When I think of home theater, I'm thinking dedicated room for movie watching in my case. For this, I find the combination touchscreen and hard button remote like Neeo is better, although Neeo needs backlit buttons badly. I used to have an RTI system in my house, and I have to agree it was much more customizable, but that also complicated the design of the user interface. I did like being able to add any button I'd like to any touch screen or remote screen. So for example I could have a watch movie screen with all the transport buttons, and then have a few buttons off the side for raising the lights or changing the screen mask aspect ratio, etc., without having to change to another page. You could also name the buttons however you'd like, so again it was 100% customizable.