kit as its all Tag McLaren - and I didn't mind paying the premium for the upgrade path.

I have actually taken advantage of this path pretty much every time it has been made available, the main upgrade being the AV32R to the AV192R.

I hear you and agree on your comment re. keeping the iPronto as a remote control - frankly I don't care about being able to view photos on it.

However, there are 2 things I really want my iPronto to do, the main one being an rs232 netx extender (2-way) to control/read both my Tag AV kit and Lutron lighting.

Call it gimmicky but being able to see on my iPronto current volume, processing mode, scaler settings etc would be much nicer than having to see it on the screen.

I was also looking to hook up my video entry phone to the iPronto, this would require another rs232 unit to allow me to automatically open the driveway doors and also a video streaming facility to use the camera, would also make use of the iPronto speakers & microphone!!

This concept could be extended to many applications, and until they are available it won't compete with the crestron/amx style of system (although i'm not clear if this was ever the intention) - rs232 was always promised by Philips, I hope they still deliver on this promise otherwise I might end up going to a full blown amx system.

I wanted to use my iPronto as a complete home automation tool, sadly at present it is simple an AV remote control...