Hi - actually, I'm going to amend my comment, as follows ...

I'm hoping that if they DO have a touchscreen, that it will be programmable such that the user can have 'favorite functions' available as nice, big, readable 'soft-buttons' for frequently used functions ... perhaps allowing the user to set up say up to 10 such programmable soft-buttons, plus maybe instead of the 4 programmable real buttons on the CVP-609, give us 8 programmable real buttons?!

Just hopin'! I do like touchscreens, but don't want them at the expense of losing lots of frequently-used buttons ...

Jim